Bald in my 20s

With the tech out there you don't have to go bald gracefully anymore and it's pretty easy to get hair back

If you've lost your hairline then of course it's going to change how you look, a hairline frames your face and its more noticeable on young people as your skin has a natural shine

Don't get the SMP, everyone knows its a tattoo now and trying to explain you've a tattoo on your head ahhh, did you see Chris Eubank reaction when he got called out on it in his last fight by Liam Smith? Was a hard watch

Go to a good clinic in Turkey, they are experts at it, get topical finasteride/minoxidil, barely any sides on topical vs oral and you'll have your again

If your not prepared to use topical finasteride/min or oral, don't bother with the transplant, you'll continue to lose non transplanted hair and it will be a waste of time

relative lost it in his teens, really struggled with it, as you would, eventually shaved the lot, has always looked very healthy since he did, and happier...

I’m in the same boat as you! Thinning hair especially on the crown of my head! I’m 29 and it’s been like this since my early twenties. Used to have a full head of hair! Really losing confidence probably next year when I have the cash saved I’ll head to turkey for a hair transplant as I don’t want to go bald.

You do realise shaving isn't permanent, right? You can just stop doing that, see what regrowth you have and then see what your treatment options are, be they surgical or medical.

My brother got a hair transplant at 30 a few years ago. He went from looking 45 (thats what anyone would say to us when talking about guessing what age he was. To him they would tell him he looked 30 out of politeness :) ) to looking about 25.

He definitely had more success with the ladies after. but the thing is that everyone who knew him thought he looked weird when he got the transplant. After a while everyone just got used to it. Looking at pics of befroe and after he definitely looks way better and at least 15 years younger/

hi op

what works for one person may not work for another here, as its deeply personal preference here. id say you need to examine your own mind here and understand what the issue is, and then decide on what action (if any) will make you happy. As far as i can tell, you are in the happy position of having choices here, because you have the means to get the procedure if you choose to.

personally i would tend to do nothing here. i would be of the opinion i dont want to undergo any procedure etc. i think what you are doing, going to gym, working on feeling confidant in yourself, and shaving your head is the course of action that would be my choice.

so you probably need a period of reflection to decide what feels right for you. go with what feels right.

I'm mid 40s and whilst I still have plenty of hair, it has receded a bit so I'll probably get a transplant in a few years to fill it out again.

In this day and age, I'm all for it - why not? Pick up the paper every day and you'll see people who think nothing of having plastic surgery, injecting botox into their bodies, lips pumped up, eyebrows tatto'd on - at least with a hair transplant you are literally just relocating your own hair follicles from one part of your head to another part, it doesn't get much more natural than that.

A work colleague got a transplant a couple of years ago, and it looks brilliant. His wasn't the usual balding crown or receding widow's peak, it was kinda thinning between his forehead and crown so he had a lot at the back and a lot at the front but a bald strip in between - and it didn't look good. I know people say to embrace baldness and throw up the likes of Jason Statham and Vin Diesel as examples of how to do it, but honestly, not everyone looks like them or has the facial structure to pull it off. Sometimes the average man just looks better with hair than without. And I think that even chisel-jawed and muscular Statham would look a few years younger with hair than without it.

I think you've dealt with hair loss really admirably so far, and I think by actually shaving your head (as opposed to walking round with visibly thinning locks or some kind of combover) it gives you more options - if you did get the hair transplant and suddenly start growing hair again, many people who weren't acutely aware that your hair had receded might just assume you had it that way as it was easier to maintain.

OP I'm about the same height and no joke my hair was thinning before I'd finished growing. I'm 52 now and happily married with three children.

Honestly, its what you make of it, my height always bothered me much more than my hair to be honest. My dad shaved his head from when i was a kid and and his father was a baldie too so i guess it just seemed normal to me and never bothered me much. In life you'll meet people that like baldies/fat/thin/tall small, thankfully there is someone there for all of us.

Focus on the positives, if you let it bother you and start down the road of transplants it'll start defining you, try and think of the positives - no waiting in barbers, no hair cutting expenses though you will need more suncream in summer than many others!

Best i can give is try and just be yourself, its part of what you are, be positive and others will be positive back. Look at Bezos, baldness never held him back from success!

There are lots of men with shaved heads now, it's no biggie at all. But please don't grow a beard to compensate for your thinness on top. It suits some men but on others, it looks utterly ridiculous.

Started going bald around 30 and was in the same boat as some people on here. Worried constantly that my thinning hair was noticeable, massive bald spot on the back that i chose to ignore.

One day i got a shave in a barbers which was a 0.5 cut and i went home and noticed how bald i was, took the plunge and shaved it all off. Honestly, it was liberating. No more worrying and no more trying to cover it up.

A bit of stubble in that case then.😉