It Feels Great to Feel This Way About Myself.

Long review alert – I am a bit of a yapper. My temples started receding sometime during high school and I started looking masculine, if you get what I mean. And I know that everyone says this but in my case, I really mean it when I say that I went through hell to get my high school diploma. I was constantly bullied about my nerdy look and personality and barely fit in with any of the cliques. To survive, I kept to myself and started wearing very thick bangs and rimmed glasses to take attention away from my hairline. I would not even wear my hair back or up at the gym or even when swimming. In college, I was able to keep up with the same look, and I took it with me to my job as an illustrator. Since people already expect people in my line of work to be expressive, they did not think much about my bangs or glasses. But in truth, I was hiding myself away from the world because I was very self-conscious. I spent a lot of time reading self-development books and decided to take a step towards bettering myself where it counted the most – my looks. So, I booked a female hair transplant at HEVA. I was incredibly lucky to get the surgeon I did. She was very kind to me and my mother who came along on the trip. She even spent almost an hour just drawing the hairline to ensure I got that rounded look that I wanted and used the finer hairs for my edges to give me the baby hairs I had always envied in other people. I was afraid that I would end up looking like a doll but after the surgery, I instantly knew that I had made the right decision. It looked perfect and for the first month, I was on cloud nine and even wore my hair back on some days to work. Then I got into that ugly duckling phase. I had read about it but had no idea it went beyond shedding and also included small red bumps where new hair was trying to grow. I used warm compresses to help me cope with the discomfort, which is a trick I learned at HEVA. So, was it worth it? 100% I am only 5 months post-op and no longer need my bangs nor do I need to hide myself from the world as my hair is growing in. It feels great to feel this way about myself. In many ways, it is like I am emerging from my shell and I am happy I took the chance on myself and HEVA. I have come to believe that being body positive can also be as simple as changing the things you do not like about yourself and that does not mean that you love yourself any less. If anything, it is an act of love for yourself.