Bald men are so ugly.

[pajason]

Well concerning the title of this thread, I think it is not true. Has anyone seen Kelly Slater? That guy can certainly pursue women freely! If I have to go bald I wish it would be looking like that.

He would look better with hair. He is just a extremely attractive person who can pull of basically any look. He would probably be considered a 9.5 to 10 with hair and is probably a 8 to 8.5 without it. There are probably around %10 of men that really do look better without hair than with it. My brother in law has shaved his head since he was 20 and he had a full head of hair. He is a big dude and simply looks better with shaved/very short hair than he does with long hair. Funny but he will occasionally lament losing his hair. I tell him to forget about it because there isn't much difference because he shaves it anyhow. Truth is most men look better with hair. But if your losing your hair and have done what you can, if heading to NW7 nothing but trying drugs since a HT can give that kind of coverage. Then there isn't a thing you can do about it. Shave it and get fit. A good body can be worth just as much as a head of hair to many women. Get fit get some muscles and move on with your life. You only have so much time on this earth that you don't want to waste any of it on feeling like shit because you are bald. Hair is just part of the package if you can't do anything about it focus on the stuff you can which would be getting muscles,confidence and personality. You can still live a long happy life if you don't let balding ruin it.

[pajason]

I know a bloke who had a full head of hair until he hit 43, then within 2 years it was totally gone. Genetic - his father did the same.
He is 63, but he looks about 50. Healthy, handsome and happy. The thing that makes him look younger is his self confidence - he smiles, as if to say 'f^ck the lot of you - i'm happy'.
If youre losing it you need to cut it realy short.
Exercise and good food and away you go!

Thing is going bald at 43 is totally different than going bald at 23. I was probably a NW2 at 22 so I didn't have it that bad but was a NW3 at 24 and NW 4 at 28. I had a hair transplant at 23, 25 and 27 and propecia helped slow the loss so I was able to have a pretty good head of hair at 28. I know how hard it was for me at 23 with my level of hair loss let alone a NW 5 or 6. I have since lost a decent amount of hair in my late 30's and it has effected me but not like it did when I was in my early 20's. Most of my friends have some level of hairloss now that wasn't the case at 22 when most still had a full head of hair. Baldness in the late 30's and 40's is normal.

[BeaveCake]

Everyone gets made fun of even attractive people that's part of life, the fact you couldn't get over that shows why you spend days mourning hair on a site as sad as this one, there's a lot of sad people out there who need to realize no hair won't stop them with life or young attractive women.

[BeaveCake]

These extreme views on either side are ridiculous. Yes, having good hair is better than no hair and you should try to keep it if you can. But to seek out and then listen to the extreme views and believe life goes to shyt because there's no hair is quite idiotic.

If Brad Pitt is the perfect 10, then the personality, charisma, confidence, charm, and a crooked smile makes up 7-8 while hair may give the remaining 2-3. Do the best with what you have, where you are, and how you can. Bytching is for bytches.

This is truth, I was born with triangular alopecia (fancy slang for Norwood 2-3 ish at birth) all my moms side men had it, I never cared as it was all I knew and nobody ever mocked me for it, at 17 my father passed and medical tests on me put me in a mild shock-where I lost most my top hair on the entire Norwood area 2 out of every 3 hair died they said and no it doesn't come back so at 19 I shaved it bald and yeah some girl aren't into it but honestly I pull it off nicely enough that I hear regular compliments and girls tell me a lot they couldn't imagine me with hair. No it's not sympathy or lies like many of these crazed 'feel sorry for me' types will try to say. Yes it's completely skinhead bald and no I'm not the uber muscular type either I'm a skinny pale white dude, just my face and head shape work well with it, sure with perfect hair I might be a 8-9 rather than a 7 I am now to many girls but I never had perfect hair from birth and thank God because I might be like some of the sad people on here mourning it.

I'm nearly 21 and yeah sometimes I'm self conscious when some drunk frat girl says something but most girls don't care enough to let shaved be a deal breaker and I'm talking 18-20 range in college. If I can get through it many of you grown "men" should try too.

Nothing against you poster, just liked your statement.

[fitnessisgood4u]

It is getting cheaper and one day I hope to get one and I can not wait. I am sure my life will improve and I will get my confidence back.

[justhair]

well ugly is a matter of opinion, but here's a fact:
the balding condition proves that there is no God.

peace love & light <3 <3 <3

[vortek]

thank god that hair transplants exist though. Its always a last resort and its getting cheaper every year. I dont even know if Im losing hair yet but If I am I plan to get one before I'm like 25.

