Hairline changing

[kings joker]

How can you tell if your hairline begins to change? Is it dramatic like you'll notice a forehead tan line from where you're hair used to bed? or is it like you'll start finding a few extra stray hairs? What exactly is the whole "hairline will start matching that of a natal males."?

I ask because I looked at some photos from an event and my forehead just looks larger. Could be a new dysphoria or maybe my forehead just is actually larger now....

[FTMax]

I don't think it's something you'd notice day to day. I think you'd need to look at like month 1, month 2, month 3 progress pictures to see the difference. I already had a big forehead but the sides did recede some. I want to say this occurred in the first six months on T.

[Kylo]

I've been keeping an eye on my hairline since October but the only way to be sure would be to take some photos (or better still measurements), from say the eyebrows to the start of the hair. I've got a widow's peak so I'd measure from that and from the areas beginning 5cm to the side of it which at this point in time still resemble the female pattern. Those are the parts I'd lose noticeably if I was losing any, as well as the tip of the widow's peak.

So far there seems no change to the hairline on T. I don't think there is any dramatic line because the changes occur slow enough and at the edge of the hair the skin quickly becomes like the rest of your face (same if you trim your hair quite short all the time, it doesn't look like a scalp that's never been exposed).

It's slightly tricky for me to keep track of my hairs because some of them are lighter and some of them darker... the ones at the edge of the hairline are always much lighter than further in, although T seems to be altering this in the same way it's made my arm and leg hairs darker than they used to be.

What they mean by hair starting to match the natal male pattern is kind of like in this pic



The area where the woman has hair circled by red will start to fall out matching closer the man on the right. As guys get older that pattern then tends to recede backwards widening these areas without hair, although how far back they go and whether you get a bald spot on the back is probably down to your genetics more than anything.

[Dex]

I agree, it is too slow a process to really observe day to day. I was about 6 months on T and had taken some pictures on vacation with my wife when I said "wow! All my temple hair is gone!" I had not noticed until then.

My hairline has not changed since then. I was really worried about going bald as it's not something I want but will accept it if that's what happens. I'm 33 and 3.5 years on T now and I actually really appreciate the hairline I have developed. It is definitively more masculine. I still don't want to go bald but have been relieved that it hasn't changed in the last 3 years. If it does as I age, it does. That is determined by genetics and male family members are all over the board with hair loss so I have no idea what I'm in for.

But I do agree with previous posters that measurements and photos are probably the best way to determine where/if you are losing hair at all.

[CMD042414]

My hairline has definitely changed. Much like the image in the above post. I notice it a lot lately. Doesn't bother me at all but definitely noticeable. That widow's peak situation is totally happening.

[kings joker]

Totally randomly, my brother brought up his receding hair line this morning. He's almost 25 and is loosing the rounded hairline and getting a more widows peak like the image above. He's noticed the difference so significantly because of a mole that was once completely covered but is now entirely exposed. We're talking a few inches receding.
However, his physical features take after my mother a lot more than me, who is the spitting image of my father. My maternal grandfather was bald but my father and paternal grandfather are fully covered on their head.
So I am going to call this like a 70 30 split and say I'll probably have my dads head of hair.

[Arch]

I am in my mid-fifties. The last time I saw a picture of my father, he was about ten years older than I am now. He had a noticeable widow's peak (thinning) and quite a bit of recession on both sides of it.

My older brother is a few years younger than my father was at that time. My brother's pictures are rather indistinct, but his peak has now turned into a sort of island that is thinning rapidly. I can't remember which balding pattern this is.

I am heading down the same path, but I don't think I'll ever even get to the "island" stage. I think that the peak is thinning out enough that I'll just be bald in front. I seem to represent an escalation, yikes.