Going Grey vs Going Bald

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Come on men, you know it's coming. One or the other, OR BOTH. There's really no escape.

― Tom, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, there is. Toupees, hair transplants and Just For Men.

― MarkH, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm going bald already, my friends already are mocking me about it. Since all my uncles are bald aswell I think theres no hope for me. Except regain or something. Grey is way better than bald. You can use Just For Men. I give myself 8 or 9 years max.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'regain' would be a much better name than rogaine actually. me, i'd rather go grey, predictably. like holden caulfield!

― ethan, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Neither, on evidence of my father and grand-father, I'll have plenty of hair up till the age 75, and my father at age 64 still hasn't really greyed. Haha, Spanish genes rock! I'll still choose grey hair over going bald, just in case.

― Omar, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've probably got both coming soon, my dad having gone grey at about 30 and my grandfathers both going totally bald. I'm cool with the grey thing, as my dad looks pretty good with grey hair and I look a lot like him. Baldness I'm less happy about. It'll mean having to cut the remaining hair dead short and really short hair doesn't really suit me because of my funny shaped head.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I haev a little torpor . The little circle of flesh for trappists , is that its name.

― anthony, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

won't go bald. eventual greyness an inevitability 9as for all) but i hope to do it in a James Coburn stylee

― gareth, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

As a faded ginge I'm looking to forward to going grey. The loss of my hair though, that will be sad. I'm hoping though that I'll look ditinguished and intellectual rather than an inbred troglodyte.

― Billy Dods, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

torpor = tonsure, anthony

― mark s, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been going grey for absolutely ages and really don't mind, I mean it just adds another colour to the vast palette of colours that my various patches of hair already posess.

No sign of baldness either, but if it does ever happen (which I don't think is likely) it'll be the grade one all over á la the Mitchell brothers.

― cabbage, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

When I was going through my depression - not my friend's depression hah! - I lost a LOT of my hair. This of course made me even more depressed. Anyhow I think it's far worse for women to become bald. A girl across the street from my parents' house is completely bald. She's only 13. So all you old farts, get OVER it.

― nathalie, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Baldness can be very attractive in women, I mean look at Dolores O'Riordain, Sinead O'Connor, Sonique.............er maybe not actually.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

GREY.

(not that i'm worried about such things, mind you. propecia works wonders, and i'm as randy as ever, so poo poo side effects.)

― jess, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, ronan, next time I'll say to her: "Cheer up, you're in fantastic company. If you don't like those crazy birds, just pick Billy Corgan as yer idol! "

― nathalie, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't see how she wouldn't be cheered up

― Ronan, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Lads, please don't use Just For Men - it comes in two colours: black and brown. If you must dye your hair (and I have to say I quite like grey, especially on Gary Linekar), do what Nick does and get a packet with a pretty lady on the front in exactly the colour of your choice.

nb. please do not use Herbal Essences until they take that awful Urge To Urbal ad off the telly.

― Madchen, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

just for men = desparate dud

girls colour = hep cat classic

so which colour am I going to do mine just to complete the tonsorial rainbow effect?

― cabbage, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The thing to remember is: it's not a bald patch, it's a solar panel for a sex machine.

― DV, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Madchen has (deliberately?) phrased the above to suggest that I am going grey. I am not going grey. Or bald. In fact I've got more hair than I know what to do with (does anyone have any ideas?). I just like to experiment with different shades of lady colour.

― Nick, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Grey or bald?

Hmmmmm......

Euthanasia.

― Trevor, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If you have more hair than you know what to do with you should become a hair donor and help those less well off than you.

― Emma, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That's fine. Does anyone want my hair?

― Nick, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Is this an all or nothing deal? Like a full scalp transplant? Because I don't think my hair would mix well with yours on the same scalp.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Can you be cloned from your hair? If so I would not recommend handing it out to internet folk at random as some of them might be mad scientists.

― Emma, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But that's OK - I want more mes.

― Nick, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Not deliberate, sorry Nick. Although if you were going grey I wouldn't be able to tell because you dye your hair.

― Madchen, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You won't be saying that when the Mad Scientist creates an army of Bad Nicks who go round robbing and swearing and stealing dinner money off kids and then you get blamed for it.