[Peeta]

I can't believe you guys didn't notice balding men before. Before I was going bald, when I was a kid/teenager I always found bald men funny, especially if they had a bit of weight. The funniest thing was when a bald men was obviously unhappy about being bald. It used to bring this smirk to my face which was part sympathy, part funny, part get over it sort of thing. I don't know, I understood it must suck, but because they looked so funny I could not take their sorrows seriously. Now I think that's how people see me even if they are grown up, but **** them. I posted this to make fun of the women, because I now think that in a weird way we are lucky.

Karma's a bitch, ain't it?

Anyways, I've never noticed balding men either when I was younger. I didn't even know/pay attention to hairlines back then. My Dad's been bald for the longest time and I never gave a shiz. Now? The first thing I notice when I meet someone is their hairline. The density of their hair. It's an obsession.

[Diffuser44]

Positives to what?

Balding?

It doesn't matter if it's positive or not. Your attitude and self image is all that matter.

On a hair loss site you are going to find people that don't like hair loss and haven't learned to live or cope with their fate and genetics. So anything I have to say here will easily dismissed.

Changing your self image is the only true way to accept it in a healthy way.

[Notcoolanymore]

The bolded part is pretty disgusting though, makes you look like a sad piece of shit. But if you get satisfaction out of seeing other people being unhappy, good for you.

I agree 100%. I had a longer reply written up, but it wasn't necessary so I deleted it. Your reply of "disgusting" hit the nail on the head perfectly.

[noway]

Also, how the **** is a smirk meant in a sympathetic way?

Read the whole thing. I said part sympathy, part... A bit like laughing at the guy who slipped on a banana peel and fell on his ass, but not seriously injuring himself. You feel a bit of sympathy but can't take it seriously and can't control your laughter. To answer your question it was a patronizing kind of smirk.

[TotallyScrewed]

I saw norwood 2-4's as normal, but then again, 4's were always in their 40-50s. I noticed when a kid my age (actually a year or two younger, he was 20) was balding, and it creeped me out.

That said, looking back, while I didn't consciously think "balding," I did consciously think "ugly"

[Illusion]

I can't believe you guys didn't notice balding men before. Before I was going bald, when I was a kid/teenager I always found bald men funny, especially if they had a bit of weight. The funniest thing was when a bald men was obviously unhappy about being bald. It used to bring this smirk to my face which was part sympathy, part funny, part get over it sort of thing. I don't know, I understood it must suck, but because they looked so funny I could not take their sorrows seriously.

Yeah, some of us judge people more than others do

Maybe you noticed baldness before, I didn't. Honestly I didn't even pay attention to my dad who has been bald for as long as I've known him (aka my whole life). The bolded part is pretty disgusting though, makes you look like a sad piece of shit. But if you get satisfaction out of seeing other people being unhappy, good for you.

Also, how the **** is a smirk meant in a sympathetic way?

[noway]

I can't believe you guys didn't notice balding men before. Before I was going bald, when I was a kid/teenager I always found bald men funny, especially if they had a bit of weight. The funniest thing was when a bald men was obviously unhappy about being bald. It used to bring this smirk to my face which was part sympathy, part funny, part get over it sort of thing. I don't know, I understood it must suck, but because they looked so funny I could not take their sorrows seriously. Now I think that's how people see me even if they are grown up, but **** them. I posted this to make fun of the women, because I now think that in a weird way we are lucky. Here's why:
1. Getting over it is so tough it has the potential to turn even the biggest *****-hole into a man, because its pretty serious shit.
2. We are less likely to end up with a shallow girl and more likely to find a great girl who likes us for who we are.
3. I think bald men have something similar to the Napoleon complex of short men. That is they work hard to overcompensate so they can still win the mating game. In other words for many it is the main cause they get of their ass and become successful. A disproportionate amount of successful people I know are bald!
4. Deciding to shave my head at just (JUST!) NW2 made me feel like the dogs bollocks. Sure I would love a cure, but until then I'm the man because I embrace it, "they outnumbered me but I threw punches tool" sort of thing. And **** everyone else.

So there.

[Joan]

"One of the funny/weird things is that before I started balding, I didn't even notice whether others were bald(ing) or not."

Same here regarding women with hair loss. I never zeroed in on womens' scalps until I started losing hair. Then when my son starting losing his, I began noticing balding men. It's a comparison thing for me. My aunt wore a wig for years, and apparently I was the only one who never knew it, and I even saw her a couple of times without it. I just thought she didn't do her hair yet.