 | my favorite excuse for the thin hair in the front of my head. I say that when I
was young it burned off and just never grew back. The strange thing is, after I say that I
wonder how stupid the person is that I just told that to. The one thing that makes me feel
better is the fact that trich is so "odd" that I am sure that most people don't
say to themselves "Oh, I am sure that she pulls the hairs that feel 'crinkly' to her
out of her head one by one. |
| the only time I have talked about it to my kids is when one of them asked why I
didn't have many lashes, I told them that I got close to a wood fire and it flashed in my
face, and that my lashes have never grown well since. |
| I told people that it 'just fell out' - somehow they believed me for
the first few years (even doctors, therapists etc) |
| I had to get stitches there when..." |
| Then I lied in college,"I had a bike accident...". |
| I remember high school- kids behind my desk saying, "Gosh, look at all that
hair by your desk!" and me telling them I just cleaned out myhairbrush... or some
excuse- anything I could think of besides I pulled it out and dropped it there |
| I went to get in the car, and the neighbor guy came out to talk to me and he
said, "you GOT HAIR IN YOUR TEETH! HAHA! YOU BEEN EATING YOUR HAIR AGAIN!??!" I
almost died! I lied and said, I'd been trimming my bangs over the bathroom sink and
a piece of hair prolly got in my toothbrush. it worked. |
| Losing your hair due to stress (say you just broke up with someone or a situation
lead you to lose hair). |
| I just tell them it fell out when I got pregnant. They buy it so that works for
me |
| When asked why there was a patch of very short hairs growing back on my head, I
told people that I had gotten my hair tangled in a round brush and pulled the entire
section out. |
| my family thinks its my sensitive skin, and that they just fall out... |
| He's been pulling hair for forty years. His mother tells everyone that he fell
off a bike when he was a child and then his eyebrows ann eyelashes all fell out! He has
always been so ashamed that this line was a good way out. I never have figured out why she
thinks his hair on his scalp keeps falling out and then growing back again. |
| My own original (HAH HAH) hairdresser excuse (before I finally told her) was that
I brushed my hair with a wig brush, and made cuts and sores on my scalp.) I'm sure she
never believed me, and I"ve since switched to another salon. |
| Losing your hair due to stress (say you just broke up with someone or a situation
lead you to lose hair). |
| I lied and told them all that i had really frizzy hair and that I was mad one day
and just chopped it all off. And I have been wearing it up all the time because my hair
grows really slow. Only one cm per year. |
| tight pony tails: i used to wear my hair in a tight bun, so I said it got ripped
out cuz of that. |
| bad sunburn on the top of my head--bald spot there |
| bad dye job (if you just dyed it and it's noticeable) |
| allergy |
| got hair caught in something (some blow-dryers will do that) |
| siriusis and/or eczema |
| had birthmark removed |
| had brain tumor |
| I said my eyelashes were thin and a lot were gone because I was curling my lashes
and somebody startled me and i pulled em out |
| -I was curling my eyelashes and i did it at the wrong angle, so my eyelashes fell
out and they haven't grown back yet |
| -i decided that my eyebrows were too hairy so i tweezed them.....a little too
much |
| -a friend told me (when i was younger) that if my eyelashes fall out, i get
wishes. so i pulled them out when i was young. but they never grew back. |
| -i have eyelashes. they are naturally short and you'd need a magnifying glass to
see them. |
| -it's the style at school with eyebrows. haven't you noticed? |
| -the doctor isn't sure what it is. but when i woke up i had no eyelashes! |
| It must be menopause--those shifting hormones, you know! |
| I just say, "I got stitches the other day and I say the doctors told me I
had to pull them out!" |
| I actually told my hairdresser that I had gotten something spilled in my hair
when I had bent over in a science classroom. I said that I had an allergic reaction to
this chemical. My hairdresser believed me (at least I think he did). At one point, he
actually asked me if I was going to sue the School Board!!!!! I explained that I didn't
feel this to be necessary. |
| My excuse re: my hair at the hairdresser is that I have cancer and that my
hair is falling out. They then feel so bad and guilty for asking something that is
none of their business |
| I frequently get stys on my eyelids....so I have to pull my eyelashes out in
order for the sty to go away! |
| I was allergic to the mascara I was using...so my lashes fell out! |
| I use to tell everyone when I was in high school, my eyelashes and eyebrows
fell out because of the chlorine in the water in the pool. |
| When I was pulling out my hair I used to tell people that I had a vitamin
deficiency which caused my hair to fall out. |
| When the hairdresser asked why had some short hair on the back of my head, I told
her I had been on some medication that made my hair fall out. But I wasn't on it anymore
and it was growing back in. |
| When I pull causing bald spots on side of head I say it is due to wearing a
baseball cap. |
| This is sad but true, however, I always said if I was confronted I would say I
lost my hair because of the chemo treatments. |
| - " I was born with only a few small, fine lashes. You've never noticed
before? They've always been like that." |
| - I usually just say " I have a illness that causes me to lose my hair
" ( Which is not a lie at all. ) and the person automatically thinks it is something
like cancer and they feel so bad for me. |
| . I used to tell my parents I pulled in my sleep without knowing it. |
| I remember one night I pulled every single eyelash and must have got one in my
eye. I feel asleep rubbing my eye and awoke with it swollen shut. My parents had the day
off so they took me to the doctor. I was so nervous on how to explain what I had done to
myself. I thought I would be in big trouble when my parents realized, even though it was
swollen, there were no eyelashes. I said I had rubbed them all out because of the
infection not the way it really happened. Everyone bought it including the doctor. No one
noticed the bald spots on the other eye. |
| I used to use the sty excuse at school. |
| I was just born with a scant amount of pubic hair |
