Going Grey vs Going Bald

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.

(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.)

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

girls colour = hep cat classic

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

Hmmmmm......

Euthanasia.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

grey=richard gere=gerbil=possibly sexy.

*Incidental music signifying impending doom*

Ergonomic head-shaving doodah

neat!

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

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)

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.

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.

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.

If you can go bald with dignity, do it.

and just say NO to shaving yr head

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

good question

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

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.

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.

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

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).

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

DAMN YOU!

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 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.

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.

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)

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.

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:

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