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...being either shamed for it or shamed into taking bizarre steps against it: chemical, surgical or simply choosing the wrong parts. We know it can be done. At the Screen Actors Guild Awards last weekend, Meryl Streep accepted her Best Actress award wearing a simple shirt and pants, her hair pulled back in a barrette. At 59, she looked both beautiful...
...done a few over the years for friends, designers like Eric Bergere and Vincent Darre when he was designing Moschino, but not many. I felt that it was important to show that women older than 40 can be sexy, too. There are never images of women with gray hair or older women in the magazines. And women are always portrayed as sexy like a pin-up model from the 1950s, not something feminine or gracious, just provocative. I want to show that women can love fashion like I do and have a normal job and enjoy taking care of themselves...
...Hair loss affects more than 50 million Americans, 20 million of them women. With numbers like that, it's not surprising that the people behind the bestselling Dummies Books series have taken note. Their comprehensive new book, Hair Loss & Replacement for Dummies, authored by four medical experts on hair loss, has just been published by Wiley. TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs spoke with one of the authors, hair-transplant surgeon Dr. William Rassman in Los Angeles. (See the Year in Health, from...
...What causes male hair loss? Ninety-nine percent of men who lose their hair lose it from genetic causes. That means they've inherited the pattern from somebody in the family. There's not a one-to-one relationship: Your parents may have full heads of hair and you may be balding. Or, you may have a full head of hair and your father could be bald and your grandfather could be bald. It comes from both sides of the family, the male and female side, about equally - contrary to the common myth that you inherit it from your mother...
...female hair loss? About 45% of women in their lifetime will end up having some form of hair loss, and it's mostly genetic in that 45%. The rest are related to a variety of medical conditions: iron deficiency, thyroid disease, changes in hormones. When a woman passes into menopause, for example, the estrogen, which supports hair, is withdrawn. You get some genetic holdover like a man would have, where the male hormones that are present in women without the estrogen counterbalance will cause hair loss...