Hi Guys,

Would like some experienced feedback ... I'm 13 months post op with excellent results from 4150 grafts from Dr. Wong. My hair is a fairly coarse texture (curly/wavy) and I wear it brushed back. Want to know if a shorter or longer hair length can give the hairline an even more natural appearance ... any recommendations from personal experience?

Thanks!

if you dont have great density, a very short length will be very hard to pull of especially if you have coarse hair on lighter skin.

at the same token, too long and thin hair does not work.

a medium length of 4 to 5 (maybe a little longer) inches with medium density usually works best in opinion

You can also use some good volumizing pastes to assist (of course demartch as well).. Choose the right haircut as well to maximize appreance.. Remember, many HT's will not give you Elvis hair but rather the illusion of density which allows you to wear some hairstyles which accentuate thickness

Hey Wrangler,
(sent you a PM also)
first off I would recommend *NOT* wearing your hair "brushed back".
I would assume by this description you mean like the "slick back" look? Perhaps not "slick" but you get the drift.
If, for *whatever* reason you feel that your hair line appears somewhat unnatural, then this hair style will most assuredly accentuate this
-PLUS-
that hair style is out of style anyway, so your really not losing anything.
On the contrary, the "look" that is in, is more of a pushed forward look w/the front up a bit...
Will the hair line still be exposed?
Yes. But I would just tend to think that if you pushed most of your hair forward you could get away w/the same tendency from the hair line itself; perhaps growing it out to a length by which you could have the front "up" BUT at the same time it is so long that you could get away w/concealing the hair line by having that bit lay down and forward...
make sense?
I mention it because a good friend of mine used to do this AND get away w/the spikey look, merely because his hair was long enough...

SIDE NOTE-----
I *know* everyone cites "coarse hair & greater contrasts b/tween hair & scalp color" as "less than favorable" characteristics for a ht, and that it will typically lend itself to an "unnatural" look
-BUT-
I *seriously* don't get that argument w/respect to an 'unnatural' look. It would make sense if were talking doll-hair line "mini-grafts" but were not...

It does make sense to the extent of the "illusion" of density, as the greater the contrast b/tween hair and scalp, the greater the visibility of the scalp is.
But not the afore mentioned...
any thoughts?

well NG2GB,

the thing with coarse black hair and a light scalp is that the hairs at the front line will seem extra thick, and that is the problem.

the contrast just accentuates the thick hairs upfront and you can see strand by strand much easier.

if you have coarse hair and darker skin, then it blends with the scalp and you can't see the individual stands as easily.

its not a problem for most, but it is easier to spot for those in the know, thats all.