Coping with baldness

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**DarkTraveler777**

Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
So you're not a fan of the Bobby Charlton comb-over?

I had to look up Bobby Charlton, and no. Dear god, no. Kill it with razors!

**jreilly89**

Shave it off! You came in to this world bald, why not leave the same way?

Seriously though, some men do look better bald. Even if you think you have a funny shaped head, NO ONE looks good with the combover. Toupees are okay, but too prone to mishaps. The friar tuck look is alright, but I still think shaved/close cropped is the way to go.

**Do_I_Not_Like_That**

Medium of Death wrote:
Shave it, own the situation. You chose baldness! YOU ARE THE KING OF YOUR OWN SCALP!

I'm worried about what mother will say

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jreilly89 wrote:
Shave it off! You came in to this world bald, why not leave the same way? Seriously though, some men do look better bald. Even if you think you have a funny shaped head, NO ONE looks good with the combover. Toupees are okay, but too prone to mishaps. The friar tuck look is alright, but I still think shaved/close cropped is the way to go.

I need to lie down with a bottle of something. I'll be back tomorrow

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DarkTraveler777 wrote:
Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
So you're not a fan of the Bobby Charlton comb-over?

I had to look up Bobby Charlton, and no. Dear god, no. Kill it with razors!

Kill it with razors - could be a good name for a 40k expansion!!

**jasper76**

DarkTraveler777 wrote:
daedalus wrote:
Ensis Ferrae wrote:
Perhaps you could sort of, "manicure" your hair to look more like Patrick Stewart/Jean-Luc Picard?

I don't think you can pull that off gracefully without being 50+ years old.

You could always do the Agassi style of super close cropped but also clearly bald. You don't need graying hair for that look to be decent.

Ultimately you have to just own whatever style you decide to go with. I think a lot of guys get too self conscious of their thinning hair and some go into denial and try to prop up whatever remaining hair they have left with mouses and styling gels, but that crap doesn't fool anyone. I know because I was one of those denial guys initially, and it is a waste of time and money. Just be confident with what you have going on and people will respond in kind.

I went through a similar period of denial. Avoid it. Everyone is right, there is nothing more ridiculous than a mand trying to hide the plain fact that his hair is going with comb-overs and the modern equivalent. I ended up taking the Agassi/Willis route. Very, very cheap to maintain. Buy a pair of clippers, and you'll never need another bottle of shampoo, comb or brush, and you can kiss the barber shop goodbye forever. And who knew? Some women even like it!

**DarkTraveler777**

Hmm... Kill It with Razors: The Dark Eldar Story

I like it!

**OgreChubbs**

wtf is a kojak? I say shave it bald bald men make better lovers I heard but personally I never slept with any so it just heresay.

**A Town Called Malus**

OgreChubbs wrote:
wtf is a kojak? I say shave it bald bald men make better lovers I heard but personally I never slept with any so it just heresay.

Telly Savalas is disappointed.

**jasper76**

He's been dead for 20 years????

Hard to believe.

**Tibbsy**

Polish it and use it to reflect sunlight at people

Although I wish you luck finding any bloody sunlight to reflect in Britain!

**LordofHats**

Have no fear, for soon you may join the elite!

Jason Statham

Samuel L. Jackson

Picard.

Lex Luthor

Riple-

Okay maybe I should have stopped at Luthor. Now we all have to remember Aliens Cubed exists

**Khornholio**

I think a late 80s Hulk Hogan bleach-blond mullet with a bandana and shades is the way to go.

If you still had some up up front, you could rock the medieval monk hairdo.

**hotsauceman1**

When you have curly hair, its kinda hard to do that.
But, can you use an electric Shaver to keep it shaved?

**daedalus**

LordofHats wrote:
Have no fear, for soon you may join the elite!

You forgot Powder.

