khronicles of the botak bride... NOT!

My hair loss problem has come at the worse timing ever.

We're left with 6+ months to the wedding!!! Why am I shedding hair like a kitty cat ni!!!

I've had relatively good thick hair throughout my life so it kind of freaked me out when I started losing hair excessively at the end of last year. At first it didn't really bother me much and I brushed it off as "just a phase" (dengar dengar rambut pun go through puberty pe...) but I knew I had to do something when one fine day my mat asked whether I was losing hair!!! Kalau orang dah start notice means dah rabak lah kan???

But I think the thing that really made me terhentak terhantuk benjol was when I looked at myself at my office desk mirror to adjust my face and hair before a meeting and realized that I can see my scalp amidst my thinning hair without even tilting my head.

WTF!!!!! Hello??? Body??? I'm asking you to lose weight ok?!!!!! Not lose hair ok?!!! >:(

That sight made me so terkejut katak sampai I immediately tweeted for recommendations (I also Googled ok but there were tooooo many hits and tooooo many product reviews, hence the lari-to-Twitter-to-ask-for-help approach) and received replies from the ever resourceful Chubby Bride Confessions and Glitter on my Finger!

The common name that popped out from that exercise was Phyto - I remember this brand from an earlier gift that one of my girlfriends Adibah (whose awesome line of work means that she gets freebies all the time) gave me and figured that Phyto was the brand I should look out for. Ran off to Watsons during the lunchtime and after lurking over their shelves for half an hour, I bought this!

The full works, yo!

Went back to office, all happy and hopeful, until I received this message from my mat:

"B, later I pass you the hair product that Aisyah buy for you ok"

APA DAH.

I wasn't sure whether I should start on my newly purchased Phyto set or the hair product that Aisyah bought for me but subsequently decided on the latter - I wanted to see whether the product would work well for me as it did for Aisyah and I can only truly gauge if I didn't interfere the process with other products kan? Takut tak tau mana satu yang workz nanti.

Sooooo... apakah the verdict?????








The verdict is a... Alhamdullilah!!! The product must be working well for me as it did for Aisyah because I checked my hair in the office mirror yesterday to see the thinning areas and I could clearly see that they were not as rabak as they were before I tried the product!!! Plus I met my mat last Sunday and he commented that my hair was looking fuller than it did for the past few months. WOOHOOHOO!

And if there's anyone I can trust about hair, it's my good old mamat ok. Tau tak kenape??? Tak tau kan, so sekarang aku bagi tau even if kau tak nak tau - it's becaaaaaaause his favourite part of a girl is the hair.

(If you take out boobs and ass from the equation, of course... of course)

It's been that way ever since he was a baby ok. Tak tau kenape dia dari kecik ada fascination with female hair... and I got proof ok! Nah, this is my bukti:

KORANG TENGOK TU. TU TU TUUUUU TU TANGAN KE LONTONG TU.

Hahahahahahaha. That is my favourite childhood picture of him, by the way. 

Well that, and this:  

Kesian kan ini anak!!!!! His dad sat on the other side of the seesaw and refused to let him turun so he bawled setengah mati!!!!! Hahahahahahahahaha!!!

Padan muka kau, budak. That's balasan for all the times you whacked your dad's head over and over again with your plastic toy golf club while dia tengah sujud time sembahyang, for all the times you took his wallet and scattered the contents all over the masjid floor while dia tengah solat, for all the times you pretended to be a budak baik baca muqaddam at the corner of your house when you know your mum nak complain about your naughtiness once your dad balik dari kerja so as to avoid punishment. HAHA.

Ok sorry guys, I can go on forever and ever and ever and everest everytime I recall back all the naughty episodes he had during his childhood because they are all so kelakar and really menyerlahkan his sense of mischief!!! Sekarang umur dah nak masuk 30 tahun pun his mischievousness masih terbawak bawak ok.

Ok dah sudah, now back to kisah sedih pasal rambut.

So which is the hair product that Aisyah recommended that gave awesome results??? Yaaaaa, ini dia:

 414ml of thickening shampoo goodness by Avalon Organics.

$20+ from Watsons! Cheap, cheap!

Not sure what's going to happen to my Phyto Chronic Hair Loss set now - obviously if I try to sell kat sini takde orang pun nak beli because puas hati bayar $20+ for the Biotin Hair Thickening Shampoo then buy the hair loss set at 10 times more kan? Hur hur.

Feel free to email me if you want to get the hair loss set and go full blast ahead, though! I won't aggressively market it because even if I can't find anyone who'd want to buy the set from me, it's okay - I'll probably start on it next month, make it last for another two, and then maintain the volume and thickness by reverting back to the thickening shampoo.

Oh, and in the midst of the kekecohan about my hair loss, my mamat pun claim that his hairline is receding and he is suffering hair loss as well! (Sebok aje as usual.....) Dude opting to try Bawang Shampoo (as promoted by Jackie Chan) first but he just bought it over the weekend so we'll have to wait for another few weeks to see whether it works. Jangan kepala tumbuh bawang sudah. Pakai tanjak tak handsome nanti.

Anyway, enough about the hair loss stories! I guess #inisemuanormal and memang part and parcel of growing old eh guys? Ah tu lah, dulu havoc kan tak nak jaga rambut kan, every few months dye red lah dye blonde lah dye ash brown lah, sekejap rebond, sekejap kerinting bastard, now rambut rosak to the point of no return, amaciam cakap?!

Hopefully this hairy happiness lasts sampai ke-jinjang pelamin! Wouldn't want to be a botak bride because nanti nak pakai sanggul lintang susah seh. Takkan nak letak floral foam sponge kat kepala just to cucuk the sanggul kan.