Okay, I hope this is the most moronic question you’ll hear today. But with all the pain men go through to NOT be bald, are there any men out there who actually wish they were? Of course you can shave your head, but that’s not what I’m talking about here. Is there anyone who wishes they had a bit of male pattern baldness, for whatever crazy reason?
Or women, any men you know who you wish were losing their hair? (I feel this proposition is more likely than the first.)
I’m developing baldness (and I’m only in my early 30’s), but if I had a choice between being totally bald and having a full, luxuriant mane like a romance model, I’d take being bald. When my hair is longer than about 1 1/2 inches, I get headaches and get sleepy.
But I’d rather have the choice to have hair and not take it than not have the choice at all.
I want to start going grey and begin balding at the temples. I’ve wanted to for a long time. I’m 34.
Here’s what I look like now. (Pardon the gesture. My manager was playing with his new camera phone. It’s the only one of me I have where I’m not wearing a cap.) I’d like to get salt and pepper on the sides and at the temples ahead of the balding.
I forget what side of the family you look to for future results. My dad started to go grey but not bald, and my mom had a thick head of dark hair (until it fell out from chemo).
I’m balding slightly, typical male pattern. I really don’t mind it at all- I have absolutely no angst about it. I’m more ambivalent about it, I don’t pray for baldness but I don’t mind that it is happening… no big deal. I think it helps that I’m not very vain and have no one to impress.
I’m not bald yet, but you can tell by my hairline that it’s inevitable. I’d rather have a full head of hair, but since that won’t happen without personal intervention (which I have no desire to do), I’m wanting the baldness to get here now just to get it over with.
I went bald really early, and have far less hair than my father who turns 81 this year. Yet when my brother and I were growing up, we always thought of him as mostly bald.
I haven’t minded it so much, except that I’ve always worn a moustache, and then about 10 years ago I started wearing a goatee. People told me it looked really good, and I think it’s nice to have a bit of extra hair on my face to compensate. I know, it makes me look like Lenin, but probably that’s why he did it, too!
But you know, life’s a bitch, because now my goatee is turning salt-and-pepper, and every single day there seems to be more and more salt. I don’t want to look like someone’s great-uncle yet! and yet, there’s not much I can do about it short of shearing it off. I can’t color it, the roots would show in a day.
I’ve been shaving my head for more than 15 years now, and I’d take being totally bald anyday. Unfortunately, I seem to have no inclination to lose my hair naturally.
I’m another person who is uncomfortable with hair on my head. Any longer than about 1/4 inch, and I’m hot and can’t sleep well. I have no idea how i ever managed to have waist-length hair in my late teens, but since I cut it off, I can’t stand to have any.
I’ve often wondered if shampooing with Nair would do me any good, but I can’t abide the smell of that stuff so I’ve never tried it.
I have an incurable scalp condition that forces me to shave my head. I’ve already lost big patches of hair so it’s not like I could make it look good even if I could grow it out. I wish I could magically get rid of the rest of the hair on my head. Not only would it make my scalp improve, but then I also wouldn’t have to shave it every other day.
I tried nair on my head once. It didn’t give very satisfactory results and burned the sh** out of my scalp.
I had skull surgery as a child, with a huge scar leaping across the head as a result. You can’t see it, 'cause it’s hidden under my fluffy ball of hair, but it’s always been a horrifying thought that I could go bald and showcase the scar at all times. Fortunately, baldness doesn’t seem to run in the family.
mrAru has allopecia, absolutely no hair anywhere [not entirely true, he has some nose hair from some sort of sinus spray that he is prescribed specifically to try and grow nose hair.] When it first showed up, I encouraged him to shave his head. He was navy at the time and kept his hair very short anyway - bit it was falling out in pretty wierd patches and it looked silly. He was much happier after shaving it all of rather than wait for the rest to fall out.
At one point in time I debated shaving my head, i had a bad short haircut and the layers were just so whacked out it looked like shit, but my mother talked me out of it. I could have worn a wig [they were sort of in fashion just then] and it owuldnt have been that big a deal.
If I could be permanently bald - that is, without ever having to shave - I would go for it. My hair is difficult enough to maintain. It’s very thick and grows very fast, so I have to get buzzed military style every 3-4 weeks. If I let it get any longer than that it gets all bushy and looks terrible. (My preference is for short hair on men anyway – the shorter the better, and bald is best of all!) However, my barber tells me I wouldn’t look good bald because of the shape of my head. Oh well.
I’m with you! Luckily, time will eventually reduce my haircare ritual to near nothing, if the hairlines of my male relatives are in any way predictive. I watched my father despair over losing his hair; I’ve arranged things to make hair loss work for me.
My ex-husband often said he hoped to go bald soon, because he thought washing his hair was a waste of time. I don’t know if he was serious, but I assume he was.
I’m lucky enough to have a nicely shaped skull, and I look (IMHO) quite handsome bald. If I had a full head of hair that might be one thing, but growing it long then slopping it around if I was balding as Donald Trump and others do is disgusting.
My brother (14 months younger than me) who shaves his head looks pretty good bald. Besides one good size mole on my scalp (which I would eventually have it removed), I got no worries.
My friend Joey is obsessed with the notion of having a receding hairline, because he thinks it makes men with thick, dark hair look more handsome (something about how it improves your profile by sticking out more.) He cites Pierce Brosnan as an example of what he’s talking about.
