others DONT notice your hairloss.

[diehunnen123]

im a senior at highschool and my hair has been receding and thinning a bit. i always had thick hair and it was the best looking attribute on me. so as i started to lose some hair i was freaking out about it. i was literally depressed over this for a few months and i even made some threads talking about how ****ty i feel and how mad i am at my hairloss. so today this dude i sometimes talks to says " damn bro your hair is so thick, its got so much volume". then i started realizing that we see every small thing thats wrong with us, that others dont notice. next time youre in public just look around you, there is so many nw2 and nw3 thats why its not considered balding! so stop worrying about it and just start enjoying life more.

 

[davesmith420]

Good post man. I can relate, I was on a date with a girl last week and she kept complimenting me on my hair and how good it looked (date went well btw suppose to hang with her tonight). If only she knew I had been going "crazy" the last few months with treatments and whatnot. Kind of shows that most people don't really consider someone to be balding unless their like Norwood 4+ or have really bad diffuse thinning.

 

[Funkymonk1]

I'm a NW3 and people don't seem to notice. A lady in my office even recently said that "you've still got a full head of hair" lol. I agree that NW2 and NW3 can still at least be styled to look like a decent head of hair.

 

[g.i joey]

Yup big forehead syndrome is what happens when u hit nw2-3 territory besides that much isn't noticeable to the untrained eye.

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If you look at alot of famous "hot" celebs they are nw2-3 and hasn't really effected their image

 

[firstpost]

I think it depends the way you are balding. If you are balding "gracefully" so to speak, i.e. slowly and your head shape matches your hair, you should be fine.
But when a young guy all of the sudden has aggressive frontal thinning, and his head shape is just off because of that, then it is very noticeable.
The thing about forehead is also true.

 

[Austin:316]

I agree that you don't notice people's hair loss until you start to suffer from it yourself, unless they are very young and their hair loss is dramatic; then you will notice it.

I have a friend who is in his mid twenties so he'd be considered young and so his hair loss I guess would be fairly noticeable. I don't see him much anymore but I read his facebook posts. He is one of the most confident people you would ever meet, and everything he says is a joke. And I feel bad for him. On his facebook sometimes he puts a picture of himself as his profile picture and other times he'll put a saying or a picture of something instead and I think he does this because of the comments he gets when he posts a picture of himself. I'll give you an example or two.

One time he post a picture of himself and someone said something like "Your hairline is starting to creep back." Another time he posted a picture of himself beneath a tree and there was a piece of cloth or something hanging off a branch and it was partially covering his head and someone said "Is that your new hair piece?" Then another time he posted a picture of himself where he was talking to someone and he was sort of pointing at his head just in the way you do hand movements when you talk and someone said "Are you pointing out where you're going bald?"

Public shaming at its brutal worst. But it was all guys who said those things and girls always commented saying he was looking well. And he's in a relationship and has a kid and a good job. He's doing much better than most of my friends who have full heads of hair.

 

[kmm179]

Yup big forehead syndrome is what happens when u hit nw2-3 territory besides that much isn't noticeable to the untrained eye.

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If you look at alot of famous "hot" celebs they are nw2-3 and hasn't really effected their image

Yeah I mean a hair cut or style can make a huge difference. Michael Fassbenders hairline is like a nw3 with thinning around the forelock, but usually is able to hide it with the right style. I actually have seen recent picks were he has his hairline gelled up just rocking the thinning on the red carpets. I am sure I only noticed more being a norwood spotter. I thinks its gonna get to the point soon were its completely obvious so guess he figured **** it.

 

[b7acknwh1t3]

We're all our own worst critics. We notice it because we spend more time looking at ourselves. I doubt the people we come into contact with on a day to day basis would

 

[Folliman]

yeah, people don't usually notice if you are a NW2-3 and you style it right. I know this girl who has always commented how long hair looks great on guys and yet at some point she dated a NW3. She was completely oblivious.

Tom hiddleston is another actor who has all the girls swooning and has a clearly receding hairline. You have to make the best of what you have until a cure is found.

 

[Marky]

Maybe, or she notices and is just being polite and comforting. People do that. I know a guy who is short and bald, and this older lady commented how good looking he is, but he is not - that type of thing.

I'm a NW3 and people don't seem to notice. A lady in my office even recently said that "you've still got a full head of hair" lol. I agree that NW2 and NW3 can still at least be styled to look like a decent head of hair.

 

[Funkymonk1]

Yeah, I've considered that. Nobodies going to point out your hair loss to your face unless they're an a-hole. Still, its true that we probably think our hair loss looks worse then it actually is.

 

[thatdude564322]

Most people have no idea, unless they really inspect your head. Even then, depending on how your hair is, some people would say it looks fine.

