Well bro, I never saw how I looked bald, and did so when I went in for my hair transplant on Friday. They shaved my head and I was really happy with it. My translator actually laughed out loud and said that's a great look for you, in a years time when you've regrown your hairline, you could buzz it down again.
The buzzcut look is sexy and I like it for me.
A bunch of my friends & peers from the community also told me I looked pretty decent bald
That said, we can talk YOU, and how YOUR look can be maximised.
Firstly, getting your health on point will add 1 point to your appearance. Having a vibrant healthy body, your hormones in proper balance, with vigour and vitality and energy flowing through your system will refresh you and improve your appearance a lot. When we're sick, like I was for years, we look horrible.
That is, and should always be, a priority. In a low energy, low vitality, sick body, no real progress in life is possible.
I call this 'foundation building'. Progress in self improvement must start from a stable physiology. If this is not there, you will lose. This game takes robustness. This was my view going in: I spent 4 years healing myself before I started on this forum. By the time I was here, I was healthy enough to get into the fight. I was still obese and fucked in the head hardcore, but I wasn't as sick. I have advised others who also had issues, but they didn't take my advice, and just floundered around and remain stuck. Too bad. I have no time or respect for cunts who are not willing to help themselves.
But I will go to the absolute wall to help someone who is willing to be helped.
Your log here may be focused on your healing and that may be what we push you with. We've exchanged a brief PM, and you touched on subjects I am knowledgeable about (you mentioned brain oxygenation, I have 8 years experience in this and am an advanced student of the Buteyko method), gut health, all really, really good stuff man. Kudos to you, I can tell you've got a solid game plan, and I would love to learn more and throw a few tid bits your way.
THEREAFTER: HAIR
Hair is a COSMETIC issue and comes after health.
You will need to first find our what your norwood level is. If you're norwood 4 and a diffuse thinner, most reputable clinics will turn you away for a hair transplant as they won't be able to get you good results. There's places that will take your money, but that's not a good thing.
Looking at your avatar, it's hard to tell but you may be a norwood 3. Which is where I was. This is saveable with a hair transplant. Also, you're not a diffuse thinner. Looks like your donor may be OK, as well as your sides. A HT could be an option.
DHT Reducers & Sides:
So DHT reduction can come with totally disastrous sides. I had almost life ruining sides from using dutasteride. I got a total loss of libido at month 8, and total erectile dysfunction at month 10. I ceased the use of the drug completely. The sides didn't abate AT ALL for 2 months so it was detective time. Did a DUTCH Plus test, full labs, had my wellness advisors look over them. Came up with a comprehensive healing protocol and hammered it for 9 months. At month 9, taking 2-4hrs of action daily, I began to heal.
DHT reducers can totally shut down your androgens if you've had a history of being sick.
In a body that has been impacted by sickness in life, androgens, thyroid, and other important markers can become downregulated, and the use of DHT reducers can basically tank your androgens. Getting them back takes extreme grinding and isn't something many are able to do. Post-fin syndrome is real. Remember, to get studies published requires astronomical sums of money only pharmaceutical companies who develop the drugs have. They spend billions on marketing, and their strangehold is like a rod of iron: they control the narrative. That is the end of it. The conventional normie wisdom is that only 5% of men will experience side effects.
I am a paid member of several hair loss & physiology forums, I am a wellness fanatic and have mentors and advisors with 30-40 years experience, and in all the spaces I am in, there are many guys who don't have any sides, but there are a small number who basically have had their lives ruined. I was shaping up to be one but I am able to basically go hell for leather when it comes to solving my problems and am able to work my way out of them. Normies won't be able to.
Why some get sides & others don't, IMO, is down to the starting baseline level of wellness in the persons physiology.
I am now doing pretty good. I am going to perform a full DUTCH Plus and series of blood tests, and get all my lab work checked, book some consults with my mentors and advisors, and then decide if I will try a low dose of fin. Fin is far weaker than dutasteride. I may be fine on it. Also, if my labs show that my DHT isn't even high, I may not even bother. May JUST use minox to maintain my hair transplant.
All of this is useful context for you, because if you get a hair transplant, you will still need to figure out how you will manage your DHT.
There are natural DHT reducers like saw palmetto, rosemary oil, and pumpkin oil. Because there are no pharmaceutical companies who can stand to profit from patenting natural compounds like these and selling them to the masses (theyre not medications), there won't be clinical research trials (unless someone wants to shell out 250k just because) and as such, you'll hear a lot of guff about how these approaches to DHT reduction aren't "scientifically proven". The scientific establishment is basically prostitution, whores paid by big pharma to shill products and paradigms. No judgement, it is what it is.
It is useful to think in terms of big picture principles, of holism, of the human animal as an organism within an environment. We can broadly understand hormones, the lay person CAN grasp this level of biochemistry. There are regenerative hormones, there are degenerative hormones. We want to create order and limit chaos. The DHT theory of male pattern baldness has some inconsistencies, I think DHT does play a significant role, but my bloodwork shows that I was losing hair despite having literally 0 DHT in my system (I have the lab reports). Scalp fibrosis, calcification, oxygenation, nutrient deficiencies, thyroid status, stress, sleep, among other factors all play a role in hair.
And all of these factors are addressed by one simple approach: GET YOURSELF AS HEALTHY AS POSSIBLE FIRST.
From 12 years of research, my approach is always to encourage people to get healthy first, as it makes all the other things we want to do with function, appearance, and success far easier.
That said.....
You can explore the following for a few months and see what it does for your hair:
-Fortnightly dermapen 0.75mm
-Nizarol shampoo 3 x a week
-Topicals: Rosemary Oil. Pumpkin Oil
-Saw Palmettoo
-Caffeine shampoo
Minox may also be worth a try.
A lot of thoughts for you. I hope some are helpful.
MAC