I have always had a recessed hairline. i am 175 cm (average height in Italy) I had hundreds of woman. recently I stayed with some jaw dropping models in their early 20s. i take medications and had 2 hair transplant for myself. my dating life didn’t change. so I agree with barba: stop finding execuses for your unsuccessful dating life.  

It's not blue pill. Maybe you've not had enough conversations with women or absorbed enough women-led content to know differently. Do you have sisters? Female friends? Have you had many relationships of any kind with women be it romantically or or otherwise? Women tend to pick up on when there's something "off" with a bloke almost instantly. Define "top 5%" of men. What does one need to be or have in order to make the cut in this illustrious, elite group? Finally, we got there. I was waiting for someone to share something like this and its a textbook illustration of how confirmation bias works. Dating apps put the vast majority of men at a disadvantage as they have the effect of levelling the playing field or even tilting the dating market back into women's favour (theoretically speaking). Prior to dating apps, in order for women to find partners they needed to be approached in real life; work colleagues, bars & clubs, cafes, parties, an introduction through a friend etc... Until very, very recently it's always been the case that men make the first move. That's just a somewhat natural social dynamic as women are primarily attracted to confidence first and foremost. Apps increasingly do this the other way round now where interactions only occur when women decide. The disadvantage for blokes on apps is twofold: way, way more competition for places (it requires zero display of confidence to attempt to initiate a convo on an app) and as I've hinted: how to do you display confidence on an app? Not so easy. So in the absence of much else to go by apps will somewhat become a looks contest which is why it theoretically favours women and can initially disadvantage less attractive blokes. But once you get off the apps all the normal rules apply; dating apps temporarily tamper with the more natural order of things but only temporarily.  So yes, if your entire dating life is beholden to apps then that's a hurdle whether you have hair or not. You can be very conventionally good looking and bald or ugly with great hair. You'll have the same challenge. Point being, it's not about the hair. If all you've ever known is dating apps then like I've been saying from the start... Your data and experiences are limited and flawed. My entire frontal third was gone by 22 more or less, I do not have a "chad jawline" or a "god-like headshape" (whatever that is). I'm also not muscular and I'm 5ft7" & average looking. Never had any problems with women and my partner who I met in real life is far, far better looking than I (as everyone is very keen to point out to me!). I'd likely not have fared too well had we crossed paths on an app but that's the nature of apps, it's not the nature of male/female dynamics. A good friend of mine that was nicknamed Shrek in school (he does, in all honestly, look like Shrek) married an insanely hot Ukrainian pole dance teacher that he met outside a coffee shop in Oxford (if it weren't completely inappropriate I'd share her business instagram page!). He'd have had no hope whatsoever on an app - they'd probably have never met. And it's not as though he's particularly charismatic and certainly not athletic... They just hit it off and had natural chemistry (probably helped that they both studied bio-chemistry at University). My entire social circle are in their 20's and 30's. With the exception of two or three off the top of my head who have virtually no hair loss, all of them have varying levels of hair loss including NW5 & 6's, and all of them are either married, in relationships, have kids from past relationships or are single but have never had any dating issues. Basically the full range of what you would expect to find among a group of normal, social, fairly well rounded blokes who don't possess personality traits that repel women and don't hold beliefs about themselves or women that wouldn't look out of place in a Jake Davison manifesto. EDIT: Oh, and not that I'd ever advocate trash reality TV as having much if any educational value, but one of the more interesting reality TV shows around is Love is Blind. If nothing else, the show does a very good job of showing that as a minimum, attraction is blind, and indeed the ability to develop feelings for another person that sit somewhere on the spectrum between attraction and love sight unseen. The reason the show is simultaneously uninteresting is because literally everybody of sound mind already knows this! 

maybe this helps you with your decision       tbh i feel like fut is losing is advantage to fue now that bodyhair can be used, especially considering the worst case scenario wherr u have to shave everything down

40 yr old. Been researching HT's for 15 years, slow receeder and diffuse thinning for past 8 years, at the stage where I need a HT really.  Been told by all docs I've contacted so far I'm a candidate, even though I can't take meds.    Just weighing up if what I can achieve is worth all the money and stress as I'll need multiple surgeries. Tried the head shave in lockdown and looks terrible.    For most NW6/7 (think this is my destiny 10/15 years time, seriously thinning already), is it a matter of prioritising regions of the scalp as full coverage isn't realistic?    Partly considering an fut then some fue's, this seems the way to get maximum grafts? Also utilising body, load it up and use what I can, is this usually enough for decent coverage?    My nightmare is to end up with a wispy see- through top after all the work and money and I can't shave down due to fut scars. With finer hair I'm concerned this could be a real possibility for me.  More I read about HT's the more I feel is uncertain, they thin, may not take, depends on surgeon skill etc. So many variables.   Should I just focus on front or address all sides.bclinics I've spoke too so far want to focus on hairline reconstruction, with exception on Maitland clinic who said keep my hairline and contact them when I've lost more hair.    I'd like a lower hairline but naturalness and cosmetic impactfulness is more important I think (i.e not a low hair line and everything see through behind- have seen surgeons that I've consulted with deliver these low and see through effects for people).    Needing grafts in the diffuse thinning regions is also a concern as shock loss can be permanent I've read. Is    I don't want to where a system, look horrible bald. Thinking if I get the hairline done and rest is too thin at least if it's short/ shaved I have facial framing. Do transplanted areas look okay shaved down?   Thanks for reading and any help. This whole thing is a minefield! Hard to take Dr's words on things as it's their business/ livelihood and I'm a prospective customer. 

This is going to vary a lot due to all sorts of factors that are different with each person, but I think generally speaking around 45 grafts per cm2 will give you a full look. There's a certain point where getting more grafts isn't going to achieve a noticeable improvement and you are just wasting grafts that could be used elsewhere or just left in your donor to provide coverage there rather than depleting it.