Cant Tell If I'm Balding - V Shaped Hairline

[os9000]

I have a V shaped hairline, like henry cavil would be the best way to describe it.

Growing up, some of the temple area was filled in with a different type of hair, more fluffy i guess. This hair went between 17 and 19, leaving me with a V hairline.

It has been this way since 19, i'm now 36 and i don't seem to be showing any signs of thinning on the crown and from what i can tell, my temples aren't going further back or further inward either. So nothing or very little has changed in 17 years.

So whats going on, is this classed as balding, slow balding or do some guys just have this type of hairline?

 

[Ritchie]

I don't think you're balding, those hairs that were on your temples were baby hairs and when they disappeared you developed a mature hairline. If it really hasn't changed at all since you were 19 I doubt you'll go bald.

 

[crikey1980]

i have exactly the same hair has henry cavill,started balding around 27 (39 now) im probably a norwood 2.5,although i dont look like im balding because i use hair straightners at the front to hide the recession,in your case if the hairline has not changed in 17 years then i would say you will most likely stay at that level.

 

[os9000]

Thank you

I certainly can’t say for sure if my hair has changed. It isn’t obvious if it has.

I think this because when I lost those fluffy hairs I thought I was going bald and I shaved my head to a grade 1. But nothing ever really changed.

So I look back at the photos now and whilst I have longer hair now, the actual hairline seems very similar.

It looks like a Norwood 2. But, whilst Norwood 2 is illustrated with more of a rounded front hair line, mine is more acute, like a V but the temples are certainly not as far back as a Norwood 3.

I asked this because whilst not much is changing my hair is naturally fine and curly and therefore with my V line it pretty much looks like I’m loosing my hair at the temple region, as in, you can see through my hair a little bit.

I’d just shave it off if I was but as I don’t appear to be keep it longer but with the downside of hiding the V hairline.

 

[Ritchie]

Just change your hairstyle or something, there's no point in hiding it. Normal people who don't think about hair loss don't even class a 'v shaped hairline' as going bald.