I'm starting to go bald, and it makes me feel like a worse person.

Please.

Not “seem to” - just plain “women hate wigs and combovers.” I can’t speak for all women, of course - just the ones with eyes. :slight_smile:

I’m 38 now and started going bald in my very early 20s. One day I just shaved it all off and never looked back. Yes I looked good when I had hair, but I look damn good now. :smiley:

At the risk of sounding insensitive, I cannot fathom why men place so much importance in their hair and why anyone thinks “bald = dumb-looking”. You hair has NOTHING to do with your virility, your strength or your attractiveness. It’s literally just some extra protein growing out of the top of your head. I absolutely couldn’t care less about it and certainly wouldn’t spend tens of thousands of dollars to get my hair back. In fact if someone could wave a magic wand and give me a head of perfect locks in an instant, I would in all seriousness tell them “no thanks”. I LIKE being bald. As mentioned by other posters, it’s very freeing.

So my advice is to embrace it, own it and be proud of it. Shave your head and turn yourself into a badass :cool:

Another vote for the #3 clipper cut. Low maintenance, you can do it yourself and save a bundle on haircuts, and you own your hairline. I’ve found that while wimmins certainly won’t complain if you have luscious locks and a 30-inch waist, they seem to be far more concerned about the strength of your character. If hairstyle is a statement of how you see yourself, I think shaven bald is about as close to “Fuck you life! You’re MY bitch!” as you can get. Chicks dig that. Shiny bald with at least moderate confidence can generally overcome a bit of excess weight and some age. It’s sort of like the equivalent of a woman speaking with an Irish accent.

You remember the joke, “God made very few perfect heads; the rest he covered with hair.”?

It’s true. Some people actually do not look good bald.

(However, everyone looks horrible with a combover.)

I don’t understand—how does D. Trump get all the babes, then? Is it that honkin’ ten inch Louisville Slugger he’s packing? That’s gotta be it; I can’t think of any other logical explanation…

It’s his sparkling personality.

I can’t speak for all men, but that’s pretty much how most of us feel about breast implants.

It’s not.

My hair began thinning in my late twenties, and now thirty years later it’s almost gone on top, and what’s left is salt and pepper. I now buzz cut my hair with the closest attachment about once a month or so. It’s great! I look like a chemotherapy patient!

I once did know a young chemotherapy patient in Albuquerque who was bald from the treatments. (Most of his hair had fallen out, so he just shaved the rest off.) He had a job in going door to door for an environmental group. Said one guy he caught at home smirked at him and asked, “So why are you bald?”, expecting him to answer that he was some sort of punk. When he told him, “I have cancer,” the guy fell all over himself apologizing and donated a bunch of money.

Bald men are sexy. Well not all, of course, buy my almost bald guy is :smiley:

I am a guy in my forties. When I walk out of the barber, with my hair clipped tight with a salt and pepper stubbly beard to match, wearing stylish glasses with some casual but stylish going to work clothes, I feel like I own the world. I feel like the boss-man, I look like the boss-man, and people treat me like the boss man.

You know how some people go to the spa or get a mani or a pedi to feel good and refreshed- I go to the barber and get my hair (what little I have left) cut down and I feel clean and mean.

One warning if you do decide to shave your head or get it cut super short- you do have to pay more attention to your clothes, glasses, facial hair, skin, etc. When you get a big boy haircut, you gotta follow through with the rest of the look (if you care about that sort of thing).