I'm not sure what protocol is for your first blog post but I'm going with what I believe to be an original - The Q-Tip Test. To preface the entry, this is a trick that is more focused towards males than females but remember, there are always exceptions!
A little about the Test...
It started a few years ago when I became more aware of the severity of receding hairlines and the possible emotional and social feedback. As I began to deepen my research in to the phenomena, I convinced myself that I was indeed the proud owner of a receding hairline. Things were not looking good, I had to take an action.
So there I am, starring down the barrel of a balding gun. What do I do? "Snap out of it, Hunter" I tell myself, "you're going to get through this. It's all in your head." Good pep talk, lets keep the positivity going. I quickly realized that in order to confirm or debunk my balding fear, I had to create a metric to compare results and that is how the Q-Tip Test came to be.
I marched myself in to the nearest bathroom, grabbed my hair, and pulled it back to expose my-soon-to-be fivehead. "Oh man, it's moving faster than I expected. I'm never going to be able to control this. Wait, think positive, you have no idea what you're talking about." Ok, good, I'm back on the positive boat. At first, I use what I assume is a traditional approach to measuring the distance between your eyebrows and hairline - laying your hand on your forehead to determine the gap. The results were lack luster at best. I needed more.
The search began for the ultimate hairline yardstick. To my surprise, the solution was in the bathroom with me. It was literally right under my nose, shining like a white, cotton stick. A Q-Tip.
"How can it be so simple?" I was ecstatic. Forget the hand on the face trick, my new findings were revolutionary (at least for my personal application, anyways). All I had to do was place the Q-Tip on the corner of my eyebrow and extend to my hairline and I had a (fairly) standard tool for my metric! "Genius, you should get paid for this!" Now I can monitor the progress of my retreating folic on a daily basis. Success.
Now for the findings...
After months of heavy research and data crunching the results are in. My hairline isn't moving, just my brain. Farther away from sanity. Now to find a way to control that.
Until next time...
