Does anyone else go to the same barbers, who could have 2 or 3 hairdressers there, and some of them know how to help out your situation and some of them don't? It's ****in roulette.
I go to the same place every time and 2 of them know how to finish off the front and temples decently so it doesn't look completely exposed but also like I'm not growing out the front in a flopping combover, they just do the temples around the same length as the top right/left of my head where the horseshoe is kept slightly longer than the middle which is shorter with a fringe. They probably aren't even "helping me out" that's just how it should be finished off, with consistency along the side.
Sorry that's hard to explain, but it is absolutely imperative there's a little bit left in in the temples, the few centimetres of spikey hair makes a world of difference, I'll try and illustrate it with a guy who has a good head of hair:
Now Calvis Harris probably has hair under that little flick at his temples there, but I don't, and the reason this is so important isn't just because of temples being receded (at age 29 it gets away with being "mature") but because my fringe is thin, from side profile you can see right through it, as long as there's no spike of hair to give that illusion the hairline goes right across (of course it's still visible under harsh lighting but 95% of the time it's fine).
But anyway, this one little bastard kid who was probably like 19, would cut along the side of my head, the horseshoe part, all the same length, just snipping a few centimetres to tidy it up, the whole way from the back forward, and then he'd get to the temple, and it was like his target clump to really rip it out with his thumb and index finger, and CHOMP cut right to the scalp. In an instant I knew it's 2 or 3 weeks of constantly checking out how it's looking in every mirror available, at home, in public.
Once I'm pretty sure the woman owner of the place (who's pretty hot by the way) noticed my facial expression as he did it, maybe I'm not the only one who suffered, because she had her own customer but it looked like she was keeping an eye on him especially when it came to that part, on both sides.
He wasn't there long, maybe it was realised he's a baldite exposer, or maybe he was fired for being generally **** at his job, or maybe he's off out there at some other place, exposing hairlines there.
