I have a small amount of hair loss at the corners of my forehead. Nothing too advanced for my age, but still distinctly un-feminine. I was waiting to grow it out until after I had hair grafts done, but from what I see I should probably wait until after FFS, which will be a little while anyway - plus, it takes ages for the hair graft to actually take full effect.
So, I figure I'd better start now. I have decided that I have had my last real* haircut (annoyingly, which was all of two days before I realised timescales weren't on my side). This means that when I get to a point of transitioning I will still have a male hairline. Later on, I'll have strangely short hair around the hairline. It'll be a couple of years before hair lengths even match.
What can I do to disguise this? I've never had long hair before, so I don't really know how it works! I can only really think of keeping a fringe (which means cutting good hair) or a centre parting (which I don't imagine would suit me).
Is it a problem later on, when grafted hair is short but other hair is long? I have been told that product can keep it tamed and flat with the rest, but I have no experience! The parts of my hair now that are trimmed short are very bushy - where I have it, my hair is very dense - and it wouldn't be great to have short hair sticking up at the hairline underneath decent length hair.
* I figure I'll probably still go back to the hairdresser every so often and see if she can find a way to make it presentable while growing it out, while removing as little as possible. I mean, this is a thing people do, right?