Diffuse Hair Loss = Night Mare To Style

Baldingat188

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In my opinion diffuse is worse then receding hair line. Actually what prompted me to make this post was people telling me I should “change my hair”. It feels like sh*t to be told that when you suffer from hair loss. Espically because my hair loss isn’t very noticeable people don’t recognize it as balding - they just know it doesn’t look good.

It’s such a nightmare to style and I have no idea what to do with it. Right now I have a really dumb hair cut that looks like a 10 year old would have because it works as a combover. I would love to get a different haircut but there’s just 0 options with diffuse. Even if the actual thinning isn’t that noticeable by the eyes it definitely makes a big difference with hair style and people do notice hair style.

I’m close to buzzing my head but my hair grows very slow and I’m afraid it would make my hair loss more visible.
 

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In my opinion diffuse is worse then receding hair line. Actually what prompted me to make this post was people telling me I should “change my hair”. It feels like sh*t to be told that when you suffer from hair loss. Espically because my hair loss isn’t very noticeable people don’t recognize it as balding - they just know it doesn’t look good.

It’s such a nightmare to style and I have no idea what to do with it. Right now I have a really dumb hair cut that looks like a 10 year old would have because it works as a combover. I would love to get a different haircut but there’s just 0 options with diffuse. Even if the actual thinning isn’t that noticeable by the eyes it definitely makes a big difference with hair style and people do notice hair style.

I’m close to buzzing my head but my hair grows very slow and I’m afraid it would make my hair loss more visible.

Diffuse is the worst. You cannot win.
 

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Diffuse is the worst. You cannot win.

Agreed. Now combine diffuse all over with recession and retrograde alopecia on the sides and nape of the neck and...blech. :( As said, there is simply no suitable style. That's why I use concealer/thickeners - I need it to even be able to effect a passable combover. It's just too wispy and thin without it, and there's no hair for the other hairs to rest upon. Plus the slightest gust of wind fucks up your whole life. Sucks bro.
 

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When I was 20, in the first stages of diffuse balding, a female friend told me: "I know other guys who are balding, they just hide the balding with a combover!"

I was like, there is no f*****g hiding it when you're diffusing! And she really thought she was helping. "Why don't you cover your wispy hair with other wispy hair, that should buy you some time!"

Actually I’m pretty good at hiding my hair loss with a literal combover . Wouldn’t work once it’s more advanced though. Either way , even though I can hide some hair loss the style still looks bad.
 

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Still zero evidence of hairloss so far

no visible hairloss = bdd and no credentials to venting
 

Baldingat188

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Still zero evidence of hairloss so far

no visible hairloss = bdd and no credentials to venting

Are you saying I don’t have hairloss ? Because that’s completely incorrect. It is very easy to tell if you felt my hair (no homo :p) . I have had multiple dermatologist confirm that my hair is thinning and it does affect how I can style it. To thin to style. It sucks being told my concerns aren’t valid on this website just because I’m not nw6
 

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Try it with this Hair Style :


This guy has diffuse hair loss ;)
 

Baldingat188

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If you need to touch it to assess the thinning and you're already 21, you're in a good place.

I can't see any thinning on the pictures you sent me, and that's the truth. I don't want to enable your delusions.

You could easily prove us wrong with a picture of your hair, but I suspect you want to keep things vague to able to continue to complain.

Anyway, your reaction doesn't match with the state of your hair right now, you're being way too dramatic for the amount of hair loss you have, which to me as I've said seems to be none.


I sent you a pic showing my diffuse when I pulled the hair back. The other pic doesn’t reflect how my hair looks in real life it just happened to look good in that pic. I know my place could be far worse. Most people would just think my hair is “flat” and not think of it as balding. I recognize in the hair loss world that is a privilege. Still , constantly being told by people I would look better if I “changed my hair up” makes me feel like sh*t because I can’t get a trendy style ( it is to thin.)
 

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You think diffuse is bad, try diffuse + receding hairline. Absolute f*****g nightmare.

this

impossible to combover
impossible to make a hair transplant
hard to fix with medication
 

Baldingat188

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If you need to touch it to assess the thinning and you're already 21, you're in a good place.

