What is the point of baldness?

[He's here!]

When I look at old pics of male relatives on both sides of my family and see the number of bald heads on show I realise I was fortunate to inherit whatever gene my dad possesses which has enabled me to hold on to my hair well into middle age. Some thinning starting to creep in now but I can live with that. Not at all sure I'd have coped so well had it started when I was in my 20s tho.

What mystifies me about hair loss is its randomness. If it was something that accompanied old age/decline I'd see some logic in it, but clearly it can afflict perfectly healthy folk at a very young age. I just see it as an unnecessary and unfair hindrance (and something that can really get people down). What is the point of it?

[ErinGoBraghHFC]

**** knows but I’m not a fan, receding at 24 is shan


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[GreenNWhiteArmy]

**** knows but I’m not a fan, receding at 24 is shan


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I feel your pain, that was me 10 years ago. Here I am now, still clinging on but knowing a trip to Turkey is on the agenda before I turn 40 in 6 years

[ErinGoBraghHFC]

I feel your pain, that was me 10 years ago. Here I am now, still clinging on but knowing a trip to Turkey is on the agenda before I turn 40 in 6 years

I’m more than a bit tempted to shave it all off at this point, I’ve still a good bit of hair left but I’ve been using Alpecin for about 3 years now. Getting to the point I’m thinking what’s the point in delaying it any further?


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[NORTHERNHIBBY]

Easy for me to say at 58 with a full thatch but when I see blokes trying to hang on to what is going, especially the dreaded comb-over it's almost drawing attention. Really short or even completely no hair can look very cool.

[Pedantic_Hibee]

I embraced the clippers two years ago and I’ve never looked back. The receding was noticeable (although I preferred to say I was gaining face as opposed to going bald). If you’re losing it, wheek it off. You won’t regret it. I should add I’m 41.

[ErinGoBraghHFC]

I embraced the clippers two years ago and I’ve never looked back. The receding was noticeable (although I preferred to say I was gaining face as opposed to going bald). If you’re losing it, wheek it off. You won’t regret it. I should add I’m 41.

I totally get what you’re saying mate, but you were 39 when you wheeked it off. I’m not sure I’m ready for that just yet


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[Moulin Yarns]

I embraced the clippers two years ago and I’ve never looked back. The receding was noticeable (although I preferred to say I was gaining face as opposed to going bald). If you’re losing it, wheek it off. You won’t regret it. I should add I’m 41.

Agreed, better to embrace it. I run clippers across my head every 2 weeks, a number 1.

[JeMeSouviens]

Some theories here:

https://www.belgraviacentre.com/blog/why-am-i-bald-evolutionary-theories-of-baldness-116#:~:text=Similarly%2C%20humans%20regard%20baldn ess%20as,of%20aging%20and%20social%20maturity.

My hair's thinning a bit (in my 50s) but mostly still there. Went grey starting in my 20s though, so swings and roundabouts.

[Pretty Boy]

There is almost no history or baldness in my family on either side.

However my dad was fully grey by 40 and white by 50. I first noticed a sprinkling of grey in my late 20s and at 37 now it's accelerating at some rate. I'm going to be the same as my dad.

Tbh I'm not all that bothered. It happens and I'll embrace it. It's always so obvious when men dye their hair and I honestly think they would look better just letting it go. I feel the same about baldness. I've got one mate who embraced it in his mid 20s and just shaved it all off, he looks good for it. Another got a dodgy hair transplant and looks a bit daft, I've yet to see a really good one tbh.

It is what it is. I'd rather not be grey but it's not that big a deal in the grand scheme of things.

[Jones28]

I've got really thick hair, but during Covid got the lot shaved off and found it very liberating.



Think yourselves lucky :greengrin

[overdrive]

I hope I get my dad's hair genes. He's in his late 70s and still has a full head of hair. Despite being grey now he didn't really start going grey until his late 60s other than the odd hair. I must have receded somewhat as I used to have a widows peak which I despised and tried to cut off a few times as a kid which has now disappeared but nothing too obvious. On the grey front I've had a few people ask me if I dye my hair as I don't have any grey hairs coming through on my head. My facial hair is a different matter. I wouldn't grow a beard these days as it would be a weird patchwork of very dark hair (my natural hair colour), white, grey and, weirdly, ginger.

When I saw this thread I was going to post my understanding that the baldness gene was passed down through the maternal line, not the paternal line. I thought I would Google it before I posted and it turns out it is a commonly held myth. It actually comes from both parental lines.

[He's here!]