Back on Topic. My hair is constantly falling out in huge chunks but there is never any less of it and there is LOADS of it. How can this be? And I won't notice when I go grey, it will merely be another colour to add to the myriad already there.

― Emma, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It could be a do good army of Nicks.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Going bald is CLASSIC. I am not going bald, yet I shave off all of my hair every three weeks.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah, but your head is a good shape.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's not necessarily coming, unless by "coming" you mean "at some point before your death assuming you live to average age" - I mean, my dad's nearly 50 and has a full head of hair and not one spot of grey.

― Ally, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

RT, strokin' the ego! And I wasn't even fishing for compliments that time. :)

I think the shaved head look is vastly underrated by mainstream society. More men (and WOMEN) should at least try it.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I hope no more women try it. I don't care what men do.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have one really thin spot of hair that looks like a bald patch compared to the rest of it. Anyway, baldness is better, as you don't look like a sad mid-life crisis type with the dreaded 'combover'...

― Bill, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, my hair is on the way out now, I'm kind of resigned to it and I don't mind all that much. The shaved to grade 1 option is one I've considered and rejected on the basis that I will just look like I have a giant baked bean for a head.

First grey hair located (and destroyed) last week. I attribute this to the stress of being off 'the sauce'. So bald and grey = classic as a result of straightforward unavoidability.

My goodness me, I'm falling to pieces.

― Tim, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

grey, grey, grey. please god, let it be grey!!!

grandmother went white (no intermediate grey at all) around 25, and i'm starting to develop white hair at the temples. my grandfather went bald at 15, so here's hoping i'm past risk for that.

― your null fame, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Having a giant baked bean for a head = CLASSIC.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tim, your life really is a ruin. I think the grade one would suit you especially when on the terraces at the real St James' park.

― cabbage, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I sit now. You're right about my life, Cabbage.

― Tim, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You sit? Your life is on a downslide at the very least then. May I ask why? Is it all-seater?

― cabbage, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Partly because my Dad likes the view from our rebuilt Cowshed stand (he's right to, too: it's the best view of the game for side-watchers like us). Partly because standing up for 90 minutes-plus is a bit much for me at the moment.

― Tim, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm entertained. As yet, no balding, but a silvery-grey hair or two. Question is whether I'll keep wearing it long or not.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

fair enough, I can't help but stand at games where there's an opportunity to. and I still can at Saltergate.

― cabbage, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Can still stand at the Park, too, if you're up to it and don't mind watching a game from the end. I'm not and prefer not to, respectively.

Looking forward to getting back to enjoying the rubbish views from neglected away sections around the land, though.

― Tim, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

bald=foucault=sexy

grey=richard gere=gerbil=possibly sexy.

― Geoff, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I like guys with only a little hair left. They let it grow and then plaster the ends over their bald spots. My friend used to call them "Barcode Men"

― nathalie, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Then they go out in the wind and their hair stands straight up on the one side, like they are surprised. It's damn funny.

― Ally, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Unless I have a nasty accident there's NO WAY I'm going bald, I have enough hair on my head for 15 men. Possibly.

― DG, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Grey would be preferable, but baldness is on it's way. Not for a while yet, but it's coming...

*Incidental music signifying impending doom*

― Ally C, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Beginning to recede as 30s wear on. Rather it didn't, but its not that significant.

By contrast I know a friend for whom female-baldness runs in her family, and she looks next in line. Now that is tough, puts male- angst over their disappearing hair-lines in some perspective.

― stevo, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

going grey would be preferable, but as i have bald genes up and down the family tree on both sides my unfortunate fate will be baldness first. however, in the interim stage between my former neanderthal- hirsute hairline and the eventual bare scalp, i've quite a dashing, enoesque (circa 73) hairline! perhaps i should start in with the rogaine now.

― neil., Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Going grey is FAR better... I would have a major crisis if I lost my hair. In any event, I'll be 34 next month, and don't have a single grey hair, and judging by my genetics won't go bald either... not even a bald spot.

