Question about a maturing hairline . .
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Seems like it's not always NW2 too but I guess at that point it's not called mature anymore.
You have just contradicted yourself. What you said is the very definition of a mature hairline. It is well known it is the same mechanism as male pattern baldness, but it is a term used to distinguish between balding requiring treatments and balding that dosent.
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There's no such thing as a mature hairline. It's just coping
Mature hairline = non agressive baldness.
"oh everybody loses some hair after puberty." Not. Not at all. It isn't that rare to find +30 people with juvenile hairlines.
Mature hairline = non agressive baldness.
"oh everybody loses some hair after puberty." Not. Not at all. It isn't that rare to find +30 people with juvenile hairlines.
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Why is the term being used by doctors then?
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There is a lot of confusion about this. In my opinion, "maturing hairlines" refer to people in which genetically, they are only at risk in the hair line area. This aspect can come on early and then essentially stop for decades but then it starts back often say around 60, a bit like how finasteride/duta dissipate over time. I used to call this phenomenon, or maybe I still do, "anchor man hair". It isn't really cosmetically significant hair loss but it can actually be more attractive in some men by eliminating the goofy look of having too much hair. Yes, too much hair can look bad too. His isn't real but Ted Koppel would have been wise to add in recession in the corners of his hair. I can't get pics to load right now but here are links:
Jeff Daniels in the Newsroom had a similar hairline:
Jeff Daniels in the Newsroom had a similar hairline:
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Well explained
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The majority of people with actual mature hairlines probably don't even notice it while it's happening, I think it's something that happens very very slowly. If you can visibly see thinning it's probably male pattern baldness and not a maturing hairline because your hair is probably miniaturizing quite rapidly.
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Probably but I was in a frat and at about the age of 20, several of us started balding and I was a diffuse thinner but a couple of others could still grow their hair long and have it look good but they had hairlines similar to Sting's if that means anything. You might be right that this started at 16 and progressed gradually but they certainly knew by 20 that the front was "maturing". I was jealous then but in other ways, diffuse thinning might be easier to restore or maintain with finasteride/min.
It can take anywhere from 1 year to 10 years. I think the key to look for is how far the thinning goes back. If the thinning is contained within the 'maturing hairline' range, I think it's worth monitoring, however if it extends further back treatment should be started.
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If a person sees any movement of the recession towards the center of the scalp, then things are about to deteriorate rapidly. I cannot prove this, this is just based upon my observation of people who bald in public (celebrities) or people that I know. Once the integrity of the hairline inwards of the temples and especially just behind starts, then the entire non-fringe area appears at risk and this is not an example of being able to age gracefully with a "maturing hairline".
Sorry, I don't quite understand what you are saying lol. My bad. Is a hairline not meant to recede by up to an inch when maturing.
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Yes, but in the corners, like triangles. If the triangle shape begins to become mushy in appearance--hard to explain but it will start moving inwards but just behind the horizontal line of hair in the front not "maturing", it will then start to link on both sides, undermining the ability to part the hair on the side.
As an aside, we all know implicitly that the phenomenon of a "maturing" hairline exists, the only issue is whether it is related to male pattern baldness but of course it is related to male pattern baldness, it is just a variant. Think about how adult men part their hair among whites. 95 percent of adult white males part their hair either on the left or the right but only people with pubertal-type hair can part it in the middle and have it look decent at all. This is an example of human styling not following form, but rather following the phenomenon of hair loss and where it begins. Parting the hair on the side, then enables us to gently and then not so gently sweep it backwards and this helps when incipient crown loss exists or begins.
One way that I knew that my hair was improving was because it began parting itself in the center which was more of a natural part for me as a youth.
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this is my hairline currently could you tell me what you think?
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youre malding
Also this
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Your hair is so thick that you could donate it to half the people on this website, just keep an eye on it and if it gets worse and recedes beyond the "mature" level get on treatments, that's what I did, I noticed my hair loss 2 yrs ago when I barely had any and it got worse.
Thanks mate. I’m just a little concerned about the erosion at the very front of my hairline in the pic with flash, is this just how hairlines mature?