Imagine within just weeks losing every bit of hair... all over. It's unpredictable and it happens. Alopecia areata is an autoimmune skin disease that can have a devastating affect on self-image, especially women's. Bald Girls Do Lunch is the only nonprofit created specifically to help women cope, gain confidence and feel a sense of community. Learn more...
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Bald Girls Do Lunch wins a 2009 Gold Triangle Award from the American Academy of Dermatology. Read more....
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The big snowstorm coming to NYC on Wednesday postpones our wonderful event until at least March; date to be determined. To be sure you’re notified of the new date, send a message to info@baldgirlsdolunch.org.
Our Love Yoga congratulates BGDL on your third Gold Triangle Award.
Enter coupon code OLYBGDL during February, 2010 and we’ll take 10% off your purchase and we’ll make a donation to Bald Girls Do Lunch.
Our Love Yoga at ourloveyoga.com is a line of comfy, stylish and affordable fitness clothing. Our Love is the result of two siblings combining a love of clothing with fitness. We hope you enjoy shopping and saving with us during February.
Presented below is the concluding paragraph and final sentence in the February, 2010 JAAD (Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology) feature article “Alopecia Areata Update: Part II Treatment”. (Italics and bolding added)
“There has been little progress in the treatment of AA in the past decade, and ILCSs are still the preferred method of treatment for most patients. Newer topical and systemic agents (eg. biologics) have been tried, but the outcomes have been unattractive. We are still in need of developing treatment options for refractory cases and for specific hair-bearing sites ( ie eyelashes) where treatment choices are almost nonexistent. Because of higher psychiatric morbidity in patients with AA, psychosocial support is a valuable tool in any management plan.
Thank you to authors and for the inclusion of this important statement in this prestigious journal.
Order your very own “Bald? So What?” logo wear….and help support us at the same time. I’m sporting my very own Bald? So What tee (with a funny face…but so what!)
Order this logo now and please stop my the logo store later for the “2010 Women with Alopecia” and ” Bald is In” logo wear coming out Spring, 2010.
We never ask you to send money for research and leave you stranded with no follow up. In fact, we don’t ever ask you to send your money to research at all.
What do we do? Bald Girls Do Lunch is the leader in providing primary sources and tools so you really know what dermatological science is learning about AA,where it’s headed, and where it has totally dead ended.
A terrific new knowledge tool:
February, 2010, Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology ( Vol 62, Issue 2, Pages 191-202)
Alopecia Areata Update: Part II: Treatment.
Ask your dermatologist or medical librarian to make you a copy of the full article including Part I.
(Click on ‘research’ and ‘treatment’ tags to see more updates in the blog)
Visit the BGDL photo gallery for new additions to these collections: San Diego - summer 2009, Fort Lauderdale 2009 and AlopeciaPalooza.
If you follow alopecia areata research, you’ve no doubt heard about the “mouse model”…..the ones who develop alopecia areata. Actually, mouse models are not new, but there’s a special type bred at the Jackson Laboratories in Maine. Here’s a lot of info about these AA mice and how researchers can order specific strains.
You’ve also likely heard about “infiltrates” and ” lymphocytes”. What’s especially nice about this page are the cross-sectional photos of hair follicles showing magnification of lymphocyte infiltrates around the follicle bulbs. And here’s even more info about the Jackson technique that induces AA symptoms through surgical grafting from one mouse to another.
Donating your long hair for a good cause? Please let us know. We have a new project in the works to use donated hair (ponytail length) to make ponytails in hats for our women.
So often we hear ” If only I could wear a ponytail again!” Well, now we’re working to make that a hat-reality.
To hold a cut-a-thon or to learn more, contact thea@baldgirlsdolunch.org or 800.578.5332
Click here for your invitation, then click here to rsvp or support our work and give us a boost to help more women in 2010.
rsvp@baldgirlsdolunch.org or 800.578.5332
We celebrate all options and all choices, so remember bald is not required.
