Hairline assessment
Find out what is really going on with your hair.
Every man is somewhere on this line. Most do not know where — or which of the five causes is theirs.
Most men spend years buying things and hoping, without ever knowing what they are actually dealing with. A few questions and you will know. Takes about a minute and a half.
This gives you a starting point. It is not a doctor.
Question 1
Which one is closest to your hairline?
First, do this: lift your eyebrows and find the top wrinkle on your forehead. That is roughly where your hair started when you were a teenager. Now look — which picture is closest to yours today?
Most men look at the wrong thing. The front edge often looks like it has not moved much, but the hair just behind it has gone thin and you can see skin through it. Check under a bright light from above, not your bathroom mirror.
Question 2
Has it moved in the last two years?
Why we ask
Nearly every man's hairline moves back a small amount once, somewhere between seventeen and thirty. Then it stops. That is just growing up, not going bald, and it happens to almost everybody. Hair that moved once and stopped is a very different thing from hair that is still going. This one question tells us which one you have.
Question 3
Where do you see it most?
Why we ask
A study of 400 African men found that 8 out of 10 lose it at the front, not the back. That matters. Almost everything sold here, even the natural oils, was tested on the back of the head. And thinning all over usually means something else is going on.
Question 4
Who notices?
Question 5
Do you wear a tight cap, durag, or braids most days?
Why we ask
Pulling on your hairline every day damages it. This is a different problem, but it looks almost the same at the corners. The good news is your hair can come back from it, if you catch it early. Plenty of men treat it as baldness for years and never find out.
Question 6
Is your scalp often itchy, flaky, or greasy?
Why we ask
An itchy, flaky scalp is often a skin problem, not a hair problem. It makes hair fall and gets mistaken for balding all the time. It can be treated. It can also sit on top of real balding and make things look worse than they are.
Question 7
Did your hair suddenly start falling much more, within about three months of being sick, having surgery, or going through heavy stress?
Why we ask
When your body goes through something hard — sickness, surgery, heavy stress — a lot of hair stops growing at the same time and falls out together a few months later. Real balding is slow and takes years. This kind is sudden, and it usually fixes itself once your body settles.
Three left
of hair loss in a study of 400 African men was at the front — not the back. Almost everything sold here, oils included, was tested on the back of the head.
Nigerian Journal of Dermatology — Tarauni, KanoHere is the part most men never hear: in a lab test, only about 4 in 10 men actually responded to the product most commonly sold for this. The other 6 were using something their body was not converting into anything useful.
That is why so many men buy something real, see nothing, and decide they were cheated. Usually they were not cheated. They were putting it on the wrong part of the head.
Question 8
When did you first notice it?
Question 9
What have you already tried?
Select everything that applies.
Question 10
How often do you think about it?
One moment
Going through your answers.
- Looking at the picture you picked
- Checking where you said you see it
- Checking if it has been moving
- Checking the four other things it could be
- Looking at what you already tried
- Working out how much time you have
- Putting your answer together
Your assessment