Thanks Phoebe!! It's a pity my hair is curly or I'd wear it as a "normal" kind of fringe right now! But it is curly so that just looks stupid. Even when I straighten my hair it's curly again within an hour! Also I don't think my face shape is right for a normal fringe.

Thanks Firante :) Hehe yes it is exciting, I haven't been able to wear a side fringe since... the beginning of my studies at uni. So, like 4 years ago, and even then it wasn't "full". For the past 2 or 3 years in particular, I've constantly been pulling out almost EVERYTHING in that area. Been wearing a headband for what seems like forever, 6-7 years, maybe longer. Ahhhh it feels good not to have to wear it any more.

So happy to be inspiring, because I know that I couldn't have done this if I didn't have hope and know of inspiring figures who had gotten so far in beating trich. I am very determined to keep it up, so thanks!! :)

Hm 126 days pf, and I will make it through today pull free.

Ditto for me with the fringe. It closes my face in & gets boofy.

Your PF is so exciting!!!

i love how you wrote i will make it through today pull free =D
(you definitely will, but its just a cool outlook on it!)
so happy for you! keep up the AMAZING work!!

:) Yep it is kinda exciting at the moment. Hmm. I can't stop wishing and hoping I'll be pull free until I go away in August. Then immediately I switch back to just thinking about making it through the day. But it's always in the back of my mind.... I don't want to get my hopes up, but I can't help it, they're up.

127 days pf. I will make it though today pull free too! Firante, at the beginning of my pull free, it was totally a gamble of whether I'd make it through the day pull free or not. But now, I can be almost definite. Occasionally, sometimes quite often, I will have a close call or two or six... Hm. So thank you :)

I have posted a "collage" of images in my photos section which are currently my pull free inspiration, have a look if you want!

You have to do it one day at a time, but I think you are at the point where you can definitely set long-term goals, and if I were a betting gal, I'd lay odds on you being PF until August & beyond!!!

wow you are doing so well!!

Bet you are looking forward to your holiday! We had to cancel our summer hols cos of the uncertainty about my job - but are hoping to get away in september if we can get a cheap deal (depending on my work) - am also going to brussels in august with a friend for 2 nights, plus france in october so can't complain!!! Love travelling sooo much though :0

You are a constant source of inspiration!!

wow, i looooved the collage- they're all such great pictures in their own way! i never would have thought to include the wet-hair ones, but those totally got to me because wet hair always looks so bad when you have trich (i aaaaalways blow-dry it before i leave my house)
thanks for sharing that!

Wow thanks Phoebe, I smiled a real genuine lasting smile when I read your comment! I kinda have to agree :)

Yesssss Mrs Kolo, it's all I can think of. I love traveling too, I want to travel the world. Definitely my biggest passion right now. Your upcoming holidays sound very exciting! And thanks again for your encouragement!

Thanks firante, the more that I look at inspiring images, the more I am reminded of my goal, and the more I think of the picture. If I look at these images when I want to pull a hair, it's so much easier to say no to pulling that hair. Yep wet hair is the MAJOR problem that I have with trich. I mean, I hate trich, but it never ruined my life like so many people on here say. But the one area that it really did impede upon my life is during summer; going to the beach and swimming in pools. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the ocean, I want to be in it all the time, and because of trich I could not do this. I always wanted to be a surfer but because of trich I didn't. So this is a big point of motivation for me. Very hard to hide bald spots or thin spots when hair is wet, agreed!! I always bow dry before I leave too. Often, I would blow dry before I even looked in the mirror :(
So no worries, I'm going to keep making them.

Hmm 127 days pull free, almost at the end of day 128. Have had no urges yet today, but I've been spending the day with a friend drinking tea and coffee and eating cake. So....

Yesterday, during a slightly stressful work related phone call, I accidentally pulled a hair. It came out really easily while I was playing with it. I didn't INTEND to pull it. Just another lesson to be learned (hmmm seems like I've already learned this lesson a few times!). Barriers during stressful work!

xoxo

Oops, 128 days pull free, almost at the end of day 129.

Oh and this hair I accidentally "pulled" (hm it half just came out, half got pulled) didn't trigger me to want to pull any more. I haven't accidentally pulled a hair since December 31 I think, I went soooooooo long without even doing one by accident. That's so cool!

Hurrah! I'm thrilled that you're doing wonderful, 128 days!
You're on the long-term goal side and doing well!
Hands down, barriers, especially with telephone calls!
You can do this!

129 hooray!!!! You are a superhero.

BTW, why don't you were a bathing cap? It's very common practice in pools here.

"wear" not "were"

I could, yes. But only for lap swimming, I wouldn't wear it for enjoyment swimming or in the ocean, id look like such a dork! So yes I could have worn a cap to swim laps, but what do I do with my wet, balding hair afterwards? That was the problem. Can't wear a towel on my head all the way home.. Well I could maybe, but what if it fell off... Ugh just too much of a hassle.