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Photo guides, answers to common questions, and research on hair-loss treatments.
How to Photograph the Crown of Your Head for Hair-Loss Tracking
The crown has no hairline to anchor the frame, which is why self-taken shots vary so much. This guide covers camera position, distance, landmarks, and lighting for repeatable crown photos at home.
Are Hair Transplant Before-and-After Photos Misleading? How to Audit Them
Clinic galleries control angle, lighting, wetness, and styling, and each one changes how dense the same head of hair looks. Audit any comparison photo for these variables before you believe it.
How to Read Hair Transplant Before-and-After Photos Without Being Fooled
Clinic photos are usually real but framed to flatter. Learn the angle, lighting, and hair-length tricks that inflate transplant results, and what a fair photo set looks like.
What Happens If You Stop Minoxidil? Does the Hair Fall Out?
Stopping minoxidil usually means losing the hair it grew, over months rather than overnight. This page covers the mechanism, the realistic timeline, and how to read your own photos after quitting.
How to take consistent hair progress photos
Keep the lighting, angle, distance, and hair state the same each time.
Finasteride vs. minoxidil
How oral finasteride, topical minoxidil, and oral minoxidil differ in approved use, study results, and side effects.
Why two hair photos can disagree when your hair hasn’t changed
Perspective, brightness, crop and hair state can make the same scalp look surprisingly different.