# I know you're embarrassed about it, but you're just making it worse. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 7, 2007, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-youre-embarrassed-about-it-but-youre-just-making-it-worse/394985 "2007-03-07T19:35:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-youre-embarrassed-about-it-but-youre-just-making-it-worse/394985/21 "2007-03-08T15:25:45Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield] Wait, did I just audition for Queer Eye? [/QUOTE] Only if you’ve got no interest in going to bed with the results, dearie. ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-youre-embarrassed-about-it-but-youre-just-making-it-worse/394985/22 "2007-03-08T15:51:23Z")
On the subject of artifically “enhancing” one’s self and failing miserably, I live in Florida, home of more fake tanned girls with bleach blonde hair than you can shake a stick at. Of course, some of them come out looking natural and beautiful, and some look more like [this](http://www.ruxp.net/newimg/posts/ganguro.jpg) than the intended reality. The thing is, [Ganguro girls](http://www.japaneselifestyle.com.au/fashion/image/Ganguro2.jpg) are not necessarily something one would want to model one’s self after, IMO. Personally, I like to call girls who have tanned themselves to an unnatural color by the term “cheese doodle.” As for the topic of men with awkward reactions to aging, a bus driver from when I was in school was going gray and decided to dye his brownish-reddish hair. Unfortunately, it came out raspberry colored and made him look like one of those jewel-bellied trolls. ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-youre-embarrassed-about-it-but-youre-just-making-it-worse/394985/23 "2007-03-08T16:21:04Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] He may mean something different. But I mean those people who get the fake suntans, the bleached blond hair, the heavy makeup, etc., etc. I will not cut my hair when I grow old, nor will I endeavor to look old - neither will i flee from my age! And that’s what it seems these women are doing. [/QUOTE] I immediately thought “Donatella Versace” when I read that description: [http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2006/WORLD/europe/03/24/donatella.versace/story.versace.gi.jpg](http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2006/WORLD/europe/03/24/donatella.versace/story.versace.gi.jpg) VCNJ~ ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-youre-embarrassed-about-it-but-youre-just-making-it-worse/394985/24 "2007-03-08T16:41:16Z")
[QUOTE=Veuve\_ClicquotNJ] I immediately thought “Donatella Versace” when I read that description: [http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2006/WORLD/europe/03/24/donatella.versace/story.versace.gi.jpg](http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2006/WORLD/europe/03/24/donatella.versace/story.versace.gi.jpg) VCNJ~ [/QUOTE] Now I’ve got to go bleach my eyes. Thanks a lot. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Dob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Dob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dob)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-youre-embarrassed-about-it-but-youre-just-making-it-worse/394985/25 "2007-03-08T16:42:13Z")
To those who tease the comb over-ites, I submit that you have never had to go thru the trauma that is Losing Your Hair! While I never went for the comb over look, I can sympathize with anyone who wants to try and deny the reality for as long as possible! ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-youre-embarrassed-about-it-but-youre-just-making-it-worse/394985/26 "2007-03-08T16:42:22Z")
That reminds me - what’s that thing on Donald Trump’s head? Is it some sort of Frankenstein combover or is it a toupee? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-youre-embarrassed-about-it-but-youre-just-making-it-worse/394985/27 "2007-03-08T16:47:25Z")
[QUOTE=teela brown] That reminds me - what’s that thing on Donald Trump’s head? Is it some sort of Frankenstein combover or is it a toupee? [/QUOTE] I believe it is his real hair. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-youre-embarrassed-about-it-but-youre-just-making-it-worse/394985/28 "2007-03-08T16:49:58Z")
My favorite name for Trump’s hairstyle is “the onion loaf.” Thanks, SNL. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-youre-embarrassed-about-it-but-youre-just-making-it-worse/394985/29 "2007-03-08T16:59:16Z")
[QUOTE=Veuve\_ClicquotNJ] I immediately thought “Donatella Versace” when I read that description: [http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2006/WORLD/europe/03/24/donatella.versace/story.versace.gi.jpg](http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2006/WORLD/europe/03/24/donatella.versace/story.versace.gi.jpg) VCNJ~ [/QUOTE] Yes! That’s it exactly. Yuck. I fear for people who go to tanning salons because that’s what they’ll become! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-youre-embarrassed-about-it-but-youre-just-making-it-worse/394985/30 "2007-03-08T17:03:12Z")
[QUOTE=Dob] To those who tease the comb over-ites, I submit that you have never had to go thru the trauma that is Losing Your Hair! [/QUOTE] On the contrary. I _am_ losing my hair, and I do not like it at all. BUT… I refuse to hide it. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-youre-embarrassed-about-it-but-youre-just-making-it-worse/394985/31 "2007-03-08T17:05:44Z")
[QUOTE=teela brown] That reminds me - what’s that thing on Donald Trump’s head? Is it some sort of Frankenstein combover or is it a toupee? [/QUOTE] There are posters of the man all over the subway here, advertising some kind of ‘get rich’ seminar. He looks fake. It could just be photoshopping of the picture, but if not, he has the modular add-on hair and painted complexion of a Ken doll. One would think that a billionaire could afford better cosmetics. ---
