# Can a "skullet" ever work for a bald man? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 14, 2016, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-skullet-ever-work-for-a-bald-man/765968 "2016-09-14T22:16:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-skullet-ever-work-for-a-bald-man/765968/41 "2016-09-15T17:36:11Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > Maybe [Danny Devito](https://www.google.com/search?q=danny+devito&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjN07auxJHPAhXm5oMKHfDgCSwQ_AUICCgB&biw=1920&bih=940). It kinda works with his image/personality. It definitely worked in his favor when he played Oswald Cobblepot. [http://www.flickeringmyth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/danny-devito-penguin.jpg](http://www.flickeringmyth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/danny-devito-penguin.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-skullet-ever-work-for-a-bald-man/765968/42 "2016-09-15T17:58:29Z")
Get yourself a large mallet and a watermelon and hit the circuit. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-skullet-ever-work-for-a-bald-man/765968/43 "2016-09-15T21:21:11Z")
[Larry Fine?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqVqxds2800) ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-skullet-ever-work-for-a-bald-man/765968/44 "2016-09-15T23:46:15Z")
I think it does work to a point for those with that Ben Franklin/Danny DeVito thing going on, it almost has a sort of dignified look about it. Even crazy Jesse Ventura pulls it off as long as he doesn’t let it get really long. Pictures of LBJ when he was out of office with long hair I thought it looked really good on him actually, but he just had some very slight recession not the full-blown bald top-o-skull thing going on. Some people can pull it off and some can’t like pretty much anything else. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-skullet-ever-work-for-a-bald-man/765968/45 "2016-09-16T00:25:14Z")
[It’s a classic look.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/79/The_Simpsons-Jeff_Albertson.png) ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-skullet-ever-work-for-a-bald-man/765968/46 "2016-09-16T00:31:54Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > I really try not to judge men’s hair because I’ve always thought what a bummer it must be to go bald. They can’t help it any more than women can help cellulite. I wont’ laugh at your chrome dome if you don’t criticize my cottage cheese thighs. That being said, the skullet is a whole lot of “NO”. Gentlemen who are follically challenged can be just as handsome as their hairier brethren but not with a ring of hair hanging of the back of their head. I feel compelled to add that I don’t know any women who make fun of baldness per se, even if I don’t know any women who would say that their favorite look on men is no hair (albeit, it works on a few particular men quite well). However, women do make fun of toups, weaves, combovers, and other tacky or clueless attempts to hide baldness. While my vote for the skullet is a resounding no, it’s mostly based on my hotter-than-the-sun hate for the mullet (on women as well as men). I would never make fun of a a man who wears his baldness proudly. But if I ever see again that guy I sat behind at a funeral once, with a combination of a skullet/combover (back in 1989, before cellphones), I’m taking a picture for [FAIL.com](http://FAIL.com). ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-skullet-ever-work-for-a-bald-man/765968/47 "2016-09-16T00:44:04Z")
Thanks, OP, for reminding me that I need to schedule a haircut. ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-skullet-ever-work-for-a-bald-man/765968/48 "2016-09-16T04:54:10Z")
I’ve rarely seen any man who looked better with longer hair on the sides/back than on top. Mine has just started to grow slower on the top and I need to get it cut more frequently to keep the sides trimmed down. If it’s bald on the top, it’s time to go bald all around, probably. That said, maybe if you have the right bandanna. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-skullet-ever-work-for-a-bald-man/765968/49 "2016-09-17T08:38:04Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > [Just once.](http://www.rockymusic.org/showimage/dd20c580c4d157176418a17364ace381.php) That’s the one. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-skullet-ever-work-for-a-bald-man/765968/50 "2016-09-17T13:42:10Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > [Devin Townsend](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Devin_Townsend.jpg) looked great in the skullet. Unfortunately for the world, [he shaved it off.](http://www.metalsucks.net/2009/07/07/devin-townsend-the-exclusive-metalsucks-interview/) ☹ Holy bananas, Batman! He went from looking deranged (which might’ve been a plus, considering his profession) to, at least in some pictures, looking pretty hot. Wow. He should’ve cut that off long ago. As a female of the species who hopes I never have to deal with this is any form (mine or someone else’s), I say a resounding NO. Not necessarily because most people think it looks ridiculous, but because it ages you so badly. In the case if Devin, he looked like an old man when he was undoubtedly a wee lad and now he probably looks at least fifteen years younger. ---
**Author:** ![Jayg14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Jayg14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayg14)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-skullet-ever-work-for-a-bald-man/765968/51 "2016-09-17T19:44:47Z")
No, it looks stupid. Cut off what’s hanging past your shoulders and make a toupee out of it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-skullet-ever-work-for-a-bald-man/765968.md?page=2)