.....on the top of my head. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
All I know is, I am cutting my hair very short and keeping it that way.
I've had my head shaved for years. If I let it grow, I'd just have a small amount of hair on top. I figure it's easier just to shave it. I never need to worry about wind, rain, bed-head, hat-head or anything like that. It's pretty convenient, actually.
I've been razoring my head once or twice a week for about 8 years now. I'm glad because I met my wife after starting the bald head and she has a thing for that so it worked out very well. But I had also been buzzing my own head with a Wahl clipper for about a year before that. When I did have hair I had lots of it and grew it long. I prefer the bald thing because I never have to use shampoo and worry about my hair in the morning.
I have a receding hairline which doesn't bother me, and if it were just that I probably would still be growing my hair. But I have the bald patch on the top back that has been getting bigger every year and I just hate the bald patch. That was when I started shaving the dome.
You'll figure out what you want to do about it on your own, I'm sure.
I shave my head too. I hate it. I wish I had hair, it's cold and I don't like the way it looks really.
Trev, being someone who went thin at age 25, its just a thing.
-Ed
Oh Trevor, I'm sure you can rock that bald spot like no one else! Don't worry about it!
Been shaving my head since about 1993. Was in my early 20s, had a full head of hair and nobody else was doing it. I just like it. When I started actually losing my hair (I noticed a growing area on the crown that stays smooth), I was very pleased. Less work and an overall better and longer-lasting baldness. I'm more concerned about the gradual greying of my beard.
Quote from: The Burgomaster on January 21, 2011, 10:48:06 AM
I've had my head shaved for years. If I let it grow, I'd just have a small amount of hair on top. I figure it's easier just to shave it. I never need to worry about wind, rain, bed-head, hat-head or anything like that. It's pretty convenient, actually.
Don't sweat it,Trevor-the only reason I dont cut my hair is that I'm insecure about my looks-I basically hide under my mop.
I don't worry about wind,rain,bed-head,hat-head either....cuz I comb it once a day and say "fug it.". It gives me that mad scientist or insane homeless guy look.
Quote from: AndyC on January 21, 2011, 04:51:30 PM
Been shaving my head since about 1993. Was in my early 20s, had a full head of hair and nobody else was doing it. I just like it. When I started actually losing my hair (I noticed a growing area on the crown that stays smooth), I was very pleased. Less work and an overall better and longer-lasting baldness. I'm more concerned about the gradual greying of my beard.
I'll buy you a drink for that one, Andy; my grey goatee is almost actually white, and I'm only 46. What's up with that?
As to baldness, I'm not bald on any spot of my head yet, but I have a Wahl clipper that sees my hair going to 3\4 of an inch to a full inch sometimes and just keeping it there. A nice middle-of-the-road sort of look.
Sheesh.. I started going bald in my early 20s. Now I got nothing on top, but hair down to my shoulder blades in the back to make up for it. :smile:
Just don't get a rug. I'll have to make fun of you. :teddyr:
I've had a substantially growing "Friar Tuck" bald spot on my head since my early twenties, with gray hair to boot. Can't say I care at all. I've had a monobrow since I was in high school, another supposedly hair sin, and I've never made an attempt to hide it.
The only time you should care is in your presentation to the opposite sex (or same sex, if that's the way your gate swings). But anybody who is serious about your hair, or lack thereof, is not somebody you should be serious about.
The only thing that really bugs me about it is that I'm done with any sort of "cool hairstyle." Once you start going bald, "short" is your hairstyle.
I gotta bald spot the size of Montana. I shaved my head for years and just got out of the habit. Gettin ready to do it again
I currently have hair but not much it is both receding and growing a nice bald spot on the very top that you could probably reflect something off if you wanted to beam some message into orbit.
Quote from: Mofo Rising on January 22, 2011, 02:21:40 AM
The only thing that really bugs me about it is that I'm done with any sort of "cool hairstyle." Once you start going bald, "short" is your hairstyle.
I had a friend who started going bald pretty much right after high school. It took years for him to figure out that shorter hair minimizes the effect. Another friend and I would say it, but I guess it seemed counterintuitive to him or something. It's a matter of contrast. Buzz the hair and the balding areas stand out less. A back and sides long enough to stick out made the top seem even balder by comparison. This guy had a narrow face and a high forehead to begin with, which emphasized his receding hairline all the more.
Me, I don't view male pattern baldness as anything wrong. It's just another way that hair grows. I get annoyed at the tendency to treat it like it's unnatural, or some kind of disease to be cured. Mind you, since I see baldness as a hairstyle, that gives me a different perspective. To me, it's a good thing.
Perhaps a comb over is needed?
Quote from: The DarkSider on January 22, 2011, 09:07:04 AM
Perhaps a comb over is needed?
At that point, a smack upside the head would be needed.
I had a middle-school art teacher who had the most impressive combover I've ever seen. I mean, he was as almost as bald as Dr. Phil, and had this flap that must have been a foot long, cemented into place with hairspray. Poor guy's name was Kaldma, so you know the kids all called him Baldma. How do people let their combovers progress to that point? It was combed from the top of one ear to the top of the other.
I also knew a salesman at a paper I worked at, who not only had a rug you could spot from across the room, he took it off to go swimming. What's the point, if you're not even trying to fool anybody?
:lookingup: Guys, since it is 'male pattern baldness' you are talking about and that is caused by a genetic predisposition and the effects of androgens...it is a consequence of your manliness. Quit bragging! :bouncegiggle:
Quote from: Newt on January 22, 2011, 10:02:15 AM
:lookingup: Guys, since it is 'male pattern baldness' you are talking about and that is caused by a genetic predisposition and the effects of androgens...it is a consequence of your manliness. Quit bragging! :bouncegiggle:
That's right. It's not a bald spot. It's a solar panel for a sex machine.
