What do you think of the look where balding men shave it all off?
Should men shave it all off if they don’t have hair everywhere they are supposed to? Is that look just as wannabe as the combover? Are there many bald men who can handle being bald and still growing hair where they have it? Is it a wimp thing to do to shave or combover or whatever it is you do to hide that you are balding? Does shaving to complete baldness actually fool attract women?
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I think shaving it all off looks way better then having an unsightly bald spot.
It looks kinda sexy, if you can pull it off.
I, fortunaley have a full head of hair all over.
I will say this, I would shave my head bald, rather than to wear a hair “rug”.
Are you seriously trying to tell me that this is not the hotness?
Whether or not someone is balding (how would you know?), a shorn skull can look pretty nice.
Shave the donut shaped side fringes off. I knew one person who was fully bald on top, except for a tuft on his forehead, had hair on the sides and back of his head, but also had a full swath of hair on his neck so it looked like a Y shaped hair pattern—starting at his ears and going all the way down into his shirt. ICK. That kind of balding pattern screams to be shaven.
Some bald patterns aren’t too bad—it depends on the pattern and how the guy pulls it off, but no combovers.
I can’t see a combover without thinking of all the old men in Florida when I was growing up—they’d stand in the wind and their combovers would fly up and flutter like a flag.
@linguaphile I can’t see a combover without seeing my high school computer teacher, who had his plaid pants up to his chest and literally (no, not figuratively, literally. I checked.) repeated every sentence he said at least twice.
@Aethelflaed Did he flutter in the wind, too? :D I definitely can picture that teacher!
The worst combovers are the “comb-arounds” where they take a combover to the extreme and comb it around their head like a turban.
I love this question. Even more, I love that it comes with images.
Bald is sexy, combovers… not so much. IMHO.
I feel it is better and more unified to just go bald than have a horseshoe hair cut, or a comb over.
I really dislike it. I’d rather they cut it short, and let us enjoy the hair they have left. It’s nice to have something to run your fingers through. But no combovers. Ever.
Also – why rush it? Eventually, it will probably all go, so why not appreciate what’s there while you can?
Personally I think comb overs are complete yuck, and hair growing only on the sides and back of the head totally turn me off. Unless they’re wizards and what they have left of their hair goes down to their waist. Big long hair fan here. :D Bald shaving totally is cool though, and has a nice appeal to it, whether you have plenty of hair or not. I don’t see it as a wimpy thing to do. I don’t see comb overs or just letting what’s left of the hair remain as a wimpy thing either, I just don’t like it. Opinion.
Ok, all you “shave it off”-ers… would you rather Picard had shaved his head completely bald? I don’t buy it.
A nicely proportioned skull can look very attractive bald. Lumpy, scared or odd shapes may be better with hair. I always think guys who are balding naturally as simply having more face to kiss.
@dappled_leaves And would you rather Gandalf or Dracula went all bald? To each his own, man. Also, Max Schreck; epic.
But Nosferatu makes up for the baldness with those awesome fingernails!
My boyfriend does this. I much prefer to the look of a balding man in denial! Receding hairlines when the rest of the hair is long or bald spots in the middle of the head don’t do anything for me at all. I find shaved heads on men quite sexy.
I much prefer full on bald than bald spots. Receding hairline can be fine, at least for a while, but once you’ve got a whole naked spot surrounded by hair, SHAVE IT OFF.
I say do it, it seriously beats this. I wanted to make a joke, but it speaks for itself…
My husband is thinning in the back at a pretty young age. He buzzes it down short (not bald but close) to sort of mask it. I love petting the fuzz! He would look sort of naked with such short hair without a beard and glasses.
@Keep_on_running Gross!!
@leanne1986 I much prefer to the look of a balding man in denial
But that’s just it – shaving off what’s left is a denial. To me, it just looks like they’re trying to cover up the fact that they’re balding, which is obvious;
I’m not a man. I can’t imagine having to shave my head. How often do you have to shave if you shave your head? My husband has a full head of thick grey hair. If he had bald spots or was balding and he asked my opinion; I’d say, keep it short and let the hair fall where it may.
