For many, washing and styling our hair is second nature and since childhood, fairy tales have conditioned us to glorify Rapunzel-long locks. But for 30-year-old influencer Zara Jackson, her story didn’t quite have the happy ending she’d dreamt of when she began to lose her hair. “It came out of the blue,” she recounts. “I lost it all in six weeks. Everything was completely gone; I didn’t have a single hair on my body.” According to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, around 100,000* people in the UK are currently affected by alopecia. “Alopecia is an *Source: ‘Epic Epidemiology study for Alopecia Areata’, Alopecia UK, July 2021 “I lost it all in six weeks. Everything was completely gone; I didn’t have a single hair on my body” umbrella term representing several hair loss conditions, which range from patchy thinning to complete baldness and (in extreme cases) hair loss across the face and body,” explains Scott Evans, commercial education manager at Nioxin. “The term “alopecia” is often used as a shorthand for alopecia areata, an autoimmune disease where the body’s immune system attacks hair follicles.” HAIR LOSS AWARENESS
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