I just realized that I'm going quite bald.....

Trevor · January 21, 2011, 10:12:22 AM

.....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.

The Burgomaster · 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.

Flick James · January 21, 2011, 11:00:11 AM

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.

lester1/2jr · January 21, 2011, 12:10:55 PM

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.

Ed, Ego and Superego · January 21, 2011, 02:24:24 PM

Trev, being someone who went thin at age 25, its just a thing.
-Ed

Paquita · January 21, 2011, 03:04:56 PM

Oh Trevor, I'm sure you can rock that bald spot like no one else! Don't worry about it!

AndyC · 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.

RCMerchant · January 21, 2011, 06:03:42 PM

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.

Umaril The Unfeathered · January 21, 2011, 06:35:35 PM

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.

retrorussell · January 21, 2011, 10:22:23 PM

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.

Just don't get a rug. I'll have to make fun of you.

Mofo Rising · January 22, 2011, 02:21:40 AM

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.

ImaginaryFoot · January 22, 2011, 03:18:29 AM

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

Couchtr26 · January 22, 2011, 04:28:57 AM

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.

AndyC · January 22, 2011, 08:07:21 AM

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.

Mr. DS · January 22, 2011, 09:07:04 AM

Perhaps a comb over is needed?