Day one
Take the photo you'll want in ninety days
Two minutes today. It's the difference between knowing this worked and arguing with yourself about it in three months.
Why this matters more than it sounds
You cannot see slow change in a mirror you look at every morning. Every day's comparison is against yesterday, and yesterday looked the same. That's not a failure of attention — it's how vision works, and it's the reason men on a treatment that is working so often conclude that nothing is happening.
Memory is no better. By week ten you will genuinely not be able to recall what your hairline looked like in week one, and your brain will fill the gap with whatever mood you're in that day. On a good day you'll see improvement that isn't there. On a bad day you'll miss improvement that is.
A photograph doesn't have moods. It is the only honest referee in this process, and there is exactly one day you can take the first one.
That day is today, before your first session.
Three photos. That's all.
The crown
The angle you've never actually looked at, and the one everyone behind you sees daily. Tilt your head forward and hold the phone above you, or get someone to take it. Uncomfortable to look at — and the most useful of the three.
The part line
Part your hair where you normally part it and shoot straight down at the line. Widening of the part is often the earliest measurable change, well before anything shows from the front.
The five rules that make photos comparable
A photo is only worth anything if the next one is taken the same way. Get these five right and the comparison is honest; get them wrong and you'll spend month three wondering whether it's the hair or the lighting.
1. Same light, every time. One window, one lamp, one bathroom. Overhead light is the cruellest and also the most consistent — if you start with it, stay with it.
2. Flash off. Flash flattens texture and blows out the scalp, which is exactly the contrast you're trying to measure.
3. Dry hair, always. Wet hair clumps and separates and makes any scalp look thinner. Never compare a wet photo to a dry one.
4. Same angle, same distance. Note roughly where you stood. Consistency beats quality here — a mediocre photo repeated identically is worth far more than a great photo you can't reproduce.
5. Same day of the week, same time of day. Put a recurring reminder in your phone for day 30, day 60 and day 90 and take all three sets then. Don't shoot whenever you happen to feel hopeful.
Make a single album on your phone called Day One and put all three photos in it now.
Now put your phone down until day 30
This is the part of the instruction nobody else gives, and it may be the most important thing on this page.
You have probably been checking your hairline every morning for a while. Pinch-zooming old photos at one in the morning. Choosing where to sit based on the lighting. That habit is not vanity and it isn't weakness — but it also cannot tell you anything true, because the interval between checks is far too short for the biology to have moved.
You just built a better instrument than the mirror. So use the instrument, and stop using the mirror. Take the photos on day 30, day 60 and day 90, compare them to day one, and in between get on with your life.
The actual goal here was never thicker hair in the abstract. It was not thinking about it by nine in the morning. That starts now, not at day 90.
Questions about the photos.
Anything else, email info@american-biolabs.com and we'll answer within 24 hours.
No — take them today. A photo from week two is still an enormously better reference point than no photo at all. Just note the date so your later comparisons are honest about the gap.
Two options. Stand with your back to a mirror, tilt your head forward, and photograph the reflection. Or hold the phone above your head with the front camera on and the screen tilted so you can see the frame. Neither is elegant. Both work, and both are repeatable, which is the only thing that counts.
Only if you want to. These are for you, and the guarantee doesn't require them.
If you get to day 90 and you're happy with what you're seeing and willing to share, tell us then. We ask explicit written permission before we ever use anyone's photos, we don't publish faces, and no is a perfectly fine answer that changes nothing about your account or your guarantee.
Then you have a month of guarantee left, and that is precisely what it's for. Email info@american-biolabs.com and we refund every dollar — keep the product. Worth checking the crown and part-line shots before you decide, though: those two change measurably earlier than the front does, and the front is the one most men judge by.
Try the system for 120 days. If you don't see real change in your hair, email us for a full refund — and keep the product.
Your 120 days start from the day your order was delivered