It's a bad thing sometimes because men can connect their masculinithy to their hair. Women don't care about that kind of thing - as long as you don't look like a boofhead nd you keep it tidy.
It's a good thing because losing your hair means you have an abundance of testosterone. So Trevor - you're an animal!!!!! :teddyr:
My partner is losing his hair and he cuts it with a number 2 blade. So he looks tough and thuggy and very handsome but he's a complete softie with a heart of gold and very loving. :twirl:
I'm very fortunate that my old mop has stayed put thus far (I just turned 47). My Dad is 84 and still has a full head of hair.
Quote from: indianasmith on January 23, 2011, 09:26:04 AM
I'm very fortunate that my old mop has stayed put thus far (I just turned 47). My Dad is 84 and still has a full head of hair.
But what is so unfortunate about losing it? Lots of men do, and it's perfectly normal and healthy.
That's the thing that gets me. No matter how much we say it doesn't matter, we still talk about baldness in terms that imply there's something wrong with it.
I find a lot of young men who grow a thick beard go bald at an early age. A few guys I went to high school with who had grown full beards in middleschool were bald by their early 20s. It was odd running into them and seeing that.
Quote from: The DarkSider on January 23, 2011, 09:42:11 AM
I find a lot of young men who grow a thick beard go bald at an early age. A few guys I went to high school with who had grown full beards in middleschool were bald by their early 20s. It was odd running into them and seeing that.
Would be the same hormones at work for both, I suppose.
Quote from: AndyC on January 23, 2011, 02:48:54 PM
Quote from: The DarkSider on January 23, 2011, 09:42:11 AM
I find a lot of young men who grow a thick beard go bald at an early age. A few guys I went to high school with who had grown full beards in middleschool were bald by their early 20s. It was odd running into them and seeing that.
Would be the same hormones at work for both, I suppose.
Maybe the hair just gets sucked out to their face? :teddyr:
Quote from: The DarkSider on January 23, 2011, 06:11:57 PM
Quote from: AndyC on January 23, 2011, 02:48:54 PM
Quote from: The DarkSider on January 23, 2011, 09:42:11 AM
I find a lot of young men who grow a thick beard go bald at an early age. A few guys I went to high school with who had grown full beards in middleschool were bald by their early 20s. It was odd running into them and seeing that.
Would be the same hormones at work for both, I suppose.
Maybe the hair just gets sucked out to their face? :teddyr:
Or maybe their heads are on upside down.
Quote from: AndyC on January 23, 2011, 09:34:14 AM
Quote from: indianasmith on January 23, 2011, 09:26:04 AM
I'm very fortunate that my old mop has stayed put thus far (I just turned 47). My Dad is 84 and still has a full head of hair.
But what is so unfortunate about losing it? Lots of men do, and it's perfectly normal and healthy.
That's the thing that gets me. No matter how much we say it doesn't matter, we still talk about baldness in terms that imply there's something wrong with it.
It's a sign of advancing age, and few people like to be reminded they're getting closer to death. Wrinkles are natural too, but few see them as a positive or even something neutral.
Quote from: ImaginaryFoot on January 22, 2011, 03:18:29 AM
I gotta bald spot the size of Montana.
No problem but how big is Montana? :buggedout: :teddyr:
Quote from: Flick James on January 21, 2011, 11:00:11 AM
You'll figure out what you want to do about it on your own, I'm sure.
I think I'll have to buy myself a yarmulke sooner or later. :wink:
Quote from: retrorussell on January 21, 2011, 10:22:23 PM
Just don't get a rug. I'll have to make fun of you. :teddyr:
No problem. :teddyr: :teddyr:
Quote from: Couchtr26 on January 22, 2011, 04:28:57 AM
that you could probably reflect something off if you wanted to beam some message into orbit.
:bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:
Quote from: AndyC on January 22, 2011, 09:19:22 AM
Quote from: The DarkSider on January 22, 2011, 09:07:04 AM
Perhaps a comb over is needed?
At that point, a smack upside the head would be needed.
:buggedout: :buggedout: + :teddyr: :teddyr: :teddyr:
Quote from: Killer Bees on January 23, 2011, 05:20:13 AM
It's a good thing because losing your hair means you have an abundance of testosterone. So Trevor - you're an animal!!!!! :teddyr:
:teddyr: :teddyr:
I'm more of a kitten than a lion, really: my ex girlfriend only ever had one good thing to say about me and that was that [sorry to gross you out :buggedout:] I was a great lover.
Quote from: AndyC on January 22, 2011, 10:11:36 AM
Quote from: Newt on January 22, 2011, 10:02:15 AM
:lookingup: Guys, since it is 'male pattern baldness' you are talking about and that is caused by a genetic predisposition and the effects of androgens...it is a consequence of your manliness. Quit bragging! :bouncegiggle:
That's right. It's not a bald spot. It's a solar panel for a sex machine.
Newt and AndyC: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:
Quote from: Trevor on January 24, 2011, 01:44:06 AM
Quote from: Killer Bees on January 23, 2011, 05:20:13 AM
It's a good thing because losing your hair means you have an abundance of testosterone. So Trevor - you're an animal!!!!! :teddyr:
:teddyr: :teddyr:
I'm more of a kitten than a lion, really: my ex girlfriend only ever had one good thing to say about me and that was that [sorry to gross you out :buggedout:] I was a great lover.
You should be very happy about that, then. :teddyr:
Quote from: Killer Bees on January 24, 2011, 04:07:56 AM
You should be very happy about that, then. :teddyr:
For the way I look and the fact that the only muscles that I really have are in my head, yeah, it did make me feel good to hear that from her. :teddyr: