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Hairline Lowering Options? – Hair Loss Information by Dr. William Rassman

I’m a 26 year old male, with no sign of balding. Both sides of my family still have a full head of hair, but I do have a naturally high forehead. What are my options to lower my hairline, and is it advisable to even do so for a guy? Thanks for any information on any procedures I could undertake. Thanks.

If you knew for sure that you would not bald, then a hairline lowering procedure can give you a fairly fast result (immediately after the surgery). If your hairline went up because of frontal balding, a hair transplant can bring down the hairline quite nicely, though the results of which will not be seen for some months. The amount of hairline that can be lowered varies with the hairline lowering procedure, as it depends upon the looseness of your scalp. A hair transplant approach does not have this limitation. See the following links for more:

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Hair Loss InformationWhy Do Hair Loss Treatments Not Work in the Frontal Hairline? – Hair Loss Information – Balding Blog

Is there a reason why rogaine and finasteride only work on the vertex but not the receding hairline/frontal area?

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Many aspects of the mechanism of action of Rogaine and finasteride (Propecia) are still unknown, and for that same reason we do not know why they work on the vertex better than the temple and frontal area. I can guess that reversal of frontal hair loss is very rare, because by the time the treatments are started, the balding has gone too far as it starts earlier. Crown balding is slower and from the time it is first recognized, it often early in the thinning process. As such, reversal of crown loss is much more common with these medications, particularly in the young man under 35 years old. However, finasteride does work to slow down or stop hair loss in the frontal area, particularly if caught early enough.

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I Developed a Mature Hairline at 13 Years Old – Hair Loss Information by Dr. William Rassman

Well, I’m 27 years old, I developed my mature hair line at the age of 13. I remember other children in the class joking saying I was going bald… I guess my question is because I developed it at such a young age, if I was going bald would it occur sooner. My Father began balding before my age, my mothers father had a full head of hair, my brothers and I still have our hair ages ranging 31 to 27. I guess I’m just a bit worried about it, What age do you really start going bald.

If you lost your child hairline at 13 years old and your classmates laughed at you, you will now have the last laugh at those who were cruel. Hair loss can start in the teens, although it is highly unusual. The usual story is that there are two things going on at one time. The maturing hairline can start to appears as the frontal juvenile hairline recedes somewhere between 17-29 years old, on average. The balding process can start as early as late teens, but if it does and there is appreciable hair loss in the teens, it is a predictor that severe balding may occur. The later the balding starts, the better off you would be and the less advanced will be the patterned hair loss. If you have no signs of balding now, you probably will not bald and follow the pattern of your father. I hope that is the way the story unfolds over time.

Good luck (that is what you need a little of here), and thanks for sharing this with us.

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Hair Loss InformationHigh Side Hairline (Above Ears) – Can It Be Lowered? – Hair Loss Information – Balding Blog

hi there,
i’ve been reading some of these articles about high hairlines, and most of them talk about the hairline at the forehead. however, with me, my hairline at my forehead is fine, its the hairline at the side of my head (near my ears) thats high. its been a real issue with me ever since i was a kid and i’d always need long hair to cover it up so that it wouldn’t seem as if i’m balding (which i’m not). my doctor says that i am not vulnerable to balding when i get older. i am an 18 yr old filipino male. and i was wondering if there are any treatments to this surgically/nonsurgically. i’d prefer nonsurgical more than surgical. but if there is anything at all, pls tell me. thx

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Some people have a genetic high temple hairline (above ears) which can be treated with hair transplants very effectively. There are no other treatments for this that I know of.

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Born with a Mature Hairline? – Hair Loss Information – Balding Blog

Hello doctor,
First thank you to read my question.
I’m 19 years and i never had a straight hairline. It is with curves. Could it be possible to born with a curve hairline ? Because i never had the feeling to loose them! I would be relieved if you answer me.
thank you

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We are all unique individuals and you may just have a higher hairline than others. If you send me photos of your face from the eyebrows up, I will give you an opinion about your hairline. Please take at least 2 pictures — one with your eyebrows lifted up as you look up, and the other with your eyes looking down.

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Any Adolescent Hairline Transplant Photos? – Hair Loss Information – Balding Blog

Can you post a before & after photo of someone who you’ve lowered their hairline to an “adolescent hairline”. I know you’ve said in the past you usually only do this procedure on someone who makes their living by their looks & I wanted to see how much of a difference it would make. Thanks, great blog!

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These three patients had their central hairline brought down to the childhood hairline position:

Also, please take a look at the hundreds of patient before and after photos on my website in the Patient Photo Galleries.

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Hair Loss InformationLow Hairlines of Celebrities – Hair Loss Information – Balding Blog

Why do movie star’s like Ben Affleck have such low, obtrusive hairlines? I found this site all about balding movie stars. Moviestar.nu

I think that some of these celebrities wore wigs for certain movie roles (probably the makeup artists did them for the character they had to play), and the site is confusing hairpieces in movies and hairpieces in real life. Your thoughts?

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What you see is often an illusion that is created by the actor (or even their stylists) through hair pieces, make up, or even good hair transplants. Taking what I had said about John Travolta or Matthew McConaughey in the past, it is evident that these men would not be the sex idols that they have become if their hairlines rode high on their face. Actually, I don’t know if Mr. Travolta is still a sex idol, but he certainly was considered one in the past.

There are actors that transcend this low hairline sexy paradigm, such as Paul Newman (see photo at right), but they developed their careers and their sexy images when their hairlines were low and they were able to establish their sexy image without fighting hairline recession. Unfortunately, our society is superficial and it is easier to project the correct first impression from the frontal look. So sexy is the childhood frontal hairline in a man with a lean face and body. It takes just a second for most people to know if a man looks sexy, and that look is always associated with a youthful childlike hairline in a young maturing body.

Many times, I have had the opportunity to put back the youthful hairlines on male models or soap opera stars who started to lose their youthful hairline and develop a mature (non-balding) hairline. For them, the youthful hairline is job security. They do not want, nor can they tolerate the normal mature hairline, which still looks good. However, our society tells us that the sexy man image is the young man’s look. I am sorry to say that these young men with their youthful hairlines are like young meat for the females who fantasize on their ability to lure such men into their bedrooms.

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Hair Loss InformationPersistent Juvenile Hairline (with Photos) – Hair Loss Information – Balding Blog

This 27 year old man came to see me with this interesting hair loss pattern worthy of sharing with the BaldingBlog readers. Note that the first 3/4 inch of the frontal hairline is normal, but the thinning picks up just behind it and goes all the way back. If he let his hair grow longer, he might have been able to cover it with his hair combed back. Sooner or later he would lose more of it. Of particular interest, that frontal hairline may last his lifetime, while he could be completely bald behind that hairline if he does not treat it with finasteride. In taking the drug, he may actually return the thinning hair behind the frontal hairline, and if successful, no surgery would be required to accomplish this goal.



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Hair Loss InformationHair Loss on Top of Head, Hairline is Fine – Hair Loss Information – Balding Blog

PorcupineI am 29, male. Recently I got my hair cut rather short, and it has kind of spiked up, somewhat resembling a porcupine, i guess you could say. I notice when looking at my head from above that my hair seems thinner, like there are some areas not as full as others. Is this a sign of hair loss? My hair line is not receding, and my hair is fine at the crown/point at back of head, where you usually see bald spots in people going bald. Do you have any idea what I am seeing in the mirror? Is there a pattern of baldness where you start to lose hair on the top or in the middle of your head? Thanks in advance for your comments.

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Some people will develop thinning behind the hairline, leaving a normal hairline. We also see thinning in the crown with no problem in the frontal area as well. The first 3/4 inch from the highest crease or the wrinkled brow is the juvenile component of the frontal look. Behind this first 3/4 inch starts what I call the mature hairline.

The shorter you cut your hair, the more you will see of any thinning that is present. To find out what this means, map out your hair and scalp for miniaturization so that you can know if this is a genetic pattern for you. If it is genetic, Propecia works well in the crown.

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Hair Loss InformationMatthew McConaughey’s Hairline… Revealed? – Hair Loss Information – Balding Blog

I knew his hair looked too perfect for it to be real. I mean even a hair transplant wouldn’t bring back ALL your hair you had back when you were your teens. And Matt seemed to get ALL his hair back in such a short amount of time. So, it is safe to say matt is wearing a gold old hair peice. Matts hair looked to perfect for it to be his. If everybody could get hair like his through a transplants (assuming he had some work done), everybody would be getting a hair transplant and you would be on of the richest men in America. LOL. Am I correct? I am not saying transplants don’t work but I have seen people with hair transplants and they just don’t seem to cover up a whole lot. That is why so many people are probably just shaving their heads because they know you have to keep on spending a lot of money on transplants to get your so called “desired look” and even then there are still balding spots that are visible. And don’t get me started about propecia. I think it is honestly BS. E-mail me and let me know what you think. Please, post this on your web-site. The pictures at least.

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Matthew McConaugheySince this site’s first blog post on Matthew McConaughey, we seem to be taken up with all of the focus on his hairline. I am not into sensationalism, even though I have elected to share what has been sent to me. I do respect a person’s need for privacy, yet there seems to be no let-up on the probing about Mr. McConaughey’s hairline. Many women think that McConaughey is the best looking man in Hollywood and one would ask if that opinion would persist if his hairline was kept ‘au natural’. Some members of our culture do judge the book by its cover.

One of the local doctors here in the Los Angeles area let the word out that he had done McConaughey’s hair transplant. Was it because McConaughey has done such a good job at presenting the perfect hairline image? I even commented privately to my staff that the claim that this doctor did McConaughey’s ‘transplanted’ hairline could be believed because work of great quality is often done by the best hair transplant surgeons in the business.

Based upon the photographs at the link the blog reader sent, then compared to our first posting about this, there appears to be no change in McConaughey’s hairline from the mugshot taken in 1999. It would be in poor taste and a violation of the patient’s rights to even admit to performing the surgery without the express permission of the patient — not to mention that it would be outright fraudulent for any doctor to take credit for a stylist’s apparent hairpiece.

Update, Sept 29 2006: Another reader just sent this article that has apparently more recent photos of Matthew McConaughey, where his hairline can be seen (for those that are interested) — Splash News Online.