I was born with a widows peak that looks like I’ve been balding. Hasn’t moved but my god does it make me paranoid

To me receding hairlines look nothing like a windows peak.

I'm 30 now and have been receding since I was like 18. I'm very self-conscoius about it at times but I have been lifting weights these past few years and that makes me feel better about myself. Recently I have also started getting greys 😁 to be honest I am happy to be healthy and have my family, that is most important. Those who really matter in your life will accept you for who you are.

A widows peak is just a genetic trait that has absolutely nothing to do with balding

I have a small peak, but I love it because I never met anyone else who has it. Plus Vegeta has a huge peak and he's on of my favorite characters in dbz.

Cristopher nolan's intelligence making him loose hair

Amazing transformation on the quality of the channel! Keep it up

With quality videos like these I even watch the ads without skipping

I have a full Vegeta hairline since birth. Dense as hell, yet people might think I'm receding. My father is also like that and his hair is still strong on his middle 60s.

Enjoy your hair while you can. I shave my head completely now because I've lost so much of mine.

Jack Wilshere probably isn't the best example of a maturing hairline. He started to lose his hair in his early 20s and had a hair transplant at about 26

Good information here. To clarify a little further: by the time we reach our early to mid 20s, most of us will have experienced a small amount of thinning in the crown, vertex and temple regions of our scalps which is commonly but not always accompanied by some mild recession of the hair line resulting in the 'widows peak' (Bill Clinton is a prime example of a man who has kept his childhood hairline.) Afterwards, some men will not experience any further rescission of their hairlines as they grow older although most of them will continue to lose density in the aforementioned regions albeit at a snails pace and will likely still have a decent head of hair by the time they become old age pensioners. On the reverse side of the coin roughly one third of us will continue to lose hair after our mature hairline is visible (with some poor souls being almost completely bald by the time the mature hairline is visible) either in the more common classic horseshoe pattern (were the hairline continues to recede as a visible 'bald spot' enlarges itself in the crown region oftentimes culminating in total baldness when the two 'meet in the middle' so to speak) or alternatively the less common diffuse pattern (were the crown, vertex and temple regions are all thinning out at the same time and at the same speed.) Male pattern baldness (or androgenetic alopecia) in both forms can oftentimes be treated using a combination of 5-alpha-Reductase inhibitors (drugs which decrease the production of dihydrotestosterone (DHT) in the scalp thereby slowing the rate of balding with the potential regrowth) such as finasteride alongside topical solutions such as minoxidil (a medication which stimulates hair growth) and shampoos which contain ketoconazole (ketoconazole is an anti-fungal medication which inhibits 5AR, the enzyme which converts testosterone to DHT.) If you hadn't figured it out yet, it is DHT which is thought to be largely responsible for the onset and progression of male pattern baldness in susceptible men. It should go without saying that the earlier you're diagnosed with male pattern baldness and are able to begin treatment, the better the outcome in terms of being able to significantly slow down the progression of the condition often is (and I should mention here that results can vary greatly depending on individual biological responses to drugs such as Finasteride.) Fortunately for myself I responded positively to 'the big three' (finasteride, minoxidil, ketoconazole shampoos) which have helped me to maintain a full head of thick hair for almost a decade since I was first diagnosed with diffuse pattern hair loss in 2010 with no discernable side effects or loss in efficiency (on a somewhat related note I was also able to use topical minoxidil on my previously patchy beard for a period of six months which fixed the problem permanently.) I'll finish by saying don't go out in search of the treatments I've cited here without doing your research first as allergic reactions are possible and allergy testing is must. Moreover most people will experience some side effects when using 5-alpha-Reductase inhibitors such as finasteride. It's for you to decide if the potential risks of using treatments like the big three outweigh the benefits. Click the link below for more detailed information about the treatments I've cited in this comment: www.baldingbeards.com/best-hair-loss-treatment/#The_best_hair_loss_treatment_for_men_The_big_three

I used to shave my widows peak all the time because i thought it was unattractive. Now i embrace it and think its one of my best features! Love it

Hi Ben, here's a suggestion to help hair growth that costs absolutely nothing and it totally works - at least it did for me. Use your palms to lightly massage your head until you feel a bit of heat on your scalp. Press onto your scalp so that it is the scalp that moves, not your hair. Then move on to the next area. You can do this while shampooing your hair and when rinsing the shampoo off. I did this every day since Jan 2020 and after more than 6 months, I notice my hairline has improved. I don't have any photo proof becos I didn't even think it would work. Try it and see if it works for you.

