going 'thin on top'...?
hands up
seriously, I had a haircut and suddenly seem to be losing my hair. this has happened in the space of one haircut. I get my hair cut about once every 3 months approx., last time didn't notice anything, this time = thin
I'm realising now that even attempting to have a 'fringe' will not be an option within one year from now, and would probably look a bit pathetic.
I don't want to go bald, but on the other hand I'm not so vain that I would go for any type of magic potion or lotion that claims to cure it, like that rugby player bloke you see in ads in The Mirror.
I just hope I never have to go for the bobby charlton 'comb-over' effect
how many of you completely shave your heads, as a decoy?
seriously, I had a haircut and suddenly seem to be losing my hair. this has happened in the space of one haircut. I get my hair cut about once every 3 months approx., last time didn't notice anything, this time = thin
I'm realising now that even attempting to have a 'fringe' will not be an option within one year from now, and would probably look a bit pathetic.
I don't want to go bald, but on the other hand I'm not so vain that I would go for any type of magic potion or lotion that claims to cure it, like that rugby player bloke you see in ads in The Mirror.
I just hope I never have to go for the bobby charlton 'comb-over' effect
how many of you completely shave your heads, as a decoy?
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I have a friend who is 6 months older, and most people think he is about 5-10 years younger just coz I'm a slap head... I unknowingly dropped him in it once with a woman, she thought he was a lot younger than he was... as I mentioned we were in the same class at school,
you get the usual dunce comments and people always think they are the first to say it. it happens, but I have noticed, it's a problem for others rather than me.
I don't care that's what Bics were invented for, but I won't be able to have my beard the same with a balding or bicced head as I'll look like a twat. If it happens I guess I'll go back to the old goatee I used to have instead of my gangsta style chinstrap :lol:
chinstrap lol. I dont wanna mess with you fo sho' :-P
although the comedy syrup (wig) was good and I'd never get one.. My hair was going grey at the age of 14 to tell you my luck.
we used to have a teacher.. mr sharkey (he must be a long time dead now).. anyways.. it was soo obvious he was wearing a wig.. sis who is almost 6 years older had him as a teacher also.. but their class saw the wig fall off.. he was like mr "you boy" bronson outta grange hill
what's worse, going grey or going bald? about the same IMO
Personally I'd rather go grey than bald.
The combover is the worst thing ever !
My hair started receding when i was in my 20's, was gutted when it started but then one or two of my friends started going bald early on, think it was difficult for them being about 24 and nearly bald. Thankfully grade 1 or 2 haircuts became normal and it didnt look so bad.
Now i'm nearly 38, if i go bald i go bald, not fussed. I would love a floppy 'stone roses' type hairstyle but i knew a long time that wasnt going to happen. I'm glad i didnt go bald in my single years though
I've got a lot of greys specially round the side. Dont mind them one bit. How on earth is grey hair the same as going bald ?!? With grey hairs i'm just glad i've got hair ! You can colour it if you want (if you are a woman !) but when youre bald youre bald.
Give me grey hair anytime over a bald head. But like i say i'm 38 now, married, not too fussed now about whether i have hair or not
Good on you ! A bloke down the park is a deadringer for 'Terry Nutkins', eg his hair is quite long and thick round the sides but totally bald on top, i just want to say to him 'shave it off, come on you know its time'. A 'bald mullet' is the worst.
I do feel sorry for any old skool heavy metalheads though who love their long hair but then it starts to go on top.
Luckily i still have all my hair but i'm going grey, and im only 35. I think it's the stress of my job that's done it.
But again greys vs bald, give me greys anyday of the week. Cant believe def chris thinks its the same !
Still a big no to a beard though, thats wrong !
So sod convention, I'm choosing the one which makes me feel good :)
Absolutely agree Paul. Mine started going when I was 23 or 24 and it was hard to take at first because I'd had hair down to my arse from about 14. Back in 2000 I thought sod it and went to the barbers to get it down to a grade 2. Never been back since as I bought my own clippers and do it myself every couple of months. In fact, I like my head shaved, it's basically zero maintenance, great for when coming out of the shower or when you wake up and don't have to bother with it. And I like the look of it too!
