Colin Farell

[Beingbaldsucksass]

His hairloss is very slow you can tell he ain't gonna be bald till 45 at least,

 

[SuprisedGuy]

Yeah but if Bale did then he probably covered it up. And Telogen Effluvium doesn't usually hit until a few months after the crash diet.

I tend to crash diet and then I will get Telogen Effluvium, it's stupid I know but it's just an easy way to shed pounds. It definitely affects your hair though...and the shedding always happens 2 to 3 months later with itching.

Not everyone who crash diets or gets super thin is gonna experience hair loss and Bale didn't, there are tons of pics of him during and after the film and his hair is perfect. I used to have borderline anorexia that got me down to 115 pounds at 5'10'', my hair was fine. Again, it's going to depend on the individual (and obviously how low your weight is, how long you stay at that unhealthy weight, etc.) and in Colin's case he shot that film no less than three years ago so it would have no effect on his hair now. Just plain old male pattern baldness kicking in.

 

[Thom]

Well I honestly think that people who start out with thick heads of hair like Bale wouldn't notice the difference. Yet if we've already lost a bit of density of course a shed will show. All of the girls I talk to say they start losing hair about 2 months after the diet.

 

[SuprisedGuy]

^Again no disagreement that hair loss can occur while dieting, it just doesn't seem like a reasonable cause of Colins apparent hair loss that started years after he shot that film.

 

[Thom]

Yeah, I agree with that.

 

[SuprisedGuy]

Hate to resurrect my own thread and refute my original post, partly because I kind of liked the idea of Colin balding but here's a few recent pics of him. His hairline and density look near perfect, I doubt he was ever balding to begin with.

http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Colin+Farrell+8th+Annual+Oscar+Wilde+Honoring+19QkgP_XRj8x.jpg

http://www4.pictures.zimbio.com/bg/Colin+Farrell+Dead+Man+Down+Premieres+LA+cJ-NK5e_6-wx.jpg

 

[IrishFella]

I'm starting to believe, as you get older your skull slowly (minuscule) gets bigger thus giving the illusion of receding hairline, in some, like Colin Farrell. His hairline is as straight as it was ten years ago but his forehead looks longer.

 

[DoctorHouse]

I'm starting to believe, as you get older your skull slowly (minuscule) gets bigger thus giving the illusion of receding hairline, in some, like Colin Farrell. His hairline is as straight as it was ten years ago but his forehead looks longer.

Funny you mentioned this theory about the skull slightly getting larger over time. I totally agree with this theory. Another observation which happened to me too is his hairline is stable but the density has changed over time.

 

[SuprisedGuy]

Yeah I see what you mean, perhaps it's due to the effects of gravity on the face since when we age everything get's all droopy due to diminishing soft tissue support. It's more obvious with people's ears, nose, chin, etc. I definitely agree density can lessen overtime with people without male pattern baldness but it will vary, just as people age quicker or more severely than others.

 

[DoctorHouse]

Yeah I see what you mean, perhaps it's due to the effects of gravity on the face since when we age everything get's all droopy due to diminishing soft tissue support. It's more obvious with people's ears, nose, chin, etc. I definitely agree density can lessen overtime with people without male pattern baldness but it will vary, just as people age quicker or more severely than others.

Very good points. I think weight too has some influence. When I am not bloated with salt and water retention, my forehead tends to look slightly smaller. I think the muscles in the scalp get more lax and expand the forehead too. Colin and I have identical hairlines. In about 10 years he will be about the same but with less density and its going to look like he is thinning and losing density. Yet most of the people on here will not call it male pattern baldness. I guess it would be called diffuse thinning. I still believe diffuse thinning is a variation of male pattern baldness but a much slower process. I have seen men in their 60s with perfect NW1 and absolutely no loss of density anywhere. To me that person has no male pattern baldness. So according to my definition, Colin has a variation of male pattern baldness but a very slow process. I know a guy that has a perfect NW1 and yet is super diffuse in all other zones. So he looks like a super diffuse NW6 with a perfect thick NW1 hairline. I know he never had a hair transplant. Hair loss comes in all forms but its still all hair loss to me. I would say only a very small percent of men will actually never lose density until maybe 70 or 80.

 

[SuprisedGuy]

If we can agree that people age differently and that includes thinning than I still wouldn't consider it a form of male pattern baldness. I agree though some people do have extremely mild male pattern baldness but they would still have recession and/or major thinning at some point although it may not be evident until old age. Compare Richard Gere to David Lynch below, both have full heads of hair well in to their 60's but Lynch has thicker hair (and is older!). Does that mean Gere is balding? No. He just seems to have more age-related thinning but he still won't ever have any temporal recession or bald spot forming if he doesn't have male pattern baldness.

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/M...nBnXkFtZTcwNzQ3MTAzNw@@._V1._SX640_SY880_.jpg

http://nyogalleristny.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/david_lynch.jpg

 

[DoctorHouse]

I wonder if Propecia does anything for age related thinning. I definitely fit more in that category. I have tested positive for the male pattern baldness gene according to the HairDx test but how do I really know the difference between the two. I guess balding is when you start to reach a NW3 and age related thinning is just losing hair density and going gray. So I guess one has to do with collagen and keratin and the other has to do with DHT. So what would be a good treatment for age related thinning?

 

[Finnjävel]

Farrell and I have the same density, only I'm NW2. It's a ****ty form of male pattern baldness. When it gets a bit longer, you can conceal it well with clever grooming and a few sprinkles of Toppik. But you're constantly fooling yourself and others, and it gets very stressful.

 

[german89]

colin farrell 6 years later: "hair loss? me? hihihi hahaha hehehe hohoho"