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first time you realized you were losing your hair? by Ghost1988 on 26 Jan, 2009 18:43
explain what happened. the first time the thought of me losing my hair even crossed my mind was freshman year of highschool when this ignorant girl in my math class got pissed at me and said "dude...you have a receding hairline!"

the funny thing is at the time i didnt have one. i didnt even start balding until 2 years later, so it was easy to brush that comment off. i never even thought about hair loss again until 2 years later when it became obvious.

what about you?
#1 by SLYinKC on 26 Jan, 2009 18:59
For me the first time I ever noticed was in my late 20's but it was so slight that I blew it off. I wasn't until about 10 years later that it accelerated and by the time 40's hit it was well underway. Sly by 43, but should have done it sooner.
#2 by Razor X on 26 Jan, 2009 19:01
I'd be reading something and every now and then a hair would fall and get stuck in my glasses. I didn't think much of it at first, but it began happening more frequently. Still, I didn't really catch on to what was happening until I saw a photo one day and noticed how much lower my hairline had been a year or two earlier.
#3 by fcb2001 on 27 Jan, 2009 08:41
March 2004, I shaved my head in the summer of 2004, and i have maintained the shaved head ever since and iam bald for life

#4 by The Scottish Ambassador on 27 Jan, 2009 09:15
I think mine kinda went on top first so I am not really sure. It didnt bother me as I kinda always wanted to be bald. Its a cool look dont you know?
#5 by Tyler on 27 Jan, 2009 11:42
For me it was when my hair stylist lady said, "I think you're starting to lose your hair." From that point on I started cutting it shorter and shorter until I finally shaved it a couple months later to go hunting.
#6 by jmcmana on 30 Jan, 2009 00:12
21 when it started going...

I'd brush my thick curly hair and I'd notice there wasn't as much in the front as the back...

It started coming out in my hands in the shower...

My barber said to not visit him as much, and he started giving me a different haircut to mask it...

I do a large amount of outdoor sports in the summer, head was starting to get burnt...

Comments started coming...

I started carrying a brush... And that was it, I needed to rock my world- Fusion style!
#7 by 20, bald, and loving it on 10 Feb, 2009 08:50
right about the time I graduated from high school then it really accelerated when I was about 19 and I wore a hat until I shaved it about a week ago.
#8 by D.A.L.U.I. on 10 Feb, 2009 09:14
In my twenties I developed a "mature" hairline--but I dismissed that, "Happens to everyone!" thought I. Then in my thirties, my oldest child, at about 4 or 5, having seen me working in the back yard from the second floor proudly announced to my wife, "Daddy's got a hole in his head!" Well, She Who Must Be Obeyed didn't let that die for a long time. My barber, Mr. Louis, tended to the dying mop for 20 years thereafter, during which time SLY left the "fringe" of acceptable appearance to mainstream thanks to Telly Savalas (sp?), Bruce Willis, and others and I occasionally thought about it for me. Then finally I looked at my hair in the mirror one day in early 2007 as I was tying my tie. I could clearly see the window behind me through my hair. Time had come and I twisted and turned, and finally SLY within 10 months of that time. Like SlyinKC, should have done it years earlier probably in my late 40's--and that's my only regret, the ONLY one about shaving.
#9 by DuffRyder17 on 10 Feb, 2009 09:16
I noticed when I was 19, I used to have freakishly dense amount of hair... and it would come out in the shower.
no one else really noticed until I was 21...
#10 by samoanseb8 on 10 Feb, 2009 09:34
I was a development player on a semi professional basketball team and they had me shacked up with some other team mates, as well as one of the assistant coaches, who was quite young (29) and was balding in the back of his head. I've always had a high hair line, but the coach kept teasing me that I was going bald too. I didn't believe him even though my hair was coming out in the shower very rapidly. I thought it was just because I had such thick hair. Then I shaved it off at a shave for a cure benefit the team was doing and it became more evident....Curious thing was, I got a response I wasn't expecting from the ladies, they all loved it and told me to keep it shaved!
#11 by Sooner Steve on 10 Feb, 2009 13:11
I started losing my hair @ age 19. When I realized it, I smooth panicked. Went immediately to my barber and began a 23 year "prison sentence" by purchasing my first hairpiece. I liked it about the first 10 years. Then all the rest of my hair on the side and back got so thin that I could not fool anyone anymore. The last 13 years were exactly that - a sentence.

Finally got the courage to go sly. Like Sly in KC and others, I wish I would have done it earlier.

#12 by clipped on 10 Feb, 2009 19:26
I noticed receeding in college, but forgot about it. Around 35, I played golf in FL without a hat and got blisters topside. Hair was thin, but still respectable...kept the IvyLeague style. By 53, I was clipper-cut and slowly getting shorter cuts. Other that regretting not being clippercut earlier in life, I wish that I had tried a flattop when I had enough hair.
Looking back on it, my barber started mentioning high & tights several years before I went the clipper route. A new, younger barber and my wife finally mentioned getting a buzz in my early 50s, almost around the same time. My wife often takes our son to this barber for his haircut when I cannot get him there. Do you think they conspired against me, er I mean to help me along? Wonder who suggested it to the other first? One time I told my barber that my wife said, "The shorter the better" to me. The barber just said, "well let's make your wife really, really happy today", and he took it down tighter than ever. On other occassions, like when I was stuck at a #2, he would quisically ask, what are we doing today, 1.5? He was subtely moving me along, I think. How have others had theri barbers help them along on this route?
#13 by Razor X on 18 Feb, 2009 22:07
Quote from: clipped on 10 Feb, 2009 19:26
How have others had theri barbers help them along on this route?

One time when I went to the barber to get a #1. It was a shop that had about six barbers, one of which was very, very old. Of course that's the one I ended up getting. He asked me what I wanted and I told him #1 all over -- which he repeated, so I know he heard me correctly. As soon as he made the first pass of the clippers over my head, I knew this was no number 1 but at that point I had to let him continue. I tried to be nonchalant about it because it was too late anyway -- so when I was paying him I asked, "What blade did you use by the way?" and he responded it was a triple zero.

Why he gave me a triple zero when he knew I wanted a #1, I did not know. I'd shaved my head once before a few months earlier but felt too self conscious to keep it. I walked out of the shop feeling very bald and stood in front of the mirror for a long time when I got home, trying to take it all in. I started to remember how good it felt to run my hand over a smooth bald scalp and before I knew it I was lathered up and shaving again. I think I lasted about two weeks that time. I had a couple of false starts before I became permanently bald.
#14 by clipped on 21 Feb, 2009 20:12
Great story RazorX. Reminds me of the time I first started going shorter and asked my regular barber, who had been suggesting a buzz, for something shorter than the usual short businessman regular. As he was clipping, I mentioned that a friend told me that he got a 2-3-2, and the barber started explaining all about clipper blades, guards, etc. When he was done, he said, "well, I just gave you a 2-3-2." That's not what I asked for, but I did like it & was cool about it. He did leave a little to comb in the front, so it didn't look totally like a buzz. But 2 months later, I got a #1 all over - big difference then. Now, it's a real tight clipper shave that I try to keep neat between visits to the barbershop. I so a self buzz about 9-10 days after a haircut...I like the whole barbershop experience too much to abandon it entirely. I still go to the same barber & suppose if I were to ask about triple zero during a haircut, I might end up with that. I actually think that would be a pretty neat way to experience that. I still have some hesitation about just sitting in the barber chair actually asking for a triple zero....not sure why at this point though.