# Female dopers, would you still be attractive without your hair? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 18, 2007, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-dopers-would-you-still-be-attractive-without-your-hair/392715 "2007-02-18T15:59:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-dopers-would-you-still-be-attractive-without-your-hair/392715/21 "2007-02-18T18:48:01Z")
No! I’d look like a turkey. From a male’s perspective, FTR. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-dopers-would-you-still-be-attractive-without-your-hair/392715/22 "2007-02-18T19:06:07Z")
I think Britney, despite her lumpy head, can just about carry it off. I shaved my very pretty roommate’s head when we were drunk a few years ago, and she got away with it too - but she’s as Irish as Sinéad O’Connor so probably has some unfair advantage. However, Scottish cutie TV star [Gail Porter](http://www.blazinbeauties.com/images3/gail_porter/gail_porter_4.jpg) (just about SFW picture), famous for having her [bare arse projected on the Houses of Parliament](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6a/Gail-porter-stunt-marketing.jpg) (NSFW if you’re working for uptight people) by a men’s magazine - [got alapecia](http://baldiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/200604082218-1.jpg). And to her credit, decided to brazen it out and eschew wigs and so on. She’s kept her career, though no longer as a stereotypical “babe”, and I think she’s still attractive in a way, but she’s not _stunning_ anymore. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-dopers-would-you-still-be-attractive-without-your-hair/392715/23 "2007-02-18T19:19:50Z")
I have short curly hair and it’s “poof” really balances out my lumpy face and body. When it’s flat (out of the shower) I look like a fat tree with a big ugly pumpkin on top. So no, I would not look good with a shaved head. I think one needs a well-defined face with say high cheekbones or something (look at Sinead) to pull it off. Then again, there was another thread a while back asking if you would shave your head for a price, and my price was quite low (maybe $1000?) considering how bad I’d look. ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-dopers-would-you-still-be-attractive-without-your-hair/392715/24 "2007-02-18T19:55:13Z")
I’d look terrifying. I have [a ridiculous amount of hair](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v313/erinpuff/Pictures%20of%20Me/myhairsm.jpg), which I consider necessary to take people’s attention away from the rest of me. 😛 I’m short, overweight, and have bad (and very pale) skin–there’s no way I’d be able to pull it off. ---
**Author:** ![Cyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@Cyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyn)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-dopers-would-you-still-be-attractive-without-your-hair/392715/25 "2007-02-18T20:25:54Z")
I bet I could. Especially with good, dramatic makeup to emphasize my eyes. Maybe false eyelashes…hmmmm ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-dopers-would-you-still-be-attractive-without-your-hair/392715/26 "2007-02-18T22:14:02Z")
I would not want to find out if I’m still attractive without my hair, but I do find it disturbing that so many women (not necessarily here, but in real life) attach so much of their worth as a person and a woman to their hair. I know more than a few women who let their hair grow very long and think that \*that is where it’s at. No matter if their hair is fine and straggly or crunchy or otherwise unhealthy-looking, or if they’re really too obese to look good with long hair (short hair looks much better than long if you’re big, generally)- they think that as long as it’s long, it’s sexy and shows the world their value. Your value is NOT in your hair! ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-dopers-would-you-still-be-attractive-without-your-hair/392715/27 "2007-02-18T22:51:10Z")
I’m too big to pull off the bald look. It works best on those slim little pixie women. ---
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-dopers-would-you-still-be-attractive-without-your-hair/392715/28 "2007-02-19T04:46:42Z")
I’ve had a buzz, not by choice, but because of surgery, more than once. I’m not overly devoted to my hair. It’ll grow back. I do have some impressive scars up there, but they have a tendency to peak through even now. -Lil ---
**Author:** ![MaddyStrut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@MaddyStrut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaddyStrut)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-dopers-would-you-still-be-attractive-without-your-hair/392715/29 "2007-02-19T04:52:35Z")
[QUOTE=Jodi] I wear my hair very short, like pixie short (above the ears and nape of the neck), so going bald in theory wouldn’t be that big of a stretch. But even if my hair is short it’s long enough to cover my head, and who knows what my head looks like underneath there? Could be lumpy as a bowl of day-old oatmeal. Plus except in the summer I am puh-_asty_ white, and I’m not sure how attractive a shiny blindingly white head would be. [/QUOTE] Same for me. Frankly, my hair’s never been one of my major assets looks-wise. I have decent bone structure, so I’ve been able to get away with short cuts (which is a blessing since I’m cursed with thin, limp, scraggly hair). But I don’t think I’d be attractive bald. Outside of sci-fi movies, I don’t think bald really works on a woman. ---
**Author:** ![threnodyangelfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@threnodyangelfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threnodyangelfire)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-dopers-would-you-still-be-attractive-without-your-hair/392715/30 "2007-02-19T05:25:22Z")
Absolutely not. I have a lumpy head and a funny bumpy thing on the back of it. I think I really was dropped when I was a child. 😛 Though I do have to admit now I’m curious to know what you all look like. With or without hair. ---
