So here is the closest thing I have to an honest before photo. When my hair was at it's worst I didn't take selfies and in other photos I would have a hat on. My hair was actually in a much worse state than it appears here. You can see my bangs were so thin at the time they were almost invisible. Most of the hair you see is actually hair combed way forward from the middle of my head to look like bangs. I remember this day. I actually spent 10 minutes trying to get a photo where I thought my hair looked good in. I also had a shitload of dermatch, toppik, dry shampoo and volumizing powder in my hair which is why my sparse bangs seem to be thicker at the root. I knew deep down at the time that I should cut my hair short but I wanted long hair so bad. Also what you cant see because of my comb forward are my temples which were only growing peach fuzz at the time. Any bit of wind would reveal how bald I really was. I was even growing a huge beard at the time to distract from my hair.
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I wish I took a photo without my comb forward and without any dermatch, toppik and stuff in so you guys could really see the difference. I almost took a before photo like that many times so I could show you guys one day but I just couldn't make myself do it. It was too depressing to see the truth. My hair continued to get even worse after this which is when I remembered reading bridges thread six months earlier and decided to look it up again and see what it was all about.