How much have your *looks* been affected by hair loss?
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Big time.
Having a 'framed face' is very important. This question should only really apply to those with recession.
Face on, hair loss has effected my looks on a scale of about 9. With 10 being the biggest.
When I had normal hair, with an half acceptable hairline, then things weren’t as bad. This showed a change in my attitude and my facial expressions were normal. Not the depressed face I now have.
Btw, Red Rose - what Norwood are you? How comes you've never posted any pictures to monitor your progress. It's like you are all take and no give. Hence your post to me in the concealer section, about trying Kerasome.
Having a 'framed face' is very important. This question should only really apply to those with recession.
Face on, hair loss has effected my looks on a scale of about 9. With 10 being the biggest.
When I had normal hair, with an half acceptable hairline, then things weren’t as bad. This showed a change in my attitude and my facial expressions were normal. Not the depressed face I now have.
Btw, Red Rose - what Norwood are you? How comes you've never posted any pictures to monitor your progress. It's like you are all take and no give. Hence your post to me in the concealer section, about trying Kerasome.
iamnaked
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I have a crazy face that seems to change shape nearly every year, so its a question which is pretty hard to answer. Seriously, people look at photos from when I started uni, and they're like "thats not you, dude". I actually think that pre going on regimen my hair has improved from 19+ relative to my early teen years, which is not to say that the quality of the hair has improved, but rather that the bulking up of my features has made the hairloss fit better (I reckon I went from norwood 1 to 1.5).
Anyway my ex girlfriend commented that she would probably have not gone out with me based on how I looked in my first year, so this is surely anecdotal evidence that hair isn't everything. In case you're wondering, hairloss had nothing to do with the breakup.
Anyway my ex girlfriend commented that she would probably have not gone out with me based on how I looked in my first year, so this is surely anecdotal evidence that hair isn't everything. In case you're wondering, hairloss had nothing to do with the breakup.
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Hmm,a good question and one which i really need to answer just to get it off my chest...
I reckon my looks have suffered a fair bit...i've got a fairly big forehead but before hairloss, i used to have a big thick messy, quiff-fronted kind of hair style with bits of the sides kind of brushed in and forwards which helped offset it and i think i looked pretty damn good (sigh,lol)...yeh,i had a summer job in a popular UK chain clothes shop/retail store where loads of fit girls shop, and i remember that summer I used to get girls comin up to me in the store or out in the shopping centre when i was on a break and askin me out or for my number straight out cos they thought i was cute or whatever....(shows they're just as superficial as men eh!)
but...now that i've got this shitty thinner limp hair things are a bit fucked..
like i said in my other post though, i'm sort of compensating for this however in terms of success with women...with dermmatch and the right wax, i can get my hair looking alright with a spiky kind of hairstyle and if you go to a club it's easy to get a one night stand or pull a girl... thing is it's all a f*****g front cos they're usually drunk anyway, and also i wouldn't be comfortable meeting up with that girl in the day or going out with someone and just like lounging around on a summer's day in the park. goin for a drink by the river or something like that like i used to do when i was going out with this girl last year, for fear of what penetrating sunlight or a gust of wind or some rain might do to my hair....if i dont use derm match my hair will look sh*t, and if i do, it could get revealed...
man, this f*****g sucks! Last year I had a full head of fashionably styled hair, a really nice and pretty girl (who only dumped me eventually cos i'm not 'religious' enough for her, we're both muslim and i don't really follow a lot of rules as such), I'd passed that year of med school without any probs, and i was quite happy n comfortable lying around enjoyin the weather etc......Now i'm fuckin up this year academically and got constant worry over my hair....i'm slightly lesss outgoing as i was before as well, before i'd drop everything for a night out, now it's like i know it'll take me a while to get ready and deal with my hair so it has to be a bit more planned...ah well...have to see what propecia can do about it (been on it for just a week now)
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I reckon my looks have suffered a fair bit...i've got a fairly big forehead but before hairloss, i used to have a big thick messy, quiff-fronted kind of hair style with bits of the sides kind of brushed in and forwards which helped offset it and i think i looked pretty damn good (sigh,lol)...yeh,i had a summer job in a popular UK chain clothes shop/retail store where loads of fit girls shop, and i remember that summer I used to get girls comin up to me in the store or out in the shopping centre when i was on a break and askin me out or for my number straight out cos they thought i was cute or whatever....(shows they're just as superficial as men eh!)
but...now that i've got this shitty thinner limp hair things are a bit fucked..
like i said in my other post though, i'm sort of compensating for this however in terms of success with women...with dermmatch and the right wax, i can get my hair looking alright with a spiky kind of hairstyle and if you go to a club it's easy to get a one night stand or pull a girl... thing is it's all a f*****g front cos they're usually drunk anyway, and also i wouldn't be comfortable meeting up with that girl in the day or going out with someone and just like lounging around on a summer's day in the park. goin for a drink by the river or something like that like i used to do when i was going out with this girl last year, for fear of what penetrating sunlight or a gust of wind or some rain might do to my hair....if i dont use derm match my hair will look sh*t, and if i do, it could get revealed...
man, this f*****g sucks! Last year I had a full head of fashionably styled hair, a really nice and pretty girl (who only dumped me eventually cos i'm not 'religious' enough for her, we're both muslim and i don't really follow a lot of rules as such), I'd passed that year of med school without any probs, and i was quite happy n comfortable lying around enjoyin the weather etc......Now i'm fuckin up this year academically and got constant worry over my hair....i'm slightly lesss outgoing as i was before as well, before i'd drop everything for a night out, now it's like i know it'll take me a while to get ready and deal with my hair so it has to be a bit more planned...ah well...have to see what propecia can do about it (been on it for just a week now)
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I'm good looking, I know that, and I can style my hair so that it's almost undetectable that I have a receding hairline (if detectable at all). On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the highest level of being affected by hairloss, I'd say maybe a 2 or 3? I still feel great about my appearance, and still get great comments, have high confidence, etc. I'm not letting it take me down, that's for sure.
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ha... kind of a trend of dudes that consider themselves "good looking" or at least used to. I guess its these types that tend to lean toward more vain perspectives on life (myself included), and are thus hit harder by hairloss which preys on that vanity.
soul doctor i think we have just about the exact same situation going on, med school, spiky hair, etc. although i'm not a muslim
soul doctor i think we have just about the exact same situation going on, med school, spiky hair, etc. although i'm not a muslim
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Hey Trent and souldoctor, what schools did you guys go to for undergrad?
A great head of hair on a guy makes a big difference in most cases. IMO you have to be a really good looking guy to get away with having a sh*t head of hair and still get attention purely for your looks. Or you need to have a ripped physique to counter balance it to get attention purely for your looks.
I would say im a 1-2 now (hideously ugly, no one would want to date me)
with hair, I had a gorgeous fiance (who dumped me when I got too bald), although I wasn't that good looking, I just had 'style' or whatever
this is what I looked like with good hair
http://tinypic.com/54gl74
now I'm a pisspoor balding pale short skinny ugly white f***
I was like Sampson really
with hair, I had a gorgeous fiance (who dumped me when I got too bald), although I wasn't that good looking, I just had 'style' or whatever
this is what I looked like with good hair
http://tinypic.com/54gl74
now I'm a pisspoor balding pale short skinny ugly white f***
I was like Sampson really