― Sean, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i have shaved most of my hair off and dyed the rest crimson

― anthony, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am 24 and my hair is receding at a steady pace.

Is it strange that it does not bother me at all?

― Michael Taylor, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Why are combovers seen as an attempt by middle-aged desperadoes to conceal their increasingly visible scalps? At thirty I am not yet bald but I fear that the combination of hair loss and what's left being curly will give me that awful scuddy-head (let me cite John McEnroe as an example).

But a combover, of course, fools no one. Pasting a few threads of hair to a scalp isn't about concealment, it is about adornment. Were I bald and had fewer curls, I should be proud to grow it way long on one side and laquer it down to the other. I'd rather see that than vain hipsters trying to hide their thinning hair with a razor-- someone should tell them you can still see a more shiny patch formed by the dead follicles.

That said, the Mies/Foucault "bald European genius with thick glasses" thing is solid.

― bobby charlton, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ten months pass...

I think I'm going. My brother is 24 and he doesn't look like he's going bald, I'm 20 and I'm sure I am. I'd pay millions to have the chance to go grey. I really like having hair. My dad and his are bald but my great grandad wasn't. My other grandad ain't bald either. Good head of hair in his 70's.

― Gareth, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

http://bewlaybros1.free.fr/photos/BrianEno_L.jpeg

― kenan, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

gareth you didn't go bald at all! waht is this bull shit!

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah Gareth you bastard :(

― Mark C, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

shaving my head was the best move i ever made after starting to smoke again

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

I'm guessing I have about four years left before head-shaving.

― Jordan, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

how old are you now?

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

Grey, because salt and pepper is hot, and then silver is hot. You just gotta use the right words. I am still trying to figure out nice words for bald. "Smooth?"

― Will M., Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

"YEAH BOB GOT SMOOTH IN HIS OLD AGE... REEEEAL SMOOTH."

― Will M., Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

there is no nice word for bald. you just have to embrace it, like being fat.

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

AAAAAGGHGHGHHH. I have work to do today, cannot obsess over shaved-headed nerdly types. Curse you, Kenan.

― Laurel, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

― Jordan, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

yeah that sounds about right, man

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

up until i moved back from olympia, i had a pretty shaggy head of hair

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

sweet

― Jordan, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

(yeah i'm thinning like a motherfucker)

― Jordan, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

Hello, once again I am moved to say "I am 46 and have no grey or baldness OK tku"

― Mark G, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

with my recently shorn mane the short hair totally shows off the silver that's taking up more and more acreage on my dome. plus my hairline is totally making a run for the border so i got both.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

Hang on... Gareth was 20 in 2002?

― the next grozart, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

I'm going gray and my hair is thinning. It's like a race between the two trends. (I think I will go entirely gray before I run out of hair, though. My hair is still sort of thick, where it isn't receding, if that makes sense.)

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

And I don't like either trend. It's one thing to grow old having lived a life about as full as one would like, it's another to grow old without having had a wild youth (or a productive youth or. . .). My hair has always been a strong point about my appearance (even though it took me years to believe that), so it especially sucks to lose some of that.

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

my hair is really thick too and i don't think i'll go bald, it's just not as far down my forehead as it used to be. judging by my pop though i'm totally gonna be silver.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

I think you judge by yr mom's pop, genetically? or her brothers?

― Will M., Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

gareth is now 70 and has a perm

― blueski, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

I'm definitely looking forward to my salt-and-pepper years. I'm on my way now, but it's not quite noticeable yet, just a few silver strands at my temples. I'm also receding at what I'm guessing is a normal rate for a soon-to-be 28-year-old, but I have long curly bangs so I don't notice it as much.

― jaymc, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

Silver chest hairs ftw

― Mark C, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

Tonsure=me too. This is a sore point at the minute. I have had a shaved head until about two months back where I decided that I'd probably look better if I had hair. From the front, I do, but I know the bald patch is there and it IRRITATES ME TO DEATH. Ahem. So, not sure if I'm going to stay with it like this or shave it off again. I would LOVE mere greyness, thankyouverymuch. Grrr.

― peteR, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

Some girls like the salt & pepper look. I'm planning on committing suicide if I ever go bald.

― billstevejim, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

Oh wait, I just realized I stole that from a Conan bit with Slash.

― billstevejim, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

Some good arguments here

― Laurel, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure I'm safe from going bald, and I try not to brush my hair as vigorously or wear my hair as long once did. However, a couple times every year I am startled by the discovery of single, long strands of not grey or silver, but shocking white hair. If like to think if I suddenly went all Steve Martin / Leland Palmer, I'd be okay with it.

― elmo argonaut, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

If like = I like, duh

― elmo argonaut, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

None of you can hold a candle to the incredible bald-by-24 gene dominating my mother's side of the family. This thing will HOUSE you.

― nabisco, Thursday, 8 March 2007 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yes we can

(what is to house, and can we eat it?)

― Mark C, Thursday, 8 March 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

bald like sting is ok, apparently. bald like phil collins is no.

at 25 i'm very quickly going bald like both the motherfuckers at once, and i wasn't even a superstar in the 80's. how unfair is that?

― darraghmac, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

Elmo, you have good hair.

― jaymc, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, thanks!

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

Hang on... Gareth was 20 in 2002?

For a second I thought that Gareth was already lying about his age in 2002, then I realised he doesn't have a brother so it's obviously Fake Gareth.

― Matt DC, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

I got a haircut recently and swept my hair a little more to the side than usual to cover my growing bald patch...I went out DJing last night and about 3 people accused me of attempting to cultivate a "minimal" haircut a la Richie Hawtin...

― Ronan, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

the concept of having "accusations" leveled at you about a haircut is hilarious to me.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

hair started getting finer/thinner before age 21, had silver hairs by age 22

― kingfish, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

Grey beats bald, no question. The thing about baldness is there's no covering it - you can try hair plugs or toupees, but they don't make you look like you have hair. Rather, they make you look like a bald guy trying to cover up his baldness.

I'm started losing my hair quickly, so this is a sensitive issue for me. Then again, most men in my family were cue balls by my age, so at least I had a few extra years.

― mike a, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

yeah it's sad...I see my receding hairline starting to actually force its way into sight more often now.

if I still have hair at 30 it'll be a miracle. though I have been considering using Rogaine or something like that, my mum is a pharmacist and she thinks I'd get a few more years of hair if I started it now.

― Ronan, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

Baldness sucks far worse than grey but at least when you're going bald you can shave your head, what you going to do when you go grey - dye your hair or something stupid like that?

― Tom D., Friday, 9 March 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

go on a killing spree

― Ronan, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

shave your heard

― Jordan, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

i'd say either just let it go grey and save your dignity, or else get some professional coloring done, unless you like that flat Grecian folmula look

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

fuck that.. let it go grey. I'd take prematurely grey over bald ANY day. I've got a friend who's in his early thirties and is completely silver. girls (and boys) loooove him.

My hair started going when I was 18! It was seriously traumatizing. But then it kinda leveled off in my early 20's and I basically have slightly recessed temples (and fairly thick hair everywhere else). I keep waiting for the balding to resume and turn my pasty, oddly-shaped head into a freak show. Srsly scientist dudes, it's 2007. WE NEED A CURE.

― will, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

shave yr head/embrace it/get over it = the cure

― strongohulkington, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:04 (eighteen years ago)

I am convinced that a large part of premature baldness in America is caused or aided by douchebags wearing stupid baseball caps eighteen hours every day.

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:05 (eighteen years ago)

telling a man he's going bald = telling a woman that dress does make her look fat

― mike a, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:05 (eighteen years ago)

yeah I suppose... some dudes can pull it off well, depending on skin tone and head shape imo.

― will, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

I'd take prematurely grey over bald ANY day

It'd be nice if we were offered the choice.

― Mark C, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

My forehead started to get a bit bigger when I was 19, around the same time I first shaved my head, which I still do once or twice every summer. But my hairline hasn't really changed much in the 5-6 years since then, so I've kinda gotten comfortable and not too self-conscious about it. If I can get past 30 without being full on bald I'll be happy. I like to let it grow out and get a little shaggy sometimes, but if I let that go too far it starts to look a little like I'm in denial or trying to comb it over. I'd be cool with going grey, though. The last couple months have been the first time I've ever really grown a beard, and I was elated the first time I found a couple grey hairs in the beard.