I hope I get my dad's hair genes. He's in his late 70s and still has a full head of hair. Despite being grey now he didn't really start going grey until his late 60s other than the odd hair. I must have receded somewhat as I used to have a widows peak which I despised and tried to cut off a few times as a kid which has now disappeared but nothing too obvious. On the grey front I've had a few people ask me if I dye my hair as I don't have any grey hairs coming through on my head. My facial hair is a different matter. I wouldn't grow a beard these days as it would be a weird patchwork of very dark hair (my natural hair colour), white, grey and, weirdly, ginger.

When I saw this thread I was going to post my understanding that the baldness gene was passed down through the maternal line, not the paternal line. I thought I would Google it before I posted and it turns out it is a commonly held myth. It actually comes from both parental lines.

Yes, the maternal line claim is just a myth.

If it's hard for blokes losing their hair it must be considerably worse for women.

[He's here!]

There is almost no history or baldness in my family on either side.

However my dad was fully grey by 40 and white by 50. I first noticed a sprinkling of grey in my late 20s and at 37 now it's accelerating at some rate. I'm going to be the same as my dad.

Tbh I'm not all that bothered. It happens and I'll embrace it. It's always so obvious when men dye their hair and I honestly think they would look better just letting it go. I feel the same about baldness. I've got one mate who embraced it in his mid 20s and just shaved it all off, he looks good for it. Another got a dodgy hair transplant and looks a bit daft, I've yet to see a really good one tbh.

It is what it is. I'd rather not be grey but it's not that big a deal in the grand scheme of things.

Haven't studied it close up but is Martin Boyle's transplant not quite decent?

One of the weirdest is Steven Fletcher's. I suspect there's some sort of hairpiece in there.

[Smartie]

My main gripe is that I'm losing mine, my brother is keeping his, he's very proud of his and has taken the piss out of me for my baldness since long before the baldness even started (I have quite a big forehead, if not quite one of Shankland proportions).

Where's the justice in that?

Every time I see him I have a wee nose to see if it is thinning yet but no such luck so far.

[Smartie]

There is almost no history or baldness in my family on either side.

However my dad was fully grey by 40 and white by 50. I first noticed a sprinkling of grey in my late 20s and at 37 now it's accelerating at some rate. I'm going to be the same as my dad.

Tbh I'm not all that bothered. It happens and I'll embrace it. It's always so obvious when men dye their hair and I honestly think they would look better just letting it go. I feel the same about baldness. I've got one mate who embraced it in his mid 20s and just shaved it all off, he looks good for it. Another got a dodgy hair transplant and looks a bit daft, I've yet to see a really good one tbh.

It is what it is. I'd rather not be grey but it's not that big a deal in the grand scheme of things.

Antonio Conte's looks the best. No idea how he's managed that after what he had playing for Juve during the 90s.

I'd be a bit concerned about how they'll look in 30 years time. It'll probably be better to be wrinkly, a bit over weight, a collection of white hair and baldness without strange transplanted clumps of hair in bits where you might not expect it to be. Everybody else my own age will be at that point.

I say that as someone who basically arrests one aspect of the ageing process for a living.

[Bridge hibs]

All my family have good heads of hair but many years ago I had long hair and problem was if I went out even in a stiff breeze I looked like I had been dragged through a nettle bush, my hair was a mess

My Dad also called me a ****ing Jessie and advised me to shave it off because if I was ever in a fight then I would get dragged about with the hair like a rag doll, at least if my hair is shaved then I have a chance

A week after getting my hair shaved I was surprisingly in a fight, the guy kicked me in the balls, game over 🤬

[WeeRussell]

It sucks a bit, I think mainly as hairstyle is part of our ‘look’ for so long. And maybe for most of us it’s a sign of getting auld.

FWIW I think we care more than anyone else about it, and generally partners and potential partners aren’t deterred by baldness at all.

[DaveF]

I lost my hair early to mid 20's. Held of on the shaved heid look in some vain hope of it growing back but been a happy baldy for many years.

Feel a bit for one son who is going through that early 20's losing it pain, while the other one has a full head of hair.

[The_Exile]

I started losing my hair, or at least, noticing it in the shower, in my late teens. It was painfully obvious it was coming out faster and faster as I hit 20, then 21, then I just went into the barbers one day and told them to take it all off. I suppose it helped that I wasn't vain in the slightest and I genuinely didn't care one jot how it looked. I just went in, got it clipped, went home, and have never paid for a haircut since. Once a week, zero all over, jobs a good 'un.

