Message from Lucinda Ellery
My dearest clients,

I have no better joy than seeing the light in your eyes and the smiles on your faces. Sharing your hugs and love bo out of relief and joy at having your hair recreated or normalised, in many cases better than it has ever been. To work in this environment, with the team of amazing people whose pride in their skills and pleasure from your appreciation of the efforts is immeasurable.
Your constant stream of letters and praise for the service that we take great joy in giving, inspires us to continue providing you with the very best we can. I want to share the top characteristics that you expressed to me: the pleasure you feel at how kindand polite my team is. I want to say in tu that there are
virtually  no  exceptions our clients’   continued
kindness,politeness and support to us in tu
a true indication of the wonderful law of
attraction that  what  you send out, you
receive back.
I  now  consider  that  losing my  hair
and the 25 years of misery I believe it
cost me  in  hind  sight  was a true gift,
for  without   this  experience  I   would
have had the opportunity  to  meet  never
have and  share   with  other  women  like 
myself, the anxiety and devastation and the opposite; an abundance of feeling good about our hair, forever more!!
If it hadn’t been for you all, I would have not been able to express my obsession with hair and its beauty. It was your courage 28 years ago in allowing me to experiment on a living, breathing, working alteative to hair loss, wigs and hair pieces - real gigantic 21 century ground breaking solutions, a pioneering new way forward for us girls!!
 
I loved  my  wigs;   they saved  my  sanity  but
I  didn’t  enjoy  their   restrictiveness. Having
my  Intralace  has  made me  so  excited  in
having  the  opportunity to  make   my  hair
look 20 years old even if I don’t!
I   still  get  butterflies  when  having   my
hair done, maybe  I never truly got over of
losing   it  in  the  first  place  but I  sure  do
love  my  hair  every   single day now,  even
enjoying   the  odd,   bad  hair  day  when   it
needs  doing  or washing,  I’m reminded  how
lucky I am to have this hair on my head which I can wash, brush, set, dress, style, go to bed with, wake up with and it’s an ever present force for pleasure, glamour and normality in my daily life. I face the world feeling a 100% better than I ever did with any other hair solution. I feel like God has given me my hair back, just a different way and if I can give just a little bit of that joy to the women I work with and on, I think my stay here on planet Earth contributes to the human joy pool that I am surrounded with, every day!
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Star Letter
In every newsletter I will be writing things pertaining to TTM (Trichotilomania) and Traction Alopecia.
I received a brilliant letter from the mother of one of my TTM girls. I was struck by her understanding of her daughter’s plight that I asked her consent to share the content of her letter with you. If you are a parent of a TTM girl, you have my sincerest empathy and sympathy. There is never enough support and understanding for the traumatic emotions parents have to face and go through while dealing with their child’s devastating condition. I could write a book on this alone!!!
This wonderful mother clearly gets what’s going on and I was so inspired by what she wrote that I thought it might be helpful to parents and loved ones. If you have children with TTM, please take time to read it. Maybe even parents of children with hair loss might find it useful too. I want to take this opportunity in thanking this lovely mother for taking the time and effort to write to me and share her thoughts.
 
Dear Lucinda,

I hope this letter finds you well. I feel very guilty that I have to start by offering a big apology for not having written sooner. I know we spoke several months ago and I told you I was writing to you then, which I genuinely was! In fact I have started several letters to you but always found it very difficult to express clearly our very sincere gratitude for all the help and support provided to Kelly by you and your wonderful staff. I suppose I was making my letter far too complicated and as I was determined when I started to write today that I will finish this letter and post it immediately.
It is   genuinely  difficult  to  put  into  words  how  my
husband and  I  are  to  you  all  for  helping   Kelly  to
overcome  Trichotillomania. Before  she  attended the
Hammersmith clinic and had the  Intralace  System
fitted, she had been pulling on and off for  seven
years but continuously for five. We had almost
resigned ourselves to  the fact that she would
forever  wear a  head  scarf  or disguise   of
sort   and  that   TTM   would  be  part  of  /
dominate  her  life indefinitely.  All   the other
‘cures’ or treatments we  explored   such  as
CBT,  family  therapy  and  hypnosis  all  had
little success. It  seemed  a very  bleak outlook
and  I  had  to frequently  remind  myself  to  be
grateful  that  it  wasn’t a life  threatening  illness
and that  Kelly  was  otherwise  a  healthy,normal
teenager. It was not an easy condition for her to live with as a teenager, which I know you will only be too familiar with. She felt very different from her friends and worried constantly that her bald patches would be seen under her scarf. It left her very self-conscious and vulnerable. Having the Intralace System fitted changed all that pretty much instantly at what I feel was a very
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critical  time for her. It allowed her so much more freedom, finally she would socialise with her friends, go to  parties  and  sleepovers  without  the constant worry of  her scarf slipping or being pulled off. Her  self
confidence  grew massively which was wonderful
for  us  to  see. To move from  the Intralace to
extensions just over a year later and to see how
her own hair had grown back was another
huge leap forward and for her now to have all
her own hair is truly amazing. I am grateful
for everyday she is pull free but I do understand
it is still relatively early days and there are no
guarantees that she will not pull again. I’m more
more than a little cross with her that she
has not been to see you for quite a while
now. She has promised on several occasions
that she will make an appointment so I very
much hope it will happen soon.
 
