Thickandthin
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I've noticed since I began thinning in the front in the last year and a half or so I have started making a mental note of EVERY guy's hairline that I see. Friends, relatives, classmates, celebs, complete strangers....you name it.
Which is funny because before I started thinning, I never paid any attention to it. As crazy as it sounds, I would never have noticed the difference between Jude Law (a NW3.5) and Matthew Fox (a NW1). To me it was just either...you had hair or you didn't. I never paid much attention to my own hairline, and in fact the word "hairline" meant nothing to me. Now I'm obsessed and everytime I see a perfect solid NW1 I catch myself staring. And on the flip side, I can pretty accurately tell when a guy is losing even when nobody else can. The gaps in the bangs, the side hair combed foward, corner recession covered with longer hair, etc.
But honestly, I think that although I might have been a bit extreme in my hairline ignorance, its probably not too much of a stretch to say that women are the same in regards to hair as I used to be. They don't lose hair so they don't think of things like the Norwood scale or temple recession. Even with receding temples and maybe a bit gone in the crown....with some careful styling and longer lengths its pretty hard to notice, especially to non-balding folk (because they don't have a trained eye to spot it!)
Which is funny because before I started thinning, I never paid any attention to it. As crazy as it sounds, I would never have noticed the difference between Jude Law (a NW3.5) and Matthew Fox (a NW1). To me it was just either...you had hair or you didn't. I never paid much attention to my own hairline, and in fact the word "hairline" meant nothing to me. Now I'm obsessed and everytime I see a perfect solid NW1 I catch myself staring. And on the flip side, I can pretty accurately tell when a guy is losing even when nobody else can. The gaps in the bangs, the side hair combed foward, corner recession covered with longer hair, etc.
But honestly, I think that although I might have been a bit extreme in my hairline ignorance, its probably not too much of a stretch to say that women are the same in regards to hair as I used to be. They don't lose hair so they don't think of things like the Norwood scale or temple recession. Even with receding temples and maybe a bit gone in the crown....with some careful styling and longer lengths its pretty hard to notice, especially to non-balding folk (because they don't have a trained eye to spot it!)