I've got a theory that the earlier it happens the better. I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at aged 7 and just took to it fine, whereas everybody I know who got diagnosed in their teens or 20s have either struggled really badly or sadly passed away with it. I think the older you are the more your hair is a part of your identity and it must be much more of a shock to lose it, on top of us all being much less resilient to change as we get older.

[McD]

My hair was thinning a bit and receding at the sides from my early 30s. After my brother got married and my best man duties were discharged (I was 35 by then), I started shaving it a bit shorter, and over a few years kept going a bit shorter and a bit shorter til it was really short, just before lockdown I’d let it grow back in a bit, and it just proved that I was getting much thinner on top, so after lockdown kicked in, I worked up the balls to by a proper head shaver and shave it all off completely, and have never looked back.


for anyone who’s thinning and thinking about it, it’s actually quite liberating, no worry about styling it/brushing it/etc in the morning, no worries about running out of hair gel or wax or clay, never out of fashion :greengrin, and so on.


my only 2 complaints are, firstly, I never used to get bothered by my head getting wet and it bugs me more now, and secondly, I hate my head getting too stubbly, so I shave my head roughly every 2 days, occasionally 3, because I don’t want it to look scruffy (imo)

[HibbyAndy]

I lost my hair early to mid 20's. Held of on the shaved heid look in some vain hope of it growing back but been a happy baldy for many years.

Feel a bit for one son who is going through that early 20's losing it pain, while the other one has a full head of hair.


Spamheid :greengrin


I lost my hair when i turned 30...Absolutely loved my blonde curtains ! Pulled me many Many burds over the years , When it went i was giving myself a 1 all over but looked odd having hair at the sides and nothing on top so in the last few weeks i've been shaving my heid to the bone ..Hated it to start with but now growing on me ( Excuse the pun :greengrin )..You are what you are ... Don't feel bad guys if you have nae hair as alot of woman like a shaven headed man

[Lancs Harp]

Get it shaved off. I noticed my hair was on its way out aged 30. Went straight to a number 1 for a couple of years then shaved the lot off. Depends on the shape of your head if you suit it i think. Im 59 so would probably be grey, i generally get taken for being younger than i am.

Shave it off. No regrets.

[GreenNWhiteArmy]

Get it shaved off. I noticed my hair was on its way out aged 30. Went straight to a number 1 for a couple of years then shaved the lot off. Depends on the shape of your head if you suit it i think. Im 59 so would probably be grey, i generally get taken for being younger than i am.

Shave it off. No regrets.

Ah see. The most important factor as you point out, is head shape. And unfortunately I've got more of a fivehead. Coupled with an egg shape and it's not conducive to looking good with a baldy

[He's here!]

Spamheid :greengrin


I lost my hair when i turned 30...Absolutely loved my blonde curtains ! Pulled me many Many burds over the years , When it went i was giving myself a 1 all over but looked odd having hair at the sides and nothing on top so in the last few weeks i've been shaving my heid to the bone ..Hated it to start with but now growing on me ( Excuse the pun :greengrin )..You are what you are ... Don't feel bad guys if you have nae hair as alot of woman like a shaven headed man

Shaved to the bone? Do you do that yourself with a blade or go to the barbers? One of my neighbours does that I think as it occasionally looks as though there are wee shaving cuts on his head. Must be tricky to do the back of your head?

[Lancs Harp]

Shaved to the bone? Do you do that yourself with a blade or go to the barbers? One of my neighbours does that I think as it occasionally looks as though there are wee shaving cuts on his head. Must be tricky to do the back of your head?

Its easy mate. Do it yourself. Just run your hand over your head as if you had a razor in it to see how eady it is You can access all easily. Probably cut my head twice in getting on for 30 years and that was becuase of trying to do it with a blunt razor.

If anyone hasnt guessed im the shaved head bloke with the English accent (northern) usually to be found pre match in the Percy or Robbies when im up for a game ! Come say hellio :)

[sleeping giant]

I've been shaving my head for about 30 years.
Nothing to do with baldness , I just coyodnt be arsed with hairstyles and going to the barber.
Incidently, I've only had 2 pairs of clippers in that time and my most recent ones are only 2 years old.
Incredible value.

One wee tip about clippers , oil the blades everytime you use them.

I've also shaved it too the bone a few times and I quite like it but makes me look like a hooligan.

[Keith_M]

57 y/o, starting going gray at 49, still have a full head of hair, which is now roughly 50/50 between gray and brown.

My brother is 59, was blonde but is now bald as a coot.



Weird.

