This is the inevitable thread for ILxors in their forties

It's kind of amazing to me how many under-30 dudes I see whose hair is almost or entirely gone on top.

We publish an annual 4O Under 4O feature that showcases high-rising and influential movers and shakers who have yet to reach their fourth decade.

And whatever jealousy I may have had toward these successful people is completely off-set by how they all look twice my age. Apparently hard work and big money will wear you out!

that would explain why I've still got a full head of hair

Male pattern baldness isn't a choice nor is it stress related, if someone looking not dissimilar to Zidane or Larry David shagged your mam, then it's just a part of the ageing process! You think any of us ugly bastards would choose to look like this! jokes of course.
I have a cousin in his early 40's who is the singer in a wedding band who has had a Rooney style hair weave. He looks fucking preposterous, a younger version of him already popped up on your Swagger Roses thread!

oi zidane shagged me mam

I should've said those bright and prosperous people have lost more than their hair.

Not saying they're unattractive either. Just saying.... boy, I would've never carded any of these people back in my Liquor Depot days.

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i thought i my biology teacher in high school said that someone's hair traits come from the mother's side via genetics

I meet up with a group of childhood friends about this time every year for touch football and pizza. It's been interesting watching us collectively age; it's like a 30-year longitudinal study. The men going bald on top have generally shaved their heads entirely and/or worn knit hats. At some point somebody is going to stop bothering and just go ahead and let it show.

Men on both sides of my family have died with full heads of hair so that's not likely to be an issue for me. I am greying at the temples and I love it, particularly in the workplace. Professionally I benefit from exhibition gravitas. For a long time I looked a bit too young to be taken very seriously and I'm glad that's ebbing.

Um, exhibiting gravitas

I thought you were meaning you do seminars and get taken seriously.

Ha, now that you mention it I do that too.

I got a pretty drastic haircut before Christmas, and I thought the dude was shaving Santa Claus as I was watching the hair fall down on to my little... barber's gown?

Anyway. Since that white hair isn't visible to anyone, it must hide under my regular hair - not getting light, hence its color.

scrunching nose when smiling makes me IA

i remember when i was younger thinking gray hair is no big deal but now that i have it i am slightly horrified

i don't want to dye it though

Salt and pepper hair can be v v attractive imo.

The worst part about my 40s was my eyesight going to shit and it seemed like it happened overnight.

Also my hairy palms, obv.

Dudes who were v v attractive with normal hair can be v v attractive with salt and pepper hair it's true

Even salt and papper pits?

Everyone gets much more attractive as they age

'Everyone gets much more attractive as they age' vs. Geo. Orwell's remark that 'at age forty everyone has the face they deserve'.

Sheesh, I guess I must have four decades of hardcore assholism under my belt, then.

You have an asshole face?

It probably depends on who you ask.

My hair is still thick and still mostly dark, with some gray at the temples and speckled throughout, but my eyebrows and beard have gone more or less completely gray. :\

Some female comedian did a bit in one of her routines about her pubic hair going grey and how that was what first made her feel really old. That fact that that was even a thing that happens was pretty eye-opening for me.

I think it might have been Jen Kirkman.

YOu know I was giong to mention the salt and pepper pubes but I was afraid of offending ILE

i just noticed this past weekend that some of my aunt's eyelashes have turned grey and i felt sympathetic in an "oh we're getting old right?" kind of way, even though she is much older than i

the underside (?) of my hair is almost white in places, it’s kinda cool
i *almost* have a cruella deville/j jonah jameson streak on my right temple

on top is still dyed and kinda brownish

I don't look forward to going completely gray but I confess I am a big fan of the "skunk stripe" on women (cf. Bonnie Raitt, Stacy London, Rogue/X-Men, JoBeth Williams at the end of "Poltergeist," etc).

can't remember the year i started posting here (it wasn't this account), 2001 maybe, when i was a highly strung and combative 27 (?) year old dickhead. now my hair's fallen out so my head is basically a dick. in fact the only thing that shits me about ageing is having no hair (which makes me lucky tbh).

I don't look forward to going completely gray but I confess I am a big fan of the "skunk stripe" on women (cf. Bonnie Raitt, Stacy London, Rogue/X-Men, JoBeth Williams at the end of "Poltergeist," etc).

― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Wednesday, January 3, 2018 4:19 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My maternal grandmother had this. I never knew her but it looked awesome in pictures.

^^ I've had my first real 'am I going bald?!' scare last week. It's still early days but that hairline is receding mighty fast all of a sudden.

(15 months away from being completely eligible to participate in this thread; I see this as an apprenticeship)

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^^ I've had my first real 'am I going bald?!' scare last week.

my scare lasted a whole day, i found a hairdresser (i was abroad) and got them to shave it all the fuck off. never went back.

I'm thinning a bit at my crown and I've always had a high forehead but I don't think I'll go bald, based on my family. I have a load of greys on the right side above my ear, but I don't really mind that tbh

Is it too challopsy to say I think grey hair is attractive (cf. Emmylou Harris, G. Clooney) and that I'm impatient for more of it?

my scare lasted a whole day, i found a hairdresser (i was abroad) and got them to shave it all the fuck off. never went back.

― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, January 3, 2018 9:25 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's admirable. I'm not ready to throw in the towel tbh.

The scare was coming home having walked through rain and storm and suddenly seeing the hair on the fore of the top of my head is getting so thin it's like it's isolated from the rest of the hair on my head. If that makes sense. I want both parties to make up and rejoice again, to be one do. I also know wishing this is in vain.

xp not at all. Grey hair rules imo.

otm re grey hair

The scare was coming home having walked through rain and storm and suddenly seeing the hair on the fore of the top of my head is getting so thin it's like it's isolated from the rest of the hair on my head. If that makes sense.

pretty much the same for me, but in a photo i saw a tiny gap in my forehead. that was enough. fuck recalcitrant hair.

people keep telling me how sexy salt and pepper hair is... but i feel like they're just being nice. because i'm old now. also hi, i am now tall enough to ride this thread.

I have a load of greys on the right side above my ear

Same here. I'm not bothered about going grey but I wish it would come in a bit more evenly. My hair was receding at an alarming rate in my early thirties (tonnes of hair on the pillow every morning) but that's stopped at least for the moment. Again, I'm not bothered - there's a picture of my grandfather at my parent's wedding where he's rocking a swept back Jack Nicholson look.

I admire your strength and courage, AA. I'm just not ready yet :-/

it wasn't strength and courage so much as not wanting to look like this guy or this guy

people keep telling me how sexy salt and pepper hair is... but i feel like they're just being nice. because i'm old now.

nah, it's gobsmackingly sexy

Lol, well I've got quite some time left before it turns as ugly as that.

Though, admittedly, in my darkest hour I did google "dick advocaat hair". /shudders xp

the worst thing is how everyone thinks it's fine to openly remark and take the piss out of you

(not *you* lbi specifically)

if i were missing a leg or had giant sores all over my face nobody would say anything, but a few hairs drop out and it's game on

I'd never say stuff like that, but will cop to having had those thoughts abt bald people. I should've known it'd bite me in the buttocks.

me too, if i'm honest