# New Style Trend for Balding Young Men?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-style-trend-for-balding-young-men/520103>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 5, 2009, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-style-trend-for-balding-young-men/520103 "2009-12-05T17:44:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![akira5822](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@akira5822](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akira5822)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2009, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-style-trend-for-balding-young-men/520103/41 "2009-12-06T21:15:06Z")

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> [@Snarky\_Kong](#):
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> I’m 25, heavily balding. I keep it pretty short and pretend I look like [this](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LrEznctRW_Q/SdRAzfrZ4sI/AAAAAAAABjc/gSRT9aTa4PI/s400/jason-statham1.jpg).

Hey!!! me too 😃

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**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-style-trend-for-balding-young-men/520103/42 "2009-12-07T17:42:52Z")

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My hairline isn’t where it was in my teens, but it’s still in a reasonably good place. Judging by my father (pre-chemo) and three older brothers, it looks like hair will pretty much always be an option.

Still, I opt out. From my teens through my mid-30’s my hair was long…anywhere from middle-of-the-back to well-past-my-butt long. I cut it to a short, messy-spiky look several years ago, and then a few months back I thought “I wonder what my head _really_ looks like”. One shave later (with my wife’s consent – after all, _she’s_ the one who has to look at it), and I found out.

I had planned on making it a one-time thing – I’d shave it and then let it go for a year or so. However, both my wife and I have decided we prefer it this way. She’s been digging the stubble-head-with-Van-Dyke look, and I like that my showers now take under two minutes.

**KneadToKnow** summed it up perfectly – five minutes with the trimmer every few weeks, and I’m good to go.

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