It definitely worked in his favor when he played Oswald Cobblepot.
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Get yourself a large mallet and a watermelon and hit the circuit.
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.
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.
Thanks, OP, for reminding me that I need to schedule a haircut.
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.
That’s the one.
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.
No, it looks stupid. Cut off what’s hanging past your shoulders and make a toupee out of it.