BGDL in Photos

: philadelphia may 2010; Be a BGDL photographer for our lunches on the east coast.

The Plough and the Stars in the heart of historic downtown Philadelphia. A top 5 choice for BGDL food and hospitality.

: chicago may 2010; Women came from Texas, Downtown Chicago, suburbs and Indiana. We talked about the tools women need to get in full control of their life with alopecia: what are the options and which choices will be optimize now or defer. Are other people really looking at our hair as much as we self-consciously think they are?

: BGDL on the Today Show; Nonprofit Bald Girls Do Lunch and BGDL founder, Thea Chassin of New York, caught the attention of the Today Show, the nation's top-rated network morning show. Today's national correspondent, Amy Robach, joined in for lunch and chat with Thea and 5 other women in Oak Brook, Illinois.

: impromptu evening lax; A last minute stop in Los Angeles brought Bigs and Littles to meetup close to LAX from as far as San Bernadino on short notice.

: celebrate 3 event 2010 new york city mark garrison salon; The Mark Garrison Salon townhouse in NYC, provided the gracious and spacious venue for "Celebrate 3"... honoring our Third Gold Triangle Award for BGDL from the American Academy of Dermatology.

Our very big thanks to our major event sponsors: Follea.com, JosephParis.com,Fuller-Hair.com, KarensWigs.com, iwig.com and 4Women.com

Our hugs to co-hostess Faren Collins, BGDL spokesperson and advocate for women with alopecia, competing to be Miss New York State with the women's alopecia cause platform in June 2010. Our wishes are with Faren for her next crown!

Our volunteers came from Sweden: Malin at the Brow Station; New York: Alex and Stephanie greeting guests and registration; and from Chicago: Cinder

Our guests with alopecia and with their friends and family came from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Florida and Illinois. Sponsors came from New York, California and New Hampshire.

Extra special thank you to Jessica Chermak who donated her many talents at the Scarf/Headwrap Station.

: NY Beauty Queen Promotes Alopecia Cause; Faren Collins is crowned Miss Southern New York and impresses the judging panel with her heartfelt passion for improving Women's Alopecia Awareness. Her next pageant goal is to become Miss New York State, again on her alopecia awareness platform. And by the way, can she sing! Read why Faren is passionate about our cause here http://bit.ly/9G7Ls3

: women with alopecia month; Contact events@baldgirlsdolunch.org and tell us about your WWA awareness event in your city.

: Bare Necessities, Sept. 2009, Joliet, Illinois; Harrah's Casino Resort in Joliet, Illinois was a gracious venue for our 2009 beauty event with the Bobbi Brown makeup artists of Nordstroms in Oak Brook, Illinois.

: Phoenix 2009; The "Alopecia Divas" celebrated holidays and friendship with massages, manis and pedis at Dolce Salon in Phoenix. Leaders Yvonne and Nancy arranged the wonderful spa night followed by dinner. We debuted the 2010 Women with Alopecia (July) month banner logo.

: Salt Lake City 2009; Our busy BGDL Salt Lake day started with our pubic education awareness table at Chico's in Foothill. When you take off your hair and demo scarf tying in the store-front it gets attention! Chico's donated a percentage of sales to our nonprofit. That evening we dined and made new BGDL friends during Vietnamese dinner.

: indianapolis 2009; The first BGDL lunch in Indiana received support and impetus from "Ascent for Alopecia"...the mountain-climbing and fund-raising campaign of Alex Whitley and Dana Crook. The couple raised funds in celebration and awareness of Alex's climb of Mt. Elbrus in Russia. Some lunch attendees were meeting another person with alopecia for the first time....and that's what BGDL is about. Read more here: http://www.baldgirlsdolunch.org/?p=216

: boston 2009; Lunch in Boston for women was followed by "Bigs and Littles" style workshop with moms and girls from the Childrens Alopecia Project Massachusetts group and a wig-education by sponsor Deb Fuller of Fuller-Hair.com

Attendees came from CT, MA, NH, and RI

: bald is i; Bald is In (tm)..The lunch time workshop of Women with Alopecia Month

: Award-winning event with Bobbi Brown Artists, March, 2009; Professional make-up artists from Bobbi Brown (Neiman-Marcus in White Plains, NY) gave a master make-up class and half-hour individual consultations to women with alopecia and their friends. We cannot thank the Bobbi Brown team enough for such a fantastic day!! Bobbi Brown cosmetics donated the grand raffle prize ( value $1,500) make-up party for lucky winner Jillian and 20 of her friends.

: AlopeciaPalooza - Thea's Tween Brow Workshop and Margaret Baker's Fashion show 2009; Thea Chassin led the makeup workshop for tween girls at the first annual AlopeciaPalooza conference hosted by the Childrens Alopecia Project ( CAP)

: Origins store awareness day 2008; Alopecia Awareness with BGDL and Annette Moore ( aka Crowned Regal) at Origins, New Wales, PA

: 2009 gold triangle award/American Academy of Dermatology/Annual meeting San Francisco 2009

: eyebrows; I have no eyebrow hairs most of the time. My powder technique looks natural. It also goes on fast and stays on with BGDL sealer. My brows are a bit fuzzy-edged, not hard lined because real brows are not hard lined either. That's the beauty of using powder. I make a base shape and add in tiny brush strokes for added realism, but base alone works beautifully, too. Powder colors can be blended. Powder looks textured under light. Works great over tattoo brows, if you have those. I have no tattoos.

: Irvine, California 2009; Lunch in Orange County, CA and interview with the OC Register

: no little bandanas; Minimize the assumptions by strangers that you have cancer. How? Stop wearing itsy-bitsy-teeny-weeny 'cancer bandanas'..get fashionable and ultra-comfortable layering scarf buns and hats. Ways to tie only limited by your imagination.

: Knots of Love; Knots-of-Love.org provides hand made hats for people with medical hair loss. Please tell knitters and knotters you know to volunteer and make much needed caps.