How do you know when your going bald at the crown?

[fukitall]

This may sound dumb, but in all honesty, how do you know?
Sure, if you have a huge patch then there is no denying it, but i see alot of photos of people's crowns on here and it just looks like the natural parting of the hair! That is what hair looks like on your crown!

How does one know the difference? Because if that is going bald, then i have been going bald since the age of 5.

 

[pbz]

If you go from no scalp visibility to 25% scalp visibility, you could be quite sure that your top is thinning out.

You have to watch for changes. Without knowing where you started, you can't really tell how far you've progressed.

 

[ShedMaster]

What you start to look like this guy

 

[circusrat]

Thats a good point... I check for balding at the crown but... i honestly can't really tell.

That swirl/part on the back of my head is huge and when it gets wet you can quite easily see scalp where all the hair is going in different directions. But look around... this seems pretty normal, so I get what your saying about it being hard to tell.

I think my head has always been like this <shrug>

 

[JamesVU2000]

I often wonder the samething. I have no recession in the front at the temples. In fact I can see hairs connecting from eyebrows to my hair on the sides. However, If you look in back i have a spot there, but I have always had one. It just hard to determine if it is getting bigger.

 

[iwishmyheadwasexoskeleton]

shave your hair short and than view it at a distance under good lighting(get a friend to take a picture)
when my hair was really short there was no denying I was balding, but now that its grown a couple itches noone can barely tell

 

[JamesVU2000]

I agree with fukitall. If that spot means you are balding then i have also been since I was 5. It just seems like of people receed a lot before the crown of there head is ever touched.

 

[viperfish]

Yeah, it is kinda hard to know I guess. Like me, I have thin shitty baby fine hair. Naturally, the area on the back of the scalp where the hair grows in all different directions, is going to look alot bigger on me than someone who has thick black hair. That is why I'm not really sure if I'm losing it back there or if it just looks that way, due to my thin hair. It has looked exactly the same since highschool and I'm 26 now. :?

 

[WindyCityHair]

It's really hard to tell if you're losing at the crown. Before I started to lose my hair I never looked at the crown before. It's hard to tell if you're losing if you don't know how much you had in the first place.

I'm sure most of us before we started to lose it didn't take two mirrors and examine our crowns.

 

[thin=depressed]

When your taller than your hair. Interesting post man.

 

[losin_it]

You know your losing your hair when you look in the mirror and ask yourself, "Hey, am I going bald?"

 

[Norwood2.5]

I took a small hand mirror and used another, bigger mirror to get a clear top view of my head and with a strong light overhead. To my horror I could easily see my skin through it while the hair towards the neck was thicker so I couldn't see the skin there.

 

[Greg1]

Hmmm...I'll chime in here with my 2 cents worth. The bottom line in being able to tell if you're thinning in the crown area is scalp visibility. It's like major diffuse thinning on top of your noggin