Am I Going To Lose My Hair Or Do I Just Have A Very High Hairline?

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Hi,

I'm not entirely sure of the rules of this forum but I am looking for some advise around my hairline. I have always had a big forehead and have had a very high hairline all of my life. A lot of my friends joke about me losing my hair because of this. I have never noticed any hair falling out but my hairline does look similar to people who are experiencing hair loss. It's caused me a lot of anxiety so I've recently started using the Alpecin caffeine shampoo.I'd attached two photos, one from now and one from when I was a kid (my hair was pushed forward but its the only one I could find!). Is it just a very high hairline or is it a sign that I will lose my hair?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Sam
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Hi Sam. Few things I need:
1. Age
2. Pictures of hairline with head tilted more downward
3. Pictures of corners of hairline
 
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Looks like a mature hairline. To be sure can you wrinkle your forehead as high as it can go and take another picture in better lighting like your original pic? But it does seem fine to me from what I can tell.
 
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CrimsonGrass said:
Looks like a mature hairline. To be sure can you wrinkle your forehead as high as it can go and take another picture in better lighting like your original pic? But it does seem fine to me from what I can tell.
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Thanks for this. I appreciate it.

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Sam Yates said:
Thanks so much for your advice :)
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No problem. The only part that looked sketchy to me was your temple. Just to be 100% sure (though I pretty much already am), can you just take a few shots of your temple (left one if you're looking at your picture) while pulling your hair back with your hand tightly and also creasing your forehead again? This shows me the difference between your juvenile hairline (top wrinkle) and matured corner (usually 1 to 1.5 inches higher than the top wrinkle). I also want to check for any thinning. Mature hairlines usually lock into place at your age and stabilize for decades.
 
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@CrimsonGrass dude there is literally no such thing as a mature hairline. You’re either losing hair or you’re not . It just so happens that some people can stop at certain points - be in nw2 or nw4.
 
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CrimsonGrass said:
No problem. The only part that looked sketchy to me was your temple. Just to be 100% sure (though I pretty much already am), can you just take a few shots of your temple (left one if you're looking at your picture) while pulling your hair back with your hand tightly and also creasing your forehead again? This shows me the difference between your juvenile hairline (top wrinkle) and matured corner (usually 1 to 1.5 inches higher than the top wrinkle). I also want to check for any thinning. Mature hairlines usually lock into place at your age and stabilize for decades.
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CrimsonGrass said:
No problem. The only part that looked sketchy to me was your temple. Just to be 100% sure (though I pretty much already am), can you just take a few shots of your temple (left one if you're looking at your picture) while pulling your hair back with your hand tightly and also creasing your forehead again? This shows me the difference between your juvenile hairline (top wrinkle) and matured corner (usually 1 to 1.5 inches higher than the top wrinkle). I also want to check for any thinning. Mature hairlines usually lock into place at your age and stabilize for decades.
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Ollie said:
@CrimsonGrass dude there is literally no such thing as a mature hairline. You’re either losing hair or you’re not . It just so happens that some people can stop at certain points - be in nw2 or nw4.
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This is wrong. Mature hairlines are a form of baldness and typically are classified as Norwood 2. You can stop at any Norwood or progress, but 2 is what 95% of caucasians develop between ages 17-29. It is beyond more common to stop at 2 and not develop further for decades than it is for any other Norwood. You could also develop a 2 and recede later, but the point is a 2/mature hairline does not indicate future recession is at all imminent. You're a "senior member" of a fearmonger board spreading disinformation, and you're probabably balding severely comparatively. Get your facts right.
 
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This is wrong. Mature hairlines are a form of baldness and typically are classified as Norwood 2. You can stop at any Norwood or progress, but 2 is what 95% of caucasians develop between ages 17-29. It is beyond more common to stop at 2 and not develop further for decades than it is for any other Norwood. You could also develop a 2 and recede later, but the point is a 2/mature hairline does not indicate future recession is at all imminent. You're a "senior member" of a fearmonger board spreading disinformation, and you're probabably balding severely comparatively. Get your facts right.
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Lol.

Just because statistically most peoples hairline recession stagnates at nw2 doesnt mean anything. The fact you’ve progressed that far indicates the process has started and is perfectly capable in many instances to continue at the rate that your recession to nw2 has gone . Post a single piece of academic literature that entertains the idea from a scientific standpoint that a ‘mature’ hairline exists.

Nevertheless, even if this was the case, you couldn’t look at someone’s hairline (like OP’s) and give any form of reliable indication to what his hairloss future held.

And as you’re being called out on your misjudgements - I’m nw2 . On treatments.
 
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Lol.

Just because statistically most peoples hairline recession stagnates at nw2 doesnt mean anything. The fact you’ve progressed that far indicates the process has started and is perfectly capable in many instances to continue at the rate that your recession to nw2 has gone . Post a single piece of academic literature that entertains the idea from a scientific standpoint that a ‘mature’ hairline exists.

Nevertheless, even if this was the case, you couldn’t look at someone’s hairline (like OP’s) and give any form of reliable indication to what his hairloss future held.

And as you’re being called out on your misjudgements - I’m nw2 . On treatments.
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Wrong again. Good try though. First of all what a mature hairline is can actually be differentiated from a NW2 in reality. In OP's case he has a mature hairline, and this is actually more along the lines of a 1.5. The difference between the two is there is triangulated recession in mature hairlines and much further recession for NW2's--examples can be seen on hair transplant clinic sites.

Mature hairlines are a very real phenomenon. Just because you went past one (NW2 on treatment, just as I predicted) doesn't mean they don't exist. They are the killing of weak baby hairs and the ceasing of recession isn't due to "magical mature hairline magic," but either low androgen levels, lack of sensitivity to androgen hormones, or any certain array of genetics. The mature hairline will still slowly recede throughout one's lifetime, but not nearly at the rate of what is traditionally classified as male pattern baldness. Because this happens so frequently, it is named a mature hairline--"professionally" or colloquially. I've definitely read papers that have used this term anyway, and don't care to prove something that is exceedingly self evident. The point again being that OP has one, and thus he has almost no more reason to fear hairloss down the line than a perfect NW1 does. Never said it couldn't/doesn't happen. But more often than not is stops there for at least a decade, if not two or even three, or even a lifetime if one's lucky.

Great to see you fell into the misinformation culture on here though, it's so laughably false sometimes it's scary. I always had a hunch it had to do with guys being on treatment and projecting their fears and trials onto others with the slightest dents in their hairline. Try reading what I actually said this time too because you might realize you're not even disagreeing with the logistics of what I'm saying but more so semantics.
 
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if you are losing your hair in large amount then you should think about it.
Do you Regularly wash your hair with shampoo
Do you have Physical stress
are you taking Too much vitamin A
 
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