The Founder’s Story

Three Transplants.
One Lesson.

I started losing my hair at 18. This is what I wish someone had told me.

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It Started
At 18
Not My Hairline.
My Crown.
Chris in 1999, age 18, with frosted tips
1999 · Frosted Tips · Beaded Necklace · Goal‑Scoring Striker
“My hairline would soon go
bye, bye, bye.”
— *NSYNC, basically

At 18 my crown started thinning — an early sign of aggressive genetic loss. I didn’t know that then.

So I did what most guys do: finasteride, Rogaine, laser combs, dermarolling, supplements. Everything the internet sold me.

And I kept losing ground.

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Three
Transplants
Money Spent.
Ground Still Lost.
~500 Grafts Survived Of ~3,000

My first transplant in 2019. Roughly 500 of about 3,000 grafts survived. A complete failure.

Age 18
Crown thinning. 1mg finasteride plus everything else. Kept losing ground.
2019 · Transplant #1
FUE. ~500 of ~3,000 grafts survived.
2021 · Transplant #2
FUT, 2,500 grafts. Finally found dutasteride and switched to oral dutasteride + oral minoxidil.
2023 · Transplant #3
FUT, 2,400 grafts targeting the crown — the spot thinning since 18.
June 2024
Founded MANE & STEEL. Dutasteride-only from day one.
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Nobody
Told Me
2001
Dutasteride Was There
The Whole Time.

Dutasteride has been on the US market since 2001. I didn’t find it until after my second transplant. Nobody told me it existed.

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The real journey — three transplants, one failed · Tap to enlarge
Had I started dutasteride at 18, I may have never needed a hair transplant.
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The Honest Part
I Still Don’t Have
Perfect Hair.
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2021 to now — real, ongoing progress · Tap to enlarge

My crown still shows. Another transplant is in the works. But I’m in the fight — and in a far better spot than if I’d done nothing. Wherever you are, there’s a next step:

18
Just noticed something
28
Years on finasteride, still losing
35
Weighing a transplant
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Bottom Line
The Best Time Was 18.
The Next Best Is Now.
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