usually when hair is longer it shows the thinning areas more..but depends how bad you are. i thought if i cut my hair shorter my thinning areas would show more but they completely dissapeared. i take healthy hair plus vitamins. if you want your hair to grow quicker take that or biotin capsules..or msm tablets or powder. doesn't regrow hair but if you do get some regrowth it'll make the growing hairs or your current hair grows faster, healthier and thicker. i have thicker hair and i contribute it to taking these things along with proscar and minoxidil..i'm shedding like crazy on proscar but i know in the long run i'll be ok. if it gets bad i'll finally use the couvre i bought a while ago until the hair that shed grows back. i'm not worried