Is there such a thing as a "Mature Hairline" or is it always a progressing norwood?

[Cold Winter]

Since I started losing hair I cannot help myself from noticing other hairlines, be it in public or in any one video that I watch on the internet. And in my inspection I've come to know 35-50 year olds who always seem to be at Norwood 1-2.

Does male pattern baldness always have to worsen until you are at NW7, and do some people just bald slower than others... or is there such a thing as a "mature hairline" for some people, where your hairline stops receding at a certain point (NW1-2) and just stays that way?

 

[xetudor]

I think in most cases it gets worse but sometimes so slow you only the difference after decades and it's so subtle it doesn't even matter. Very few people have zero change from their juvenile hairline but they do exist.

 

[shookwun]

I think a lot of people toss this word around without actually understanding what it means.

A mature hairline is pretty much a perfect hairline without any male pattern baldness characteristics. Might have a slight widows peak and angle formation at the temples.

 

[Hairloss23]

I think a lot of people toss this word around without actually understanding what it means.

A mature hairline is pretty much a perfect hairline without any male pattern baldness characteristics. Might have a slight widows peak and angle formation at the temples.

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Fed up of all those newbie posts that go "Am I balding or is it a maturing hairline" *proceeds to show NW3*

or in the same vein

"am I balding?" *proceeds to not show hairline in pics and instead opts for blurry, too far zoomed photo of random hair section*

 

[Cold Winter]

I think a lot of people toss this word around without actually understanding what it means.

A mature hairline is pretty much a perfect hairline without any male pattern baldness characteristics. Might have a slight widows peak and angle formation at the temples.

This hairline example is kind of what I mean. This is from a 50 year old man, and if my hair started becoming like this I would think I was starting to see NW2.

Bonus points if you know who it belongs to

 

[Goldee Lox]

Romney?

 

[Dolph]

Romney?

Good guess. I'm going with Don Draper or Colbert.

 

[RD03]

My dermatologist explained to me why we have the word "Mature Hairline" last time I was at a check. He said that a mature hairline is used in the medical world to describe the usual and slight recession caucasian men experience at the end of puberty or usually between the age of 20-30 (Norwood 1 to Norwood 2).

A mature hairline IS male pattern baldness, but usually it does not progress any further or stay the same for many years to come. Therefore doctors sees it as being unnecessary to prescribe hair loss medication when they're usually a life time commitment. Therefore they use the word mature hairline, instead of "balding".

He said they diagnose it by seeing if the patient has significant miniaturization over a cm behind the hairline or anywhere else on his head. If it's just at the hairline and not behind the hairline it usually means it's a mature hairline. However, there is no way to tell if it will progress further. But as a rule of thumb.