 

[Dench57]

Yep. Of the people I've spoken to about hairloss, they're "wtf, you still have a full head of hair". Because I'm not diffuse, and I wear my fringe forward, it just doesn't register. If I pulled my fringe back to reveal those temples...oh boy

 

[Sweeping]

This one time, I was getting my dick sucked. Wow, what a blow job. The way her lips were wrapped around my c***, she knew what she was doing. I was grabbing her hair pretty hard cuz I was trying to force my 7 inch c*** down her throat, and I just noticed a whole bunch of hair on my hand. She was diffusing pretty bad. Turned me off big time. So yeah, hair matters.

 

[GoldenMane]

NW1. Great hair
NW2. Great hair
NW3. Big forehead, nobody thinks you're bald, but people will notice either consciously or sub consciously.
NW4. Balding
NW5 -7. Proper bald.

If you're diffuse thinning as well as receding, then baldness registers at lower Norwood levels
If you have a naturally high hairline/big forehead to start with, people will consider you balding at lower Norwood levels.

 

[Hairloss23]

This one time, I was getting my dick sucked. Wow, what a blow job. The way her lips were wrapped around my c***, she knew what she was doing. I was grabbing her hair pretty hard cuz I was trying to force my 7 inch c*** down her throat, and I just noticed a whole bunch of hair on my hand. She was diffusing pretty bad. Turned me off big time. So yeah, hair matters.

Dem weaves bruh, gotta watch out.

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NW1. Great hair
NW2. Great hair
NW3. Big forehead, nobody thinks you're bald, but people will notice either consciously or sub consciously.
NW4. Balding
NW5 -7. Proper bald.

If you're diffuse thinning as well as receding, then baldness registers at lower Norwood levels
If you have a naturally high hairline/big forehead to start with, people will consider you balding at lower Norwood levels.

Yeah I've seen a fair few baldites who started with a small/average forehead, and then as they started receding they would shave the forelock to keep the hairline straight, resulting in some mad fiveheads. Guy at my work has been doing it for ages and now he is receding even more but if he shaves off anymore then he will look like a NW3 without a forelock so not really an option.

 

[Saurabhaj]

True people don't notice my hairloss..i am nw6..

One girl(relative)(23 y.o) jokes to have hairloss..u need hair to have hairloss..u don't have it to lose anything.
we both laugh at it..when i ask about how much percentage i have my hair..she says 50 percent maybe..

but she is the only one who defends me in front of other relatives if someone jokes..

lol..good people can make your life awesome.

 

[Joan]

True people don't notice my hairloss..i am nw6..

One girl(relative)(23 y.o) jokes to have hairloss..u need hair to have hairloss..u don't have it to lose anything.
we both laugh at it..when i ask about how much percentage i have my hair..she says 50 percent maybe..

but she is the only one who defends me in front of other relatives if someone jokes..

lol..good people can make your life awesome.

Saurabhaj, I second this. And sometimes we can be the good people to make others' lives awesome too.

 

[shookwun]

Yep. Of the people I've spoken to about hairloss, they're "wtf, you still have a full head of hair". Because I'm not diffuse, and I wear my fringe forward, it just doesn't register. If I pulled my fringe back to reveal those temples...oh boy

Stop hiding behind your comb over. let them temples breath baby, let the world know!





I Agree with Goldenmane.


Most people are blue pill in regards to hair loss, unless their one of those narcissistic type who pay very close attention to everyone's hair including their own luscious locks. Most people will register NW2-3 as a 'bad hair day' ......it eventually leads to the big fore head syndrome which is highly dependent how intact your temple points are. The more exposed your temple points are the more forgiving a NW2-3 can become. As I mentioned people just think you have bad hair ontop of not looking as attractive as you potentially could be with a lower hairline. Frame slowly starts to go south, and you become less attractive.

it isn't until you are a NW4 that it starts to register toe everyone that you are in fact balding. NW3.... is a hit or miss depending on how intact your temple points are.

However with diffuse ontop of recession, even a NW2 can be seen as balding. Lot's of variables as Iv'e mentioned - temple points, forehead ratios, and density to name a few.

 

[abba]

I believe that People with baldness in their family/are going bald can and WILL notice your hairloss.

One day i decided to put some gel on my hair and stop hiding my temple hairloss (NW2) and a girl at college (friend of mine) asked me if i was balding after the first glance. I immediately went back to hiding my hairloss and let my hair grow some more since then (especially since i'm a NW2.5 now and it's even more noticeable).

A couple months later while we were talking she brought up the baldness topic and told me that her hair was thinning, so i believe that her hair thinning made her more aware of hairloss, and that could explain why she noticed mine so quickly.

Also the one who first noticed my hairloss was my brother (back when it was NW1-1.5) And he has hairloss too. But he stopped receding at NW2 (He's 34 still thinning though, since he's not on finasteride or minoxidil) while mine proceeded to NW2.5 (I'm 21 have been taking finasteride for 6 months, hairloss more or less stopped since then).