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

... and she always be fat whatever dress she wears, in fact, she's only going to get fatter

― Tom D., Friday, 9 March 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

I've actually decided my receding hairline suits me so I am prepared to embrace it, for now.

― Matt DC, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

(xxpost)

― Tom D., Friday, 9 March 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

In case it really needs to be said (again), I, for one, am a big fan of the shaved or nearly shaved-headed look. So those with retreating hairlines, take heart. Also: more pictures.

― Laurel, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

yeah i kind of dig my odd grey hairs. and my beard is full of em

― will, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

Dude, us fat chicks can always lose weight. You baldies are bald FOREVER!!!!!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

Also, it helps if you know someone who's been as bald as Ron Howard since high school, makes you really appreciate your own relatively moderate thinning hair problems.

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

Somewhere out there, a fat bald chick is weeping.

― Matt DC, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

and that chick was on the bus with me last night, no lie.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

Dude, us fat chicks can always lose weight. You baldies are bald FOREVER!!!!!

Exactly!

― Tom D., Friday, 9 March 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago)

(Sensitive, moi?)

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago)

WIGS WIGS WIGS

http://www.bestwigoutlet.com/_e/Men_s_Wigs/product/DR64002LA/prod_img/DR64002LA_1139643134.JPG

This wig is apparently the "New York" model??? haha

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

Looks kinda like Mark H in a mullet wig.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.bestwigoutlet.com/_e/Men_s_Wigs/product/JR64002LA/prod_img/JR64002LA_1141067831.JPG

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

Ron Howard wasn't bald in high school, if Happy Days is to be believed.

― Mark C, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

I'm totally happy with the shorn-head thing, but lately I'm seriously considering taking it up a notch, growing out all the remaining hair, and wearing it about like Sherman Hemsley on the Jeffersons. Honestly, it's a damned nice-looking haircut:

http://searchviews.com/archives/george_jefferson.jpg

And if it gets a little mussed and goes gray in the front, then you're just rocking a John Amos on Good Times:

http://videodetective.com/photos/658/027670_31.jpg

― nabisco, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

I find both sexy.

― Ivan, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

I have none of the manliness of Amos or the charisma of Hemsley, but my uncle taught me to do a killer George Jefferson walk when I was a kid.

― nabisco, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

Sleep well, stem cells will be the answer.

This from Wiki: "In January 2007, Italian stem-cell researchers say they've come up with a new technique for curing baldness. Pierluigi Santi of a Genoa clinic said stem cells could be used to 'multiply' hair roots. He said the clinic would be ready to perform its first hair transplants on priority patients - those who have lost their hair in fires or other accidents - within a few months. After that, he said, 'we'll open our doors to paying customers'. Santi's approach works by splitting roots and growing new follicles"

― Rib Dinner, Friday, 9 March 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

I wish my hair would start graying. ANY DAY NOW hairs! I want to look like Maddy Prior for X's sake.

― Abbott, Friday, 9 March 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

I think if I go grey I'll be rockin kind of a John Forsythe.

http://www.njgang.com/historic_nj/Images/johnforsythe.jpg

Bald is not really an option for me. Not really happening on either side of my family. My mom's dad died before he even went grey, except in the temples.

― kenan, Friday, 9 March 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

john amos is a god.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 9 March 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

Nabisco, have you thought about a comb-over?

― Laurel, Friday, 9 March 2007 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

Ergonomic head-shaving doodah

― Mark C, Thursday, 13 March 2008 11:04 (seventeen years ago)

neat!

― electricsound, Thursday, 13 March 2008 11:17 (seventeen years ago)

I got some rogaine for free. it didn't work.

― ledge, Thursday, 13 March 2008 11:23 (seventeen years ago)

Unfortunately I’m going bald and grey, the only thing I can do really is to just keep it super short. I ain’t really bothered about it as I know I’m not the only one on the planet going through this.

