Hello,
I’m 22 and have had long hair for about 2 years now, and hadn’t paid much attention to my hairline at all. Recently, in about the last 3-4 months i began to start looking at it and noticed that i have do indeed have a receding hairline. However, due to my long hair i cannot quite tell if i have any vertex hairloss as well. I took a picture and have a spot, but its possible that its just the way my hair parts and its been like that ever since ive had my longer hair (i never paid attention at all to the back of my head). As i have also noticed similar parts in other guys with long hair. None of my friends or family have mentioned it to me… and especially with my friends, cuz we talk about this type of stuff all the time.
What do you think?
First, thank you for allowing me to post your photo.
It is difficult to tell based on the lighting in the photo. Sometimes under harsh lights, the scalp can be seen even without any balding present. This indeed may be early crown balding, but the way to determine this is to map your scalp and look for miniaturization in both the frontal hairline and the crown. Then if you have miniaturization, you are genetically balding and should consider treatment.
This does not look like balding at all to me. It’s just the way your hair is planted. Everybody has it.