Did Naomi Campbell, Have Traction Alopecia?

Fashion has witnessed a taste in diversity  and it is been nearly 50 years since  the stigma against evening out the black people faded and the first black women in fashion’s exclusive zone were accepted as models.

The pioneers of early beauty were Helen Williams, who rocked the African American fashion press. The next breakthrough came when the civil rights movement ushered into a new wave of political correctness, around the mid 1960s catapulting the gorgeous women like Naomi Sims and Donyale Luna, bringing them to the mainstream fashion industry along with the pages of Bazaar and Vogue for the very first time.

Not only did it end there, infact, with the passing generations there are a raft of beautiful black models from Joan Smalls to Naomi Campbell who has found great wealth and success.

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Naomi Campbell can be considered to be the most successful and the most popular black model ever, but even she couldn’t escape the price of the beauty and suffered severe extent of traction alopecia.

The perpetual chatter has surrounded Naomi Campbell since April 2008 as this 43 year old British supermodel was seen to be photographed with an unusual wide partition. This was noticed at the time when she was attending a gala opening in New York at the Metropolitan Opera.

This is a condition when describes damaged hair and caused due to the excessive pulling of the natural hair follicle along with the weight of weave that it is attached to. Weaves, extensions or anything artificial thing hanging from your hair, without any breaks for allowing it to rebound.

If the seriousness of the situation still permits to cure from the condition that Naomi is going through. If the extent of traction alopecia is permanent, then restoring hairs may be very tough to figure out. But the process involves moving healthy hair follicles from one part of the scalp to the targeted damaged area; it can be a helpful solution with a dramatic result.

This 42 year old beauty revealed her incredibly receding hairline, which she suffered  by over- relying on the hair extensions and weaves for the maximum  time in her modeling careers.

Though she looked great in shape, but all attention was focused on her hairline as it unwanted exposed the additional barren scalp which can be a major cause of concern. The supermodel usually wore straight extensions over her naturally curly hair for over 25 years consistently, which made her hair weaker and the hairline above the sides and the forehead to thin as the hair in this area are weaker.

In usual cases, it takes three months to one year for the hair to grow back, but if the pulling continues and the hair faces severe damages, then the only option that you will be left with would be hair transplant.