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)

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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