Bring a friend or two for BGDL make-up, hair/wig styling, beautiful scarf and head wrap lessons, the BeauBeau, and a stellar line up of luxury wig makers: Follea, iwig, Karen’s Wigs, Joseph Paris and Freedom Wigs of New Zealand.
…when Bald Girls Do Lunch meets close to Boston and Providence. Details to follow for our Lincoln, Rhode Island lunch at Twin River. Be sure to send your email to info@baldgirlsdolunch.org to get your invitation. Don’t forget to add info@baldgirlsdolunch.org to your safe list today to ensure that our mail reaches you.
We care that this indie film (debut at Sundance, January 22, 2010) has been acquired because one of the ensemble’s main characters, Annie, (played by Malin Ackerman) just so happens to have alopecia universalis. It’s not a main plot line. She’s just a beautiful girl. And she has no hair anywhere. And now the rest of the world will better understand just how irrelevant hair really is.
Thank you Josh Radnor for thinking of Rachel and making this film.
Get the latest of Thea’s Top Tips: Women, Beauty and Alopecia
Meet others who really “get it” when it comes to living well with alopecia.
Moms and daughters…it’s for you, too!
Come to talk or come to listen.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
7-9:30 pm Lobby Bar
Renaissance Hotel, 9620 Airport Blvd. Los Angeles, 90045
Free 3 hr. valet parking for bar/restaurant patrons.
Contact info@baldgirlsdolunch.org if you’ll be there: drinks, dessert and/or chat.
Leave messages 800.578.5332
No cost to pull up a chair and stay awhile.
Josh Radnor’s HappyThankYouMorePlease indie drama debuted at Sundance with this review excerpt in Scriptshadow or should I say ScriptShallow. “…Annie has a condition called Alopecia Universales, which doesn’t allow her to grow hair on her body. I know, I know. This has cringe-inducing written all over it but I’m telling you, Radnor knows what he’s doing…….”
Oh swell. One step forward, two steps back.
Bring a friend or two or three for drinks, dessert and chat with BGDL and Thea in the Lobby Bar at Renaissance Hotel, 9620 Airport Blvd, (LAX) Los Angeles. 7-9:30 pm . Park for free with the valet. 3 hours complimentary with drinks or dining validation. BGDL make-up demo, headwraps, wig talk….when you need to know, we’ve got answers! Email rsvp@baldgirlsdolunch.org if you’re planning to come. Just look for Thea having a no hair night.
In 2008 the news releases were afire including coverage on the network morning talk shows that a baldness cure was “right around the corner” courtesy of the start-up Follica using a novel scientific discovery by Dr. George Cotsarelis at UPenn. Standing by our advice then, we still say “Don’t hold your breath.”
Quick Answers to common questions about Bald Girls Do Lunch?
Such as ” Do I have to be bald to attend?”
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Would you like to add a question to quick list? Send to thea@baldgirlsdolunch.org
Click here to meet new friends with alopecia February 10, 2010. Plus, complimentary consultations in wigs, hair and make-up. And you’re supporting our award-winning nonprofit so bring partners and lots of friends….guys and gals. Meet representatives from Follea, Freedom, Karen’s Wigs, Iwig and Joseph Paris.
RSVP with early sign-up today!
7-9 pm
Panera
2542 Albany Avenue ( route 44)
West Hartford, CT
next to McDonalds
Feel free to bring a friend and chat a while. If you’re stopping in, just give a heads up to thea@baldgirlsdolunch.org
Will have BGDL brow make-up you can try out.
A brief summary of alopecia areata cause and treatments. I like the photos.
One photo depicts how bare an area of the scalp can become…the characteristically totally smooth patch of hairless terrain. The other shows the appearance of finger nail pitting or the ’sandpaper’ appearance a common condition in many alopecia areata patients.
Faren Collins, member of actors equity and 2010 entrant in the Miss New York state pageant, supports Bald Girls Do Lunch. Meet Faren February 10, 2010 at our New York City alopecia awareness “Celebrate Three” event .Read more.
