Here are 20 tips for becoming a confident bald woman. Be the you, that you love the most. Find your confidence as a bald woman.
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- 21 million American women currently suffer from some form of alopecia and the beauty industry so often focuses beauty around a woman’s hair. So, what happens when you suddenly have no hair? Have you lost a key element that made up your beauty? How can you be confident when the world tells you that you are missing something? I’m hear to tell you that your beauty is not in your hair and that there are many ways to radiate your confidence as a bald woman.
- I have been bald for the past 13 years, and in that time I have learned how to feel more beautiful than I ever had when I had a head full of hair, and it’s because of what I do for my confidence. Today, I am constantly told that my confidence is incredible. I am told that I am so beautiful, and others are always asking me about how I have become the person I am today. Well, I’m going to share the tips I use to be a highly confident bald woman.
What is a lack of confidence?
- A lack of confidence is when a person is not comfortable with who they are. It is when someone has a low self-esteem and feels badly about themselves. A person with a lack of confidence will usually feel awkward or uncomfortable in social situations.
- A common misconception is that all beautiful people are highly confident. This couldn’t be more wrong. I know many gorgeous people who have very low self-esteems, because confidence is a balance between what you do on the outside and what you radiate from within.
Why do bald women face a lack of confidence?
- Women who loose their hair often feel like they have lost a key element of who they are, because a woman’s hair is so often used to define her. When someone describes a person, they always describe the person’s hair. It’s natural to do this, and there is nothing wrong with it. Identity and hair go hand in hand. On the other hand, Baldness is associated with disease and medical treatments for terminal health conditions. So, a bald woman is very quickly defined as sick, or unwell, even if she’s perfectly healthy. This makes it easy for a bald woman to feel as if she is less than whole, and it hurts her self-esteem.
- I can easily recall countless times when a stranger has stopped me and assumed I was bald due to chemotherapy. It happens all the time. They ask me how far along I am in my treatment, what kind of cancer I am fighting, or they wish me luck and encourage me to be strong. I even had a complete stranger burst into tears and hug me because she thought I was battling cancer. It’s very clear, that to most of society, my bald appearance categorizes me as sick, or unwell. But I’m not sick, and I’m really quite healthy. So, what should a bald woman do to feel whole and have a high self-esteem?
20 Tips to Gain confidence when you’re a bald Woman.
- Tip #1- Clean Yourself Up!
- Get in the shower, scrub with a great smelling soap, and shave what hair you might have still growing. It’s time to get squeaky clean and smooth. Even the prettiest girl is going to feel gross and sluggish on a day she doesn’t shower. So, brush your teeth, exfoliate, and trim your fingernails and toenails.
- Tip #2- Get Dressed For Your Day! (Dress For Your Head, blog coming soon)
- Change out of whatever it is that you slept in. Even if your stay home, don’t wear your pajamas all day. This will only make you feel lazy, and confident are not lazy people. If you staying in, change into a clean, fresh sweat suit and you can still feel confidant that you’ve gotten dressed. But if you’re going on, try Dressing For Your Head. Yes, that’s a real thing. When you get dressed, don’t dress to hide your beautiful bald head, dress to show it off. I go into details on my Dressing For Your Head blog. Even though confidence is something that comes from within yourself, the way you look and present yourself can really affect just how much confidence you have.
- Tip #3- Eyes
- Your eyes are the windows to your soul. I’ve heard this so many time. So, what are people seeing when they look into your eyes? Are you giving them a clear picture of confidence? Now that you’ve lost your hair, your eyes are going to stand out a whole lot more! So take the opportunity to dress your eyes to stand out and show your kind spirit behind them. You can use conservative or bold false lashes, colored eyeshadow, and drawn on eyebrows (I highly recommend microblading). You may need to check out How To Apply False Lashes When You Have No Lashes. Once again, I know confidence comes from within, but how you feel on the inside is balanced by how and what you do on the outside. Make your eyes a beautiful focus for those looking at you.
- Tip #4- Smile
- I cannot stress this enough. Your smile is so important to your confidence. It will affect how you feel, as well as how those who surround you feel. Smile now! Right now! It may feel forced at first, but keep smiling and you will notice how good it feels. You may even laugh due to feeling a bit silly. Smiling is contagious. When you smile at someone, they will smile in automatic response, and since it feels good to smile, people will enjoy being around you because you make them feel good. When you make someone feel good, you feel good in return. So, just by smiling you created a cycle of good feelings that both starts and ends with you. But, smiling does more than that. Smiling makes a person beautiful. It lights up their whole appearance and makes them radiate. So, when I smile big enough, I truly feel that people forget I’m a bald woman, because I know they see a happy beautiful woman, and any other physical attribute no longer matters.