Just embrace it guys (oh and the very unfortunate few women)

― not_goodwin, Thursday, 13 March 2008 11:29 (seventeen years ago)

I don't see the problem with going grey, I think it's cool. About the only sign of my impending physical dissolution I can deal with. Don't think I'm gonna go bald tho.

― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 13 March 2008 11:31 (seventeen years ago)

I went to the doctor in my late teens to see about getting Rogaine or Propecia and he dissuaded me from it. Now that I'm past the point of no return, I'm fine with it. I wouldn't have been able to pay for that stuff in my mid-twenties anyway.

If you can go bald with dignity, do it.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 13 March 2008 11:43 (seventeen years ago)

I had my first grey hair last year. Probably won't go bald as my mum's dad wasn't, just receding, widow's peak type thing, which I've always had a bit.

― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 13 March 2008 11:56 (seventeen years ago)

If you can go bald with dignity, do it.

and just say NO to shaving yr head

― m coleman, Thursday, 13 March 2008 12:26 (seventeen years ago)

and just say NO to shaving yr head

Sorry, but if I end up going bald from the inside out, it's coming off. And I'm shaving my head.

― David R., Thursday, 13 March 2008 12:33 (seventeen years ago)

I was Eno-bald by 25, and whatever left was completely grey within about 7 years after that. Neither fate was all so bad, and probably saved a lot of wasted years I'd have just spent having sex. Now that other guys of my generation are beginning to catch up, it is to laugh.

― briania, Thursday, 13 March 2008 13:24 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

I spent much of my early to mid-20s realizing that my hair was thinning, while my friends were telling me I was crazy for worrying. Now that it's thinned considerably on top, there's no refuting it. I didn't care for a long time, but lately it's been really bothering me. I've considered shaving it, but I did that when I was 19 and absolutely hated it. I imagine I would hate it much worse now, ten years later. It's a big bummer, to be sure. I don't have a good dome for a buzzcut. I think the best thing to counterbalance the grief is to stay in good shape, while your friends with thick mops get fatter.

― Benjamin-, Sunday, 27 February 2011 20:44 (fourteen years ago)

i'm going grey. apparently premature grey runs in my family. as a woman who's not blessed with the perfect face of circa-1990 sinead o'connor, i'd rather be grey than bald.

― hauntological-hysteric theater (get bent), Sunday, 27 February 2011 20:59 (fourteen years ago)

my hair started thinning about 2 years ago. I started using generic Rogaine recently, but I dunno if it'll make a difference. Shit makes my head itch like hell.

― corey, Sunday, 27 February 2011 21:20 (fourteen years ago)

first of all, there's no contest here. loads of people go grey gracefully. only Jason Statham goes bald gracefully.

I think the best thing to counterbalance the grief is to stay in good shape, while your friends with thick mops get fatter.

Oh man this is so otm. I wish I had implemented this plan as soon as I realised my hair was thinning. I'm working on it on occasion now, but until I sort this out I've got nothing to counterbalance the baldness and as such I will not even approach a girl.

― Gukbe, Sunday, 27 February 2011 21:39 (fourteen years ago)

Question is whether I'll keep wearing it long or not.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 10:00 (9 years ago)

good question

― yesterday's twat (sic), Sunday, 27 February 2011 23:08 (fourteen years ago)

i've decided that if i go grey before 40, i'm dyeing it. after that, i'll let nature take it's course.

― http://i56.tinypic.com/xnsu1g.gif (max arrrrrgh), Sunday, 27 February 2011 23:38 (fourteen years ago)

i'm already balding at 24, i've basically resigned to becoming a hat person for most of my life. haven't found a hat i like yet though.

― ciderpress, Monday, 28 February 2011 00:03 (fourteen years ago)

yah ill be totes bald in like three years i think. but like there's no point getting like bothered by it i guess. turn turn turn.

― plax (ico), Monday, 28 February 2011 00:41 (fourteen years ago)

With plax on that one, tho he's skinny and therefore not totally cursed

― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Monday, 28 February 2011 00:55 (fourteen years ago)

About a third of my hair spontaneously turned grey not coincidentally about the time of the late 2008 financial crisis (when my smoking and drinking peaked). It motivated me to clean up my act re: diet & drug excess. I've dyed it a handful of times when vanity demanded.