**LordofHats**

See I was gonna add him in last, but I was like "Ripley looked okay when she was bald that one time" so I was like at google and typed in "bald ripley" and before I even stopped to think I'd pasted the image and all I could do was regret even mentioning that movie XD

Ripley did look pretty swagger though

**A Town Called Malus**

LordofHats wrote:
See I was gonna add him in last, but I was like "Ripley looked okay when she was bald that one time" so I was like at google and typed in "bald ripley" and before I even stopped to think I'd pasted the image and all I could do was regret even mentioning that movie XD

Ripley did look pretty swagger though

Hey, at least Alien 3 wasn't Alien Resurrection or the AVP films

**LordofHats**

Call me crazy, but I actually liked the first AVP film, and the second could have at least been passable save that I think someone put sunglasses on the camera during a movie filmed almost completely at night.

*ducks*

**Relapse**

My suggestion is buff up like a big dog. A fit, bald person looks pretty studly and can be preferable to a puffy dude with hair.

**jasper76**

Goldberg!

**A Town Called Malus**

LordofHats wrote:
Call me crazy, but I actually liked the first AVP film, and the second could have at least been passable save that I think someone put sunglasses on the camera during a movie filmed almost completely at night.

*ducks*

Slow motion facehuggers, a scientist who bullseye one as it is jumping towards his face, a predator who teams up with a human, predators who hunt aliens not bothering to check whether the predator which had been fighting the aliens is impregnated, aliens being on Earth, all the predators but one being slaughtered by the aliens etc.

Such wasted potential.

**LordofHats**

I said I liked it I didn't say it was flawless

**LuciusAR**

Alex C wrote:
Nobody looks twice at a bald bloke.

People snicker at anyone trying to "cure" their baldness.

Shave it and be done with it.

But shaving your head is attempting to 'cure' baldness. You're attempting to hide the involuntary baldness with 'voluntarily' baldness.

**Iron_Captain**

If you are really are going completely bald, your life has just ended. There can be no life without glorious long manes. Maybe you could grow a long beard to compensate?

**LordofHats**

Iron_Captain wrote:
If you are really are going completely bald, your life has just ended. There can be no life without glorious long manes. Maybe you could grow a long beard to compensate?

Do remind your glorious leader.

A five year old could spot that comb over.Might resolve a few things

I kid, I kid

**DarkTraveler777**

LuciusAR wrote:
Alex C wrote:
Nobody looks twice at a bald bloke.

People snicker at anyone trying to "cure" their baldness.

Shave it and be done with it.

But shaving your head is attempting to 'cure' baldness. You're attempting to hide the involuntary baldness with 'voluntarily' baldness.

Or another way to look at it: Shaving is dealing with baldness through acceptance and moving on with your life, while attempts to "cure" baldness with lotions and pills often offer nothing more than vain hope and disappointment.

**Gitzbitah**

My family has been blessed with grayness, and that peculiar type of baldness which leaves the mohawk area and the sides. Oddly enough, it is quite hidden by keeping shoulder length hair.

As with all things physical, I say lay the options out in front of you- and then let the person who matters the most to you make the call. My wife's been calling the shots on my hair since before we were hitched. After all, she's got to look at me. Good luck in your adjustment period!

**VorpalBunny74**

Unless you have a tattoo'd pirate treasure map on your head, best shave it off

Spoiler:

**Ensis Ferrae**

Khornholio wrote:
I think a late 80s Hulk Hogan bleach-blond mullet with a bandana and shades is the way to go.

That look really only works if you also have a platinum blonde trucker 'stache, with brunette/black haired 5 o'clock shadow

**Commander Cain**

Well I may be the only one who thinks this but I love my hair and when I noticed it was all leaving my head I simply bought some of the aforementioned heretical lotion. A few months later and I have a full head of hair again, problem solved!

**hotsauceman1**

Is it bad to do that? I mean, a big fat guy like me isnt good bald

**EVIL INC**

I wouldnt worry bout it. I still have my hair but am going grey, people told me to dye it but I would know and so would everyone else so why bother, just live with it. Same if I lose my hair. Just be honest bout it.