Dont think i've ever heard a heterosexual male say that line in my life ;)
I am gutted mine doesnt grow. It hurts when someone who can have a full lot of hair then gets a grade 2 though ! I'm thinking 'you dont know how lucky you are to be able to grow it, grow it man, dont cut it!'
I also gave up on growing side-burns when the top of them didnt seem to grow so there was always a slight gap until my sideburns. Still remember the day when i was about 23 and had wispy sidies which i thought looked great, in came some 16 year old lad with proper sideburns, mine then got cut off instantly that day.
But yeah in my 20's it was a stressful time with hair in the sink when you wash it, dont really care so much now. The rave generation came about and i couldnt grow 'curtains', then the indie lot appeared and i couldnt grow a mop-head. Frustrating !
I bet you are just waiting for a skinhead revival !
I used to have shoulder length hair till about 2000, I washed it every day and everyone said it would fall out ( my father was Bald by about 30 ). I am now over 50 and every hair is still in place, not a GREY in sight ! Although I now wear it fairly short, but it looks like it may outlast me !
I too am crossing my fingers for the "skipping a generation" lark as my grandad, still had a full head of hair when he died. My dad had a tiny bald spot appear when he was 40ish (I'm now 33) but he's still got hair now in his 60s, so if the baldness does strike me soon... I'm not too worried. I'll just clipper what's left nice and short, like my dad does. Looks fine. Nothing to worry about, whatever happens.
It is going a bit thin on top , I currently have a ' James May' hair style which I'm happy with, but Mrs spt has plans to cut it next week. In my younger years I had very, very long hair. I'm also blond so grey hair tends not to be noticed.
Hmmm. I had "the other IBD" (i.e. ulcerative colitis, not Crohns) recurring for most of my 20s, but my last attack was years ago. Another reason to keep my diet in trim, then!
BTW: I put up with that nonsense for ten years. Can I urge any WoSsers who have similar hard-to-pin-down "wheat intolerance" / "IBS" / various other diagnoses, some of which I'm not 100% certain are actual existing conditions... to go to a doctor and say you think you have UC? I got given a boatload of drugs which actually worked, and now I can eat white bread again. I am a PM away if someone wants to talk about it in private :)
well the thing is, bald = shave it off, grey = dye it. a is much less hassle than than b. dyeing it looks wrong too, or just be grey which if you're ok with that then fair enough I s'pose...obviously both options are not really what you want. I still think it's a toss up between them
how about a DILF?
that just made me laugh! (not in a cruel way)
'ha ha, he looks like terry nutkins, oh it is terry nutkins'
not sure about this thing about baldies being more virile, sounds like something your mum would tell you to make you feel better.
you know you can get wigs on the NHS, we used to send the blank forms off to GP's. they tend to be for women though, who have a head disease or are going through chemo. although i think you could probably get hair transplants on the NHS if you were really depressed about it (i mean chronically) same sort of deal when patients get nose jobs and tattoo removal.
Me too, but I still have a good head of hair despite having a bald dad so reckon I should be fairly safe now. Also have the odd grey strand but it's barely noticeable.
Pretty lucky in that respect, though I'm gutted that I can't grow any sort of decent beard at all, it all appears in patches and makes me look like a hobo. :mad:
I reckon I'll end up looking like Philip Schofield when I'm older. Or maybe Brian Blessed if I can solve the beard-growing issue.
I'm just hoping the receeding hairline stops at a widows peak, a Vincent Price hair I can deal with, but I really don't want it to receed around the front and leave me with a little island of hair at the front. I'll get the razor out if I end up with Headmaster hair :lol:
I seriously think I'm going grey and losing it now due to my job and the fact I'm stranded in the USA while my wife is staying at my house in England. Of course all the boozing, smoking and munching of curries and pies can't really be doing me much good either, I may only be 31, but I bet physically I'm about 36-38.