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I'll get like baldy, just embrace it mate, wigs aren't for you
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Being a public with no hair, if you asked me that years ago, I would be scared
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You'll get the hell of a day? When do you start losing your hair? Oh, you look about 60 years old
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My mum and my friend are going to be coming around to chat about how my hair loss impacted me as a person
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It happened so fast. He went to himself and he stayed in his room
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Today, I'm going to replace my current system with a new one. The second I have hair, yeah, I look like 20, 30 years younger
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My name is Nicholas and I'm 25 years old. I roughly started losing my hair in about 2018
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I was actually about 17 years old. I met a friend and he said
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there's something wrong with your hair. And I looked at myself in the mirror and I said, what's wrong with it
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I kind of called my hair back and I thought, whoa, this is a bit off
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I started noticing the sides were starting to recede and that kind of like shocked me a bit
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The whole night I was just thinking like, Is this girl going to notice if I'm speaking to her or are people going to make fun of me
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It really struck my confidence. Weeks after we organized another night out, I used eyeshadow, blends it in
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A girl pointed at it, she was like, why have you got eyeshadow in your hair? I was like, oh no
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I was crying on the inside really because it was atrocious to the point I ended up shaving it off
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and it grew back in a very ridiculous way. As a young person, having hair makes a massive difference
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Overall, having a good head of hair will make you a confident person, makes you attractive and that's really important
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I wore caps to hide. There was a time where I was in the club and there was a whole group of guys
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They said, oh, let's see your hair underneath and they took it off and they're like, no, no, no, keep it on and that made me feel awful
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I didn't want to be around friends or family. I had no confidence at all
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You will look older if you don have hair For me I look probably about 40 50 years old right now You get the oh you look about 60 years old how old are you When do you start losing your hair 18 they like what
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Really? That's so sad. I'm like, not really, I've got a solution to it
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Some of the options that I considered, the most obvious one was a hair transplant
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I think I quoted about 5 to 10,000, but up until you're 30 years old
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your hair's going to fall out. I didn't want to risk paying for a process that may or may not work
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I started learning about hair systems during COVID lockdown. I was running out of options and I was starting to get a bit scared
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I thought about myself, I dreamt about myself. I'd be on a night out, I'd have a full head of hair
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and I'd be really appealing to other people. There was a barbershop a couple of streets from me
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that did something called hair systems. I looked it up and I saw some videos and I was like
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well, you know what, this could actually be something for me. So today I'm going to replace my current system with a new one
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I've got the hair system here. I've got my adhesive tape here. Usually the last four to six weeks
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A hair system is basically a full thick head of hair. It's real hair, natural hair
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People that donate it and they somehow turn it into a wig. You've obviously got your crown here, which is so, like, natural
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You can go swimming with it. You can wash it. You can work out
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You can do anything with it. They convey around about £160 to even up to £1,000
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I've got my phone as well set up here so I can record myself doing the whole process
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I started making videos during lockdown. There was nothing really to do
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I ended up posting a video and the feedback I got from it was fantastic
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and it motivated me to want to do more. For me, I like to keep my look fresh and I get it replaced every month
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and I just put it in the bin because at the end of every month, it just looks like a dead cat
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So I'll get like Baldy Just embrace it mate Wigs aren't for you Or
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Imagine not having hair It makes me laugh People think that These negative comments bother me No not anymore They used to They used to Right Here we go
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Oh! Okay. Oh, perfect
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Obviously, I need to clean this part. and once I've cleaned here you won't be able to notice the hairline
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As you can see at the back, you can see the crown here as well. You can notice the colour difference now but once the hair is actually cut
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and it's all styled and fit perfectly, it actually blends in really well
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You'll see that later on. Ready for a night out? My mum and my friend are going to be coming around to mine
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to chat about how my hair loss impacted me as a person
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Hello honey, how are you? I'm well When Nick started to lose his hair
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I think there was a bit of disbelief and shock and then it grew momentum
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and he started to lose it really quickly It happened so fast towards the end
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He went to himself and he stayed in his room and he didn't really communicate with anybody
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Scott, have you seen Nick throughout his hair system on? What do you think
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Every day he snapshots me in the morning and he'll just come on camera with his hair
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He likes to make a laugh out of it. Yeah. So he's confident. The first time I properly met Nick
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we met on a night out, and he just told me, can you grab my hair, just pull my hair
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So I grabbed it, and I was like, nothing happened. And he's like, oh, you know, my hair's not real
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And I didn't believe him for ages, but he just kept telling me it's not real
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And then one day, he just finally showed me. I was quite shocked, actually
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That really is firm, isn't it? you'd never know. To me it's not really about aesthetic appearances, it's about how he feels
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and what best for him I support him whatever he chooses whether he wore a system or he didn If it makes him feel great then good It just costs a fortune I mean it is more cost effective than a hair transplant but overall you getting what you paying for You getting a decent hairline just real hair
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and if you don't like it, you can do whatever you want to it. I am very proud of it. I'm extremely proud of you
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Are you open about your hair and your dating life? Oh, I love this question, absolutely
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It's quite a conversation start, I'll tell you that. Why wear wigs? No, really, show me. Pull it off
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Wow. Being open about your insecurities is very powerful and it allows that person to get to know you a lot better
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Now it's time to go get it styled. To the people that are losing their hair, there is a solution
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What you're feeling right now is not going to last forever. If you see this video, I can promise you this
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it will 100% change your life. You will feel like the person you've always dreamed of becoming
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How you doing, bro? Are you good? The second I had it done, I was like, all right, boys, let's go out, I'm ready
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They were like, where's this come from? I'm like, I don't even know. I just wanted to do the things that I hated
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because I didn't feel like myself. Some people will get their hair cut and they'll be like, no, I have to wait, whereas me, I can just get a new one
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and be like, all right, let's go again. Don't be scared to go from having no hair one day
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to having hair. People are going to be amazed by the process
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They're going to be like, whoa. The reactions that I got weren't what I expected
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but they were what I wanted. Just do it. Just do it
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Oh yeah, 100%. I'm starting to feel fresh until now. Absolutely. Wearing hair systems has definitely improved me as a person
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Yeah, bro, that's good. I like that. Wow, look at that. Looks awesome