How do you measure from glabella to your hairline the proper way?

[Jenova]

Hi 🙂

I’m wondering if anyone knows what is the correct way to measure the height from your glabella to your hairline. I’ve seen two approaches to doing this and they give very different results. Some measurer straight up to get a «visual» measurement while others use a measuring tape and let it follow the contour of the forehead up to the hairline.

I drew on a license free stock photo I found to visualize what I mean. 

 

[NARMAK]

Personally i believe the "correct" way is the 2nd picture. Not everybody will have as much of a sloped forehead but also, bear in kind proportionally somebody could have a face that despite being not too dissimilar but due to the specific proportions looks bigger or smaller than somebody else. 

When you draw the hairline, the distance from the glabella isn't imo the biggest factor. Its your frontalis muscle. The muscles on your forehead when you scrunch your brows. You need to place it just above that or it can move and looks odd for a mature person. Some naturally have very high muscles whilst some are on the shorter looking side. 

That's why it's always important to make a holistic approach to a hair transplant. 

[StillAlive]

That's what docs measure with those fancy looking tongs during your consultation. That head caliper thing or whatever it is

[BaldReaper]

1.The height of your hairline should be above all dependent on your donor

 

2. They usually count based on the second picture

 

 

My question is where is the glabela?

Is it the middle point of the middle of the brows or the middle point of the top of the brows?

[Jenova]

Thanks for the good explanation NARMAK 🙂. 

 

4 hours ago, BaldV said:

My question is where is the glabela?

Is it the middle point of the middle of the brows or the middle point of the top of the brows?

I found this about glabella: 
The glabella is the smooth midline bony prominence between the supraciliary arches of the frontal bone, representing the most anterior part of the forehead when standing erect and looking straight ahead. The metopic suture traverses the glabella, between the two frontal bones. Just below it is the bony depression, the nasion.
It is usually more pronounced in males.
It is one of the skull landmarks, craniometric points for radiological or anthropological skull measurement.

And this about the nasion:
The nasion (also known as bridge of the nose) is the midline bony depression between the eyes where the frontal and two nasal bones meet, just below the glabella. It is one of the skull landmarks: craniometric points for radiological or anthropological skull measurement.