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Re: Does this look like a receding hairline? (Pic enclosed)
could be just normal hairline maturation. happens to 95% of caucasians in their lifetime. the center of the hairline goes back about half an inch and the corners go back about an inch if i'm remembering the numbers correctly. This creates the V-shape of the mature hairline, as compared to the more concave shape of the juvenile hairline. if you're concerned, you should go to a dermatologist and have him look at all the hair on your head. if he sees thinness on the top of your head or behind the hairline, you're balding. if he doesn't, i wouldn't worry. but i would be proactive. having a few guys on your mom's side(the side from which you inherit your androgen receptor gene I believe) is a tiny bit worrisome, even though your hair is fine. i have the opposite in my family- bald men on my dad's side including him but no one really on my mom's side.
try to take some bigger and clearer pics if you can with a digital camera if you want us to give you any more useful advice on your situation. it is really hard to tell from those tiny, tiny shots. closeups of your hairline with the hair combed back as well as shots of the top of your head would be most helpful.
Here's a pic from Dr Rassman's site showing where a typical juvenile hairline would be and where a typical mature hairline would be:
http://www.baldingblog.com/photos/061006_hairline2.jpg
The lower line is the juvenile hairline, and the upper line is the mature hairline. As you can see from the pic, the hairline center moved back about half an inch and the temples moved back about an inch, widening the hairline and creating the V-shape rather than the more curvy shape of the juvenile one. It's not technically a receding hairline because that's where it stops. A Norwood 2 with no other thinning on the head is technically not balding. A Norwood 2 with a bald spot in the back IS, becuase men without androgenetic alopecia do not get that.
I know everyone wants to keep their juvenile hairline, even if the mature hairline is all they'd ever get, with no other balding. But I do honestly think that a low hairline like that would look stupid on a 40 year old Caucasian man, for example. There's nothing inherently unattractive about the male hairline any more than there is anything inherently unattractive about gray hair.
Quote from Rassman's site to sum it up for you:
"Normal male hairline progression from a juvenile to a mature one typically occurs between 17 and 29 years of age. The lowest line in the photo below is the hairline this man had when he was about 12 years old. The second line is the hairline that will be his mature hairline if he is not balding. The area behind this second line has miniaturizing hairs and it should be his permanent hair, so this man is clearly developing frontal balding. This process of a maturing hairline might appear like balding to the person impacted by this change, but it is self limited and stops within a few years once the location of the maturing hairline is established."
could be just normal hairline maturation. happens to 95% of caucasians in their lifetime. the center of the hairline goes back about half an inch and the corners go back about an inch if i'm remembering the numbers correctly. This creates the V-shape of the mature hairline, as compared to the more concave shape of the juvenile hairline. if you're concerned, you should go to a dermatologist and have him look at all the hair on your head. if he sees thinness on the top of your head or behind the hairline, you're balding. if he doesn't, i wouldn't worry. but i would be proactive. having a few guys on your mom's side(the side from which you inherit your androgen receptor gene I believe) is a tiny bit worrisome, even though your hair is fine. i have the opposite in my family- bald men on my dad's side including him but no one really on my mom's side.
try to take some bigger and clearer pics if you can with a digital camera if you want us to give you any more useful advice on your situation. it is really hard to tell from those tiny, tiny shots. closeups of your hairline with the hair combed back as well as shots of the top of your head would be most helpful.
Here's a pic from Dr Rassman's site showing where a typical juvenile hairline would be and where a typical mature hairline would be:
http://www.baldingblog.com/photos/061006_hairline2.jpg
The lower line is the juvenile hairline, and the upper line is the mature hairline. As you can see from the pic, the hairline center moved back about half an inch and the temples moved back about an inch, widening the hairline and creating the V-shape rather than the more curvy shape of the juvenile one. It's not technically a receding hairline because that's where it stops. A Norwood 2 with no other thinning on the head is technically not balding. A Norwood 2 with a bald spot in the back IS, becuase men without androgenetic alopecia do not get that.
I know everyone wants to keep their juvenile hairline, even if the mature hairline is all they'd ever get, with no other balding. But I do honestly think that a low hairline like that would look stupid on a 40 year old Caucasian man, for example. There's nothing inherently unattractive about the male hairline any more than there is anything inherently unattractive about gray hair.
Quote from Rassman's site to sum it up for you:
"Normal male hairline progression from a juvenile to a mature one typically occurs between 17 and 29 years of age. The lowest line in the photo below is the hairline this man had when he was about 12 years old. The second line is the hairline that will be his mature hairline if he is not balding. The area behind this second line has miniaturizing hairs and it should be his permanent hair, so this man is clearly developing frontal balding. This process of a maturing hairline might appear like balding to the person impacted by this change, but it is self limited and stops within a few years once the location of the maturing hairline is established."
