Before Hairloss, was your hairline low or high?

[ChrisW1980uk]

I've been thinking about this recently. I know my hair loss is very minor and I'm lucky that finasteride has seemed to halt/minor regrowth. I think where my unhappiness stemmed from (when I flew into a panic) having a very high hairline even as a child. So it didn't take much recession for my forehead to seem enormous. Going off the top wrinkle theory, my hairline is maybe 0.5cm higher than it was. Coupled with really thin hair which has thinned. It's a bad combination to start with. If I'd had thick coarse hair, say three fingers width above my eyebrows, then even receeding 3-4cm would take me to where I am now.

Now I'm not looking for any sympathy from anyone, I know I'm lucky. I'm just interested to find out how low your hairlines were as a kid, and whether there is any link between high hairlines and male pattern baldness.

 

[Quantum Cat]

I watched my hairline get higher and higher through teens. Then when my crown started thinning I knew it was male pattern baldness so jumped on the finasteride.

I have a narrow head anyway, but my front hairline is only an inch wide

I know nothing will help the front and temples - once follicles are dead, they're dead. Nothing will grow them back

 

[ChrisW1980uk]

I know what you mean. I didn't even realise it at the time. But looking back I did always have a high hairline, the chunk out of my hairline on the left hand side must have gone years ago, but I never noticed it. For me it was also my temple points pretty much disappearing. They've thickened a bit, bit they're still a lot lot finer than the rest of my hair (which isn't exactly thick anyway). I'd be happy with having my hair cut short, if it weren't for miniturisation for the first couple of inches round my hairline. That's why I have it long with a fringe/bangs to make my head look smaller and to hide the hairline.

 

[Kirby]

Looking at photos of me age 16, I had a 'caveman' hairline, very low indeed.

I've had my current Nw2 hairline since at least 2005, but never noticed it was a slightly damaged by male pattern baldness until this time last year(!).

 

[I AM AWESOME]

Diffuser here.

Not really. Hairline is still pretty much juvenile. I've actually seen a lot of diffusers have very, very low hairlines and some diffusers have Norwood 3 hairlines.

 

[resu]

My hairline is 05cm higher than the highest wrinkle so it doesn't seem to have moved up much.

 

[LawOfThelema]

hard to say. low to mid. but a pic from when i was 16 or 17 was already showing an angling back at the temple (despite thick as **** hair)

 

[ChrisW1980uk]

I don't think my temples were ever particularly thick, and they weren't the shape of a NW1 either. Will have to see if I can find and pictures of me side on as a kid.

 

[Abercrombie]

Mine was kinda low, lower than a lot of my friends hairlines. I don't think I'd want that kind of hairline back though, would look weird...I had a low hairline until I turned 19 and the whole hairline started to thin out. I can still see the shadow of where it used to be since minoxidil and finasteride kinda keeps the shadow.

 

[ChrisW1980uk]

Mine was kinda low, lower than a lot of my friends hairlines. I don't think I'd want that kind of hairline back though, would look weird...I had a low hairline until I turned 19 and the whole hairline started to thin out. I can still see the shadow of where it used to be since minoxidil and finasteride kinda keeps the shadow.

Is the skin where your hair used to be lighter than the rest, and very smooth? Mine seems to be. I'd be delighted if I could get the front of my hair to be as thick as the rest, and for all these blond hairs to get pigment. But as I've said before, I'm lucky and can't really complain.

 

[Exodus2011]

a little bit high but still about average i think

highest hairline ive seen is rainn wilson from the office

 

[DonaldAnderson]

I was born bald. When I was in elementary and even b4. My hairline looked to be a NW2 already and my forehead was huge.

 

[slipy]

i was born with what i refer to as uneven/asymetrical/disfigured hairline. it was defective, one of my temples was a Norwood 2 while the other Norwood 1.
when i was younger i tried several hair styles and couldn't fathom why they looked weird on me. the only i could pull off was some dodgy combover side part which i still utilize with lesser success.
i have no clue whether this had any relation to me inhereting male pattern baldness gene, probably very unlikely, just a coincidence. :dunno:

 

[resu]

a little bit high but still about average i think

highest hairline ive seen is rainn wilson from the office

Walton Goggins is up there as well.

 

[ChrisW1980uk]

I think it was me having a high hairline that sent me into a panic. As my hair hasn't receeded very much, but I sure have a six head, which is why I have a fringe. Should have had one years ago, but then I never gave my hair a second thought then!

This is a pretty high one http://foreverjimmysullivan.deviantart.com/art/Oli-Sykes-Kerrang-3-320148233

Yet with a fringe like this (which is what I try to recreate), you'd never know.

http://epitaphrecords.tumblr.com/post/19974821799

 

[Exodus2011]

are you serious?

the fuk?

THATS a high hairline? thats about average, if anything a bit low lol . . . . .

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I was born bald. When I was in elementary and even b4. My hairline looked to be a NW2 already and my forehead was huge.

lol wow an nw2 isnt bald and imo looks better than nw1

the retarded neanderthal hairline always was off putting and primitive looking to me

 

[ChrisW1980uk]

Exodus 2011, it's also brushed forward in that picture. I found this one. http://weheartit.com/entry/23542798# maybe I'm just going mad! Also how do you embed pictures on here fella?

 

[zeroes]

There is an insert Image button. The icon is a portrait with a tree.

 

[antman]

his forehead looks normal and in proportion to me

1) http://imgur.com/
2) upload pic
3) copy BBcode
4) paste it where desired

 

[ChrisW1980uk]

Thanks guys feel like a teenage girl posting pictures! That's interesting Antman, I had thought of that as quite a high hairline. Guess it shows even after all these years of lurking, I can still be inept about hair loss!