What is the more dignified response to going bald?
Accepting that you are going bald, and just shaving the rest of it off for good, like Jack Packard?
Or pathetically trying to cling to your passing youth by getting expensive hair transplants like Elon Musk?
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Musk should have gone with the more reliable decapitation route in treating his baldness.
Generally I think some bald men are masculine and attractive, so I’d say own it with confidence.
Hopefully this obsession with unnatural add-on’s will end soon.
I understand how some people resort to extreme measures to maintain a full head of hair. I looked it to it but it was not for me. Hair transplantation is invasive and expensive. Also there are strong chemical and laser treatments involved. Also you have to keep up with never ending treatments for life. If you stop the treatments then you wind up looking weird. Not for me.
Life isn’t fair. I never had good hair. Always very thin and baby fine and can’t grow good facial hair. I was alway envious of guys that had thick hair and grow awesome beards. I consider myself lucky that at age 70 that I still have a hairline but now very thin. I don’t shave my head bald but I keep it short in a butch. At least my hair is all natural, I don’t look like a freak and it doesn’t cost me a dime.
I was at my my middle brother’s funeral, standing at his coffin a few years ago. He was bald and my other 2 brothers have full heads of hair as do I. Some old guy came up and asked how we knew Jim. We said he was our brother. He looks at Jim, then us. Shakes his head and says “he totally missed out on the hair gene.”
I’m glad John Travolta finally ditched his wig. He looks better bald.
@chyna Wow, John Travolta was your brother?!
No! Lol. That was another paragraph and thought process.
I thought it weird already that you called John Jim ;-)
I have no opinion either way. Let people do what makes them comfortable.
The company that figures out how to move ear, butt, and pubic hair to the pate will make a fortune!
Wearing gray clothes (to hide the hair that is falling out) and a tasteful hat.
I’ve known several men with hair transplants. Although the procedure remains very pricey, it has improved over the years. Early attempts were obvious and unappealing; the plugs were large and spaced apart, giving a “Ken doll” appearance and bizarre hairline. Now, the plugs are tiny, closely spaced, and can look very natural.
The problem, though, is that male pattern balding doesn’t stop. Hair loss continues, behind the transplants, resulting in a fringe of hair around the face and a bald head. The choices are to get more transplants, over a large area, or live with an odd appearance.
Personally, I think that a man can be equally attractive, whether with hair or bald. Sexiness endures regardless!
I’m slowly losing mine. I don’t plan to do a damn thing about it either.
I might be balding myself, but I don’t have any plans to go from this to this. I’m also not sure why he currently looks like my Nana did before she died.
Balding actually sucks for many men. Sure, it really shouldn’t, but it’s tough to look in the mirror. If I were a comic book evil villain like Musk, who knows what I’d do. I’m fairly certain that the hair on his head was involuntarily harvested from some poor Bolivian farmer’s head, however.
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He is in the final stages of his transformation into Jean Baptiste Emanuel Zorg.
@Forever_Free I discovered him quite recently and love several of his songs like “In Spite of Ourselves”, “Hello in There’ and “Speed of the Sound of Loneliness”.
He had some good hair back in the day!
I have very little hair left and keep it cut extremely short. Nobody cares.
Once upon a time, I went in for hair transplant surgery.
During the procedure, I suffered a massive follicular failure, so they put me into a medically induced comb-over! ;-o
For goodness sake’s don’t use comb overs! They just bring more attention to your pate.
Some men’s heads are better shaped for baldness than others. However, bald still looks better than a fake look of some sort. The only tip I have is tan! If you’re a lighter-skinned person, a tan bald head looks better. Like tan…ahem… ‘poundage’ looks better than white blubber.
Focusing on only a dignified answer.
The first stage of Balding grief is denial, which expresses itself one random morning when you’re in a hot shower not thinking too hard about why the drain is so clogged that your feet are pruned.
Next comes anger. Consider varying your exercise regimen to include a boxing class.
Then bargaining—bargaining so intense that it drives you back to core principles, and you pray “Please, God, spare my hair. Let me go grey instead!” you say, maybe, believing grey hair to be high eminence.
Then comes depression, which may make you pull your hair out,
Acceptance is deliverance. Once you have made peace with the diminishment of your virility will you be able to make a sane decision about your tonsorial future.
Achieve this level of enlightenment quickly enough, and you might rescue some hair that your DNA had destined to be Drano’d away.
Toupées? They are only worn by actors, talk-show hosts, and awful politicians.
Comb-overs? Did I say awful politicians already? Very few attempts at fractionally disguising a bald pate are successful; you go to barber shop to see a barber, to a hair salon to see a stylist, and to the vaudeville theater to see an illusionist.
Hats? You have to take these off unless you stay outdoors all the time, which, if you’re homeless and unemployed and bald, is an upside.
You need to put yourself in the care of an oldish baldish barber. Share your grief as if he were a priest wearing a monastic crown—or a doctor topped by a Hippocratic wreath. Discuss your limitations and your opportunities and your limited options. Wait to act until the prospect of a buzz cut doesn’t even faze you, because that’s what it might take to make you look your best, or even halfway decent.
I started losing hair when I was in my 20s – now completely balled on top (and have been for 30+ years) and just a little around the sides.
Not once did I think about hair implants or wigs. Both are completely artifical solutions.
Nor did I care about shaving everythiung off for consistency. Why? To what end? That’s a never-ending quest.
I was either stupid enough not to care or confident enough not to care.
In this respect, men are a lot like women – a smart, confident, intersting woman doesn’t need to resort to artiuficiality,
Either can be a dignified response.
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