[Hibrandenburg]

Full head of hair. Would love to keep it really short but have so many scars on my skull that it looks like crazy paving.

[Scouse Hibee]

Still got my hair but forehead getting bigger 😀

[speedy_gonzales]

Still got my hair but forehead getting bigger 😀

Aye, the arrival of my fivehead brought the clippers out sooner than expected.
Eventually embraced the wet razor and have shaved every couple of days for the last 20 years.
To compound matters, my facial hair has been pure white since my late 30's. It was ginger before that so every cloud and all that....

[Keith_M]

Still got my hair but forehead getting bigger 😀


I've heard that's quite a common issue, growing foreheads.

You'd think the NHS would be urgently investigating the cause...

[Trinity Hibee]

Anyone looked into the Harley street place on George street for a hair transplant/or know anyone who has been? I’m not there yet but in a couple of years it might be a decision I have to make.

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

Anyone looked into the Harley street place on George street for a hair transplant/or know anyone who has been? I’m not there yet but in a couple of years it might be a decision I have to make.

Dinnae waste your money, just by some clippers.

[blackpoolhibs]

One of my neighbours went to turkey for a hair transplant last year, it's been the best transplant i've seen.

He had thinning hair than was receding way up his forehead, now he has a cracking head of hair that you'd never know was a transplant. :top marks

4k i think he said it cost, but for someone in his late 20s he thinks it's money well spent. :agree:

[WeeRussell]

One of my neighbours went to turkey for a hair transplant last year, it's been the best transplant i've seen.

He had thinning hair than was receding way up his forehead, now he has a cracking head of hair that you'd never know was a transplant. :top marks

4k i think he said it cost, but for someone in his late 20s he thinks it's money well spent. :agree:

If that includes flights and a 5 star stay, it cannae be bad!

[Billy Whizz]

Anyone looked into the Harley street place on George street for a hair transplant/or know anyone who has been? I’m not there yet but in a couple of years it might be a decision I have to make.

You should ask Boyler how much they cost

[blackpoolhibs]

If that includes flights and a 5 star stay, it cannae be bad!

I think it did, dont know about 5 star stays, but travel and accomodation was included.:agree:

[WeeRussell]

I think it did, dont know about 5 star stays, but travel and accomodation was included.:agree:

Like it. I’d be tempted although not sure how much relaxing I’d manage before/after going to get me heid operated on 😂👍

[blackpoolhibs]

Like it. I’d be tempted although not sure how much relaxing I’d manage before/after going to get me heid operated on 😂👍

When he came home he showed me what they'd done, and to be honest it looked sore, some scabbing and lots of what looked like little dots all over his head, but jeezus christ, now he has a full head of hair, and you would never know he was going bald. :greengrin

[WeeRussell]

When he came home he showed me what they'd done, and to be honest it looked sore, some scabbing and lots of what looked like little dots all over his head, but jeezus christ, now he has a full head of hair, and you would never know he was going bald. :greengrin

Ach. Just sounds like a big night oot but with hair at the end instead of a hangover.

[blackpoolhibs]

Ach. Just sounds like a big night oot but with hair at the end instead of a hangover.

:faf:

[overdrive]

I've heard that's quite a common issue, growing foreheads.

You'd think the NHS would be urgently investigating the cause...

They are trying to but can’t get much of Shankland’s availability to experiment on him.

[Fuzzywuzzy]

Baldness just means that you can get a hairy back, hairy ears, mental eyebrows and nasal hair. What's not to like in the trade off🤷😭

[He's here!]

Antonio Conte's looks the best. No idea how he's managed that after what he had playing for Juve during the 90s.

I'd be a bit concerned about how they'll look in 30 years time. It'll probably be better to be wrinkly, a bit over weight, a collection of white hair and baldness without strange transplanted clumps of hair in bits where you might not expect it to be. Everybody else my own age will be at that point.

I say that as someone who basically arrests one aspect of the ageing process for a living.

That's an interesting point. What DOES a hair transplant look like when you get old? Does the transplanted hair turn grey/get thinner in the same way as your original hair? I'm guessing most of it is actually your own hair but taken from parts of your head/body where there is stronger growth?

[WeeRussell]

That's an interesting point. What DOES a hair transplant look like when you get old? Does the transplanted hair turn grey/get thinner in the same way as your original hair? I'm guessing most of it is actually your own hair but taken from parts of your head/body where there is stronger growth?

I think it’s follicles that are transplanted from other areas and therefore presumably will grey/thin pretty similarly.

