Will shaving my hair make my receding hairline look worse??

[nyny12]

Thinking about shaving it before I hop on finasteride or rogaine to avoid the shed and do it for cancer awareness month. Anyways My left temple/corner is receding bad, extreme thinning and my right is not nearly as bad. the rest of my hair is thick so I can cover it up well right now but every month it gets a bit worse (stress doesnt help)....I was wondering if shaving it down to a 1 or 2 will make it look much worse then now....Right now people can't notice it unless I bring attention to it but how bad will that change if I shave it??

 

[BungleBungle]

We'd need pictures. Depends entirely on your hairline shape, facial features and skull shape.

 

[nyny12]

Yea, unfortunately for me I am not big on posting pics online but if I can try and describe...dark hair my original hairline was a pretty straight juvenile hairline and I still have that except I have diffuse thinning on my left corner/temple and minor thinning on my right side....Keep in mind there is still hair there just diffuse thinning in that area of about 2 inches (estimate)...... oval maybe a little square face shape...no oversized/dominant features...looks like I am heading for the daniel craig hairline

http://z.about.com/d/menshair/1/0/C/3/- ... _craig.jpg

http://happyparadise.files.wordpress.co ... d-head.jpg

although I have more hair right now just thinning where he is bald, more so on the left side than the right.

 

[barcafan]

Daniel craigs hair is probably close to or slightly better than mine.

 

[nyny12]

yea well it looks like that is where I am going...Probably be there in 5 years if I do not do anything now.....what have you used that works in terms of the temples/corners?? Were you able to start your meds while you still had hair there or no?? Also do you shave your head?

 

[astros148]

not everyone has a shed on finasteride . I knwo alot of people who havnt.