- Tip #5- Put on a little bling
- When women dress up for a night out, or special occasion, it usually involves a lot of effort going into their hair. So, how do you dress up and feel confident that you are a bald woman? Well, as mentioned previously, dress up your eyes, but in addition, you get to add some bling. An easy way to boost your confidence during your nights out and special occasions is to add a little jewelry and accessories to your attire. Having no hair means that you earring and a necklace will shine for all to see. So, choose a nice pair of earrings and necklace to help you feel pretty and feminine. If you miss long hair, try long earrings.
Every day earrings 
Long earrings and a long necklace
- Tip #6- Exercise
- This is key! Exercising has been proven to release positive endorphins, and serotonin. These are natural chemicals in your brain that make you happy. It is so much easier to feel like a confidant bald woman when you are happy. Add a bit of physical activity into your life to boost your mood. Go for a walk, ride a bike, jog up and down your stairs. Do anything to get your heart rate up for a few moments. If you need a bit of motivation, keep in mind to benefits of being physically active. The first, is to release the endorphins and serotonin to keep you happy. The second, is that by being more physically active, you will be in better physical shape. So, now you’ll have a happy, confident bald woman who is great shape! That sounds amazing!
- Tip #7- stand up straight
- Pull your shoulders back and stand tall. When you walk tall and stand up straight, you feel strong and empowered. Others around you will notice this too. When someone walks into a room standing tall and proud, they present themselves with admirable confidence. Let’s also not forget that by standing with great posture has also been proven to make you look 10 pounds lighter. So, straighten up, walk tall, and be proud of who you are.
- Tip #8- Accept who you are
- This is not going to be easy, and even after 13 years of being a bald woman, I will have a day that I wish I had hair. I probably have as many bad bald days, as a woman with hair has a bad hair day. So, really the grass isn’t ever greener on the other side. But you need to accept your smooth, beautiful bald head and don’t hide it away as an unwanted secret. I realized very quickly that everyone around me reflected the way I acted toward my baldness. When I was insecure and hiding away, people would avoid me. They would try not to be caught looking at me. But when I came forward and acknowledged my baldness as no big deal, they quickly adopted the normalcy of it and it suddenly didn’t bother either of us. I sometimes, literally, introduced myself to people as the bald girl, and because I said it first, it was no longer something that stood between me and others. It was something that helped me stand apart. No one is going to forget the happy, confident bald girl. I suggest checking out, 10 Reasons I Introduced Myself As The Bald Girl (still being written).
- Tip #9- uncover your head
- Do you truly want to be free to be yourself. Than uncover your head. This doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy a fun wig (How to Choose a Wig), beautiful scarf (10 Best ways to tie a scarf on your head), or cute hat (10 Things Your Hat Needs if You’re Bald). In fact I wear hats all the time, mostly because my head gets cold. But you do need to uncover your head. I know a mom who did everything she could to hide her bald head. She wouldn’t even let her small children know she had no hair. She went as far as sleeping with a wig on, and if you’ve ever worn a wig, you know how uncomfortable that must have been. Do yourself a HUGE favor and free yourself. Uncover your head and do not be ashamed of it. Teach others that being different is perfectly acceptable.
- Tip #10- accept compliments graciously
- Say thank you when someone pays you a compliment. It drives me crazy when I hear someone deflect a sincere compliment. If someone tells you that you look nice today, say thank you. Don’t say, “Oh no, I really don’t. I didn’t have time to get ready.” I can give so many more examples, but let it be enough for me to just say, accept the compliment and replying with a gracious thank you. Someone who is confident accepts compliments. The compliment I get a lot is, you’re the prettiest bald girl I’ve ever seen. It’s such a funny compliment to me. I just have to laugh as I say thank you, and I know why they think I’m pretty. They’re recognizing my confidence radiating outward and they’re drawn to my smile.
- Tip #11- Give compliments
- Building someone else’s confidence will actually in turn help build your own. So give all the compliments you can to people. Make sure your compliments are sincere. If you like someone’s outfit, or you enjoy a talent they have, or something they have done impressed you, let them know by complimenting them on it. You can even compliment someone’s hair. It may amaze you that you were able to give a compliment on someone’s hair and that you didn’t feel bad about your baldness. Complimenting others empowers you and gives you more confidence.
