I've been a frequent "Stalker" of these pages for a very long time, I started losing my hair when I was 20, I quickly got on rogaine, propecia, everything that I could get my balding little hands on. I just have a basic question. I have "hair", but It's not the hair that I want. I've been thinking about switching over for sometime, I recently was talking to someone and I sent them some pictures of my current hair and their response was actually a little bit shocking.
They said I should just try to keep what I have?!
haha, so it got me thinking! What are everyone else's thoughts on this!
I didn't have much "noticeable" hair loss when I started wearing. However, I was limited to a certain style and was using a lot of toppik. I was also losing hair FAST. I had almost no hair loss up until 29, but shed like crazy in the last 2 years. I did not want to do propecia and most transplant results aren't that great, so I took the plunge, shaved the top of my head, and haven't looked back. Hair has always been very important to me and it's worth the effort to have the hair I want. No one has said anything about my hair being fake since I started wearing, so either they don't know or they don't want to hurt my feelings. The crew I work with would love to bust my balls over it if they knew, so must be the former. I was also out of work for a few weeks when I made the switch, which I'm sure helped as well. It's a bit scary taking the plunge, but I'm happy so far with my decision.
The picture on the left is my natural hair with toppik...
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I didn't have much "noticeable" hair loss when I started wearing. However, I was limited to a certain style and was using a lot of toppik. I was also losing hair FAST. I had almost no hair loss up until 29, but shed like crazy in the last 2 years. I did not want to do propecia and most transplant results aren't that great, so I took the plunge, shaved the top of my head, and haven't looked back. Hair has always been very important to me and it's worth the effort to have the hair I want. No one has said anything about my hair being fake since I started wearing, so either they don't know or they don't want to hurt my feelings. The crew I work with would love to bust my balls over it if they knew, so must be the former. I was also out of work for a few weeks when I made the switch, which I'm sure helped as well. It's a bit scary taking the plunge, but I'm happy so far with my decision.
The picture on the left is my natural hair with toppik...
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wow. I never used toppik, but it must work well. your hair looks very full...almost too much hair. I don't see any hair loss one bit
both look amazing
ginger looks pretty full and dense , cant believe you ever needed toppik
I used to use nanogen, Nano fibres, until there was no more hair for them to bond to there'd be mounds of Nano fibre I was devastated
that was 8 years ago, wearing has been amazing
mine are not top lace systems, medium poly
It depends on so many thinks, everyone is different.
I went through he same things that everyone seems to mention including in this thread.
I had a nice thick head of hair then one day boom oh no what's going on here then..lol.
My solution was to grow my hair and this covered my losses...but I had a crappy haircut and got frustrated. Went through Toppik like crazy.
Ended up having a small hairline piece, as my hair is quite thick and wavy it was easy to blend in, never really exposed my hairline too much. I don't know if its because the rest of my hair is thick or that my head is quite narrow but I only need a very small piece to make me look like I have a thick full head of hair....about 3 inches length by about 1/2 inch depth. I also have medium density and cut the pieces out which loses hair so in the end it has only a little bit of hair on the piece but it makes a difference.
I could not wear and achieve a similar look but hate my high hairline and it takes much longer after I've washed it...so wearing just makes things easier.
I take meds too, fin and minox and I wish I had tried them sooner, I waited around 7 years of losing hair before I started but I still managed to regrow some, if I hadn't I'm sure I would be wearing a larger piece now.
I still think of HT's now and then but this is so easy and I've done it for 10 years now so I'm happy with it.
(01-19-2018, 10:55 AM)sp1n3ch0 Wrote: I didn't have much "noticeable" hair loss when I started wearing. However, I was limited to a certain style and was using a lot of toppik. I was also losing hair FAST. I had almost no hair loss up until 29, but shed like crazy in the last 2 years. I did not want to do propecia and most transplant results aren't that great, so I took the plunge, shaved the top of my head, and haven't looked back. Hair has always been very important to me and it's worth the effort to have the hair I want. No one has said anything about my hair being fake since I started wearing, so either they don't know or they don't want to hurt my feelings. The crew I work with would love to bust my balls over it if they knew, so must be the former. I was also out of work for a few weeks when I made the switch, which I'm sure helped as well. It's a bit scary taking the plunge, but I'm happy so far with my decision.
The picture on the left is my natural hair with toppik...