Hair Loss Journal

Andy Hunt's Hair History

April 28, 2006

These photos are of me a few days before I embarked on having hair transplants.

A brief hair history...

Hairloss maybe hereditary in our family - my Grandad was bald early, my father the same and both my brothers have high foreheads or are starting to lose their hair.

I was born in Birmingham (UK) in 1971 with white blond hair although very early photos (black and white mainly) show that my hair didn't really start to grow until I was at least a year old.

Throughout the first 10 years of my life, my hair went brown and although I had a very high forehead, was cut into a Beatle bowl, the inevitable centre parting at weddings and parties and I think I even had a session or two at cutting it myself (disastrously)

From 11 to 16, I had many styles (it was the 80's) from a back perm to highlights - every style always had tohave a fringe as I was very self-concious of my high forehead (or slap-head as it was sometimes referred to as)

My late teens saw the first sign of hairloss when my temples started to recede which unfortunately was made obvious with my high forehead.

By my early twenties the hair was slowly but noticable falling out.
It was around now when I embarked on trying to find ways to bring my hair back or at least stop it getting any worse.
At the back of National Newspapers were many adverts claiming miracle cures - lotions, potions and tablets to bring back hair.
It is not a surprise to say that none of these "snake oils" worked and my hair continued to fall out (although over the few years, I had spent over '16,000!)

So throughout my twenties I decided to bleach my hair white-blond to hide the fact I was bald as the contrast between white hair and a white scalp gives the impression of more hair - it does work although requires regular maintenance and is not to everyone's taste.

David Beckham saves the day!
Yes, I owe a lot to the fashion sense of David Beckham when he shaved his hair off a set a new trend.
So, I followed suit and shaved mine and because guys with full heads of hair were doing the same, it was difficult to know who was bald and who wasn't - perfect for me!

I researched Hair Transplantation thoughout the 90's and I felt the results were obvious and certainly not for me. The classic doll's hair/paddy field results looked false and would have made me feel worse so I gave up on looking.

However, in 2004, I first came across the Choi procedure and within a few weeks, I was booked into the clinic and had my surgery...

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