[Misc] The Bald & Follicly Challenged Thread

[The Clamp]

I have kept my hair into my forties without any sign of thinning. Both my brothers and my dad went top bald in their twenties. My maternal family all have full heads of hair. My grandad had a lovely whip of full white hair into his 80’s. I hope I have those genes because I have shave my head before and it’s not a good look on me.

As for the OP’s question, no I don’t know why any man would deliberately wet shave their head. It looks grim. Especially when they get older and they inevitably leave neck hairs sticking out of the neck folds like a mole rat.
Sweaty bald heads. Yuck.
Crop it right down, can look good on most people but the total scorched earth approach is not a good look.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I’m wondering whether it would be better to go down to say a number two than do the comb over which this well known (in football) person does...

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I never know Frank Lampardsderbycounty was going bald. Wow.

I made the grave error last week of questioning Mr K why Welsh egg chasing legend Alun Wyn Jones didn't just shave his head, given the massive combover he sports.

That was an education. It turns out You Do Not Question Alun Wyn Jones, and if AWJ wants a combover, then AWJ can have a combover and nobody shall ever point out that his hair is anything less than a magnificent representation of Welsh tradition and culture.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

But you do have a hell of a centre parting though

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I have kept my hair into my forties without any sign of thinning. Both my brothers and my dad went top bald in their twenties. My maternal family all have full heads of hair. My grandad had a lovely whip of full white hair into his 80’s. I hope I have those genes because I have shave my head before and it’s not a good look on me.

As for the OP’s question, no I don’t know why any man would deliberately wet shave their head. It looks grim. Especially when they get older and they inevitably leave neck hairs sticking out of the neck folds like a mole rat.
Sweaty bald heads. Yuck.
Crop it right down, can look good on most people but the total scorched earth approach is not a good look.

And yet....and yet....it works quite well for fannies

 

[Grassman]

bite the bullett and have it off.

And if you can’t have it off cos you’re doing a Donald Trump impression, just get yourself a number 1. The ladies love it.

 

[Grassman]

As a long term baldy, it started going in my early 20s, can I just say how offensive I find the ‘Cure for baldness’ stories/adverts I see in the papers. It’s not an effing illness, it needs no cure.

 

[symyjym]

I’m wondering whether it would be better to go down to say a number two than do the comb over which this well known (in football) person does...

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The blue face mask only draws attention to the bald patch. I would rule this method of hiding baldness out.

 

[half time scores]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NBjEJXPKWc

 

[8049]

I'm knocking 40 and while I have a good head of hair there's definitely an egg in the nest forming at the crown. I always promised myself I'd go the Barthez way rather than Zidane so I'm now seriously considering shaving it.

Greys I can handle. Receding at the front I can handle. Egg in the nest at the back I just can't walk around with and it's depressing as ****.

Same boat but a few years ahead of you. Things are fine if I'm looking in the mirror but then I'm reminded of my Friar Tuck-like tonsure in photos or when one of my kids lovingly slaps it. I'm down to grade 1 shave now but can't quite make the step to full shiny pate. It's just a matter of time unless they invent a combover that actually fools people.

 

[atfc village]

Could still grow my hair out ,but 18 months ago decided to clip it all over . Liked it so have carried on once a week.

 

[marlowe]

I've just had my hair cut, it did not take as long as it used to

But conversly as time goes by you probably find it takes an increasingly long time to wash your face.

 

[Questions]

I never know Frank Lampardsderbycounty was going bald. Wow.

I made the grave error last week of questioning Mr K why Welsh egg chasing legend Alun Wyn Jones didn't just shave his head, given the massive combover he sports.

That was an education. It turns out You Do Not Question Alun Wyn Jones, and if AWJ wants a combover, then AWJ can have a combover and nobody shall ever point out that his hair is anything less than a magnificent representation of Welsh tradition and culture.

He’ll be worse after Saturday.

 

[Two Professors]

Nothing looks quite as ridiculous as a face with a bald head and a beard-looks as if it is upside-down

 

[Coldeanseagull]

Luckily for me I am neither bald or grey/ silver. At 59 years old I do have a touch of 'sun bleaching' going on around the temples and the tide is going out slightly. I wouldn't go down the tinting, re introduction, plugging or comb over route as what really is the point of of highlighting the fact my ears have got bigger?!
I reckon by the time I'm 65, I probably could plait the hairs from my nose and ears though

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

I had my hair cut in France in 1975 and was told my hair was going thin on top.

44 years later it's much the same now as it was then. It's still longish and wavy, albeit a lot greyer! and a few years ago I would have claimed that CMS copied my hair style.

If I had gone bald, I certainly would not have tried to hide it.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

I have plenty of hair but just not where I want it.

 

[Bob'n'weave]

I dabbled with a Kojak for a while but it's a high maintenance look. Keeping it looking sharp is hard work or you can end up looking like an mental patient.

I am happy with a smart number 2 all over.

 

[marlowe]

I had my hair cut in France in 1975 and was told my hair was going thin on top.

I bet hearing that news ruined the rest of your holiday.
Did you go straight back to your hotel room and do the bowing head while looking up move in front of the bathroom mirror trying to assess the alleged thinning?

 

[marlowe]

This is the Burnley fan accused of racially abusing Gaetan Bong. He evidently favours the scorched earth look. The look of consternation on his son's face is his worry that he might have inherited his old man's baldness genes and that he'll soon be starting the process of losing his blonde mop top.

Maybe the father's animosity towards Gaetan stemmed from his underlying envy and resentment of Gaetan's own luxurious full head of hair which he expressed by racist abuse to draw attention away from his actual baldness insecurities and confidence issues. That argument might have made a credible defence if the prosecution hadn't already ballsed the case up.

 

[Palacefinder General]

The first time I realised I was losing it was in a service station on the way back from Birmingham 2 BHA 2 in the late 90s. Up at the till I caught a CCTV image on the monitor behind the till from a wall-mounted camera trained down on the back of my head. Ruined a good away day.