Significant recession affects a person’s appearance...

[Guest]

How important is a framed face? When I say framed face, I mean having an intact hairline that is not receded in anyway.

Is this the most important factor in hair loss?

I'm not entirely sure where I am going with this question, mainly because I'm undecided on what the main general preference is, if given a choice between the two.

Would people with a framed face, who have severe horseshoe pattern thinning on top of his head prefer this choice over a decent crown with significant recession?

 

[wangho75]

How important is a framed face? When I say framed face, I mean having an intact hairline that is not receded in anyway.

Is this the most important factor in hair loss?

I'm not entirely sure where I am going with this question, mainly because I'm undecided on what the main general preference is, if given a choice between the two.

Would people with a framed face, who have severe horseshoe pattern thinning on top of his head prefer this choice over a decent crown with significant recession?

I have a deep V hairline and I can say I'd rather have better crown coverage than a straight across intact hairline. I can still look really decent when my temple hair is grown out a bit and cover a large portion of the recession. There are still a few tricks up the sleeve with temples recession. The thinning crown is much harder to work with.

 

[Petchsky]

Some people look better with a slightly receeded hairline. If i could click my fingers to my perfect hair i would still have minor receeding.

 

[Thinning]

I have an idea. Make 2 free profiles on match.com - steal some photos from some hairtransplant place so 1 guy is from before and the other is from after. Stick them in different cities ( but reasonably close populations ) with similar profile statistics. Then measure how many views and winks and stuff each guy gets.

I would imagine the guy with a full crop gets about 2-5x as much interest as the balding guy.

But make sure the pictures are of the same guy, otherwise its not really fair.

 

[elguapo]

That match.com experiment is a good idea. One thing I'd add is that you have to pick different cities that have the same demographic. I mean, if the guy is big and burly, he might do better in, say, Colorado or Alabama =) than he would in Boston or California.

 

[Slartibartfast]

Not an economics post then...

Well, in that case, what about diffuse thinning? I'd pick a receding hairline with decent thickness over that, any day of the week (except Tuesdays) - surely preferable to having sunlight dancing off the front few inches of your pale, poorly covered pate.