Fortunately, I've zero likelihood of male-pattern baldness. Either my testosterone levels are too low, or I lack the folicular receptors. My maternal grandfather passed at 90 with all his hair (while the rest of his body was falling apart).

― Competent Person Statement (Sanpaku), Monday, 28 February 2011 01:22 (fourteen years ago)

my maternal grandfather is in his 80s and he has a full, thick head of hair. it hasn't helped me any.

― Gukbe, Monday, 28 February 2011 01:27 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah, my mum's dad died with a hippy quiff, I'm getting zero benefit

― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Monday, 28 February 2011 01:39 (fourteen years ago)

I'm going grey and shaving my head which is an awesome combo imo

― bang-proof-bling-mans (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 February 2011 01:49 (fourteen years ago)

I was on Propecia for a few years. It may have helped. I've been off about 2.5 years and have seen accelerated thinning, but it's hard to be certain. When you're on Propecia or Rogaine, you're even more hypersensitive to what's happening. I spent my entire time on Propecia worrying that it wasn't working and that I was wasting money. Now that I'm off, I wonder if it was working. It's ridiculous. In the end, I don't think it's worth buying anti-baldness products.From what I can tell, they haven't actually produced magnificent results for anyone. Plus, the side effects are sketchy.

― Benjamin-, Monday, 28 February 2011 05:02 (fourteen years ago)

Don't feel like my baldness is the end of the world. Just have to work harder to lose weight as well as foster a decent personality to compensate.

― Gukbe, Monday, 28 February 2011 05:04 (fourteen years ago)

or maybe just start thinking about trying to get rich enough until I reach that magical point where looks don't matter.

― Gukbe, Monday, 28 February 2011 05:04 (fourteen years ago)

as a dude with a solid head of hair, i am reveling in my fatness and bankruptcy. suckas

― mookieproof, Monday, 28 February 2011 05:17 (fourteen years ago)

DAMN YOU!

― Benjamin-, Monday, 28 February 2011 05:29 (fourteen years ago)

just going from what I've overheard from female friends, I kinda don't think that girls care about male balding as much as guys do

if a girl likes you, she likes you, hair be damned

(speaking as a gay guy with full head of hair here, so I'm admittedly not a first hand expert on str8 dating world)

― the tune is space, Monday, 28 February 2011 06:31 (fourteen years ago)

The problem is getting the girl to like you in that sense that if I were at a bar, a girl is going to notice my baldness pretty quick. I don't think I'd much care for a girl that thought that baldness was a dealbreaker, but it certainly doesn't help when trying to get your foot in the door.

― Gukbe, Monday, 28 February 2011 06:43 (fourteen years ago)

Not only do I not care about bald at all, I actually think it's AGL. Ditto greying. I do feel you have to go for it and shave or mostly shave the head at some point of hair loss, though -- hanging on and letting the top thin and thin but stay over-long is what makes guys look like they're way too insecure about finally hitting adulthood.

― go peddle your bullshit somewhere else sister (Laurel), Monday, 28 February 2011 14:42 (fourteen years ago)

I do feel you have to go for it and shave or mostly shave the head at some point of hair loss, though

On another thread I believe someone called this The Haircut. (i.e. the Full Statham)

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 28 February 2011 14:54 (fourteen years ago)

Yes, and I know it is now A Thing and there's a whole separate backlash against it, but seriously, there's a reason for its popularity, and that reason is that it works.

― go peddle your bullshit somewhere else sister (Laurel), Monday, 28 February 2011 15:03 (fourteen years ago)

i don't have a real problem with going bald in general but i hope I get it like my Dad or Elvis Costello where you don't really have a noticeable recession until you're around 50, then you can just get it cut short and have it look ok. I mean I know the methods and products are out there but you don't want to have hair like a 21 year old when you're 50, lest you wind up looking like this guy:

http://www.exposay.com/celebrity-photos/gary-numan-q-awards-2009-cFdSVW.jpg

― frogbs, Monday, 28 February 2011 16:22 (fourteen years ago)

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