This thread has always sort of "p_ssed" me off because I don't have a choice. What I have would be to go around w/ wisps on the top, a spot in the front, and a fringe--and there's no way I like that, no way or worse a toupe. So when I cleaned up and went sly it was a physical manifestation of my acceptance of my impending profound baldness--and I had long ago decided that I wouldn't go "gently into that bad _ssed night." Going beyond balding to bald is the cure in my opinion and I believe the opinion of the vast majority of MPB guys on this site. Now I can understand Lance's statement, " I just have my times where I kind of wish I had the choice between the two" but I just don't go there because it's a totally futile exercise. It's not real, it's almost some type of "haircut masterbation." It's gone, the hair time of my life is over, it's not coming back and I accept that. For nearly 14 months I haven't had to torture myself about the look of the "do" and I'm happy. I wish others didn't have to do this constant and futile reexamination of their pre-Sly days. Freedom, NOW. Okay, this rant is over, you can now control your screen.
When I use to have hair back in my 20's I had a full head of hair. When I look back at pictures of me then I think I looked really good. Very handsome. But then mother nature stepped in and so I gave the bald look a try. I like that too. There are times depending on what I wear, how I'm feeling that day, or how my "skin tone" looks that I think I look really damn good bald. But there are some times I do think my best look was when I had a full head of hair. I just have my times where I kind of wish I had the choice between the two.
I may sound like a broken record, but I LOVE being bald