What do women really think about bald men?

In My Humble Opinion
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Bald good - hiding it bad.

Had a conversation about this with bf today (he thought I was being mean about his less than hirsuite bits)… I said I don’t mind it just as long as:

  1. you NEVER get a combover
  2. you NEVER get a wig
  3. you NEVER use any kind of dark hair “replacement” spray rubbish

He’s going bald - thats a fact of life … and I have absolutely no problem with it whatsoever… but I would should he turn into some creepy freaky combover type guy shudders

Dave… shave it man, get one of those clipper thingies… you’d be done in 2 seconds!!

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Any man who is self-assured is sexy. Any guy sporting a comb-over doesn’t come off as self-assured. I dated a short, bald guy for a long time (I’m 5’7", he was 5’4") and always thought it was fun to walk into places with him. Women wanted to touch him. He wasn’t particularly good-looking, but he had…SOMETHING! Some have it, some don’t.

My neighbor always looked like a generic middle-aged, balding husband-type until a couple of weeks ago. He shaved his head and grew a goatee. Oh, man, now I can’t look at him without breaking into a sweat!

It’s what’s IN the head, not ON it.

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Depending on the man, bald can be beautiful - shaved heads, close-croppd hair, whatever. And like SouthernSky, I’m a huge fan of the shaved head/goatee look. Yum!

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Which would you rather be:
Column A Column B
Robert Duvall Joey Lawrence
Patrick Stewart Kato Kaelin
Sean Connery Michael J. Fox
Yul Brynner John Davidson
Chi McBride Milli Vanillli
Isaac Hayes Ziggy Marley

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flipping through calendar Tonight looks good. I mean, I am scheduled to wash my hair and make fudge, but I think I can… um… squeeze you in.

Well, you have that girlfriend thing going on… but if that doesn’t work out… After all, I did visit your spit or swallow thread. :wink:

I know exactly what you mean. Makes me melt every time.

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Damn! Now, I’m gonna have to wade through all…umm…14 pages, is it?..to see how you answered! Regarding the GF, it’s only a matter of time, not that I’m taking your offer seriously. sigh

And, Hey! What’s with all the “Davebear do this…” comments? You’re making me self-conscious. Besides, you don’t know that my friend is right. And, she’s kind of a wacko, in a nice way, and not my type, at all. So, I’m not too inclined to take her advice on this topic. Although, I’m pretty sure that Contrary is my type, based on a fairly long exchange we had in the Pub. So…maybe…Oh, and I already do use clippers, not a shaver, on my noggin. Saves time that would really be wasted on going to a stylist/barber/whatever.

I dunno about the goatee, though. Last time I grew one, it was silver grey. Made me look and feel old(er). I’m fairly youthful looking, without it. And, it doesn’t match my moustache, which is still dark blonde. So, all you ladies getting hot an bothered about shaved heads and goatees, what’s your take on that? I guess I could dye it, but that’s even more phony than a hairpiece, IMO.

Speaking of which, I did once go to a stylist who wanted to fit me for one. This was back before I started buzzing it, and it wasn’t as thin on top. I let him do it, because he really wanted to, and he hadn’t cut my hair, yet, so I didn’t want to piss him off. I guess it would have looked okay, once it was trimmed. But, it felt horrible. It made my skin crawl. So, while I don’t object to other people wearing them, I’ll pass.

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Sexy is on the inside and shows on the outside–hair or no hair. So no, it doesn’t bother me if a guy is bald. My hubby has lost a fair bit on top and has a “proceeding forehead” as well. None of this bothers him (“it’s just more face to wash” is how he puts it.) and it surely doesn’t bother me as long as he doesn’t do the comb over or grow his beard out shaggy to (over)compensate.

The reason I don’t like a rug is that it almost always looks PHONY. I don’t object to it because of any double standard, as has been alluded to. I mean, it may be true that a woman wears a padded bras to improve her confidence. But just imagine if she was stuffing her bra with tissues and it was all lumpy and maybe there were even a few hanging out of the collar of her shirt! Or how about, instead of a neat manicure, a woman simply painted her ragged nails, slopping the polish onto her cuticles and not letting them dry, so junk gets stuck on the wet nails. This is how a toupee comes across to me. Shaggy and artificial and obvious. On occasion, I have seen some that I didn’t even know were toupees till someone told me. This is the rare exception, though.