[ErinGoBraghHFC]

I think it’s follicles that are transplanted from other areas and therefore presumably will grey/thin pretty similarly.

So basically you have a head covered of pubes and chest hair if you get one?


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[WeeRussell]

So basically you have a head covered of pubes and chest hair if you get one?


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I was going to suggest similar (and point out the obvious less than flattering outcomes that could achieve…) but the hair grafts are taken from the back and sides of the heid… I think!

[He's here!]

I was going to suggest similar (and point out the obvious less than flattering outcomes that could achieve…) but the hair grafts are taken from the back and sides of the heid… I think!

Pretty sure that's right. Think hair tends to keep growing pretty much normally at the sides and back of the head even when someone loses it on top. To go back to my original question, what is the point of that? It's almost like a design flaw that some will lose their hair long before others.

[Hibspur]

I embraced the clippers two years ago and I’ve never looked back. The receding was noticeable (although I preferred to say I was gaining face as opposed to going bald). If you’re losing it, wheek it off. You won’t regret it. I should add I’m 41.

Do those on here who've opted for shaving their heads start by getting it cut very short and then go for the shaved head in stages? I'd have thought going straight for the shaved head look might turn out to be quite a shock.

I've held on to my hair until well into my 50s before starting to thin more noticeably and was wondering whether to get my head shaved, but it would be good to know what it would look like before taking the plunge! Might have a chat to the barber.

Quite pricey getting my hair cut every week or two I'd imagine, so I'm guessing you need to invest in a pair of clippers and teach yourself how to do it?

[Dmas]

Do those on here who've opted for shaving their heads start by getting it cut very short and then go for the shaved head in stages? I'd have thought going straight for the shaved head look might turn out to be quite a shock.

I've held on to my hair until well into my 50s before starting to thin more noticeably and was wondering whether to get my head shaved, but it would be good to know what it would look like before taking the plunge! Might have a chat to the barber.

Quite pricey getting my hair cut every week or two I'd imagine, so I'm guessing you need to invest in a pair of clippers and teach yourself how to do it?

I’ve been shaving mine with clippers (no guard) since I was 20 (43 now) it was because I was receding and never wanted to be that guy strategically gelling hair so off it went not a single lesson I haven’t regretted it once.

I recently bought a skull shaver to replace my clippers which has taken it a bit shorter as well, a great purchase I can just whip round my head every couple days in about 5-10mins

https://uk.remington-europe.com/rx7-ultimate-series-head-shaver-xr1600-uk?gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22426897599&gbraid=0AAAAAC1-jNGqjVlg_qPxdzmsDY_9G45Sb&gclid=CjwKCAjwl_XBBhAUEiwAWK2hzp9foRTPrivcNEli1jhp lLnbgNKSCtiNSVs6wb9Yk-Y_ubaVFgzsaBoC11IQAvD_BwE

[cammy1969]

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Best thing I bought for the head

[brianmc]

Do those on here who've opted for shaving their heads start by getting it cut very short and then go for the shaved head in stages? I'd have thought going straight for the shaved head look might turn out to be quite a shock.

I've held on to my hair until well into my 50s before starting to thin more noticeably and was wondering whether to get my head shaved, but it would be good to know what it would look like before taking the plunge! Might have a chat to the barber.

Quite pricey getting my hair cut every week or two I'd imagine, so I'm guessing you need to invest in a pair of clippers and teach yourself how to do it?

There's not a lot of teaching involved bud.
I'm 52 and first started rocking the aerodynamic look through choice when I was about 30.
I spent around 8 quid buying a set of bog standard clippers from B&M , set them to the lowest level (0) and run them over my nut until the stubble felt even.
Easy peasy.

To make life even easier I've since taken to using a 'skull shaver' type electric razor, occasionally enhanced by wet shaving my dome.

In the last 25 ISH years my total bill for hair care probably amounts to about 30 quid.

I'd recommend giving it a go - with only one thing to consider:
Is your head shaped weirdly?

I'm luckily blessed with having a
heid that suits this look - not everyone is.
If your heid looks like a 100 Watt Asda bulb you may want to consult a professional 🤭

[He's here!]

There's not a lot of teaching involved bud.
I'm 52 and first started rocking the aerodynamic look through choice when I was about 30.
I spent around 8 quid buying a set of bog standard clippers from B&M , set them to the lowest level (0) and run them over my nut until the stubble felt even.
Easy peasy.

To make life even easier I've since taken to using a 'skull shaver' type electric razor, occasionally enhanced by wet shaving my dome.

