When going through chemotherapy or alopecia you may think your options are:
(1) boldly embrace your baldness, which can be very confronting;
(2) wear a scratchy wig - human hair which is very expensive and high maintenance; synthetic hair that looks shiny and fake;
(3) wear a hat, beanie, or turban, which without hair is still very confronting.
(4) a little known alternative: partial wig for under hats - sometimes called a "medical fringe" or an "active wig".
Why choose a hat wig?
Human hair hat wigs offer a way to make the journey through hair loss just a little bit easier. They look real because they are made of human hair, yet unlike full human hair wigs they are affordable and easy to wear, little maintenance, and are comfortable - as if you're not wearing a wig at all.
Here's how I decided to create this hat wig human hair option:
This is me before chemo, with short hair:
First I went to the wig library, and found this synthetic option with darker roots - not bad, but still shiny and fake, and itchy:
