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Hair Loss and Receding Hairline
08-26-2010, 10:29 AM
It's my 24th birthday and I am a bit dismayed to have noticed for the first time that my hair is receding at the temples. Also my hair has been falling out quicker than usual.
I assume some guys on this forum have dealt with this or are currently dealing with it.
Any suggestions besides shaving it off and accepting old age?
Apparently a lot of my lifestyle habits are causing the ideal environment for hair loss: drinking, strange sleeping habits, washing hair with soap instead of shampoo, consistently forgetting to take my multivitamin.
I hear green tea is supposed to be good:
"Green tea is used as a method to stop or prevent male pattern baldness. This type of baldness or hair loss can be stopped with green tea by blocking the production of DHT. Green tea can be taken as a beverage or it can be taken in a supplement form."
Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?
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08-26-2010, 10:58 AM
A few things here.
- Hopefuly your hair loss with stop or atleast slow down. I know around 23 or so my hairline squared off in the front a little and I was real worried...then miraculously it just sort of stopped for the next 7-8 a years then I noticed a little more but again it stopped. I guess it goes in stages . I noticed around 30 I started get a little spot in the back of my head that was showing. It def affected me a little, but just deal with it is all I can say. Also for me, back in the day I hit the juice a little (experimental in college) and that def. caused a little jump in hair loss...(anabolics will not just create baldness, but if you are predisposed to losing your hair then it will def speed it up) I still have pleny of hair, but I'm aware enough of the spot that I keep my hair short. I notice most women prefer this. They can still see your hair color and texture and if you are going bald and taking a razor to your head you are not fooling anyone anyways. The whole bick thing was new at first but now every guy you see with it, you just know he is bald so it sends the same message. What is the very worst though is the guys that are very bald and try to grow a long patch of hair and comb it over to cover the baldness...that is just whack.
- I really do not know if lifestyle habits are causing your troubles. I am sure they aren't helping, but you could also be a non drinker, who eats clean and exercises daily with perfect 8 hour sleep regiminin and still go bald. Its weather or not your scalp has a sensitivity to DHT, simple as that. In fact if you are in Prime health with optimized Testosterone levels, and you are predisposed to balding I think it may happen quicker rather than later. Of course I have seen temporary bald spots in people who are very very stressed, (after heart surgery, death in the family, divorce, POW's) but they tend to
- You want something that might help you block DHT (Dehydrotestosterone) at your scalp level. You DO NOT want to eliminate DHT from your body. DHT is responsible for harderning and density of muscles as well as sexual arousal. If you eliminated DHT as you are suggesting , then your muscles would become softer and your sex drive would start to wain.
You need DHT.
- Good news is there are a few women that actually like a little baldness, most others do not really care, and of course there are some that hate it. But look at guys like Sean Connery who is still voted one of the most handsome men in the world (despite bieng like what, 75 and bald) guys like Bruce Willis, Jordan, etc. Just do you man and try not to stress it.
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Hair Loss and Receding Hairline
08-26-2010, 12:28 PM
Yep....another reason to get rid of skin heads...if your white you look crazy if your under 40 with a shaved head due to them....brutha's don't have this problem becuz we can just shave it all off and the women will not care...(Thank you fab five, onyx, michael jordan)....
Check your mom's side of the family..that determines your hairline for most people...mine is hanging in but I still choose to shave it all off ecause I feel better...
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08-26-2010, 01:06 PM
I'm scary white and I look good with a shaved head, as verified by multiple unsolicited compliments. Ive had it shaved for about two years now. And caramel communist, I just got done dating a sista who was a 9. So, the theory might be flawed.
It helps to have a baby face though. Best thing I ever did, and I fought it for a while. But when i see the before and after pics, what a difference in my overall attractiveness. And I don't have a skinny head that tends to look better with a shaved dome. That's why i resisted. usually, even if you have a little bit of receding, unless you have curly hair, its best to shave it right away. Especially if your in the beginning stages, its like getting your hairline back because people cant tell its receding when its shaved but not bald. Then, they get used to your look, and any further receding will seem extremely gradual to most people that you know, if they notice at all. Just keep it close. I like one day of growth. Anything more and I look better shaved. But that might have more to do with my head shape than anything else.
My success with women noticeably went up when i shaved my head. I never felt invincible with women before, and now I kind of do. Most of that is due to game, of course, but I noticed a bump when I shaved my head. Its also nice not to have to worry about the hair.
Your success with women wont be affected by your shaved head. At least that's my experience. If anything, it will likely go up. Especially with women over the age of 25 or so. And if your success with women wont change, or will improve, what else matters as far as your hair goes?
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Hair Loss and Receding Hairline
08-26-2010, 01:06 PM
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08-26-2010, 05:02 PM
That video is a great example. Ferris is lucky that he's a good looking guy, cause his hair looks like shit like that, imo. He's also lucky he's blonde, because the scalp contrast to his hair is much less. If he were dark haired, he couldn't get away with that without looking much worse. He is way past the point where he should have been either shaving or searching out a hair replacement solution. He's actually got the remnants of his hair parted in the middle. Yeesh...thats much braver to go out in public like that than shaved, imo.
