Let Down Your Hair

Barb may have zero friends IRL, but online, she is popular. Like, several-hundred-thousand-followers popular. Or at least, her hair is popular. Because Barb's hair is glossy and beautiful. Which is why hairbrush manufacturers pay her stupid money for a 30-second clip. But most of the time Barb just wants to be a normal teenager. One who isn't confined to her bedroom on the 12th floor of the tower-block flat she shares with her aunt making content.

But it's soon clear something isn't right. Because when Barb runs her fingers over her scalp, she feels something smooth and different. She gets out her mirrors and combs for a video and sees it... a bald patch the size of a ten pence coin, slap bang in the middle of her head.

Barb has alopecia.