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Microfibre / Microfiber products. Also known as Instant Hair Replacements. Toppik & Nanogen seem to be the field leaders here, there are others but they generally fall into the also-rans section, being slightly inferior to the top two. Toppik and Nanofibres are pretty similar products as far as we can tell, both give good coverage for all of our hair colours, and look good even when under lights etc. One or two small things to note, in the U.S. especially, Toppik is a bit cheaper, and has gigantic value pots of the stuff which make for fewer embarrassing purchases. Nanogen’s Nanofibres have a definite edge quality wise though, possibly why they’re slightly more expensive? They seem lighter and give a betternatural coverage of thinning hair, they claim to have a patented coating and delivery system that makes the product superior, and cruising the hair loss forums shows that most people seem to be of the same opinion. The company also produces a locking mist that works well and the tube doesn’t mention “hair replacement” so you can keep it a secret, unlike Toppik which is a little blatant! Best of all Nanogen have a 30 day trial with no catches, and a customer services department that’s really understanding, and even put up with all of oursurvey questions!

Hair Systems & Hair Pieces. The instant hair replacement, we would love to be able to say at this point that we’ve found the perfect one, but, umm, no. Whilst fine for fancy dress, even an expensive hair system irritated our tester, and made him the object of many jokes from his family, and us, sorry.

Concealants, Dyes and Sprays. We tried the traditional Couvre, and the extremely popular for people with thinning hair, Dermatch. Couvre we found messy, and to be honest it’s no surprise that Spencer Forrest, makers of Couvre, have moved on to producing other things. Dermatch we found impressive, it worked well after some practice, covering the thin patches well; the only small drawback was that my own hair colour, being a bit of an indeterminate brown, couldn’t find a colour that didn’t look like paint. Also beware! it is only a scalp dye, and so in bright sunlight or backlit you can find your hair still looking very thin! We couldn't decide whether H3 or Hair cubed was a spray or a microfibre product, so it's here, whilst confused about what it is, we used it as per instructions and sprayed everyone. We found that it does add volume to hair that's not very thin, but doesn't really cover thin areas, certainly not as well as the shake on microfibre products.


So Hair Loss Cover-Up’s advice would be to take Nanogen’s trial up at www.nanogen.co.uk and conceal your hair loss

 

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