In the last 25 ISH years my total bill for hair care probably amounts to about 30 quid.

I'd recommend giving it a go - with only one thing to consider:
Is your head shaped weirdly?

I'm luckily blessed with having a
heid that suits this look - not everyone is.
If your heid looks like a 100 Watt Asda bulb you may want to consult a professional 🤭

Kinda hard to know if your head shape suits it until you've shaved the hair off?

[brianmc]

Kinda hard to know if your head shape suits it until you've shaved the hair off?

For some, possibly. For most probably not.

I used to work with a guy we nicknamed 'Coo heid'
*He had a full head of hair.

Compare a noggin like his with for instance Jason Statham pre hair loss (check out his pre fame high diving videos on YouTube) and you quite clearly can see how some can carry off the look, whilst others resemble Sputnik.

[Viva_Palmeiras]

Been taking meds for blood pressure and maybe coincidental but my hair is thinning.
Oddly - and there’s a picture of me with hair like Ryan Giggs in his prime (and before public fall from grace) but the hair has greyed, the curly locks gone :( but my hair remains. Not sure how I’d feel about balding - touch wood so far so good.

I guess anything that overtly shows the aging process is a bit of a dunt to the system. I do feel like the same I was in my 20-30s. Real pisser is the social references go and age you in themselves - mind you “can you tell what it is yet”? And “Jim’ll fix it” didn’t age well.

[McD]

Do those on here who've opted for shaving their heads start by getting it cut very short and then go for the shaved head in stages? I'd have thought going straight for the shaved head look might turn out to be quite a shock.

I've held on to my hair until well into my 50s before starting to thin more noticeably and was wondering whether to get my head shaved, but it would be good to know what it would look like before taking the plunge! Might have a chat to the barber.

Quite pricey getting my hair cut every week or two I'd imagine, so I'm guessing you need to invest in a pair of clippers and teach yourself how to do it?



I gradually was shaving shorter and shorter with clippers, mostly through it enabling being lazy and not having to do anything with my hair, but it was slowly getting thinner on top.


When lockdown first kicked in during 2020, I’d been wondering how it might look to just go the whole hog, and figured with wfh if I hated it I could let it grow back in a bit. But I never have, it’s great. If anything I get more annoyed with how it looks if I’ve left it a few days too long to shave it again. Been using a Skull Shaver for most of that time, it gives a really close cut, and can be used for both wet and dry shaving, I’ve never gotten into wet shaving my head, I’d end up with cuts everywhere 😂


One thing that I’ve personally noticed, be interesting to see if anyone else has this experience - when I had hair, it never bothered me if my head got wet in the rain, but with my shaved head it really annoys me.

[He's here!]

I gradually was shaving shorter and shorter with clippers, mostly through it enabling being lazy and not having to do anything with my hair, but it was slowly getting thinner on top.


When lockdown first kicked in during 2020, I’d been wondering how it might look to just go the whole hog, and figured with wfh if I hated it I could let it grow back in a bit. But I never have, it’s great. If anything I get more annoyed with how it looks if I’ve left it a few days too long to shave it again. Been using a Skull Shaver for most of that time, it gives a really close cut, and can be used for both wet and dry shaving, I’ve never gotten into wet shaving my head, I’d end up with cuts everywhere 😂


One thing that I’ve personally noticed, be interesting to see if anyone else has this experience - when I had hair, it never bothered me if my head got wet in the rain, but with my shaved head it really annoys me.

I always thought bald/shaven headed guys would be less bothered by the rain as there's no hairstyle to ruin.

Is a skull shaver electric? If so, how can it be used for a wet shave?

[GreenNWhiteArmy]

I've been balding for a number of years, started late 20s and now mid 30s its a patch up job and denial that keeps me going to my barber for a 2 back and sides and miracle on top

Biggest issue I have is head shape. Basically a giant egg and unfortunately not in the perfectly shaped form like guys like Jason Statham. Have considered turkey and toupee as options

Has anyone here done the turkey trip?

[bod]

So basically you have a head covered of pubes and chest hair if you get one?


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Aye,but who’s pubes ?

[Scouse Hibee]

Had a disaster during lockdown when trimming hair with clippers, had done my sons on a number 6 he took the clippers to clean and handed them back to me without the guard. I never noticed and done the first cut and left a big tramline to the bone on one side of my head! There was no way of fixing it so I shaved my whole head, I looked like a right thug!
Wore a baseball cap for weeks when our walking before finally getting used to it. Thankfully it all grew back. I swear my son done it deliberately 😂

[Pedantic_Hibee]

Do those on here who've opted for shaving their heads start by getting it cut very short and then go for the shaved head in stages? I'd have thought going straight for the shaved head look might turn out to be quite a shock.

