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  • baldozer
    Senior Member
    • Oct 2012
    • 752

    Is it true that only ugly men fear baldness

    IMHO, if you have perfect facial features, you don't need the clutches of hair to look good. Heck, even women look beautiful bald if they have good facial features, for example, Demi Moore. So I think men cry about balding are those who know their looks would be exposed without hair, which they were covering up with hair. What do you think?
  • Tiger norwood's
    Senior Member
    • Jul 2012
    • 104

    #2
    Imo hair loss strikes hard on a lot of people, because it creates an massive change in your appearance, some people are better to handle the emotional stress that comes with hair loss, and despite it move on with their life's. Others are stunned by it, and have reduced quality of life.
    So i would say people who are emotionally not equipped to deal with hairloss, are the ones how are mostly affected by hair loss.

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    • baldozer
      Senior Member
      • Oct 2012
      • 752

      #3
      Originally posted by Tiger norwood's
      Imo hair loss strikes hard on a lot of people, because it creates an massive change in your appearance, some people are better to handle the emotional stress that comes with hair loss, and despite it move on with their life's. Others are stunned by it, and have reduced quality of life.
      So i would say people who are emotionally not equipped to deal with hairloss, are the ones how are mostly affected by hair loss.
      Ya, and the one who are stunned by it and have a reduced quality of life from it are those who were ugly and were using hair to hide their flaws. If you have a perfect face and even look good bald, then baldness is no big deal. Look at Zidane, he looks even more handsome bald!

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      • baldy1990
        Senior Member
        • Jan 2013
        • 156

        #4
        not in a million,i was a very good looking guy and i loved my appearance,i am still good but not as 2 years before.

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        • 25 going on 65
          Senior Member
          • Sep 2010
          • 1476

          #5
          Unfortunately it does not work this way. Hair is a very important feature which frames the face (it does not hide bad facial features unless you have a crazy over-the-face combover like the guy from the Cure). Losing an important feature can throw off the rest, imagine if your chin was slowly receeding or your jaw line was shriveling up. Very few men look nearly as good bald despite whatr they looked like with hair (Zidane is not bald, he shaves, so he still has hair framing his face....he would look significantly worse with true baldness)
          It hits especially hard for guys with "prettier" features like Jude Law or Prince William. Those guys went from pinup status to being tired old bald guys within a few years.
          This idea has come up before on this forum in different forms, eg "a guy who looks good with hair will look good bald," but in real life it sadly is not the case

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          • baldozer
            Senior Member
            • Oct 2012
            • 752

            #6
            Originally posted by 25 going on 65
            Unfortunately it does not work this way. Hair is a very important feature which frames the face (it does not hide bad facial features unless you have a crazy over-the-face combover like the guy from the Cure). Losing an important feature can throw off the rest, imagine if your chin was slowly receeding or your jaw line was shriveling up. Very few men look nearly as good bald despite whatr they looked like with hair (Zidane is not bald, he shaves, so he still has hair framing his face....he would look significantly worse with true baldness)
            It hits especially hard for guys with "prettier" features like Jude Law or Prince William. Those guys went from pinup status to being tired old bald guys within a few years.
            This idea has come up before on this forum in different forms, eg "a guy who looks good with hair will look good bald," but in real life it sadly is not the case
            I don't look ugly even though I am NW7. People even compliment on my look. I had a boss who used to say, how come you don't look ugly bald while normally bald people look ugly, LOL! But like you said if you have hair and then you shave it like Zidane, its better than being clean bald. So maybe I will take your advise and have a body hair to head transplant just for the buzz thing. Do you think that would be a good idea?

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            • baldy1990
              Senior Member
              • Jan 2013
              • 156

              #7
              Originally posted by baldozer
              I don't look ugly even though I am NW7. People even compliment on my look. I had a boss who used to say, how come you don't look ugly bald while normally bald people look ugly, LOL! But like you said if you have hair and then you shave it like Zidane, its better than being clean bald. So maybe I will take your advise and have a body hair to head transplant just for the buzz thing. Do you think that would be a good idea?
              imagine how you would be with hair!

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              • baldozer
                Senior Member
                • Oct 2012
                • 752

                #8
                Originally posted by 25 going on 65
                It hits especially hard for guys with "prettier" features like Jude Law or Prince William. Those guys went from pinup status to being tired old bald guys within a few years.
                It also has got to do with the shape of the head. Jude Law's head is smallish and such that bald does not look very flattering on him. On the other hand, if you have got the head of Michael Jordan, Bruce Willis or Dwayne Johnson for example, you look good bald. And about Prince Williams, he was not handsome even with hair.

