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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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In this week of football frenzy, I was just reading about Gareth Bale and the trauma he is suffering as a result of going bald. Gareth Bale - net worth around £100 million.
So in classic Sex and the City style, I got to thinkin'...
I am a baldy. This is a big deal for some people. I started losing my hair in my early twenties and of course, it wasn't fun. But the most liberating day of my life was the day I took the clippers and cut it back to the bone. Since then, I've never looked back. I can't imagine having a full thatch now and even if there was a one-pill solution, I am pretty certain I wouldn't bother.
For some women, it's a complete turn off. For some (and I can attest to this) it's a major plus. Each to their own. I point it out in my profile so it's not a nasty surprise. I am 100% comfortable with it and firmly embrace it. Yes, I can laugh about it and it doesn't affect how I perceive my own attractiveness, misguided as that may be!
What interests me is this - how do you guys (men) feel about your receding hirsuteness?
Are you ok with it?
Does it affect your confidence?
Have you gone down the road of replacement surgery a la Rooney? If so, how has it been since?
There must be plenty fellow baldies out there. And you young bucks with the long flowing locks?
Well, you can just fuck off!
Ladies, you are welcome to chip in on this.
Yours follically..
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I started to loose mine about 10 years ago, was very concerned about it at first, then I thought sod it and started to trim it to a number two, still not got the balls to take it off completely,but at least I feel more comfortable with it.
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I have had a slight patch on top of ma bonce which has been there since ma late 20's. It doesn't seem to have got any bigger over the years, and although I've clippered it all off a few times, I'm now rocking the past the shoulder hair look  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I started going bald at 17. I just wish I’d shaved it off earlier instead of spending my late twenties and early thirties looking like Count Duckula and my 40s looking like Clive James |
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"I started going bald at 17. I just wish I’d shaved it off earlier instead of spending my late twenties and early thirties looking like Count Duckula and my 40s looking like Clive James"
Didn't you try the "Bobby Charlton"  |
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By *andonmessMan
over a year ago
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I started to lose my hair (classic widows peak) when I was about 20/21. I progressively had it cut shorter and shorter until 10 years or so after I was down to a no.1 then took the guard off and voila.
Every 2 weeks I run the clippers over and it's job done.
I guess I was a little bothered that I started to lose my hair so young but it's one of those "can't do anything about it so might as well go with it" things to me.
Like the OP I wouldn't go back to having hair now even if I could. |
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By *tonMessCouple
over a year ago
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Cheffy always had his head shaved when we first met... for no reason as he has a full head of hair. He was made redundant soon after he moved in here and I just suggested he grew it out to a tidy length for interviews as he was looking for more senior roles and having hair while he can looked less 'thuggish'. It worked, he landed a brilliant job that he loves and I think he looks gorgeous with a good head of hair. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Cheffy always had his head shaved when we first met... for no reason as he has a full head of hair. He was made redundant soon after he moved in here and I just suggested he grew it out to a tidy length for interviews as he was looking for more senior roles and having hair while he can looked less 'thuggish'. It worked, he landed a brilliant job that he loves and I think he looks gorgeous with a good head of hair."
Good point, this. Men who have a full head of hair but choose to shave it can indeed look 'thuggish'. They do it for entirely different reasons, one would think. It's more of a skinhead than a slaphead look. Maybe we still equate the skinhead with a 70's punk or modern neo-Nazi sympathy?
I'm not suggezting that anyone who crops it short is audutioning for the Gestapo, by the way! Merely a cultural reference point that is still hard-wired though? |
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I've quite a thing for bald blokes myself 