I've held on to my hair until well into my 50s before starting to thin more noticeably and was wondering whether to get my head shaved, but it would be good to know what it would look like before taking the plunge! Might have a chat to the barber.

Quite pricey getting my hair cut every week or two I'd imagine, so I'm guessing you need to invest in a pair of clippers and teach yourself how to do it?

The first time I did it I think I gave myself a number three with a pair of clippers I’d bought. Very quickly however I ditched the guard and now I shave it every two days to keep it to a short stubble.

I used to hate the rain when I had hair (generally because I had my thatch gelled to within an inch of its life to cover up the receding hairline and was worried I’d be exposed). Now I embrace the rain. Luckily I’ve got a bonce that suits a shaved heid and since I did it there’s not a single person who has said I looked better with hair.

[Hibspur]

I've been balding for a number of years, started late 20s and now mid 30s its a patch up job and denial that keeps me going to my barber for a 2 back and sides and miracle on top

Biggest issue I have is head shape. Basically a giant egg and unfortunately not in the perfectly shaped form like guys like Jason Statham. Have considered turkey and toupee as options

Has anyone here done the turkey trip?

These days referred to as a 'hair system' I think.

I recall watching this episode of This Morning and being impressed by the transformation in the guy who volunteered, but essentially you're having the hairpiece glued to your head which I can't imagine is especially healthy to live with for months?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqz_unnKo24

In saying that, at least if you decide it's not working you can just have it removed and live with what you have. A dodgy hair transplant would be a lot more troublesome to fix!

[Stairway 2 7]

Boy at works getting a turkey job for the front on his dome. 750 bar. Seems decent to me but hopefully a decade away

[McD]

I always thought bald/shaven headed guys would be less bothered by the rain as there's no hairstyle to ruin.

Is a skull shaver electric? If so, how can it be used for a wet shave?



I think it’s the sensation of the water on my skin that annoys me, doesn’t bother me in the shower or anything, just something I noticed when I started shaving it down closer.


The skull shaver is electric, it runs off a rechargeable battery. You apply normal shaving gel/foam as you would your face, and then use the shaver. You clean the head periodically, although if I was wet shaving I’d clean it every time, and probably during as well. It can also be used in the shower, it comes with a wee rubber plug that protects the charging socket, although I’ve never tried using it in the shower.

[Pretty Boy]

There is almost no history or baldness in my family on either side.

However my dad was fully grey by 40 and white by 50. I first noticed a sprinkling of grey in my late 20s and at 37 now it's accelerating at some rate. I'm going to be the same as my dad.

Tbh I'm not all that bothered. It happens and I'll embrace it. It's always so obvious when men dye their hair and I honestly think they would look better just letting it go. I feel the same about baldness. I've got one mate who embraced it in his mid 20s and just shaved it all off, he looks good for it. Another got a dodgy hair transplant and looks a bit daft, I've yet to see a really good one tbh.

It is what it is. I'd rather not be grey but it's not that big a deal in the grand scheme of things.

I posted this a couple of years ago and in the interim seem to have skipped the grey and gone straight to white. Not all over yet but if I go a bit too long without a haircut the entire 'top layer' of hair is proper white. It's not so noticeable when I apply wax or clay or whatever but when my hair is au natural it's clear for all to see.

I quite like it tbh. A daily reminder I'm older in body than I feel in mind but no one else seems to mind it (largely because we are all the same now, it's either grey hair or nae hair).

[He's here!]

I've been balding for a number of years, started late 20s and now mid 30s its a patch up job and denial that keeps me going to my barber for a 2 back and sides and miracle on top

Biggest issue I have is head shape. Basically a giant egg and unfortunately not in the perfectly shaped form like guys like Jason Statham. Have considered turkey and toupee as options

Has anyone here done the turkey trip?

I think someone mentioned a Turkey transplant further up the thread.

I'd be wary of taking that step tbh. How many transplants are genuinely great? Boyle's looks to have been pretty successful but he seems to keep it lathered in gel and up close the hairline looks a bit dubious. Stokes never looked quite right, nor does Rooney. And these are guys presumably playing for the higher-end jobs.

Seems to me that women wear fake hair, hair extensions etc as a matter of course so maybe men should be able to do likewise without it being an issue.

[Hibby70]

I've held onto my hair up till about a year or two ago (I'm 54). Only ever notice the bald patch that's growing bigger when I go to the barbers and he shows me the back. Or if I'm in the sun and it burns.

