Hi Beer... welcome to the forum and thanks for sharing that story ..really interesting and proves what people assert/state here ..Toplace systems are excellent and don`t cost an arm-and-a-leg. It`s great that you can do your own styling, but I`d caution others against.... it`s the one thing which really can end in complete disaster [as we saw with the chap in France recently] ...until you are `sure`of what you`re doing and have a back-up system to hand, I`d advise Newbies to get it professionally styled at the start....concentrate on de/re-bonding etc. at first and then you can consider going it totally `alone`...having said that, you`ve done a really great job there from what I can see and your story should be of great inspiration to others... I saw a post on a completely un-related [to hair-wearing] forum earlier this week where a guy was losing his hair and asking advice on what to do as he was considering wearing ....all the usual crap there [usually from those with full heads of hair] telling him shave it all off and `get on`with it.... others talking about wearing `rugs` and how obvious they are..... I left a post there telling him to check out Toplace and pointing out that it`s a total lie if you are told you have to shell out thousands [$$] to look half-decent again..... one poster said my post was the most helpful/ constructive comment that had been left there so I do hope that some new people will see it, check out this forum and reading your story there will totally bear out my point...... chances are you pass people daily on your travels and don`t realise they`re wearing, courtesy of Toplace systems !! I love dispelling the myths that do the `rounds`!! Cheers.... Paul.