Interesting info. indeed... thanks for the thought provoking video 💯🤙🏽

Great video mate. Fantastic work. 👍🏻 Liked and subscribed.

Love it Ben keep them coming

Back in 2018 I thought your going to be bald by this time but I was wrong you still kept your hairline which is awesome

Great video and I’m going to leave mine thanks to this as I was thinking of trimming the thinning bits at the front

My temple hairline has been far back ever since I was a kid, it's not changed, and neither has the density of my hair. I feel worried and self conscious about it all the time

Thank you man. I’ve had a rounded hairline and have been worrying. My dad did start going bald so I might. However I feel it’s more normal that how I was worrying. Think it’s just a maturing hairline

OMG THANK YOU FOR EXPLAING I WAS STRESSING OUT.

I’ve had a widows peak all my life, quiet a deep one. I’ve had people tell me I’m receeding from being 15! Yet 10 years later my hairline hasn’t changed and I’m still getting comments saying I’m receeding it’s so annoying!

Me with a small widows peak. People: you're balding!

Such an EYE OPENER Of a video 4 me

To be clear, a receding hairline and balding, male pattern baldness are not diseases!

Very nice information.

This helped me a lot thank you. I have a widows peak and I'm only 17 and I thought I was having hair loss

In my case I actually wanted a widows peak, just like Alex Turner's

Wow im more amazed there are youtubers making a career out of this

thx, very informative!

Great info

I have a receding hairline but then again, I used to have a small forehead and hating it, now it's almost normal size and I like it.

Love your video dude I now understand other wise I was being a paranoid

Most of my life I have kept my hair short while my friends used to do all type of hairstyles from dyeing them and stuff and now most of them have receding hairline but I am doing fine. Try to detect your hair condition early like family traits (alopecia) and take care accordingly

you know you could have both. a widows peak usually is inherited or u r born with. the receding hairline u gain overtime within ur life. so u could most certainly have both but once the receding hairline gets strong enough overtime if it ever does, it could dominate the widows peak.

David beckham had a hair transplant though

Alex Turner has the worlds greatest widows peak, I had a widows peak for years, but now it’s going back at the temples :(

All I gotta say is that I’m blessed that the males in my family don’t have patterned baldness 🙌😎👌

Jude Law clearly had a widows peak earlier in his life, though it started to receed pretty early it seems. Look at how his hair is in gattaca from 1997, his hair has started receding but he clearly has a point. Me personally think he has a badass receding hairline, like the joker ;) just as long as the back of the head dont bald

I not only have a widows peak but I also have a big forehead, I’ve been told since I was in like 5th grade that I look like I’m balding and I’ve always been self conscious about it and the thing is I have very thick curly hair and balding isn’t a trend in my family. My hairline hasn’t even looked like it’s moved at all but I still worry about it a lot. I honestly just think I’ve been gas lighted into thinking I’m balding and I fully believe I am at this point even though there’s 0 indications of it.

my dad and his brothers were born with a widows peak and my brothers and me were also. some of his brothers are in there late 50’s and none of them have bald and have full hair. my grandpa never went bald and he was late 70’s when he passed. my moms side also has no balding. some people are just born with different hairlines.

My hair has been receding since primary school, I'm 28 now. I like it because I've never known any different.

Finally, a video who actually know what he's talking about! Who knows the difference!

I was born with an iPhone notch hairline and with low density hair.I am so paranoid and self conscious about it, especially since I’m growing it out and the weight is starting to reveal my scalp more. Plus, my hairlines pretty far back at it’s highest point. A finger from the lowest which is already 6 fingers from my eyebrows ( so I got a 6 head 💀). Turning 20 soon so I’m keeping a diligent eye out.

this video made my skin crawl don't know why though

My grandpa is 60 and still has a full head of hair but it takes a long time for him to grow a beard, like year or more, me too, my dad and uncles grow beards but now that they are reaching and passing 49 have light thinning now, honestly if I grow bald I’d prolly try to grow a beard out, but I’m thinking I have more my grandpa genes

I had a widows peak but by around age 18 -20 the sides started to receed quite progressively. The widows peak only made it look more profound but now I'd just say I have a receeding hairline possibly

Wow this video was very helpful. Thank you for it🙂🙂🙂.

