BGDL in Photos

: Salt Lake City 2009; Our busy BGDL Salt Lake day started with our pubic education awareness table at Chico's in Foothill. When you take off your hair and demo scarf tying in the store-front it gets attention! Chico's donated a percentage of sales to our nonprofit. That evening we dined and made new BGDL friends during Vietnamese dinner.

: BGDL on the Today Show; Nonprofit Bald Girls Do Lunch and BGDL founder, Thea Chassin of New York, caught the attention of the Today Show, the nation's top-rated network morning show. Today's national correspondent, Amy Robach, joined in for lunch and chat with Thea and 5 other women in Oak Brook, Illinois.

: Bobbi Brown Beauty Event March, 2009; Professional make-up artists from Bobbi Brown (Neiman-Marcus in White Plains, NY) gave a master make-up class and half-hour individual consultations to women with alopecia and their friends. We cannot thank the Bobbi Brown team enough for such a fantastic day!! Bobbi Brown cosmetics donated the grand raffle prize ( value $1,500) make-up party for lucky winner Jillian and 20 of her friends.

: Phoenix 2009; The "Alopecia Divas" celebrated holidays and friendship with massages, manis and pedis at Dolce Salon in Phoenix. Leaders Yvonne and Nancy arranged the wonderful spa night followed by dinner. We debuted the 2010 Women with Alopecia (July) month banner logo.

: boston 2009; Lunch in Boston for women was followed by "Bigs and Littles" style workshop with moms and girls from the Childrens Alopecia Project Massachusetts group and a wig-education by sponsor Deb Fuller of Fuller-Hair.com

Attendees came from CT, MA, NH, and RI

: indianapolis 2009; The first BGDL lunch in Indiana received support and impetus from "Ascent for Alopecia"...the mountain-climbing and fund-raising campaign of Alex Whitley and Dana Crook. The couple raised funds in celebration and awareness of Alex's climb of Mt. Elbrus in Russia. Some lunch attendees were meeting another person with alopecia for the first time....and that's what BGDL is about. Read more here: http://www.baldgirlsdolunch.org/?p=216

: AlopeciaPalooza - Thea's Tween Brow Workshop and Margaret Baker's Fashion show 2009; Thea Chassin led the makeup workshop for tween girls at the first annual AlopeciaPalooza conference hosted by the Childrens Alopecia Project ( CAP)

: Origins store awareness day 2008; Alopecia Awareness with BGDL and Annette Moore ( aka Crowned Regal) at Origins, New Wales, PA

: 2009 gold triangle award/American Academy of Dermatology/Annual meeting San Francisco 2009

: eyebrows; I have no eyebrow hairs most of the time. My powder technique looks natural. It also goes on fast and stays on with BGDL sealer. My brows are a bit fuzzy-edged, not hard lined because real brows are not hard lined either. That's the beauty of using powder. I make a base shape and add in tiny brush strokes for added realism, but base alone works beautifully, too. Powder colors can be blended. Powder looks textured under light. Works great over tattoo brows, if you have those. I have no tattoos.

: Irvine, California 2009; Lunch in Orange County, CA and interview with the OC Register

: no little bandanas; Minimize the assumptions that strangers assume you have cancer. How? Stop wearing itsy-bitsy-teeny-weeny 'cancer bandanas'..get fashionable and ultra-comfortable layering scarf buns and hats. Ways to tie only limited by your imagination.

: Knots of Love; Knots-of-Love.org provides hand made hats for people with medical hair loss. Please tell knitters and knotters you know to volunteer and make much needed caps.