**Author:** ![MerryMagdalen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@MerryMagdalen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MerryMagdalen)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-dopers-would-you-still-be-attractive-without-your-hair/392715/31 "2007-02-19T07:35:12Z")
I shaved my head with clippers set on one (so not shiny or stubbly but otherwise as short as you can get) about 12 years ago. It looked really good, actually. I don’t know that I’d do it again - now it’s almost waist-length, and I’m a little older. I don’t look that much different now, though, so if all my hair fell out tonight I think I’d still look ok. (The fun part about that haircut was growing it out. I dyed it bright green, I dyed it bright red, I shaved it into a red mohawk and painted leopard spots on the side of my head. I sometimes wish I could still get away with that. Damn real job.) ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-dopers-would-you-still-be-attractive-without-your-hair/392715/32 "2007-02-19T11:20:37Z")
Well, my best feature is a couple feet away from my head, I’m told… I know I have a lumpy skull (that doctor wasn’t particularly delicate with the forceps), but still, if my hair started going, I might just shave it. I know I look good with short hair and I hate the way hair looks when it’s way too wispy and the hairdressers tease it up trying to make it look more abundant. It. Doesn’t. Work! One of the old ladies in church (she is over 90) shaved it last summer as a sort of joke with the greatson and decided she liked it that way better 🙂 I hear she’s letting it grow now, for winter. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-dopers-would-you-still-be-attractive-without-your-hair/392715/33 "2007-02-19T11:47:28Z")
[QUOTE=Nava] Well, my best feature is a couple feet away from my head, I’m told… [/QUOTE] Cite? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-dopers-would-you-still-be-attractive-without-your-hair/392715/34 "2007-02-19T11:49:52Z")
Just oogle a female dwarf’s ass in WoW, it’s one of the reasons I identify with those toons… we even have the same running (lack of) style. ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-dopers-would-you-still-be-attractive-without-your-hair/392715/35 "2007-02-19T11:52:19Z")
Once in New York some guy shaved off all my hair. It looked good- I have unusual features and the lack of hair made them look striking instead of just wierd. But I hated it because it was not at all “cute”. ---
**Author:** ![XJETGIRLX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9fc29f/32.png) [@XJETGIRLX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XJETGIRLX)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-dopers-would-you-still-be-attractive-without-your-hair/392715/36 "2007-02-19T12:39:07Z")
I used to shave my head on a regular basis (the bottom half, anyways, with braids on top). I absolutely loved it. And I gotta say, no hair suits me much better than this crazy mop I’ve got now, and it’s a hundred times easier to keep up with. I’m just itching for the day that I can afford to shave it again. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-dopers-would-you-still-be-attractive-without-your-hair/392715/37 "2007-02-19T12:55:45Z")
My head is tiny. Seriously tiny. Like Penelope Cruz tiny (am I the only one who’s noticed this, by the way?). I have a tiny little pinhead on a normal sized (as opposed to Penelope Cruz-sized) body. Even leaving aside the issue of any weird lumpiness, scars, and my wildly uneven ears, I don’t think baldness would be my best look. Besides, I love my hair. It’s long and curly and a great color and remarkably healthy and prettyprettypretty. I wouldn’t say that my self-worth is tied to it, but it is kind of a signature for me, and definitely part of my identity. That said, if I \*had \* to shave it for some reason, I wouldn’t have a breakdown about it. It grows back, and it’d be interesting to see if I could rock the baldness. ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-dopers-would-you-still-be-attractive-without-your-hair/392715/38 "2007-02-19T13:21:39Z")
I’m not exactly attractive _with_ my hair, I can’t see how shaving it all off is going to improve the situation. Alternatively, a “Cousin It” type wig might do the job! ---
**Author:** ![CaerieD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-dopers-would-you-still-be-attractive-without-your-hair/392715/39 "2007-02-19T14:30:32Z")
My hair is my most striking feature, so I really can’t imagine shaving it off. Without my hair, I don’t think I’d be nearly as attractive as I am now. I’ve got fairly sharp features and the long, curly hair helps soften them. If there wasn’t any hair, there wouldn’t be anything to accomplish this. Through my hair, my head feels fairly lump free, but you just can’t be sure until you’ve actually gotten a look at it. Being a natural redhead, I’m sure if I _did_ shave my head, I’d immedietely get an awful sunburn and then have a freckled scalp for the rest of my life. Which would probably kind of make me look like an alien. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-dopers-would-you-still-be-attractive-without-your-hair/392715/40 "2007-02-19T14:42:58Z")
I have a small head and I look “cute” in short hair. I dispise “cute.” I wear my hair long. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-dopers-would-you-still-be-attractive-without-your-hair/392715.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-dopers-would-you-still-be-attractive-without-your-hair/392715.md?page=3)