all right i'm ready to go
what's up everyone i know it's been a hot minute since i've updated you on my hair transplant
results but as you can imagine life has just taken over but i'm pleased to say that i'm
here to update you on my 12 month or one year results from my hair transplant it's actually
been probably 12 months and two weeks uh because i had it done in may and now we're in the middle of
june but before i do that i think this mop needs a bit of a haircut so i'm going to go get a haircut
might actually cut my beard trim my beard and come back and show you how it's all going because yeah
i haven't had a haircut in about or eight weeks and can probably tell that it definitely needs to
be cut but before i cut it i just want to show you uh what it looks like i'm going to get a little
bit closer if you haven't watched my other videos before this one year i suggest you do that because
it's a good indication of like what happens over the course of each month and i see people
commenting on my videos and i see people on reddit and i see people on different um different clips
different websites saying oh like i'm at the six month mark and i haven't grown it's only starting
to grow now i'm only starting to see growth blah blah blah blah it happens i think i was like at
seven or eight months before actually my hair actually started to grow and i actually started
to feel comfortable with how it was sitting on my head but i think i'm ready for a new hairstyle
should i go for this one no it's a bit weird that one should i go all the way slicked back
again we'll see what my hairdresser has to say and you'll find that in a minute see you soon so
i'm back and i literally just went for a tidy up just to add a little bit more shape into my hair
trim the beard because once it gets long it gets really red alright so i can't really see what i'm
looking at because the sun is so bright and it's right there and it's a bit of a windy day so you
might see my hair flicking around but this is what it looks like outside underneath the sun i'll get
a little bit closer um so you can see the hairline hairline is very very it's exactly the same as the
nine month update my last video i guess what has happened in between nine and twelve months is the
hair has become a little bit more defined a little bit more natural less like curly and and things
like that um i think in the nine month video you saw like it used to curl a lot and while it
sometimes does curl if i like get out the shower and and brush it like this it maintains its the
straight uh hair rather than getting curly so yeah so i've come into my bathroom because it's a bit
windy outside and i couldn't really see and i was going blind uh and i just you know you can see me
filming oh there we go filming in the mirror one thing i did want to comment on was my temple area
which in the last in the nine month mark i've just looked at the video just to double check
i wasn't really happy with them um and because they were kind of like
not filling out and they weren't back all the way but um you can probably see here that
i've been picking at this section uh which is why they're short i don't know why i picked it then
like i just picked them out um so it's they're taking a little bit of extra time to get back in
i might need to get uh the back area here filled in eventually but that's a future me problem and
the other side i was always pretty happy with it looks quite natural um so yeah temple areas at
the 12 month mark the verdict is they are okay and the hairline let's have a quick uh arms back here
so i spoke at the nine month mark about managing your expectations if you had a
lot of donut area to give and your hair was thick you're obviously gonna have a little
bit more density than what i do however my hair is quite thin um and you can obviously see that here
and like to be honest with you i had no expectations going into this and comparing
what my hair looks like now to before and the fact that i feel a little bit more confident i feel a
lot more confident to go out and go on dates and things like that i think that's a measure of my
success and you know it's it's met my expectations and i would even say it's exceeded my expectations
yeah we would all love a little bit more density um but you know we weren't all blessed
with a forest head of hair or something like that you know it happens some people are bored some
people aren't some people can get transplants some people can't it's life so i still take finasteride
every day and i've been a little bit lazy on the minoxidil i've transferred it into
its own little bottle here so i put that into all over the front part of my hair actually
because i don't want to i want to make sure i keep like the hair that was already there um i need to
start using that every day because i stopped using it for the last six weeks and i think that i don't
know if it's all in my head or i don't know the science behind it but i feel like it's not using
it is contributing to it looking slightly more thin this is the donor area what it looks like now
um you might remember back it was really red for the first probably four or five months
um i don't notice anything different i mean i don't look at it every day um and i think it's
quite it's recovered quite well it's quite thick so if you're watching this and you're at like the
two three four month mark uh my advice to you is be patient it's gonna come be happy have realistic
expectations or manage your expectations in line with your donor hair the thickness of your hair
the color of your hair so that's my they're my two pieces of advice i'll also use finasteride
minoxidil they're my three pieces of advice for you oh i forgot to mention that i had 3500 grafts
done in brazil and somebody asked me why i got it done in brazil and not turkey that's because
at the time i was living in brazil and it was kind of like a not a rush decision but i was i knew i
was coming back to australia in six months and i thought if i can get in now i know it's going to
be slightly cheaper and it was so the question is am i happy and would i recommend people get
a hair transplant ah yes i'm happy you probably can tell in my voice that i'm quite happy with it
um obviously it's not 100 perfect but again i always go on about this but it's about measuring
your expectations pretty well would i recommend you get a hair transplant well i don't think you
would regret it if you had the money and chose a good clinic did your research um and if you had
enough donor area so i i would definitely say it's not a decision that you will regret unless
you get a botched unless it's botched by uh your clinician it's not a regretful decision
in my opinion for me the hardest thing about going through a hair transplant was the time
it actually takes to see results you go through the first month and you're like oh did this even
work because hairs are falling out and then in the second month you're like hmm i can see
one on here two hairs popping through three months the rest of your hair that didn't get
transplanted he's starting to grow at a rapid pace whereas the non-hen non-transplanted part
is kind of like yeah no worries in between four to six months this is when you start to see a
little bit of growth but you're still a little bit like oh can i go out in public looking like
this do i need to wear a hat which is what i did and then in between six months and nine
it's grows a little bit further and it's really between nine and twelve months in my opinion
where the hair transplanted hair goes from being you know that syngy weird feeling to it actually
feeling like your your natural hair was before so it's at this point where at the 12 month one year
anniversary where you're like finally i can relax i can go outside i don't need to wear a hat
i don't need to worry about what people might think oh did that bloke get a hair transplant
um so it's in this month part in in the 12-month part where you feel that but i also think that
choosing a barber or a hairdresser that knows you've had a hair transplant and that you have
confidence in talking to them about is really important my hair and my hairdresser um is lovely
she knows that i've had it done and she she styles it appropriately and i think that's really
important so cheers to platinum hair at branston for the haircut one thing i will say um which i
haven't really spoken about on my channel before is make sure that you tell your doctor that you
don't want multiple hairs in the same hole in the front i'm going to get really close here
around this area here i don't know how well you can see
but you might be able to see that two hairs are in the same hole
and that has happened quite a lot especially in the front hairline and i think i don't know why
it was done but i think it was done to prove that you have a hairline so just make sure that you're
confident with what you're getting done that you want only want one hair in each hole um
because it does feel a little bit different out here especially where two hairs have been put
into the same hull and i would also double check that you're happy with the temple area being like
that because my temple area um yeah i said earlier that it was fine i've learned to to deal with it
but ideally i would have had liked it a little bit further back and a little bit more filled
in um with thinner style hairs that actually went with my the hairs were currently there so i think
you have a right to um be informed and tell whoever's doing your hair transplanting exactly
what you want because after all it's your money it's your hair it's your life so in hindsight
i would have had i have known and done a little bit more research because again it was a bit of
a rush decision i would have made sure like i'm happy with how far the hair the the hairline was
brought down but i would make sure that i would say one hair in and i would had a bit more say
over the temple area so that's just something to bear in mind for people who are considering
it be be honest with your doctor or whoever's doing it and tell them exactly what you want