I can't see any thinning on the pictures you sent me, and that's the truth. I don't want to enable your delusions.

You could easily prove us wrong with a picture of your hair, but I suspect you want to keep things vague to able to continue to complain.

Anyway, your reaction doesn't match with the state of your hair right now, you're being way too dramatic for the amount of hair loss you have, which to me as I've said seems to be none.

Also trust me I don’t want to keep things vague to complain for the sake of complaing. I would love to wake up tommrow with thick hair and a handsome face and never worry again. I’m honestly a reasonable person. I know the thinning is there , no doubt imo. Maybe it bothers me more then it should , but it’s not like I don’t have hairloss.
 

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In my opinion diffuse is worse then receding hair line. Actually what prompted me to make this post was people telling me I should “change my hair”. It feels like sh*t to be told that when you suffer from hair loss. Espically because my hair loss isn’t very noticeable people don’t recognize it as balding - they just know it doesn’t look good.

It’s such a nightmare to style and I have no idea what to do with it. Right now I have a really dumb hair cut that looks like a 10 year old would have because it works as a combover. I would love to get a different haircut but there’s just 0 options with diffuse. Even if the actual thinning isn’t that noticeable by the eyes it definitely makes a big difference with hair style and people do notice hair style.

I’m close to buzzing my head but my hair grows very slow and I’m afraid it would make my hair loss more visible.

Get the f*** out!

Not if your hairline looks like the Bermuda Triangle. I was in Atlantic City last night.

There were women with sugar daddies that looked like GEORGE MICHEAL from Wham (how he would currently look), and some of those b****s just laughed at me behind my back.

It's not easy having a hairline like Phil Collins, especially when you only earn a fraction of the money he does
in one year.

Even his wife, who obviously married him for money, couldn't put up with it any longer. She divorced the guy.
 

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If you can grow your hair and not see scalp through it, you're blessed in my opinion. Diffuse hair loss will destroy all your hopes. The combover won't work because it's not diffuse in an even way. Shaving it won't work because your Norwood pattern will be visible.

The funniest thing is that some people might say to 'grow it long to cover the baldness'. How does that work exactly?

The second funniest thing are articles like this and the hairstyle examples given therein.
https://www.forhims.com/blog/mens-hairstyles-for-thinning-hair
No further justification required.
 

rclark

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If you can grow your hair and not see scalp through it, you're blessed in my opinion. Diffuse hair loss will destroy all your hopes. The combover won't work because it's not diffuse in an even way. Shaving it won't work because your Norwood pattern will be visible.

The funniest thing is that some people might say to 'grow it long to cover the baldness'. How does that work exactly?

The second funniest thing are articles like this and the hairstyle examples given therein.
https://www.forhims.com/blog/mens-hairstyles-for-thinning-hair
No further justification required.

First OFF, Ashton Kutcher is not showing ANY SIGNS of baldness.

I think he's a big dick head, and wish he would suffer from a variety of things. But baldness
AIN'T one of them.

It's very HARD, if not impossible, to hide a Norwood 3+ hairline.
 

CopeForLife

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First OFF, Ashton Kutcher is not showing ANY SIGNS of baldness.

I think he's a big dick head, and wish he would suffer from a variety of things. But baldness
AIN'T one of them.

It's very HARD, if not impossible, to hide a Norwood 3+ hairline.

yea he suffered
 

rclark

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yea he suffered

From what? He FUCKED Demi Moore, who is very hot.

Now he is f*****g his thirteen year old coworker (at the 70s show start).

What is he suffering from? He's also a genius (or he claims to be).

That guy has NO bald genetics in him. Seriously, show me ONE picture where he has
hair loss. Just one.
 

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Yeah tell me about it I am diffusing to and I cannot style my hair anymore. It just sits on top of my head like a bird's nest. It looks like a combover compared to my thick donor hair. I am not "bald" but I might as well be since once you lose a certain amount of density you look just as bad as you would being slick bald.
 
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