**Author:** ![Cyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@Cyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyn)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-youre-embarrassed-about-it-but-youre-just-making-it-worse/394985/32 "2007-03-09T03:16:07Z")
I went on a date with a man, had a pretty nice time and went out with him again. I asked if he’d gotten his hair cut—it looked different. He said no with an odd smile. Had a nice time, went out again and his hair looked different again, more like the first time. I asked him about it and could tell by his shifty eyes I was onto something. Something he had on his head! Alternating 2 wigs of human hair! When I met Drachillix, his hair was thinning and I talked him into cutting it very close to his magnificent head. He says chicks dig his large cranium. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-youre-embarrassed-about-it-but-youre-just-making-it-worse/394985/33 "2007-03-09T04:57:37Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] There are posters of the man all over the subway here, advertising some kind of ‘get rich’ seminar. He looks fake. It could just be photoshopping of the picture, but if not, he has the modular add-on hair and painted complexion of a Ken doll. One would think that a billionaire could afford better cosmetics. [/QUOTE] Or, at the very least, that Ivanka would pull him aside and say, “Dad, someone’s got to say this…” ---
**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-youre-embarrassed-about-it-but-youre-just-making-it-worse/394985/34 "2007-03-09T16:28:38Z")
[QUOTE=Dob] To those who tease the comb over-ites, I submit that you have never had to go thru the trauma that is Losing Your Hair! While I never went for the comb over look, I can sympathize with anyone who wants to try and deny the reality for as long as possible! [/QUOTE] Nope. Denial only makes you look insecure. My hair started thinning (slowly) when I was a freshman in college. It’s thin enough now that the only cut that looks good is a buzz cut. I miss my hair sometimes, and I get annoyed by the potential of sunburned scalp, but it’s worlds better to go with a style that actually looks decent rather than persisting in an exercise in futility. If you’re losing your hair, you’ll look and feel much better if you just accept the fact and act accordingly. ---
**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:** [March 9, 2007, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-youre-embarrassed-about-it-but-youre-just-making-it-worse/394985/35 "2007-03-09T16:51:49Z")
[QUOTE=mrklutz] Nope. Denial only makes you look insecure. My hair started thinning (slowly) when I was a freshman in college. It’s thin enough now that the only cut that looks good is a buzz cut. I miss my hair sometimes, and I get annoyed by the potential of sunburned scalp, but it’s worlds better to go with a style that actually looks decent rather than persisting in an exercise in futility. If you’re losing your hair, you’ll look and feel much better if you just accept the fact and act accordingly. [/QUOTE] My whole life, I’ve gotten the ‘suit cut, part the hair on one side’ cut, but my hair is starting to thin in spots. I’m not at the comb-over stage, but I came very close to getting the #3 clippers buzz-cut at my last hair cut. The trouble is, I know that the minute I do, the office gossip will be “well, look who’s having a mid-life crisis! I wonder which one of the fluffy-bunny 20-somethings he thinks he’s impressing with his new hair-style…” :rolleyes: My wife said she’d like me either way, and that’s just one of the reasons I love her… ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-youre-embarrassed-about-it-but-youre-just-making-it-worse/394985/36 "2007-03-09T17:02:04Z")
[QUOTE=Count Blucher] My whole life, I’ve gotten the ‘suit cut, part the hair on one side’ cut, but my hair is starting to thin in spots. I’m not at the comb-over stage, but I came very close to getting the #3 clippers buzz-cut at my last hair cut. The trouble is, I know that the minute I do, the office gossip will be “well, look who’s having a mid-life crisis! I wonder which one of the fluffy-bunny 20-somethings he thinks he’s impressing with his new hair-style…” :rolleyes: My wife said she’d like me either way, and that’s just one of the reasons I love her… [/QUOTE] You could always get it cut short by accident, like I did… 🙂 ---
**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:** [March 9, 2007, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-youre-embarrassed-about-it-but-youre-just-making-it-worse/394985/37 "2007-03-09T17:12:19Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] You could always get it cut short by accident, like I did… 🙂 [/QUOTE] You know, I like that idea. Thank You! ---
**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-youre-embarrassed-about-it-but-youre-just-making-it-worse/394985/38 "2007-03-09T17:23:09Z")
[QUOTE=Count Blucher] My whole life, I’ve gotten the ‘suit cut, part the hair on one side’ cut, but my hair is starting to thin in spots. I’m not at the comb-over stage, but I came very close to getting the #3 clippers buzz-cut at my last hair cut. The trouble is, I know that the minute I do, the office gossip will be “well, look who’s having a mid-life crisis! I wonder which one of the fluffy-bunny 20-somethings he thinks he’s impressing with his new hair-style…” :rolleyes: My wife said she’d like me either way, and that’s just one of the reasons I love her… [/QUOTE] Buzz-cut as a sign of mid-life crisis? That’s a new one on me. Huh. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-youre-embarrassed-about-it-but-youre-just-making-it-worse/394985/39 "2007-03-09T17:26:16Z")
[QUOTE=Count Blucher] You know, I like that idea. Thank You! [/QUOTE] It worked out [much better than I expected](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=409776) as well. I got an extremely-unexpected number of compliments. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-youre-embarrassed-about-it-but-youre-just-making-it-worse/394985/40 "2007-03-09T17:30:39Z")
My funniets story: I used to know a guy who had a large bald spot. he would spray some kind of gooey crap out of an aerosol can, onto the spot. i don’t know what the stuff was-it looked like the stuff you spray on to undercoat car bodies. anyway, the stuff would smudge and run-he looked like a fool. of course, nobody ever pointed it out-the guy had a rather violent temper! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-youre-embarrassed-about-it-but-youre-just-making-it-worse/394985.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-youre-embarrassed-about-it-but-youre-just-making-it-worse/394985.md?page=3)