This original article is reproduced from the public account "DT Finance" (ID: DTcaijing), author: Shen Hui, editors: Amy, Tang Yeqin, design: Zhang Can
"The difference between a 20-year-old baldness and a 45-year-old baldness is that if you start balding after the age of 45, you are still an elegant man, and you are bald and justified. But you start balding at the age of 20, you're just a sneaky little person, and all the treatments you do are a joke. Every time I started the treatment in the dormitory, the smell of ginger and hair water began to drift out, everyone began to shout, the grid began to cure the hair..." DT Jun's friend Grid was 26 years old, and began to lose hair in his sophomore year, and now the bald head has become his symbol. I heard that I was going to talk to him about young people's hair loss, and The grid felt that he was not too typical, "I went bald too early, and the pressure of reading is not too big." "I'm a programmer, and a lot of my colleagues are out of hair." DT Jun can't help but wonder, are today's young people really bald? Which profession is most likely for young people to lose their hair? Is it a programmer? How did those young people who suffered from hair loss save themselves?
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In China, the number of young people with hair loss is far greater than you think. In the Douban "Everyone Has Good Hair - Fight Hair Loss Together" group, nearly 240,000 young people gathered to frequently talk about hair loss. "Baldness" – the baldness problem of this generation seems to have come sooner than the first snow in 2002. According to the results of the "Survey of People with Hair Loss" released by the China Association for Health Promotion and Education, there are currently about 250 million people with hair loss in China, of which about 160 million are men. In terms of age, among all the groups with hair loss, the post-90s accounted for the highest proportion, reaching 41.9%. For people with severe hair loss, the last hair left on the top of their heads is like a dandelion, and with a gentle gust of wind — or even without the wind — they scatter everywhere. In this survey, 14% of people are experiencing such a serious crisis. There was hair on the floor, on the pillow, on the sewer cover, and only the top of his head was close to collapse. Another fact that is hard to accept is that the number of people with hair loss is still increasing every year. Compared with 2017, the proportion of post-90s hair loss population this year increased by 3.2 percentage points to 39.3%. From the perspective of the industry where the hair loss population is located, IT communication has unsurprisingly become the "hardest hit area" for baldness, and the "bald programmer" statement is by no means a joke – especially for male code farmers and female advertisers.
The grid tells us that the biggest impact of hair loss on programmers is that they can't find objects. "The people who talk to me either can't read it back or they're silent when they see me posting a picture." But yes, the little girls love tough guy movies, like Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, but how many people are really looking for a bald boyfriend? The industries that are most likely to make girls bald are advertising marketing and legal. Living in sweat-and-sweat office buildings all year round, they can go out without anything, but mobile phones and computers must be in their bags. PPT is annoying, writing is difficult, there are many laws, and they have become the girls who are most prone to baldness. From a geographical point of view, the bald army is spread all over the north and south of the river, and the workers in the north, Guangzhou, Hangzhou and Shenzhen are in the top five of the list. Outside the Internet powerhouse, young people in Chengdu, Suzhou, Chongqing, Xi'an and Wuhan have also squeezed into the disengagement list.
The more you struggle, the higher the income, but the more you lose hair, the more you lose. "I've become bald and I've become stronger, it's just the best vision in the minds of workers. No matter how old you are, male or female, in what industry, or where you are, baldness is likely to find you. Hair loss seems to have formed an indiscriminate attack on young people.
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In the fourth season of "Talk Show Conference", post-95 talk show actor Xu Zhisheng teased himself about hair loss. The audience laughed because it was the soul resonance of the younger generation. The old man Tolstoy once said that "happy people are similar, and unfortunate people are different." Today's hair loss version of this sentence is probably "thick people are always similar, bald people are bald and varied". Overall, baldness in young people often begins with a receding hairline. Locally, men are more likely to bald the top of their heads, forming a "local support center". Women are bald and slit, becoming "a touch of white on the top of the head".
When the top of the head is bald, it blocks the center, and if it is bald, it will be turned south and north. Meng Chuan described his former boss as "bald in the middle, one nine points from the left to the right" in the talk show. One day passing by the boss's office, he saw short hair, bald hair, and shawl hair on the same person's head for the first time. ”
Young people who are afraid of becoming "shawl hair" begin to look for the cause of hair loss, and in their view, staying up late is the number one public enemy.
