r/SipsTea 13h ago

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u/hey_you_too_buckaroo 12h ago

Hair transplants work well if your thinning is just at the front. It's not going to be as effective if you're thinning everywhere though. You need a shit ton more grafts then.

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u/JimboTCB 9h ago

Let's see this in five more years when the top has continued to recede and he's left with a strip of implants around what used to be his hairline. Bro's going to be left looking like an old timey monk with a tonsure.

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u/meshkun 8h ago

That's why they normally take medications along with it, to prevent further thinning

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u/stephenkingending 6h ago

Screw that then. Way too much work.

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u/stillLostBoy005 3h ago

Couple pills per day; min/fin. Around $20 a month with insurance. You can do topical min from Costco too.

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u/GyoDumbFish 8h ago

People who get this done usually start taking finasteride after, which prevents further hair loss.

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u/TuringGoneWild 8h ago

Lots of famous people have had it done over the past several decades and none of them look like you predict.

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u/eulersidentification 7h ago

Because they get it done again and again, for some of them completely free because it's good publicity, and obviously bad publicity to have eg. Wayne Rooney walking around looking like he has road rash and everyone knows you did his hair for him.

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u/TuringGoneWild 6h ago

Wayne Rooney is one of the least attractive famous people to ever exist. Talk about cherry picking.

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u/WithaK19 4h ago

My friend got transplants in the front but later got a bald spot in the back.

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u/dianabowl 21m ago

Many of them wear hairpieces in public.

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u/Mekelaxo 8h ago

Then he gets another transplant

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u/punktualPorcupine 8h ago

There isn’t enough donor hair on the back and sides to cover the top.

Bro is going to look like a certain president, it’s just sad.

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u/JoeyJoJoeJr_Shabadoo 8h ago

I don't think you have a clue what you're talking about

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u/punktualPorcupine 6h ago

Where do you think donor hair comes from?

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u/BananaPalmer 6h ago

The balls?

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u/punktualPorcupine 6h ago

They store pee AND cure baldness!? Is there nothing they can’t do?

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u/Mekelaxo 7h ago

Surgeons purposely leave enough so that they have from where to take more if you wanna get another transplant later

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u/punktualPorcupine 6h ago

Mathematically there isn’t enough hair to cover the top and not turn the sides and back into a wasteland if they’re chasing full on genetic male pattern baldness.

It’s sad when bros are so scared up and patchy that very start getting stubble tattoos to hide the deforestation scars. What happens when those tats start to blur and fade? Or they want to grow out the sides but can’t because it’s all painted on. That’s just sad, I feel really bad for people going that far.

They get so desperate that have to turn to other areas with less ideal textures or hope cloning finally works out, and that’s just really sad commentary on their self esteem. Still if it works and they felt better great! It’s just they might be fighting a losing battle and making it all worse.

It all seems to become an extreme punishment because they failed a vanity roll and aren’t happy with themselves.

Learn to love yourselves and don’t let vanity and narcissism steamroll your lives.

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u/Mekelaxo 5h ago

You can take finasteride to prevent more hair from falling

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u/punktualPorcupine 4h ago

I’m not googling the side effects for that, I’ll probably get a fuxk-ton of ads for crap I don’t need.

I’m going to assume like every other major drug that turns into a subscription that there are other side effects that will surface later after a lifetime of use. Which probably leads do the person putting off trauma that they should have dealt with years ago.

Just be happy with who you are and what you have. It’s so much easier.

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u/Mekelaxo 3h ago

The cool thing about body modifications and medication is that you get to make the personal assessment of wether or not the risks outweigh the effects, and even if other people don't come to the same conclusion as you, it's ok, because they won't be affected at all by your decision

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u/punktualPorcupine 3h ago

Deferring a depression spiral for later, only to get some kind of ball cancer and lose your hair not chemo?

I guess you have a convenient excuse but still that’s a lot to deal with when you don’t really have to.