On the other hand, I have seen many bald men who look great without hair. I like it either way. Please, just don’t do the comb-over.
This is why we ask questions. I had no idea. I am almost shocked. I have to think on what this means.
There was a question about hair coloring almost a year back. I remember saying that I much prefer a woman who goes with her natural coloring. Most women disagreed. This seems similar. I don’t like the idea of people trying to hide what their natural state of being is, but most women who replied here want the effort to hide the lack of hair even if it means going fully bald—as if it is your choice to be bald, although everyone knows they probably would not shave if it weren’t for the effort to make a virtue of necessity.
I don’t know if there is any generalization possible here about personality. Which is more important? The way something really is or the way it looks? I guess I must think it’s most important to know the way something really is, but why? Does that actually affect anything important in life?
And I don’t mind people decorating themselves, so long as I don’t think they are trying to hide anything. Maybe it’s that I hate being fooled? Maybe other people don’t mind it, or even like it?
My dad does that, and he looks much better bald than he did even with a full head of hair.
Usually, I think it is a good choice to do so. Being partially bald makes people look a lot older, and in general it just doesn’t look very good.
@wundayatta Combovers, to me, say that a man is ashamed of his baldness and trying to hide it, whereas shaving it all off seems to say that he’s comfortable with himself and is confidently embracing his hairless head.
To be quite honest, I really just assume everyone’s trying to hide something, a little bit. Maybe it’s how colorless their cheeks are in the morning, maybe it’s how their third toe looks a bit funky, or how their tummy is a bit poochy, but everyone has something they’re trying to “play down”, as it were.
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Either shave it all off, or shave it super close (so it’s soft and fuzzy). Combovers or combarounds are just awful, rugs aren’t very good either, and weird patches or tufts or wisps (is it a spider web or some leftover cotton candy?) are very distracting to look at.
@wundayatta Does that actually affect anything important in life?
Probably. I don’t know. Speaking for myself, I answered based on preference only. I don’t look at it any further than that, and wouldn’t dismiss any guys who have looks I don’t like. It’s not about saying to hide something, or disguise it. Guys with a bunch of hair and who shave it off I also think it’s awesome. Like as if, in normal circumstances, somebody is going to believe that a younger bald man is actually going bald.
@Kardamom Dang….. hoooot.
How can a balding guy not want to emulate that? Who wants to look like this ? when you can look like this
I guess as a female, I don’t fully understand.
I don’t think @zen is going to appreciate everyone dissing this
@dappled_leaves No one is dissing Picard. Most seem to be stating how much they’d like to get with him, though…
okay 30+ responses in, safe for a guy to wade in.
I started losing my hair at 30. At 34, I asked the lady at the salon to just cut it all down, and use her shortest trimmer. It got rid of all the gray, making me look 5 years younger. And the next day at work, women who never noticed me in the halls were making me uncomfortable from the lingering eye contact.
^I think that’s a good choice, as well. Not even necessarily shaving it razor bald, but cutting it very short with the clippers.
Jeez. Makes me think that all men will start shaving bald. I mean, who likes hair?
I like my boyfriend hair. Just sayin’.
@wundayatta To me, it isn’t about hiding going bald. In fact, my ex (@mangeons’ father), had a George Castanza balding head for years before he shaved it all off. Neither of us cared about it, we both fully accepted the balding. It was only after I worked up the courage to cut my very long hair super short that he decided to ditch his hair, too. He instantly looked 10 years younger, but that wasn’t the goal.
@dappled_leaves I see it as accepting that they are already balding so they speed up the process!
@Leanne1986 lol – so you’re saying it’s a “head half empty” / “head half full” kind of question?
@Earthgirl That first link looks like a Jelly’s tentacles is enveloping his head, yikes!
Kardamom Pretty gruesome, huh? Sometimes the “natural” look is just not all it’s cracked up to be! If being shaved bald rids the world of this look, I am all for it.
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