I have a beautifully shaped Picardesque skull so IMO being bald is a benefit. It’s almost a work of art. I’m checking it out in the mirror all the time.
I’d probably pay anything. I don’t have a problem with going bald in theory (in fact, I’d love to be able to shave my head) but as I’ve probably written somewhere here before, a childhood accident left me with bad scarring and a depression in my skull. Nobody can tell now, but I remember when I first got out of the hospital people would gawk and point until my hair grew back in.
My girlfriends ex-husband is bald. Went bald after they were together. She said she never minded. But she also said she wouldn’t have gone out with me if I was bald. That just might have been because she didn’t want to be reminded of him.
My forehead’s so bright, I gotta wear shades. 
To those posters above who said virtually all young women color their hair if it goes gray, I have an interesting anecdote for you.
I’m a 33 year old female physics professor. My brown hair has been partially gray for a few years. I’ve never colored it. The gray doesn’t bother me. (I also don’t wear makeup, ever.) Anyway, I recently went to a physics education conference. About 40% or so of the attendees were women, all physics professors. Try to picture a room full of female physics professors, OK? After a couple days, something was bugging me, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. Finally, I realized that it was what the women looked like. A few dozen women, mostly younger (or at least not elderly)–none seemed to have colored hair (most were brown or black hair speckled with gray), only maybe one or two were wearing makeup (that I could ascertain, anyway). It was really cool. And weird, to be with a crowd where I actually blend in.
Oh, another note about the above physics professor anecdote. So I was wondering what it was about physics professors, that their appearances (among the women, at least) would be so different than the greater population. I don’t think it could be peer pressure, because there are so few female physicists that typically a physics department would only have at most one female professor, if any, except at very large universities. When I was at UCSD, a pretty large school, there were 4 females out of 72 physics professors, and that’s counting Sally Ride among the 4.
So I think it’s something innate, like our brains just work differently, but I don’t know exactly why.
God decided I would be bald. I embraced it!
Baldness rules!
In the regional residential real estate market there are several very successful female realtors who have let their hair go full on gray can are very successful. Having said this none of them are fat or out of shape and they dress very stylishly. The gray actually looks (to me) quite fetching and gives them a gravitas that makes people take them seriously.
I think you can pull of gray or bald very easily if you are in shape and well dressed.
If I knew it would work?
$50. Anything more than that would just feel too indulgent.
Really, though, I just want to keep it long enough for it to turn white. If that’s not going to happen, I’m going to go full Cueball before it becomes embarrassing.
I’d pay more for a cure for back hair than a cure for baldness.
Forehead? He’ll, I’ve gotta a fivehead!
That’s the academic world. Tenure is a wonderful thing.
I work at a very large law firm (2,000 lawyers, more or less). The lawyers here tend to have law degrees from the top five law schools, and the partners especially are at the peak of the profession.
I have never seen a woman partner (at least one over 40, which is most of them) who doesn’t dye her hair. Some, who are perhaps in their 60s, might let the colorist put in just a touch of gray, to give them that distinguished look, but I can’t think of one who doesn’t color her hair.
How do you know their hair is dyed? Is it that bad a dye job? Or maybe they have no grey? Not everyone does, you know.
Actually, I would pay good money for a pill that insured hair would NEVER grow on my head again. I love being bald.
I guess it’s a job culture thing. Academia is about not caring how you look, as long as you look “academic”. (glasses, greyish hair, longish hair even when balding, if there’s a suit it has non-matching pants and jackets, no sexy clothes for women, etc.).
Exactitudes has a lot of these. (NSFW Warning: there might be a non-sexual bare breast somewhere in there)
Nothing. I buzz my hair very short (1 on top, no guard on the sides, it’s just about down to the skin) every 6-8 weeks or so. I’ve always said that if I ever start balding and don’t like the way it looks, I’ll just start shaving it. For me, going from a #1/No Guard to shaving my head, while a bit of a mental hurdle, is really only about a millimeter or two of hair. I’m just about bald when I walk out of the barber shop as is.
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