Hairloss?

Hello good people! I am about to be a freshmen in college and I am already starting to bald. Will my baldness affect my chances of landing a job in Investment banking? For the record I am 6'3 at 193lbs so I'm not out of shape or anything. Just a horrible hairline lol.

Thanks in advance! 

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oceangatesubcaptain

Just rip the bandaid and go bald. Join the club.

Seriously. Having hair can look great. Being bald can look great. 

There is no look worse than "balding" however.

Shave that shit off. 

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Your looks matter and that effects the job opportunities available to you, despite what people want to admit. Just go to your local dermatologist and get on finasteride to prevent further hair loss. Then get a hair transplant later once you've got some cash. Don't listen to the losers who've given up and try to convince you that being bald in your 20's is cool. 

Honestly the only bald guys I've seen in IB or CB are at the senior levels. Everyone else has a full set of hair. 

 

Just get on finasteride. I'm around your age and have been on it for like 2-3 months. Haven't experienced any side effects or anything like that and it seems to be working. Don't listen to the people telling you to just accept it. If you start taking Fin and start noticing side effects or it doesn't work for you then yeah you probably should just accept defeat, but as long as there are options available to you to fight against it, I don't see any reason not to. 

 

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"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

Definitely won’t affect your chances of getting to IB.

But if you want to resolve that issue for other reasons, I saw on Twitter recently that anti-aging guy (Bryan Johnson) was talking about a topical mix that combines small doses of all the various treatments to maximize results while avoiding side effects. 

 

Okokok wait before you shave it off, is your hair falling out from the root?? Or is it breaking off at a shorter length? When I was in banking, I had awful hair loss and I'm a girl, so I've collected all the Sephora secrets for you.

If your hair is falling out at the root: 

During your shower, wet your hair and put peppermint oil into you scalp and massage it in and wait like 5 minutes (it should tingle). Then wash it off. after, shower normally and after your shower, put and leave in rosemary oil (only a tiny bit, it has a pretty pungent scent). Do that a couple times a week.

If that's too tenuous, use the excess water when you wash your rice (like when you flush your rice before you cook it, the water should be like milky), use that stuff to drench your hair weekly, there's amino acids and proteins in there that helps with hair growth and also its ridiculously cheap. not any rice in particular, any type of rice will do. 

If your hair is breaking:

This is usually that's because of a mineral deficiency, hormonal / stress, or your hair is too dry. Please take care of yourself, eat well, sleep etc. If you have like $80 to drop, go to Sephora and get the K18 mask - use that on the tips of your hair / where it's breaking and this mask actually has protein in it, so it will bind your spit ends together. You can also get Olaplex, but that's the stuff of the 2020 girlys, K18 is much stronger / better. It's very expensive but you dont need much. Would also recommend you get yourself a nice leave in conditioner, especially if you're in North America. It's going to get cold and dry, and this is a time when hair will dry/thin out if you dont moisturize, a nice leave in conditioner is key. Also if its a spit ends issue, consider a hair mask. 

If you have a girlfriend, steal her products (use her shampoos / conditioners because the things you buy at target might have certain ingredients that cause dryness, scalp irritation) also she can be equally invested to help you research, it depends on your type of hair / the type of hairloss

 

Just one of his most recent vids but MPMD has covered a TON of hairloss stuff. There's a bunch of different treatments and they'll vary person to person, but he covers pretty much everything if you'll do the digging. 

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I started treating my hairloss at 20 and it brought back my hairline. Finasteride, minoxidil and microneedling

How long did it take - how old are you now?

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

I can also vouch for finasteride. Definitely look speak with a doctor though; a small minority can experience some serious, potentially permanent side-effects. Also remember that it is a preventative drug; it won't bring back years of hair loss.

 

Talk with a doctor - it’s quite common for people to seek out medical help and treatment for stuff like this, doubt anyone would judge or look at you differently if you took medication to improve your hairline 

 

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