Why do some guys wear very bad toupees?

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Well, you'd be surprised. Sydney and Melbourne were both very windy when I was there - definitely not very good for hairy hats!

Mainland Europeans don't seem to care about image do they? The number of browning Germans walking around with balding heads, fat bellies and only wearing speedos was quite disgusting.

[Winston]

You can spend less then $500 for a good hair piece. The key is how the base is designed and cut. Color and density are also a big giveaways so you need to get something with a thinner front to show some skin. If the color is right and you show some skin people will have no idea that you have a hair piece. I’ve heard on The Bald Truth that the one’s that last the longest are usually the more fake looking ones because they need to be more durable. Spencer Kobren says the good ones need to be replaced every couple of months or you need to rotate between two or three. It sounds like a big pain in the ass, but I guess people get used to it.

[Gusto]

I wonder if I have ever been in the presense of a really good hair system on someone and never noticed it was fake...

Well, I wouldn't know, would I!

[KeepTheHair]

One thing I do know is since I started going bald I have been paying a lot more attention to bald people!


I guess I am going to try and sniff out the toupee wearers. lol not that id say anything or so

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I never looked out for them until I went bald. The bad ones are noticeable, but mostly only to other bald people I think. Most other people don't look that hard, in my opinion.

[Gusto]

The most common mistake men make is when they buy a toupee they forget that baldness also takes place on the temples.

Some men have thick hair (fake) on top, yet their temples have badly receded. That is one definite giveaway. A man with real thick hair should also have dense hair on the temples which comes closer to the eyes.

I wasn't taught this, I observed it.

[KeepTheHair]

Especially from that pic you posted...


Everytime I open this thread it looks worse!

[Gusto]

The midde-aged guy in this YouTube vid has receding temples. Note how putting hair on his head doesn't compensate for the lack of hair on his temples.

[KeepTheHair]

That hair piece looks fine. YOu have to have receded a little bit.

[Gusto]

That hair piece looks fine. YOu have to have receded a little bit.

I disagree. The hair is way too thick on top. He should have more hair on the temples.

Men with that amount of hair on top, rarely have receded temples. It just doesn't happen.

Personally, I think the guy looks stupid, because he's bad-mouthing people with 'bad wigs' and he's wearing one himself.

He should have opted for a much lower density and a SHORTER, less flamboyant hair style. I

[KeepTheHair]

Mhh, I looked at it again. I still think it looks good. You are right about the temples, though this guy doesn't have that much temple recession. It is not that thick on his frontal side areas either, so it looks ok.

It definitely makes him look less fat, younger and just much more youthful overall.


I better not lose my damn hair!

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It's amazing how improved he looked with the hair piece. And would shaving his head have had the same effect? Hell no.

[KeepTheHair]

Both shaving and his current look, looks terrible.

Absolutely horrendous. If I was a norwood 4-6 my life would almost be over... I would die.

At least I think so.

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Dare I say it, you might learn to live with it. So will the people you've known all your life (although you'll never be an 'equal' with them again because you can't conform). Strangers never will though.

The worst people to deal with when you are bald is strangers. By that, I mean certain categories of strangers. In particular, interview panels.

Unfortunately, most HR departments in Britain are run by women, so baldness is not, openly at least, a problem they have any experience of. They're typically therefore not just unsympathetic but somewhat downright discriminatory towards it.

Of course, in Britain (and possibly across the pond in the USA too) unwritten laws exist that women can't discriminate, never ever. Except against minorities less privileged than them of course. But I'm rambling now!

[patrick]

On toupees

Animals can't tell the difference but humans are very discriminating. That's w are not animals!