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    Examining the bald facts

    Feb 16, 2020 3 minutes
    by Ruth Nichol

    Bex Ridgen has come to terms with being bald, but she still mourns the loss of her eyelashes.

    “I think it would be weird if my hair grew back now, but I’d love my eyelashes back,” says the Christchurch personal trainer who lost her eyelashes when she was 17, five years after she first developed symptoms of alopecia areata, an autoimmune disease that causes hair loss on the scalp, face and sometimes

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