I'm also turning a lot greyer over that same period. Doesn't really bother me as I am so handsome anyway😂

Reckon I'll be starting the self clippers in the coming years. My main concern is my coos lick and how that will look if I start at a number 4 allover.

[overdrive]

I hope I get my dad's hair genes. He's in his late 70s and still has a full head of hair. Despite being grey now he didn't really start going grey until his late 60s other than the odd hair. I must have receded somewhat as I used to have a widows peak which I despised and tried to cut off a few times as a kid which has now disappeared but nothing too obvious. On the grey front I've had a few people ask me if I dye my hair as I don't have any grey hairs coming through on my head. My facial hair is a different matter. I wouldn't grow a beard these days as it would be a weird patchwork of very dark hair (my natural hair colour), white, grey and, weirdly, ginger.

When I saw this thread I was going to post my understanding that the baldness gene was passed down through the maternal line, not the paternal line. I thought I would Google it before I posted and it turns out it is a commonly held myth. It actually comes from both parental lines.

Two years on, I'm now in my 40s and still no grey in my hair and I think the same amount of hair too. My facial hair, on the other hand is probably more white than dark now.

My dad is in his 80s now and still has a full head of hair. Funny story about him getting his haircut a few months ago. He normally goes midweek and gets his OAP discount. He was really needing it cut and went to his normal barber on a weekend, knowing he'd have to pay full price. "Sorry, we don't do pensioners at the weekend" the guy said. My dad said it was OK and he knew that he'd have to pay full price. "No, its not just the price... we don't accept pensioners as customers at the weekend". WTF? Its not as if cutting an old person's hair takes longer or anything. If anything, pensioners will be more likely to have less hair. We all found that absolutely bizarre.

[Scouse Hibee]

Two years on, I'm now in my 40s and still no grey in my hair and I think the same amount of hair too. My facial hair, on the other hand is probably more white than dark now.

My dad is in his 80s now and still has a full head of hair. Funny story about him getting his haircut a few months ago. He normally goes midweek and gets his OAP discount. He was really needing it cut and went to his normal barber on a weekend, knowing he'd have to pay full price. "Sorry, we don't do pensioners at the weekend" the guy said. My dad said it was OK and he knew that he'd have to pay full price. "No, its not just the price... we don't accept pensioners as customers at the weekend". WTF? Its not as if cutting an old person's hair takes longer or anything. If anything, pensioners will be more likely to have less hair. We all found that absolutely bizarre.

I hope you also found a new barber!

[nonshinyfinish]

I hope you also found a new barber!

Or got his dad a fake ID

[J-C]

Thankfully baldness isn't an issue with me 😁

[Hibspur]

I've held onto my hair up till about a year or two ago (I'm 54). Only ever notice the bald patch that's growing bigger when I go to the barbers and he shows me the back. Or if I'm in the sun and it burns.

I'm also turning a lot greyer over that same period. Doesn't really bother me as I am so handsome anyway😂

Reckon I'll be starting the self clippers in the coming years. My main concern is my coos lick and how that will look if I start at a number 4 allover.

This is apparently what a lot of celebs/public figures use to touch up any thinning patches for the cameras:

https://www.nanogen.com/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22560641024&gbraid=0AAAAApYSN2m0_yRFs0SMYnXVOG8PcAJ4s&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-8Hl1pXajQMVUJpQBh1SSxusEAAYASAAEgLVPfD_BwE

[Bridge hibs]

Had a disaster during lockdown when trimming hair with clippers, had done my sons on a number 6 he took the clippers to clean and handed them back to me without the guard. I never noticed and done the first cut and left a big tramline to the bone on one side of my head! There was no way of fixing it so I shaved my whole head, I looked like a right thug!
Wore a baseball cap for weeks when our walking before finally getting used to it. Thankfully it all grew back. I swear my son done it deliberately 😂

Brilliant 🤣

I used to cry when my Dad took me for a “baldy” at Leith Kirkgate when I was a nipper, I had a big **** off coos lick and my ears looked like a couple of dented satellite dishes so the ribbing I got at school was brutal.

As the years went on my head grew into my ears so I didnt quite look so bad with a baldy, my coos lick also went. I started shaving my head when in my mid 20s and have done ever since.

I once grew it long but styling it was a ****ing mare because as soon as I went out into a breeze then it would go straggly and I looked like I had been dragged through a thorn bush.

No issues now, quick splash o water in the morning and Im done.