Although the other guy isn't quite as naturally good looking, imo, he looks better insofar as how put together he looks. The other guys 'hair'/head looks much, much better. A little growth is okay, but ferris has too much for his level of baldness. A guy with his level should have it a lot shorter. If you have to comb it, or you can move it around, its too long. He should have stubble at the most, if he wants to look his best.
It'll be interesting to see where he goes with it. With his level of income (assumed) I'll be willing to guess that he'll eventually go to a hairpiece like Matthew McConaughey. He's in a tough spot, because shaving outright is a huge change to his public image at this point. But he should do it anyway, because eventually people will forget about the fact that he wasn't always like that. Sort of like Bruce Willis, but even more so because there are no full length movies of Ferris to remind you. McConaughey went the other way. No one remembers the pictures where he was almost totally bald.
Yeah, that sucks in your twenties. But as you get older, it will happen to more and more people that you and all the girls your age know. Eventually, its no big deal to anyone your age. Except to the guys who are paranoid about it because it hasn't happened to them yet. Again, I haven't found it to be an issue with one single woman. The most I get is "you should grow your hair". Then I do a little, and they wonder why it doesn't grow in on the temples. Then I explain, and they're like "Oh, ok. ready to go have sex now?" Then I shave it again the next day. No big deal. Its all about owning it. If you don't care, then they won't. I don't even think about it.
If you are losing it, and your lucky, then it'll happen very slowly. Mine started when i was 23. I didn't need to shave until 31-ish. It was real slow. I still have an okay line, but not good enough not to shave. I hate the going bald look with long-ish hair. A soon as I thought that happened to a noticeable extent, it was gone. I'm happier for it.
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08-27-2010, 12:11 AM
Hair loss is mostly genetic. I don't think it can be caused by using soap or drinking or most other environmental factors.
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08-27-2010, 11:25 AM
Exactly Hydro, you hit the nail on the head with "owning it" which is really what it is about. It doesn't realy matter how you decide to wear your hair, really just as long as the baldness doesn't make you paranoid and too self consciuos to affect your game or overall self image.
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Hair Loss and Receding Hairline
08-27-2010, 08:43 PM
Luckily I've noticed no hair loss and I just crossed 34 a few months ago. I just have a lot of gray hair popping up like weeds. I'll take that over being bald though.
Btw, the thing about inheriting baldness through your mother isn't true. It's an old wives tale. Look it up.
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Hair Loss and Receding Hairline
08-27-2010, 08:50 PM
Quote: (08-27-2010 08:43 PM)speakeasy Wrote:
Luckily I've noticed no hair loss and I just crossed 34 a few months ago. I just have a lot of gray hair popping up like weeds. I'll take that over being bald though.
Btw, the thing about inheriting baldness through your mother isn't true. It's an old wives tale. Look it up.
I always wondered about that, my grandfather on my mom's side supposedly was bald, but my older bro is 34 and show's no signs, and my dad has a full head of hear at 69.
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Hair Loss and Receding Hairline
08-28-2010, 11:53 AM
For those of you who are bald or balding, though, do you find that it's a particular obstacle to overcome when trying to pick up younger girls? Even among younger girls who are open to dating older men, is it possible that a bald head is just too conspicuous a sign of age for them to ignore?
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Hair Loss and Receding Hairline
08-29-2010, 01:35 AM
If you have a Costco nearby you can get generic old non-foam Rogaine so cheap you might as well try it.
What's better though is the Propecia pill for hair loss, but it's expensive, so tell your Doctor you'd like a prescription for Proscar(same drug, only for Enlarged Prostrate and more potent) and buy a pill cutter. I think Proscar can be had pretty cheap nowadays.
Also multiple studies have shown those laser combs ACTUALLY work.
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Hair Loss and Receding Hairline
08-31-2010, 10:43 PM
My friend started losing his hair pretty early in life (late in high school actually) and he started taking Propecia and gently massaging Rogaine on his receding hair line and eventually got a hair transplant. After all this time, I can safely say, although it doesn't look as full and amazing as the hair on top of my head, it's done a damn good job bringing back some sort of confidence in his life.
As for his lady situation? Well, he's not very good with the ladies so I can't really comment on how that's affected anything.
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Hair Loss and Receding Hairline
09-01-2010, 03:03 AM
try finasteride/propecia and regaine
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09-01-2010, 04:01 AM
As for the "shaved head" look, the key is muscle mass. It's hard to rock that shit when you're white and skinny.
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Hair Loss and Receding Hairline
09-01-2010, 09:54 AM
I noticed my hair is thinning a bit on the crown of my head. My brother who is younger then me by two years already has a huge patch missing in that area. I am still going strong though (chalk it up to my diet, exercise and supplements). I will be hopping on the Rogaine bandwagon though. Do you apply that stuff all over your head or just in the areas where your hair is thinning?
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