On Confidence, and Why a Topper Isn't Cheating

There is a particular shame attached to wearing hair that is not technically yours. Nobody applies it to mascara. Nobody applies it to a well-cut blazer. Nobody applies it to the shoes that make you walk a little taller.

Hair is treated as a moral test. As if accepting a topper means you have failed at being naturally enough. As if regrowing it on your own would make you a more honest person.

It would not. It would just make you a person with more hair.

We make toppers for the same reason a tailor makes blazers and an optometrist makes glasses. Some of us need a small assist to look in the mirror and recognize ourselves. That is not a moral question. It is a Tuesday morning.

"Wear what makes you feel like yourself. The rest is somebody else's opinion."