Young people are certainly aware of the harm of staying up late, and we mentioned in previous articles that young people often search for "what is the harm of staying up late" and "the cause of hair loss" at 3 a.m. But sparing one's life does not affect their own staying up late, and today's young people always stay up late while sparing their lives. Staying up late makes people lose their hair, and hair loss may also affect the quality of people's sleep. The survey found that the quality of sleep in the hair loss population is generally worse, with 6.6% of people suffering from very poor sleep quality during long nights every day.
However, to get rid of it, you have to do something, right?
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Finding that the situation was not right, the young people began to "take off and save themselves". People whose hair loss is not severe will not go to the hospital for this reason. Their anti-hair loss path generally starts with shampoo, with hair growth liquid/essence and scalp care. Shou Wu is their favorite crop, and the taste of ginger is the most beautiful taste in their hearts. People's fear of hair loss has greatly stimulated the interest of merchants. Ten years ago, Bawang's sales had exceeded 1.4 billion yuan, and its gross profit was as high as 900 million yuan. This shampoo, which uses Chinese herbs such as shou wu, ginseng, soap horn, cypress leaves, and feiyang grass as raw materials, has been enthusiastically sought after by the market in the sound of Jackie Chan's "duang". Subsequently, various ginger and silicone-free shampoos continued to be popular in supermarkets, and social platforms evaluated countless shampoo content in the form of videos, texts, photos, etc.; according to enterprise investigation data, the major brands that focus on "hair raising, hair growth, and anti-hair loss" have reached as many as 5207 offline stores under the premise of being affected by the epidemic in 2020.
However, most of the products on the market that focus on the concept of hair care are mixed reputations, because there is no rigorous scientific theory and data to support it, and it is even sometimes used as a synonym for "deceiving the ignorant masses". As a result, affordable, easy-to-use and safe "baldness treatment artifacts", such as hairline powder and wigs, have become one of the hottest items in the entertainment industry or under the fire of various fashion bloggers. The 2020 Tmall Double 11 data report shows that the post-90s generation has become the largest consumer group in the wig market. Compared with various anti-shedding supplies, hair transplantation can be said to be the ultimate means of dealing with the problem of the top of the head. Today, the post-90s generation is becoming the main force of the hair loss army, and the data of the medical beauty platform can also support this view. According to the data of Yonghe hair transplantation, among the Hair Transplantation Population in China, the post-90s account for nearly 60%, far exceeding the post-80s who account for 29.1%.
When you can brush the promotion of hair doctors× Lu, Li × no matter what software you use, you should realize that there is really a market for hair transplantation. Liu Zhi, a friend of DT Jun's big factory, is a member of the hair transplant army. Since last year, friends around him have begun to contact hair transplantation, coupled with the hot advertising of various hair transplant hospitals, he also moved this thought. "Compared and consulted several hospitals, the price is similar, mainly worried about the effect is not good." But one day he suddenly figured it out, "Anyway, now that it's like this, it's not twenty or thirty thousand, in case it's successful or improved, it's going to be so ugly without planting!" According to Liu Zhi, he chose FUE technology, 10 yuan a hair follicle, a total of 2700 planted. The operation lasts 7 hours, with preoperative blood testing, shaving of the head, drawing a line, taking pictures, followed by anesthesia, extraction of hair follicles for 1.5 hours, isolation of hair follicles for 2 hours, perforation for 1 hour, and planting for 3 hours.
But the final effect remains to be tested by time.
Under the combined strangulation of the growing cost of living and backward income, DT Jun found that the young people around him were slowly falling: bald, Buddha, the whole person was emo, most of them repeated mechanical work every day, sitting on the workstation and looking glamorous, but there was no difference from the factory shaking the coal ball during the Industrial Revolution.
In the movie "Mary and Marx", it is said that everyone's life is like a long sidewalk, some are very tidy, and some have cracks, banana peels and cigarette butts... So what to do, lean over and pick up the banana peel, step over the crack, and throw the cigarette butt in two bites if it's not bad? Hey, life has no choice, complaining is useless, hold on to it.