During the summer I did find a little ball of hair in the bed and felt my heart sink. I spoke to her immediately about it and she said she had pulled while lying in bed reading but stopped immediately once she realised what was happening. It was a wakeup call for us both not to be too complacent and I ask her frequently if all is ok with her hair. She did make contact with another of your younger clients some time ago and they communicated through Facebook but that also seems to have dwindled. I have encouraged her to try and renew that contact as it is always good to talk with someone who knows what you are going through.
Kelly is in her final year at a Northe university studying law so there will be a lot of pressure and stress over the coming months with essays, dissertations and exams but hopefully the coping mechanisms you have taught her to use will help her to deal with all of this without resorting to pulling again. I’m sure it’s a case of taking every day as it comes and taking huge positives from being relatively pull free for well over 18 months now.
I think I have probably rambled on more than enough for now but wish to apologize once more for not having sent this letter a very long time ago.
With my sincere thanks and best wishes,
Barbara
 
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Lucinda Ellery in the Press
I would love to share a selection of articles and images that have been in the press in the last few weeks and would like to take this opportunity to thank these beautiful young women for sharing the secrets of their truly gorgeous, sexy and glamorous hair. All the girls are normal working women who had the courage to take their hair situation into their own hands. I think you’ll agree; they all look gorgeous and it’s so inspiring to see what they have had done.
 
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Clients’ Letters
There is a lovely letter which just shows how important it is to be looked after and feel joy and happiness. It bounces from every word of this divine woman and our aim is to give every client this fabulous feeling. We are dedicated to your pleasure and fulfilment. It made me smile so much!
Dear Lucinda and your fantastic team of miracle workers,
I have only just had the Intralace System fitted and already I feel absolutely fabulous. I don’t think there are enough superlatives in the English language to describe exactly how I feel. But I think “just feeling normal again” will strike a chord with many ladies who are suffering from hair loss problems.
My emotions at the moment are mixed between grinning like a Cheshire cat and crying with tears and joy.
Like so many other ladies I wished I had known about you earlier - but grateful that I know about you now.
As soon as I made the initial phone call to arrange my consultation, I knew that my “problem” was going to be solved. What I could not have known at the time, however, was just how amazing I would feel.
I could write  pages  and  pages about  the
the fantasticservice I   received  from   all
your staff   – butI think you already know
just what a fabulous team you have
It’s difficult for  me  to  keep  this  letter
brie f – I  really  want  to  tell  everyone
about  “The Lucinda Ellery Experience”
but   I  think  I  will close now and have
another peek in  the mirror at this “drop
-dead” gorgeous  60 year  old  that you
have created!
Briefly Mrs. Ellery I feel better than I could ever have imagined. Thank you and your wonderful team so very, very much.
Margaret
NHS Funding
Lucinda Ellery has been working with a number of Primary Care Trusts around the UK for several years now.  Some of our clients are currently receiving funding for their Intralace System.  We understand that applying for funding can be difficult however it is always great news when another client has been successful with their funding application. 
One of our clients has recently had confirmation that her funding has been granted for a further period of time. This client received funding periodically since 2006.  It is normal for Primary Care Trusts to review the clients funding agreement within certain time frames so we are delighted that her Primary Care Trust has recognized the positive affect the Intralace System has on this lady day to day life and her well being.
 
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Chemotherapy and Hair loss
One of the hardest aspects when undergoing Chemotherapy is the effect it has on your hair. Not all chemotherapy drugs make your hair fall out and sometimes the loss is minimal however some people will experience partial or complete hair loss during or immediately after the treatment. Permanent hair loss following chemotherapy is rare.
The Cold Cap treatment can reduce the amount of hair loss as it protects some of the follicles. Not all Cancer types can be treated with the cold cap in place so your Doctor or Chemotherapy nurse will let you know if it is appropriate for you.
If your hair is going to fall out, it usually starts within 2-3 weeks of starting chemotherapy and this may be noticed when you brush or wash your hair. One can not underestimate the impact this has on the ladies emotional wellbeing.
There are options to conceal the hair loss. Some ladies choose to use scarf’s or wigs however many ladies would prefer a more permanent solution and so they choose to use a hair integration system like the Intralace System which will disguise the hair loss but also allow the natural hair to grow back freely undeeath the system. It’s understandable why many ladies want to conceal their hair loss from their families and friends. I spoke to a lady recently who said she did not want her young children  to see her without hair,  she  didn’t want to
have to  remove  a scarf or wig at  bed  time  and she
pointed out that by having her hair restored through
the use of the Intralace System she felt a sense
of    normality    retuing    immediately
– everyone said she looked betterand
she felt better.
 
She also felt that people treated her differently – they assumed all was well as she looked like her old self.
In most cases the hair fully grows back once the treatment is finished. The hair can sometimes grow back a different colour or texture and it can be challenge to wait for it to grow to your preferred length. Your hair can successfully grow back undeeath the Intralace System and it will get to a stage where the system would then just be removed. Ladies may then choose to use fine, lightweight extensions until they are happy with the length of their own natural hair.
Coping with  Cancer is one of the hardest things for anyone  to   deal  with.   Having   Chemotherapy   for   Cancer  brings  its  own  challenges. Those  ladies  that
are   comfortable  to   manage their   hair  loss  without
concealing it  should  be  admired  but our  hair is
embedded  in  our femininity and   so for   many
ladies  the  hair  loss   has  a   profound   effect
on  their  emotional wellbeing. It is  comforting
to know that full re  growth is entrirly  possible
and  probable  but  while  you  wait  there  are
great options available  to temporarily replace
 your    crowning  glory  and  in  tu  restore
your confidence.
 
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