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Oh, just shave it, will you!
Professor Melon:
:/O Paul/Jarhead has it exactly right. Afraid of distinction...? Even if you decided the bald look is not for you, it seems to me that you're obliged to face down your fear, for the sake of self-respect. You've nothing to lose, except the fear. You can grow it back, and then there's the piece. Bald is natural, liberating, and totally honest. Can you get used to these qualities? As to the wife (I've been married to the same woman for 36 years and know whereof I speak), the dynamic is always better when you're dealing from a position of strength. Uxoriousness will cost you. Let us know your decision; perhaps send a photo, so we can judge how your dome would look shaved. There is also a service--GoBaldly.com (?)--which can show you what you'd look like buzzed and totally sly. Professor Melon
BaldRob:
--- Quote from: don on February 22, 2007, 10:07:31 PM ---Well,unfortunately I'm one of those people that care what people think. I'm also afraid to shave it completely. Plus I don't look bad with my thinning hair as long as I wear it short. I have a high forehead so I don't think I'll look good shaved slick.It will look like too much head. I wear my hairpiece on certain occasions because in my family most of my male relatives my age have their own hair.There's only 2 others like me and one lives out of state and the other one is 14 years older than me so I really feel like the odd man out. I really care how others see me. I think I'm an actor wannabe because I want to have that look with my perfectly coiffed hair.
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Don, I think that most every one here will tell you the same thing... give it a try! Look in the gallery and you'll see a pic of me before I shaved. I had some serious horseshoe action going with not much at all on top. As a result, I also wore my hair very close for a long time before shaving clean.
I'm not going to lie to you... once you shave it clean, it will be an adjustment. Give it 6 weeks and then reevaluate. And I'll bet you $1 right now, that all your "hairy" relatives (aside from the initial ribbing - yes, it happens) will all like it and say that you should have done it years ago! (and never ever shave for the first time in the summer... too much contrast! Always shave for the first time in the winter or spring)
As far as your high forehead goes, unless you're a Klingon, you've got no worries... O0
don:
Thanks guys for your replies.I think it will be a slow process for me if I ever go sly.I have to wean my way into things. I just can't go cold turkey.After all I'm a lot braver now than I was a year and a half ago. A year and a half ago I wouldn't be caught dead without my piece.But little by little I tried it out on a few people and they say I look good with or without my piece. So I've come very far. I used to wear the piece mostly at work but I took an early retirement because I worked at the World Trade Center.I'm a 9/11 survivor and I was also there for the bombing of 1993.I was an emotional wreck so now I'm happily retired.
socctty:
Glad to have you around Don!
Shave it!
David:
--- Quote from: BaldRob on February 23, 2007, 07:07:53 AM ---
--- Quote from: don on February 22, 2007, 10:07:31 PM ---Well,unfortunately I'm one of those people that care what people think. I'm also afraid to shave it completely. Plus I don't look bad with my thinning hair as long as I wear it short. I have a high forehead so I don't think I'll look good shaved slick.It will look like too much head. I wear my hairpiece on certain occasions because in my family most of my male relatives my age have their own hair.There's only 2 others like me and one lives out of state and the other one is 14 years older than me so I really feel like the odd man out. I really care how others see me. I think I'm an actor wannabe because I want to have that look with my perfectly coiffed hair.
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Don, I think that most every one here will tell you the same thing... give it a try! Look in the gallery and you'll see a pic of me before I shaved. I had some serious horseshoe action going with not much at all on top. As a result, I also wore my hair very close for a long time before shaving clean.
I'm not going to lie to you... once you shave it clean, it will be an adjustment. Give it 6 weeks and then reevaluate. And I'll bet you $1 right now, that all your "hairy" relatives (aside from the initial ribbing - yes, it happens) will all like it and say that you should have done it years ago! (and never ever shave for the first time in the summer... too much contrast! Always shave for the first time in the winter or spring)
As far as your high forehead goes, unless you're a Klingon, you've got no worries... O0
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This is sound advice. It took me about 12 weeks to really get used to it. Now at 15 weeks my mental image of myself is that of a bald guy with or without glasses. The hardest part was getting used to it when I don't wear my glasses(which isn't often, but I had to do it to prepare myself if I go for lasik in the future).
The bottom line is when you realize how in control of everything you are, how nice it feels not to have to mess with hair, and the joy of the shaving process, you never go back as far as i'm concerned.
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