Need Some New Opinions. Thinning Or Normal Strong Hairline?
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Given your family history, I think you have little to worry about. This is likely some minor recession that won’t go any further.
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Yes, minor recession is fairly common. For whatever reason, the majority of men who are considered to have “full heads of hair” actually have slight recession, or a mature hairline. It usually happens in your early 20’s or late teens, but I’ve seen it happen later in non-whites, especially Asians. You are correct that Asian men usually start balding later in life if they are prone to balding, and I would hazard a guess that this applies to the maturation process as well. It is exceedingly rare for a man to keep his juvenile hairline for his entire life.
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I’m not alarmed by what you’ve posted because the thin hairs don’t look like they go past your hairline. With most blading, the hairline doesn’t have a clean and defined edge. Yours does. It also looks like your other temple has already gone through the process, and the one maturing now is just catching up. Most people have asymmetrical hairlines to some degree, but if one undergoes some kind of change, the other one follows sometime after.
I get the BDD thing. I was born with an ugly hairline (lopsided and higher than most who share my ethnicity) and I’m extremely paranoid about any changes I observe (or think I observe). It seems to be rooted in larger anxiety issues.
I get the BDD thing. I was born with an ugly hairline (lopsided and higher than most who share my ethnicity) and I’m extremely paranoid about any changes I observe (or think I observe). It seems to be rooted in larger anxiety issues.
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If your maternal grandfather had one, you could conceivably have inherited it, but hair genetics are very dicey, and extremely hard to predict, so unfortunately I can’t give you a definitive yes or no answer. Your maternal grandfather is definitely a factor, but so is every other one of your male family members. People who you directly descend from are your best bets (father, grandfathers), then people who your parents are directly related to (uncles), then people more tangentially related to you (male cousins).