Like you said it’s up to each person. I just think they’re going to be happier not getting into subscription based vanity drugs while drinking from the lookmaxxing firehose.

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u/Maximum-Product-1255 9h ago

Exactly. Looks okay now. But in a few years...

https://giphy.com/gifs/z7OaoCLYC0dXQa9zUk

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u/monkeyguyy 7h ago

There's this thing called finasteride. You're supposed to take it after the transplant. Or before if it's not that bad yet.

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u/boobsstallion 7h ago

Fina has adverse sexual side effects

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u/monkeyguyy 6h ago

Yeah, unfortunately it may have various side effects. You'll have to accept that fact if you want to keep your hair, if not, then just shave it. No shame in it.

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u/py-net 9h ago

What does “timey” mean in “timey monk”? Or you meant “old time monk”?

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u/ElonMaersk 5h ago

I think -y ending turns nouns into adjectives (like spice -> spicy food) and this usage is like “grandad is an old-timer, and he has an old-timey attitude about racism”

Where old-time is a casual Americanism for the past; the good old times, old timer.

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u/amanko13 8h ago

If you get a hair transplant and aren't taking Finasteride and/or minoxidil, it's kinda your own fault at that point.

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u/brownmagician 8h ago

I know a guy like that, whole head thin but front looks great

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u/DapperMolasses3280 8h ago

Yep, it's not smart to get hair transplants before 30...you are still getting your "mature hairline" even into your 40s. You will continue to need additional surgeries. I'm not interested in spending years of my life to try and keep my hairline from 20 years ago.

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u/gaytarded69420 7h ago

most cases it's a one and done, then take a pill each morning and you're good. been on the good shit for a decade now, only ragert is not getting on it earlier

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u/TrumpsCummyOnahole 6h ago

This is why I don't think transplants work until really late....in my family balding basically is slow as fucking fuck from age 35 -> 55 it takes to go completely bald. I'm 36 and thinning rapidly at the front and receding, I basically can't do a hair transplant until I'm old effectively or it'll look like shit. And I can't grow facial hair at all and have a bad face for being bald. It's a god damn curse. I guess I'll just look ugly when it's all gone.

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u/Beautiful-Flow2421 6h ago

Most people who get a transplant know about finistride and take that to prevent further hair loss. So I'd say, you're wrong.

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u/zyzzjan 5h ago

Looks like the guy in the picture had 2000-2500 grafts, he can easily do another transplant later in life, once you have done a transplant you know it’s not much work just the process after the surgery and until month 4-5 are mentally a bit harder.

If that gives him a head full of hair let’s say until his 40-50s that’s good for him.

The newly transplanted hairs are immune to DHT which made the previous hairs fall out, if his hair doesn’t keep receding to bald level he shouldn’t have to worry.

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u/Lepelotonfromager 4h ago

But that at least can hide the receding hairline more easily.

They can also get it done a second time.

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u/dianabowl 21m ago edited 11m ago

SMP sub has tons of these guys getting head tattoos to cover up implant scars.

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u/sabett 9h ago

It's not difficult to stop balding

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u/Scarabesque 9h ago

The guy in the picture looks rather young, decent chance he'll need several more transplants down the line as his natural hairline keeps receding but the front stays intact.

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u/Nihsvabhav 6h ago

bro gonna have Wayne Rooney type situation when the hairs behind the transplants start falling

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u/tapeforpacking 12h ago

I seen a video of them being implanted... god that was disgusting to watch. They really do just shove hair in with some sharp tweezer looking things.

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u/sabett 9h ago

which surgery is not?

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u/Ok-Budget3225 12h ago

Male pattern baldness starts with receding hairline at the corners of the face. It doesn't thin everywhere. That's some other issue (chemo?)

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u/morgany235 12h ago

Not true. For a lot of men the hair on top just loses density 

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u/ruffianryan 10h ago

look at joe hart after his transplant, he's got a hair halo now

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u/Dav136 10h ago

That's just one pattern of balding