JRob,

If you could use only concealers to hide your baldness (and it had given you the appearance of a head full of hair, even though reality is FAR from it), would you have been as keen to reveal the fact you use concealers to all ?

My thought is that you will say "no", at least that's the answer most guys will tell. And the reason, why should people tell they have a hair problem (and then continue: "but you don't see this problem, because I use concealers"), if no one has ever seen this problem in the first place ? (since they used concealers from an early enough stage). Why try to fix something that ain't broken (or at least nobody else apart from you know it's broken) ?

I think the same thought applies to the wig. If you are doing a *smooth* transition between your real hair, to the wig’s hair, you again face the same question that those who use concealers face: Why try to fix something that ain't broken ?, *nobody* knows that I’m bald, why should I tell ?

But, JRob, your situation is different, you first went bald, only then got the wig. Your family and friends (and probably a bunch of strangers) know the truth about your wig, so what’s the point of trying to hide it from new people ?, you don’t have a chance to control who knows and who doesn’t to begin with.

This is why I believe that people in your situation, and I think most people that wear a wig are in your situation, should indeed don’t care about who knows and who doesn’t, because this control is not in their power to begin with. And yes, it's not such a bad position to be in. To me, the hardest thing is for you to let society see that you went bald, but afterwards, if you put the wig and you look younger and more attractive, who cares what they think, fuck 'em !! (sorry)

But, people who do the smooth transition (who aren’t a lot), are in a different situation. From websites like this one, they get the feeling like they can pull this off, the wig could look like the hair it is replacing (at least no worse than what you can get after moderate use of concealers), and hence it becomes a fancy type of concealer for them. These people are more afraid to let society know that they went bald, than they are afraid to let society know they wear a wig if it already knew they are bald.

And please, don’t tell me the use of concealers can’t be compared to wearing a wig. I for example conceal with a combover, and I have more restrictions than with a wig, wind is my enemy, I always have to check in the mirror to see that everything is alright, my haircut never changes and is not stylish, I can’t let girls run their hands through my hair since they’ll see the hoax. I’m actually using a wig of my own hair, only plus is I don’t use glue so it takes less time to apply (sometimes I wish I could, it would have certainly helped with the wind), and of course it costs less. The same goes for the heavy users of toppik and dermmatch, they have almost all the restrictions I’ve mentioned, plus it takes more time to apply.