- Tip #12- Be positive
- Not much can hurt your confidence more than being negative. Learn to look on the bright side. Practice responding with positivity. When life presents a change, smile at it and tell yourself you can handle it. When someone askes you how your day is, respond that it’s amazing and really think about what has been amazing. Do not complain about a situation that’s bothering you, Do your best to look on the bright side and encourage others to do the same. When you have a positive attitude, your confidence builds within you, because you feel like you can do almost anything.
- Tip #13- Be grateful
- The healing powers of gratitude are nothing less than miraculous. Start saying thank you more. When you wake up in the morning, smile and say thank you for the good night and the new day. When you eat your meals, say thank you for your food. Say thank you out loud, so that you can hear your voice. The more you say thank you, the more you realize you have so much to be grateful for, which also feeds your confidence because you’re happy with all that you have been blessed with.
- Tip #14- Self-love
- You have to give yourself love. Everyone can easily list off things they wish were different about themselves. You need to recognize things you love about yourselves. Write down, or say out loud, what these things are. They can be physical traits, or talents such as cooking, singing, or crafting. Whatever it is that you love about yourself, make yourself more aware of these things and focus on them.
- Tip #15- Accept the special treatment
- If you’re a bald woman, you are going to be given special treatment from time to time. Don’t let this bother you. When someone gives special treatment to you, they are taking the opportunity to be charitable and show love. Let them have this opportunity. It’s not disrespectful toward you for others to give you personal treatment. Do not take it as belittling. If you can’t accept a special service, you might have low confidence, because someone with high confidence is okay with someone serving them.
- Tip #16- Serve someone else, give the special treatment
- This will really help if you struggle with accepting special treatment. A lot of the time, someone will give me special treatment because they assume I’m really sick and possibly bald due to medical treatments, and I don’t always have the time to tell them otherwise. For example, when someone anonymously pays for my meal when I go out to eat. They don’t know why I’m bald, and I don’t know if that is the reason they paid for my meal. So, when this happens I usually pay the service forward by choosing someone whose meal I can pay for too. I take the acts of service as a reminder to continue to give service myself. Of course, you shouldn’t wait for someone to serve you first. I urge you to do more service, it will amaze you how good it makes you feel. It offers an incredible boost to your confidence.
- Tip #17- Say yes
- Say yes to going out and trying new things. Trying new things is fun and great for your confidence, not because you were necessarily good at what you were trying, but because you tried something new. Self confidence grows when you experience more things.
- Tip #18- Say No
- Being able to say No is really hard for so many people. It implies that you don’t want to do or have the time to fit that extra thing into your schedule. So, how and when do you say no to something. First, your ‘no’ does not need to be followed by a long explanation of why you’re saying no. Just say, “No thank you, I have a prior engagement.”, or “No thank you, I can’t make that work right now.”, or “No thank you, I prefer to ___(suggest something else)___.” By saying ‘no’, you prevent yourself from becoming overwhelmed with things you need to do, and you leave your schedule open for things you want to do.
- Tip #19- Be accepting of others
- This has two parts. First, if you want others to accept you as you are, you need to accept others as they are. Make others feel comfortable being themselves and it will surprise you how good this makes you feel and the boost it will give to your confidence. Second, Others will want to tell you their stories about being a bald woman or another difficulty they have. You need to accept hearing people’s relatable stories.
- Tip #20- Don’t worry about what others say or think of you
- Lastly, You are going to have supporters and you are going to have people who will tear you down. You need to remember that at the end of the day, it is only your opinion about yourself that matters. It really makes no difference what others think of you. We will always go our separate ways, but you will always be stuck with yourself. So become your biggest fan, be your biggest cheerleader.
The Last Thing You Need to Know about being a confident bald woman!
- Being a bald woman is going to make you stand out, but it’s up to you to stand out in the best way. When strangers stop me now, they usually say, “You look too healthy to be going through Chemotherapy.” I am still obviously bald. They can see that, but they see and feel my confidence radiating outward. There will forever be good and bad days, but these tips will help you have more better days and boost your confidence to a level you never thought was possible.
- Do you have a confidence tip that I did not mention above? Please let me know in the comments. I would love to pass it along to others.
- Also reach out to me and let me know if this article was helpful to you. I would love to know if you were able to become a more confident bald woman.
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