Can hair loss ruin modeling career?
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Gene_Fighter
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Certainly, yeah. Think of it: have you seen any models lately with large foreheads and receding hairlines, or large bald-spots on their crowns? The totally shaved look can work for some models, though.
However I think most models are so self-conscious of their looks that they will notice their hairloss coming from a mile away, so they will fight against it, or it won't be a surprise, at least.
However I think most models are so self-conscious of their looks that they will notice their hairloss coming from a mile away, so they will fight against it, or it won't be a surprise, at least.
toocoolforhair
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I've seen male fashion models with buzzcuts, but their hairlines have always been Norwood 1. The only ones I've seen completely bald are all dark-skinned. I've never seen an obviously balding fashion model. Hair loss will kill a modelling career unless you are already famous like Fredrik Ljungberg.
Hair loss reduces your physical attractiveness so it is no surprise that it can ruin a modelling career. Models have to look perfect. Hair loss is an imperfection.
Hair loss reduces your physical attractiveness so it is no surprise that it can ruin a modelling career. Models have to look perfect. Hair loss is an imperfection.
toocoolforhair
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Unless you want to be a male model I wouldn't be too worried. You can still look great with hair loss, just not perfect.
ali777
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Well... Modeling is a very strange career.
I know for a fact I'm not photogenic, even if I did look decent in the flesh, I still wouldn't make it... There are couple girls in my facebook friends list, who for me are below average but they look great in photos....
Then there is the whole issue of size zero. Most of the female models are ugly in real life. I went to uni with a top model, she was almost 6ft, nice shoulders and posture, very slim, and she looked good on the catwalk... However, I never thought she was good looking, she was too slim...
Oh, once I went to a party organised by a modeling agency, I used to have a model friend. Again, most of the girls and the guys there were nothing more than the girls and boys next door. Most of the girls were 15-18yo, slim, with no tits. (I got too drunk and I ended up embarrassing myself :sobbing
You see what I'm trying to do here??? I'm trying to discredit the models :whistle:
To come back to the subject.... The answer is probably NO, because the standards of modeling are not real.
I know for a fact I'm not photogenic, even if I did look decent in the flesh, I still wouldn't make it... There are couple girls in my facebook friends list, who for me are below average but they look great in photos....
Then there is the whole issue of size zero. Most of the female models are ugly in real life. I went to uni with a top model, she was almost 6ft, nice shoulders and posture, very slim, and she looked good on the catwalk... However, I never thought she was good looking, she was too slim...
Oh, once I went to a party organised by a modeling agency, I used to have a model friend. Again, most of the girls and the guys there were nothing more than the girls and boys next door. Most of the girls were 15-18yo, slim, with no tits. (I got too drunk and I ended up embarrassing myself :sobbing
You see what I'm trying to do here??? I'm trying to discredit the models :whistle:
To come back to the subject.... The answer is probably NO, because the standards of modeling are not real.
Thickandthin
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A model would just wear a hairpiece.
I think hair loss can make it tough to be a model. Most of the models that you see in advertisements don't have hair loss, so if you are a model that is losing your hair it would be hard to compete with the models that have great hair.
There might be a few models that are able to continue modeling even though they are losing their hair but I think that would be a small number.
There might be a few models that are able to continue modeling even though they are losing their hair but I think that would be a small number.
Nashville Hairline
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I went through this months issue of Esquire magazine and all I could find was this receded guy modelling for Dunhill:
Hahah
and also a black dude modelling for johnlewis.com that is buzzed to a zero. Hard to tell if he's genuinely balding or a NW1 "going sly".
But yes, most of the models have full heads of hair - most of them are late teens or early twenties too. No facial hair either, for the most part. Androdgynous.
Hahah
and also a black dude modelling for johnlewis.com that is buzzed to a zero. Hard to tell if he's genuinely balding or a NW1 "going sly".
But yes, most of the models have full heads of hair - most of them are late teens or early twenties too. No facial hair either, for the most part. Androdgynous.
Leon S Habsburg
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It depends on what you're modelling, although it will hurt your modelling career if you're a conventional model.
Jude Law looks good there, his hairloss is obviously worse than ever, but in a land where everyone is beautiful in the same way, the man who is different is king.
He also looks no where near 45! 35 yes.
Jude Law looks good there, his hairloss is obviously worse than ever, but in a land where everyone is beautiful in the same way, the man who is different is king.
He also looks no where near 45! 35 yes.
uncomfortable man
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You guys act like Jude Law is over because of temple recession. He still has enough hair to get away with whatever. I would kill to have JL's hair, jeez! He is nowhere near NW5. :shakehead: Hairloss ruined my modeling career BTW. Sometimes that world likes to embrace oddities for a second so why not throw some handsome nw5's in the mix? :dunno:
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The answer is....
No
No
uncomfortable man
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By saying yes, you are admitting social prejudice against bald people, just so you know.