| Jayne Richardson paid $1,400 for real hair extensions. | | | | them in for two months when my scalp started |
| She never dreamed her life would be markedly | | | | itching." Then she found one night that a big clump of |
| changed by doing this simple thing. After all, people | | | | hair fell out. This continued. |
| have hair extensions every day. Most of them | | | | Within a very short time, she had large bald patches. |
| successfully. | | | | The salon that had done the hair extensions had |
| Her normal hair is usually fine, but she was unable to | | | | never seen such a bad case before. It turned out |
| grow her hair past her shoulders. That's when she | | | | she had a case of "traction alopecia." Her hair had |
| first thought about getting extensions. And why not? | | | | basically been torn out at the roots. Luckily there |
| Hair extensions are fashionable, fuelled in part by the | | | | was a remedy. |
| rush of celebrity makeovers including glossy and | | | | The extensions were removed and more light-weight |
| gleaming hair extensions. She was quite happy to | | | | synthetic hair pieces were interwoven into her |
| spend the money to have this done as she thought | | | | existing hair. This covered the bald patches and gave |
| this would change her life for the better. It didn't. | | | | her hair a chance to recover. The total cost of her |
| It changed her life for the worse. Things started to | | | | hair extensions was nine months for the bald patches |
| go wrong straight away. She states, "I had only had | | | | to disappear plus over $8,000 in hair appointments. |
