How have you dealt with balding?

I am going to have to do something I guess.
I have had my hair in a braid for over 30 years now and am balding in the back (or so I am told). I am getting grief about using my long hair to try to “hide” my balding scalp but I have worn my hair this way for long before I started losing hair. So, no, I am not.
I’ll probably cut it off when the receding hairline meets the balding spot. Until then, everyone else can deal with it as best they can.

I embrace it.

I have a huge head – and I don’t just mean my ego. When this thing sheds its fur, it is going to be something the world has never seen before. I’m getting pretty close to needing to go the shave route (I keep it very short), and I have warned my kids that I’ll be waxing this gourd up to a nice shine and celebrating it. It’s my only choice. It’s going to be shocking.

Happily, I’ve avoided it (so far). My brother wasn’t so fortunate.

My ex husband used to have very full thick black curly hair. He lost it quite young. For him it was about finding a ‘look’. He eventually wore his shaven hair very well. He didn’t hang on to the few strands left (which can look repulsive on some men). Instead he just shaved it off. He was always tanned and had a neatly styled goatee. He wore trendy sporty clothes and sunglasses, he looked great.

I am not male and my hair falling out luckily wasn’t life long for me. So I hope you don’t mind me posting.

But my hair started falling out in chunks several years ago.. It turned out to be a nutritional deficiency. I was having a hard time coping. Every slower every time I caught myself in the mirror every time I brushed then combed my hair. It was like being bullied by myself.

I examined each female I saw with female pattern baldness, I was envious and sick every time the girls did their hair. Or dancing when the hair swish.

Further into depression I was debating yet scared. Having a harder time getting up in the morning. I bought a wahl’s shaver from walmart and went at it. This was the first picture I took.

It reminds me of being resolute of coping of mourning. There were times when I wore a hat or a scarf to cover it up. I wore it like that for somewhere around a year. I eventually found things I liked and missed about being bald. The sun, freedom not having to worry about tangles my windows were always down in my car.

Less time spent fussing in the morning. When the girls were playing with their luxurious strands I was doing my nails or something just as fun.

A few people were curious but if I acted confident they accepted it. And the people that loved me still loved me.

Yeah I was used to being identified as the cute girl. But there is way more to me then that and my persona is not going out with one aspect of my image, no matter how beloved.

It’s not easy. But human’s adapt and you’ll probably look good and get props for doing it gracefully.

High foreheads are very stately and expressive. Oh and humor is the best coping mechanism in my opinion.

So take it a day at a time and talk about it and you will get there. : )

I lost much of my hair when I had a bad reaction to a medication. I thought it would be permanent, so I just made up my mind to get used to my new look. I bought a very pretty knit hat to wear outside. It took about three months to get used to it.

My hair has now grown back, but I keep it much shorter than I did before.

I’m still doing comb overs in the back of my head. Since I can’t see it, I don’t think of it much. As for balding men in my life, I tell them it’s just more face to be kissed.

Oh well that’s gone !

Bald men are sexy!

I’m like @Pachyderm_In_The_Room. I’ve dealt with it like most men wish they could, by getting close to 70 with all my hair still on my head. It’s whitening now, so I’m slowly going back to the sort of hair I had as a kid, towhead blond.

My hair doesn’t care for others, love, console, etc. So when it decided to head out I’m not worrying too much about it. I’ll deal with it.

My ex looked an awful lot like George Costanza for a long time, and hated it. One day I came home from having my butt-length hair cut super short, and it inspired him to shave his head. He looked so much better bald! He’s been bald since. My stepson started losing his hair in his early twenties, and he went the bald route much sooner than my ex did. They are both very attractive. Embrace it!

By accepting it. It’s normal and does not define a human being.

When I went bald due to chemo for breast cancer, I wasn’t thrilled but didn’t get very invested in it because the cancer issue was more distracting.

It grew back better but I could live with a bald pate now if I had to.

Our Russian peasant hair genes are thick and long-lived. My maternal grandfather died in his late eighties with hair thick enough to drop a safe on it from a third-floor window. He wouldn’t have felt a thing: it is the luck of the draw.