Men who have more square head shapes (and thus skull shapes) usually also have more quare looking hairlines and tend to be the ones who have the non balding windows peaks. These are the ones sometimes confused with receiding hairlines and are called'mature hairlines'. The reason why some men get mature hairlines while not appear to be balding any further than that is because their hairlines changes shape because their skull is changing shape rather than any LOSS of hair. You see, when men transform from boys into men, their skull gets slightly more or a lot more square in shape. Obviously this underlying change in skull shape that things on top of that like the skin is streched to fit on that new shape. Usually facial features get more "square" looking too, like the square chins men typically get. Guys like Jude law are good examples of men who have very rounded heads. His skull shape is very round. The same thing goes for Ben Athur here. Also a very rounded head. Typically they do not have widows peaks. Usually guys with more dome-ish, rounded head shapes also have more delicate features than those who have square looking heads. Colin Farrell on the other hand, has a more square head shape, which more often has one. Some men continue to get more squar ehead shapes (like david beckham) and thus his hairline looks more square too. Similarly also his other facial features seem to increase in "masculinity". His brow bone continues to have grown quite a lot since he was 25.

My hairline is a bit better from David Beckham . I am 15,5 years old and this is how my hairline is since I was 12,5 years old . I think it is definitely moved back compared to my friends’. However my hair is pretty thick and and smooth . Is this a sign that I will get bald in future or I shouldn’t worry ?

I’m slightly confused. At the start of the vid you explain the v shape varies from the very small part at the front, to then showing the main will a full v hairline. But at the end you say a widows peak is only at the very front?

Ben, my dad is balding but my grandpa has a consistent non receeded hairline despite smoking into his 60s. My dad smoked and drank and used gel and lost hair by 30, and my father side has no widow's peak. And my mother side has widow's peaks. Should i be worried about inheriting my dad's balding?

I’ve hated my widows peak since I was a kid and used to shave it, but it was horrible because of the stubble marks, so I’ve been plucking mine since about 14. Looks so much better without it, but that’s just me!

I call it the George Costanza look.

My uncle spent a huge amount of money on hair peices and stuff like that. In the end he just accepted his natural hair loss for what it is and is now happier than ever. Just shave it all off and get on with enjoying life.

The thumbnail of this video has Colin Farrell and Jude Law. And some guy who looks like the one talking about hair next to the photos of Farrell and Law. I saw the thumbnail and remembered that i saw both Farrell and Law in their own animated movies when i was a kid. Farrell did Epic and Law did Rise of the Guardians. Which were both based off books by William Joyce.

Nice sir

I have slight recession or just a maturing hairline at the right temple, left temple is still very juvenile, also have a bumpy hairline like justin timberlake with a slight widows peak and some crowns at the front of the hairline, i'm turning 20 in may

hey ben you said in one of your videos that you used minoxidil i been reading on it and most of the forums say that people lose a lot of hair when they stop using minoxidil is it true

I got a medium sized widows peak and a naturally uneven hairline. On top of that my dads side of the family are all bald, I’m 20 now and my hairline has definitely matured but determining whether I’m receding or not is proving to be one of the most confusing things I’ve ever done. Might comeback to this vid in a few years for the final verdict. See u all in 2025

My hair is one of the best things about me I got a widows peak and I shave mines!

Hi, how's it going? I'm 44 years old and yeah yeah my front hairline is definitely receding. Unfortunately, it's not balding in the back which I think that's kind of more symmetrical looking because if somebody's bald in the back, you can tell that they're just bald but with the receding hairline, it sucks it. It's sort of reveals a bald spot or whatever.

Have you tried minoxidil ?

Where is play button Ben🙂😎😎😎😎💯💯💯💯💯

Nice explanation of hair of my type

Thanks for clarifying that some people are just mean. One “friend” of mine that really has a receding hairline told me that i’m balding. I have a widow peak since I was born, my hair is not falling (I never find hairs). When I had long hair the situation was different, but since I changed my hairstyle and my lifestyle now I have baby hairs growing constantly. I recommend to sleep well, eat healthy and consume green tea instead of coffee😉

I think youre massivly wrong here. You can still have an M-shaped hairline thats just a widows peak while not receeding. I, my brother and my father have had one since were children and none of us have receeded in anyway (except our dads having slightly matured). The hairline is futher back than normal but the hair at the peak is as thick as everywhere else. Its just how the hairline was like at birth

My mom used to tease me about my pronounced “widow's peak"-quite innocently, as she would have cut her tongue out rather than say something she thought would be truly hurtful- nonetheless, it wasn't until I reached my "three score and ten" that I became relatively confident that I wasn't going to suddenly lose my hair. Knock on wood and fingers crossed, both hairline and quantity/density have, so far, remained pretty much the same throughout my life. 🤞🤞 🤞

do you still use the derma roller?

