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Statham looks good to women because he is famous and plays "tough guy bad boy" characters in movies, and the same with Vin Deisel; plus there is a HUGE difference in the way people look on screen and off screen!

 

Take either one of them and strip away the fame and the "look" that they portray on film (that the well paid editing wizards of Hollywood help them acheive) and they would both be just 2 more faceless baldies in the crowd who would have a hard time convincing a fat chick to get in the sack with them.

 

You simply CANNOT compare the average balding joe to a famous, rich balding celebrity! the women are reacting to the fame, NOT the look! The grand wizards of Hollywood could take a 3 ft. tall bald midget with tumors growing out of his face and make him into a sex symbol celebrity where the hottest chicks on earth would be lining up in droves for a chance to sleep with him; and those chicks would be saying things like "he's just so hot and mysterious, I really don't know what it is" --- blah, blah, blah, blah !! 99.9% of chicks are sheeple and they just follow the status quo and accept whatever trash is shoved down their throats in mainstream society.

 

And never forget, the bald celebrity is famous because he "knew somebody that knew somebody" in the biz. If you think that people become famous today in the acting world exclusively because they have talent or charisma then as the late great PT Barnum said : "there's a sucker born every minute!"

The reason we're all going bald is because for centuries, bald men have been able to find women who are willing to sleep with them.

It causes hair to grow all over your body. I'm surprised that it's actually available orally.

I'm coming up on my 2 year anniversary with Propecia. I had minimal side effects during the first few weeks (mostly pain...down there) but very little since.

I am still shedding hair, but I look almost the same as I did two years ago. My crown looks like it has thickened a bit, so do my temples. The only difference is the center of my hairline (the slight widow's peak) where my hair looks thinner than it was two years ago. I don't think there has been any recession, just thinning.

This is the result of bureaucracy. Finasteride has only been tested on the crown so it can only make claims about the crown. This doesn't mean that it doesn't work on the hairline, just that it can't claim to do so without breaking the law.

I have been on finasteride for almost two years and I've experienced only slight thinning on my hairline in that time. I think it works there.

Ultimately, hair will fall out whether you are rough with it or not. At most, shampooing gently will leave the hair in your scalp for just a short time longer.

If it makes you feel better, you are not the worst 19 year old head of hair I've ever seen.

Propecia/finasteride does can cause a lot of "shedding" when you first start taking it. You should wait 6-9 months before determining if Propecia is working or not for you.

Remember: if you don't take Propecia, you will go bald with a probability of 100%. If you take it, the probability will be less than 100%. So even if Propecia causes some damage to your hair, it would have fallen out anyway.

Yes this is a common side effect.

Your crown from 2002 looks almost exactly like mine does now. The resemblance is uncanny, except for my hair being a slightly lighter color.

I'm on finasteride and I'd be absolutely thrilled with results even half as good as yours!

I agree with this. The most attractive girl I went to college with is now dating a NW3, and the most attractive girl in my apartment building is dating a NW6 (though she is middle eastern and it seems that baldness is more common in middle eastern men and perhaps more accepted in ME culture). I could go on and on with examples like this.

Don't worry about baldness because of what others will think of you. Worry about baldness because of what you will think of yourself.

I registered on this forum 1.5 years ago, started taking finasteride after posting about it, and had solid results with no sides.

Out of nowhere, 1.5 years into taking the drug, I started getting side effects (ED). I have taken myself off it (didn't take it today) and am now reeling as to what to do.

I might try lower doses, but it looks like I will be bald soon after all.

You should give Finasteride at least 9-12 months. It's your best hope.

I don't know anything about Dermatch...yet. Ask me again in a few years if Finasteride doesn't do its job.

I am 23, have been taking finasteride (1 mg) for just over a year now, so I began when I was 22. I did not experience a noticeable shedding period. If I did, it was nowhere near as bad as what I was expecting after reading horror stories on this forum.

I travel everywhere with several pills of generic finasteride in my carry-on luggage. Nobody has ever asked me about it or opened my luggage to look at it.

The first picture makes it look like you are undergoing at least some miniaturization and thus may be in the first stages of going bald. But it's not really enough data.

Diet is important for many things but is irrelevant for hair loss (except that malnutrition can cause reversible baldness that looks nothing like genetic male pattern baldness). The only treatment for baldness is medication: finnasteride or Rogaine.

Locate your father on this chart:

http://www.regrowhair.com/gene...scale-and-hair-loss/

Could be male pattern baldness, could be traction alopecia.

Originally posted by Sunnycoastman:

If all men were NW6 by age 20, and it was normal, it wouldnt bother us would it. Because we would look just like everyone else....level playing field.

All people get wrinkles and it DOES seem to bother many people...

finasteride is a drug sold under two different brand names, Proscar (for prostate cancer) and Propecia (for hair loss). The Proscar tablets are larger and they are the ones you have to cut.

The cheapest option is ordering generic finasteride in 1 mg tablets from India. You can do this over the internet. You take one pill per day.

I have been doing this for almost a year now.

You can just buy 1 mg pills from online pharmacies. This is what I do, and I can easily afford it on my limited budget.

For me, my objection to hair loss is not that I think it will bother other people, but that it bothers me. Even if women, co-workers, and other important people in my life don't mind it, I still mind it, and that matters more.

That said, even I can't say that circumstances don't matter. There are things more valuable than hair.

For the right amount of money, the right girl, etc., I would gladly agree to become a NW7 by age 30.

I've been taking finasteride for about a year now. I never noticed any major shedding.

You can buy generic finasteride on the internet from India. Many posters here do this and have had good results.

I am about to hit the 1-year mark on Finnasteride. My hairline has definitely receded at the temples, but overall I'm satisfied with the results (or rather lack of results -- my hair doesn't look that much different from a year ago).

I'm 23 now, still hanging on to NW2 status despite visible miniaturization in the crown area. My roommate is two years older than I am, and over the last two years I saw him transform from a NW2 to a NW5. My modest goal is to hang on to more of my hair than he did.

It's possible that Propecia is still slowing down your rate of loss, rather than not having any effect.

Propecia has only been around for what, 12 years? There might be many people who were taking it long-haul who might eventually turn into NW7's, but there just might not have been time for it to happen.

Anyone have the statistics from the Norwood study about how long it generally takes to reach NW7?