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This is looking fabulous!

Thanks @andy_+_+it is encouraging for sure, I don't know whether it is early growth or the effects of the finasteride or minoxidil or perhaps both?

This is actually looking really good and all seems to be growing, I think you are taking this all the wrong way, I have over twice as many grafts as you and suffer from all the same things you are talking about, its see thru and unless longer and heavily layered then the illusion is not there properly. I think even the best of the best HT on here if messed up I the way you have done your hair would look exactly the same. But in doing that you can actually see all of the new hairs all over, 4.5k across your whole scalp is not a lot in the grand scheme to have great density, but in what you have had IMO is looking good and growing well

Month 7 checkin There is some improvement, yet it's fairly slow. I am moving to a harsher lighting as the lighting in the pics i've used is now only going to show the same thing repeatedly, I think. ( which also is coincidentally what my hair kind of looked like before my transplant - using the longer back hairs to scam coverage of the front) In cloudy lighting, if the hair doesn't blow, and I don't move, ever - it actually appears OK. I can actually almost scam almost a full head of hair here.   I have returned to coverage scamming somewhat.  In fairly harsh lighting we are not there yet. things are kind of okay from the top down but are still relatively not okay from any front-looking angle if I get hit with the tiniest amount of wind or say, something touches my hair. The visual appearance is not quite there in less than perfect lighting.  Trying to style it "up" also looks pathetic due to current visual appearance.( see side of head here) It looks like there is actually a decent bit of hair here that needs thickening time? The visual appearance  is why I don't style my hair "up" - this can be observed from how bad this looks from even trying to move the hair up in this image. ( I admit, I didn't put much effort into moving it up, but a slight more perfect up angle would not change too much) Image2 is maybe a more fair comparison against my early sweaty hair pic. I wet my hair for this one and just kind of moved things around. There definitely does seem to be more hair here than in the image above - it's just still kind of sparse.   My overall thoughts from month 6 to month 7 are: There is some visual improvement and change. I think perhaps I might still be waiting on the thickening of all of the transplanted hair? It seems like I have a fair bit of hair in places. I have heard that blonde hair needs the longest amount of time to thicken up. Also, I am slightly older (37), so that plays a factor in the slowness. I think it's pretty confirmed i'm a slow grower now, but I'm still kind of waiting on results. I continue to take topical minoxidil per the doctor's recommendations ( I was on oral minox before the doctor asked me to switch ), and have been on finasteride 1mg for many, many years now My current thoughts are not SUPER positive, but I do feel a positive change in appearance. What do you guys think? Some more time for thickening and i'll be happy? Too low density to make a difference? to me, it does feel like there's a good bit more hair there - it's just the visual appearance is not quite what I want yet, and i'm not sure that is a proportion of the density, or thickening that needs to take place. Has anyone also heard the "blonde hair takes more time to thicken" thing and maybe has a source on that? "trust the process"  is my least favorite phrase in the universe but I keep repeating it to myself..

I’m not sure on the exact amount of grafts but I believe it was in the region of 3000. I also couldn’t tell you the distribution of grafts between the front and crown. I was concerned after surgery that not enough grafts were placed in the crown region.    I believe this was partly due to avoiding damaging the native hair but did feel there were still gaps. However, it has got a lot denser in the last couple of months than I expect. Today marks 7 months post surgery so hopeful it will continue to thicken up.