I already had a widows peak ever since I was a kid. Will it recede further?

All the men in my family have the most thick (and might I even say beautiful) hair, but we all have a really shit hairlines. It kind of looks like we're all balding. Really wish we could stop calling men with high hairlines 'balding', since some of us are just born this way

Now I have a widows peak myself but the only thing I hate about it is that I just can't make a round forward pompadour wish I love as a hairstyle.

I have a Widows peak and a receding hairline which makes my hairline look so much worse and M shaped.

Huh my hair lines been the same since I was born, 32 now and just found out I have a widows peak had no idea there was such a thing 🤣🤣

I swear I'm just worrying over nothing, I probs have the smallest windows peak and I'm up alot of nights worrying about it when it isn't even bad at all. I guess I'm just worried cause it's not an exact straight line. Looking back on old photos it seems fine, I'm just tripping cause I changed my hairstyle from gelled up to permed, so anyone overly paranoid and worrying, just relax about it, go live your live innit. And if you still worry, just remember that one brown boy from a KZfaq comment told you to chill, so stop stressing. 🤟🏽

Which is better hairline widow peak or receding ? I am 26 .I have v shape hairline . shame hair line as my father . but they are 50 and they have healthy hair . I Am so worried should I need to worry ?

My biggest issue is I have a big forehead and light colored hair, so in certain lights it looks like it might be but in most it looks fine

Hi so I'm only 18 and am using another account ngl to write this comment 😂. I've noticed a little bit of hair loss in my temples however this is more predominat on one side. Just wondering what you think to this. I feel like one day I will go bald but I'd hope this won't be too soon. I know I'm still young and so hoping it's just a mature hairline for now (I can't even grow a beard yet). However I feel like the way it's move back is similar although not exact to yours...

4:30 Isn't there some pretty obvious recession on his temples?

Can you please do a TAYROC watch review?

I saw my eldest brother photos from 20s and 39s his forehead receding so much and my elder brother is bald and I'm the youngest after two elder Sister,do you think i'm going bald too? Because my father have full hair without receding hair , I'm confuse why my two elder brother get bald?maybe they got chromosome from my mom.while my father is thick hair.

I have that JT mature hairline with a full widows peak. My hair isn't thinning or receding what so ever.

I kinda miss those celebrity style guides you used to do. R u planning on bringing those back?

I have a pretty strong widows peak

I'm born with a widows peak but since my head is growing , it looks like receding hairline.

Mature hairline is a hairline that gets more square in shape because *the whole male skull grows more square in and after puberty* . a real.mature hairline is not balding because there is no hair loss, just a repositioning of the hairs as a consequence of repositioning of the skin, becauss of skull growth. There should be no miniaturation.

I'm pretty sure I know that dude at 7:04 lol. Either him or looks a lot like him.

So I know I’m not a guy but I thought I’d put this out here: balding is genetic and is passed down through maternal grandfathers, meaning if your mom’s dad is balding, you’re going to bald as well. If you know your family history and happened to get to know your grandfather in that side of the family, that might be a good indicator of whether or not you’ll experience baldness. I hope that helps some, and if I’m wrong please correct me!

How would you classify the KZfaqr True Geordie's hair? Is he going bald?

I’m 16 and i have a widow’s peak does that mean i will bald ?

PPL with windows peak will not get bald?

I always had that v thing but now it is receiding and isn't as big as it used to be is this maturing?

Ps widow peaks look cool I don’t have one always wanted one tho , hmm 🤔

I am just about to turn 19 and my hairs were going back a bit from my temple areas i totally freaked out thinking i would go bald in my 20 i just think my hairline just matured a bit . Also no one in my family is bald so I think I am leaning more towards a mature hairline for now but i did get i checked and the doctor told me that I am currently at stage 2 of androgenetic alopecia I Just hope my hairs don't recede more

I do have to mention that you can have some temple recession with a mature hairline. It doesn’t mean your receding. It just means your temples are further back. Nothing too bad but people flip out about it

took i took a sip of vodka time every time very he said windwos pealk , soooo many times he say widows poeek

Have you thought about wearing hair system in the future?

I like your german empire shirt

Make a video on muk hair wax please