Androgenic alopecia (or male pattern baldness) is a typical affliction with young men in their 20s and 30s. However usual, it’s no less agonising for the person. Hair loss is usually an early sign the person is ageing, and can happen as soon as your late teens, giving rise to social anxiety and even depression. While the public at large view being bald as something normal, it’s no laughing matter when it’s you who is experiencing baldness.

Male pattern baldness (Androgenic alopecia) impacts men in different ways. Some don’t suffer any kind of baldness until later on in life. Others suffer the usual pattern : a gentle losing of hair around the temples. Other male patterns include the crown area initially, or a rapid thinning of all hair.

If every man went bald at the same speed in the same way, it might be argued that we wouldn’t find it so harrowing. However, it’s the diverseness of balding patterns and speed in which they happen that makes many individuals feel rather insecure and even victimised by nature if they experience particularly rapid forms of baldness.

Browsing the internet, you might be forgiven for thinking there’s a myriad of simple remedies to baldness. Just apply X spray or eat Y pills per day, and your hair will as if by magic grow back. For sure, there are lotions that thicken the hair, and medicines that can slow the process of balding slightly, but there is no authoritative cure to baldness - no miraculous pill that men can use to utterly assure hair regrowth, or even the prevention of baldness.

But there is a solution. There are wigs, or hair systems that men can wear to camoflague their baldness. These hair systems can be made in accordance to their colour of hair and type of baldness. Even close-up it’s often hard to understand that there is indeed a hair system fitted. If wearing one is the difference between feeling confident or feeling depressed and anxious, then it’s better to get one.