To avoid future incidents, Ojo has crafted a method to make sure that her wig is always secure by using a headband, clips, and Velcro. She advises having a dedicated wig for working out. “Look into headband wigs that have Velcro at the back that you can strap down,” she suggests. She also advises using claw clips to ensure that the hair stays out of your face while working up a sweat.

Belfast-native Niamh Mandeville started to lose her hair in 2014 due to alopecia areata and began wearing wigs in 2017. This form of alopecia is when the body attacks its own hair follicles and can cause hair loss anywhere on the body. “The patches became too large to hide and wearing a wig made me feel more comfortable,” she explains.

In the beginning, Mandeville was paranoid that her wig would move about and fall off. “I constantly kept checking it hadn’t,” she says. But, using Schwarzkopf’s Got2Be Glued to secure her wig has helped ease that worry; all she has to do now is spray it onto her hairline and hold the wig in place until the ‘glue’ has dried. That simple solution has allowed Mandeville to continue playing sports with her friends without fear of slippage.

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