i have received pay checks and 1099s from American Crew hair modeling back in the day so nice hair is so important haha 
You have nice hair for sure. And I thought real hair too - no doubt about it. On top of that, I thought you were among the genetic lucky few whose hairline is impervious to the forces that cause the hairlines of so many men to recede like a retreating army, resulting in the gradual effects of male pattern baldness to emerge.
And I must say - I was rather taken aback when you said you took preemptive measures starting at age 23 to prevent losing your hair by using hair-preserving formulations to ensure you would keep your hair as you aged.
So here's my question: do you know for a fact that you even needed to use anything to keep your hair? Not all men lose their hair, you know.
TOOTING MY OWN HORN TRIGGER WARNING: I am turning 39 next week, and I haven't lost a single follicle of hair so far. I'm still gaining new follicles on my face at a slow pace, and on my back at [luckily] an extremely slow pace [I have 17 hairs on my upper back - up from 3 in 2003, which means I grow one new upper back hair just a little over once a year]. I actually think that my hair is still growing thicker, darker, and even sprouting new follicles here and there as I get older.
My Question to you tres, is:
Do you know for certain that you actually needed to apply hair preservation formulations in order to keep your hair? Did you have older male siblings whose hair shared the same form yours did at the same age, and they eventually started to lose their hair, leading to believe you needed to take preemptive measures to maintain the svelte and aesthetic hair that you possess today?
Or did you just assume that since one of your friends was losing his hair and managed to prevent further hair loss before it became noticeable, that using the same protocol as him would allow you to keep your thick head of hair too?
I'm only asking because it doesn't even look like you needed any help to keep your hair, and I don't understand what reasons you had to consider yourself a candidate requiring hair preservation products in the first place.
Did you already explain this in a post I may have missed?
I guess I'm just surprised that you would need any sort of help, hair-wise. You hair is one of your better features, and I always thought your quality hair was just the product of good genetics. Although that aside, my friend only now at 39 has shed enough hair to consider treatments, but he says that the hair products which would help him maintain the hair he has now [or even grow some back, apparently] have side effects that affect a man's hormones, which is why he doesn't want to go that route.
Instead, as of this summer, he is now bald with a beard. I still think he has enough hair to hold off on shaving the rest bald for a few years yet...but he likes the bald with a beard look, so all the power to him.
But in your case, I can't help but wonder why you think you need any help with your hair, and if you actually had any evidence of that when you initially started taking hair preservation measures.