| When people started to ask me at school why I didn't have eyelashes, I would
simply say
that the eyelash curler I was using caused my eyelashes to go weak so my doctor told me
to pluck them out so they could grow back stronger, or I would say that the eyelash
curler actually cut off my lashes. |
| My boyfriend at the time was a Native American and he tried to scalp me, no
kidding, I used this when I was drinking--no joke! |
| i'm a leg, finger, and eyebrow puller. the excuse i always use for my legs is
that it's razer burn-that's why my legs always seem to have a "rash" with scabs
all over. for my
eyebrows, i often use the excuse that i got carried away plucking them. well, for my
finger, i have no believable excuse at all. if someone mentions it, i just say that i
scratched it. |
| Close encounter with a lawn mower! |
| My favorite excuse....."I am a vegetarian and have a B-12 deficiency." |
| It's just some thing that runs in my family (actually true) |
| My excuse: i have a condition called alopecia aerota. the hair just falls out and
the
doctors dont know why. |
| I am 13 and whenever someone asks me why I do not have hair or if they call me
baldy, which is very immature for a 13 year old, I tell them that my swim cap pulled it
off. I have only told close friends the truth. |
| When I was in high school and everyone would ask me why I shaved my head in the
back (the neck hair line) I would tell them that I had made a bet while intoxicated and
lost, had to shave it! |
| ...and actually, I read it it Cosmo once. I think this happened to Christie
Brinkley (I know it was one of the super models). She told a horror story about how when
she first started using make-up, she tried curling her lashes. Well, she put the mascara
on first, and it wasn't quite
dry-OOOOPS!! She said nearly all her lashes were pulled out. So, I started using this
excuse, and then saying they haven't grown back in right ever since...trauma to the
follicle, maybe? |
| I've freely offered this view point to anyone when the conversation steered in
the direction of body hair .... i think that hair on the fingers and toes is gross and
unsightly and I pull it off with tweezers to get a smooth more "lady-like" look
and I even show them how nice my hands look with no hair. (the hair, although i can't let
it stay on as soon as it grows, has never really been unsightly or gross to me.... this
just seems to be a great excuse with intended results! and my hands do look better with no
black hairs sticking out around my rings, i guess.) |
| All that I remember about it is other children asking why I had no lashhes and I
would say that I burnt them off by accident while leaning over the stove making soup. This
seemed to be
believed by all. I always wondered why no grownups ever questioned me and tried to help
me.......maybe they just never noticed. |
| A person i know tells everyone that after she takes a shower she puts her
hair in a towel and then goes to bed like that. She explains to them that doing
this nigh after night has caused her hair to fall out, and get shorter in some places. |
| I have told people that I have a Thyroid Condition (which I do) that has MADE my
hair fall out (which, obviously, is has not!) |
| I have also told people that I just LOVE TO WEAR HATS! (which I do not!) |
| Only my two closest friends have actually asked me why I hardly have any
eyelashes and I just simply said "I dunno" haha it worked, they haven't asked me
again! I think it's their blondness that made them accept that answer! |
| I was singing in choir practice at church and the stage broke and a kid grabbed a
hold of my hair and yanked it out!! |
| I always tell my hairdressers that the hair just broke off from
overprocessing...they always believe it! |
| I blame Depo-provera (birth control shot that is known to cause thinning hair) |
| Combo of depo and another drug interaction. |
| I say that I tried to grow dreadlocks--then changed my mind and had to brush them
out. |
| I don't have any bald spots, but yesterday my mom saw me pulling my hair. I just
told her that I pulled split ends. She told me not to do that, then she started telling my
grandmother hairdresser stories, so I managed to get out of it. |
| For my eyelashes ive said that i had one of those new trendy eylash perms and
that the chemicals were so harsh that my eyelashes became so brittle and dry that they
just fell out. People buy it, and then actually say things like ..yeah ive heard that
eyelash perming is bad or that it can make you go blind etc... If only they knew |
| A rash made my hair fall out. |
| The excuse I used for my scalp was that a boy threw a big wad of gum in my hair
and I pulled it out and my hair never grew back very well. The excuse for my eyelashed was
that my mascara was clumpy and I pulled the clumps out and my lashed came out with the
clumps. |
| My own lashes are really thin and so I wear false ones, but the only way to make
them really look natural is to stick the false ones right in the lashline, and when I
remove the false ones it pulls lots of my natural ones out and makes them look even
thinner. |
| I color my hair a lot and i tell people that I colored it with a certain product
and it caused and allergic reaction. |
| some excuses i'used...
i have a thyroid problem
i got in a fight and the other girl ripped my hair right out
i got a brtush stuck in it and had to cut it out
my head was burned with a curling iron and it never grew back right |
| This is not an excuse - I tell my friends and, oddly enough, strangers also that
after I gave birth my hair thinned out
terribly...that part is true. The pullng part is something that came much later...I don't
tell them about that. |
| This is what I say to my friends at school, "I showed my hair stylist a
picture in the magazine of how I wanted my hair cut, and she thought I pointed to the
other picture on the page next to it! Oh well. |
| for the curly short ones that grow back: i had a perm a couple years back, and
its still sorta there (i really did, but no other 13 yr old knows the curl would be at the
bottom) and its naturally frizzy from when i lightened it and the peroxide messed up my
roots which is why its so thin and on top of all that i didn't wash it this AM!!!! |
| Blaming Depo-provera (birth control shot wich has been known to cause thinning) |
| Saying that I tried to grow dreadlocks--and then changed my mind & brushed them
out.
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