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Oh, yeah. The shaved/bald head or very short hair with a goatee is definitely a good look. :swoon:

The comb-over is a baaaad look. You’re not fooling anyone. It’s really bad when you have to part your hair right above your ear and comb it over like my FIL. I think he uses about a quart of Brylcreem to keep his comb-over in place.

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Smack him for me, would ya’? That’s too far to drive. :stuck_out_tongue:

In the name of fairness, though, I have to say that the comb-over guys are fooling someone; themselves. Having been through the denial phase, though without having resorted to that extreme, I actually understand it. It’s because, when they look in the mirror, they, literally, see themselves differently than the rest of us do.

When we look in a mirror, we generally look straight on; no angles. We don’t generally tip our heads down, to see how the top of our heads look. And, if you’re looking straight ahead, you’re looking through what little hair you have on top. Other people are looking at it. So, it actually looks thicker/better to the owner than to anyone else. It took me a while to realize exactly how thin I’d gotten, up top, for this reason. At the angle I was seeing it from, it looked thicker. It’s kind of like looking at a forest, from a distance. The trees look really dense, and close together. It’s only when you see it close up that you realize there’s all that space in between.

It still doesn’t totally excuse it, though.

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The irritating thing, from a balding male point-of-view, is that hair loss really cuts down your options. Basically, if you don’t want to look a fool, you have to cut it short. No longer can you look at the latest fashions and think: “hmm … would that suit me?” It’s buzz-cut or shaved – for the rest of your life. Live with it.

And you know, some people just don’t suit that style. A guy I was at school with, who had masses of curly blond hair when he was 18, was very receding by the time he was 21. Trouble was, he had a real “lightbulb head” – shaved or cropped just wouldn’t suit him. Nature can be cruel sometimes.

As far as hair-pieces go, the only time I think they can work is for guys who have a full, thick head of hair – except for the crown. Sometimes that happens, and unfortunately the guy it’s happening to is often the last to know. It’s not the easiest part to see, after all, and unless you’ve got a really good friend, you could end up walking around for quite some time without realising that you look like a joke from behind. Fortunately, I have a wife who never misses an opportunity to comment on the progress of my “tonsure”.

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Ok, maybe an Elmer Fudd head shape might not be that attractive, just from a visual standpoint. I still say, though, that sexiness comes from within - how comfortable a man is in his own skin. We have all known the drop-dead gorgeous guy/gal who, for some reason, didn’t flip our switches.

I appreciate what DaveBear said, about men looking in the mirror. Women scrutinize every angle when we look into a mirror, every hair, freckle, eyelash, and pore. Women are detail-oriented.

There is a saying, “Men look into a mirror and see what they were. Women look into a mirror and see what they will become”.

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I love bald men. Love love LOVE bald men.

My SO is the first full-head-of-hair guy I’ve been with since college. The other day, he started complaining that he thinks he is losing his hair, and I was secretly pleased.

I dated a balding guy who kept part of his hair kind of long and spiky, I guess to offset the balding. never did much for me. I saw him again recently and he decided to just go ahead and shave his head.

I’m pretty sure I blushed when I saw him.

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Thank you, Stoli, for that laugh. I will remember it for a long time.

Oh, and, as for myself: I’ll take a funny bald guy over a non-funny hairy guy ANY DAY.

-Another Primate

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Really? So…how YOU…

Oh! Never mind. sigh

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My wife tells me my bald head is sexy.

But as I remind her (I’m 5’11", she’s 5’2"), she’s looking up at me, so she doesn’t see my baldness. That hair is my beard…

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Ohhh, were you gonna say what I long to hear: “How YOU doin’?”

<sigh>. One wonders what I am doing on the SDMB at 11:56 on a Saturday night, posting queries about songs that describe one’s sex life (my new thread), doesn’t one? (I think I exhausted the use of that particular pronoun…)

Hey, just following up on my “How do you handle loneliness” thread—oh, and hijacking someone else’s.

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<grin>

<blush>

I nix the goatee if it really doesn’t match your 'stache. Carpets and drapes should match for both sexes, dontcha think?

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Yes, one does wonder. Particularly after the comment about an SO. Not around, I take it?

So…how YOU doin’? :wink:

Well, I hate to disappoint.

Oh, that was you!. I’ve really gotta start paying more attention to whose threads I’m playing in. Well, I can now say I’ve posted to at least two of yours. :slight_smile: Not particularly impressive posts, though. (My “loneliness” post was one word. Poorly, as I recall.)

I do. That’s one reason I am currently goatless. No goatee felcher, I!