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                • 25 going on 65
                  Senior Member
                  • Sep 2010
                  • 1476

                  #9
                  I remember in high school girls would talk about how cute they thought Prince William was, and this was in USA, not the UK. But in the last 5 years all anyone talks about is how bad his hair is
                  I agree about head shape though, I meant to say something about that in my other post. Head shape is a huge factor in how you look bald, and most guys unfortunately were not blessed with a good shape. A guy can have excellent facial features but if he has the wrong shaped dome, he will never pull off the bald look imo

                  As for body hair transplant....I would be very careful about that man. I have seen at least one doctor on this forum say he thought most men were not good candidates, that most of these transplants "fade away" if you view them from any distance. But then again, with a good concealer it might give you the coverage you need to frame the face. I personally have reservations about it but I am no doctor. Maybe consider seeing a reputable surgeon some time and see what he/she thinks. Although I think I have only heard of a couple doctors doing this with really solid reputations?
                  I think topcat on this forum has experience with BHT and he is a wealth of knowledge about surgical hair restoration in general. He would be a good person to ask for perspective

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                  • konfusion
                    Senior Member
                    • May 2012
                    • 165

                    #10
                    maybe, I mean I am not the most good looking man (well maybe just below average) but I remember how I was able to look x2 times better with more hair. now I cant wear my hair like that and I feel uglier.
                    but I think good looking men also fear hair loss

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                    • Exodus
                      Senior Member
                      • Nov 2012
                      • 316

                      #11
                      Originally posted by konfusion
                      maybe, I mean I am not the most good looking man (well maybe just below average) but I remember how I was able to look x2 times better with more hair. now I cant wear my hair like that and I feel uglier.
                      but I think good looking men also fear hair loss
                      I think every male fears hairloss regardless of their looks. Some are just able to get past the initial shock/depression and gradually move on.

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                      • NotBelievingIt
                        Senior Member
                        • Oct 2011
                        • 594

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Exodus
                        I think every male fears hairloss regardless of their looks. Some are just able to get past the initial shock/depression and gradually move on.
                        This. However the rate of loss and inner self-esteem about yourself and your image play a huge role in how quickly one 'moves on'. When I first realized I was losing my hair, I honestly thought it was going to start going fast. That was about 1.25 years ago. Its not going fast and therefore the rate of loss isn't as 'shocking' as I thought it would be. I'm also way more physically fit, stronger and muscularly bigger then I was back then, so my entire self esteem (except around girls, but that existed before the hair came into the picture) and image is soooooooo much better then a year ago.

                        Granted there are probably guys who never really 'get over it' until they're basically at the old man age and its more socially acceptable.

                        I work with a short, fat little bald guy who appears to be totally OK with it, yet within the last 6 months a different guy finally shaved his head and took his toupee off after probably more than 10 years wearing it, and he's A) not fat, B) not short and C) isn't skinny (he has some muscle size). So its clear one had an inner self-esteem that was higher then the other and allowed him to go on without it.

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                        • Exodus
                          Senior Member
                          • Nov 2012
                          • 316

                          #13

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                          • baldozer
                            Senior Member
                            • Oct 2012
                            • 752

                            #14
                            Originally posted by Highlander
                            Will people like you please say this in the first post? It helps to know that you're bitter and bald before wasting time reading some crackpot theory.

                            90% of the anti-HT, anti-hairloss meds, pro-life-after-baldness comments come from NW7's in denial. It seriously screws up any proper debate that could be had by having a bunch of fat, bald, depressed NW7's trying to bring everyone else down to their unaesthetic level. WHY is it so hard to believe that hair is a huge part of good-looks?
                            I am bald, so what, I bet I still look better than you. You are depressed even with your NW2, and I'm not even with my NW7. Also I have a wife, kids and a life. I'm not a looser like you who is obsessively worried about looks! And if I'm on this forum, why is it bugging you? I can do whatever pleases me. I was born beautiful with good facial features and I don't need the clutches of hair to look good. I'm not ugly like you.

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                            • dex89
                              Senior Member
                              • Jul 2012
                              • 808

                              #15
                              Originally posted by baldozer
                              I am bald, so what, I bet I still look better than you. You are depressed even with your NW2, and I'm not even with my NW7. Also I have a wife, kids and a life. I'm not a looser like you who is obsessively worried about looks! And if I'm on this forum, why is it bugging you? I can do whatever pleases me. I was born beautiful with good facial features and I don't need the clutches of hair to look good. I'm not ugly like you.
                              You tell him good sir.

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