DEAR HARRIETTE: When I was younger, I developed a strange habit of picking at the back of my hair. I did it so much that my hair thinned almost completely on the back of my head.
I ended up getting a pixie cut to mask the hair loss. The beauty hack worked perfectly – for a while, anyway.
As an adult, my bad habit has returned, but now I tend to pick at the middle of my head, and now, I realize that …