Sly Bald Guys Forum
Head Shaving, Grooming & Care => Trimming Your Head/Hair => Topic started by: marshd1000 on September 13, 2015, 07:58:28 PM
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About a month ago, I quit shaving my head because I was in the hospital. The longest I had grown out my fringe was a month. So I am going to let it go about 2 months. I plan on shaving my head again. The reason I first shaved my head is that I was not liking the thinning experience. But now I am about a Norwood 6 on the balding scale. But I am cool with that and will always be proud of my bald dome and will never use drugs, plugs or rugs! Anyway, here is what it looks like without the fine stumpy hairs trimmed.
PS, if you press the thumbnails, they will no longer be sideways!
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Now here is the fringe with the stubbly and far spaced hairs trimmed down! Plus one more with the dying hairs!
PS....posting resized photos from a iPad is not easy! Sorry for the differences in format!
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You're braver than I am. I couldn't grow it out for a month.
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Marsh, wishing you a speedy recovery. I think that the fringe with the thick beard looks decent. Even if you don't shave right away, a nice taper fringe would look pretty good with that beard. And this is coming from a guy who got a head tattoo.
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I had a bowel obstruction that required me to be in the hospital 8 days. Thankfully it opened up without surgery! I ended up losing 17 pounds. So I am continuing to now eat healthy! The obstruction was caused by scar tissue sticking together from previous surgery.
As for the growing out of the fringe, I can see that I look a lot like my grandfather on my dad's side, if he had worn a beard! I pretty much went bald while my dad really only had thinning hair, a Norwood 4. Funny how baldness can skip generations. My grandfather on my mom's side was quite bald too. My one cousin on my mom's side is about as bald as myself, while my uncle totally kept his hair! But I need to convince my cousin to go sly, after I quit messing with "Dark Side"!
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I guess I've gotten use to you with a nice clean, shaved dome. The frings looks out of place. Funny how they say the same thing in reverse when a guy first shaves his head. We get used to what's there.
Your completely bald head and the robust beard are a great combo. Blessings on your recovery.
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I've let mine go for a few days from time to time just to see if it is grayer or thinner - it usually is. Yours looks good with the beard.
I hope that your recovery is a quick one!!
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One thing that is weird with my balding pattern is a thinning area near my ears. In other words, the area where the beard connects with my fringe, is very thin. So that is not a purposeful fade. The hair just doesn't grow well there. Has anyone else seen a hair growth pattern like that?
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How is your hair in the back, Marsh? I hope you're not developing the famous "skunk stripe"!
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How is your hair in the back, Marsh? I hope you're not developing the famous "skunk stripe"!
I don't know what a skunk stripe n this case? But there is not a stripe of white hair in the back, nor a unusual balding pattern. I do see that the hair is thinning more that I may eventually have a Norwood 7 hairline.
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A skunk stripe is when a guy has a norwood 7 horseshoe and the hair on the back of his neck is receded so far up, that the fringe around the head may be an inch wide at most, in other words, he has lost almost all of his hair on the back of the neck to the cranial area.
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Now here is the fringe with the stubbly and far spaced hairs trimmed down! Plus one more with the dying hairs!
PS....posting resized photos from a iPad is not easy! Sorry for the differences in format!
Looks good Marsh, I am doing the same. Some time you have to rock what you have...
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Dober
I knew that you had grown out the fringe and then shaved it. So how long is your fringe now? I don't think I will keep it for long and will go back to totally shaven. The beard is another matter. I am having serious beard envy when I see your pic. I am wanting to go long like that! But thanks for the compliment on my fringe look!
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Dober
I knew that you had grown out the fringe and then shaved it. So how long is your fringe now? I don't think I will keep it for long and will go back to totally shaven. The beard is another matter. I am having serious beard envy when I see your pic. I am wanting to go long like that! But thanks for the compliment on my fringe look!
Hi Marsh,
The beard is recovering from a MAJOR trim, both sides and bottom (was a large goatee). Fringe is barely able to be brushed down, beard is just two inches (goatee part is about 9).
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Well, I should say that tonight, I got rid of the MPB fringe. I was hoping to let it go for two months. But One of the reasons I shaved it off was that my fringe was uneven. I know that there are different ways that balding happens. I know that I said my head was not slick bald. But from my photos, I am a balding pattern 6 on the Norwood Scale. Because I had the stunted hairs, I did trim them off. But as my fringe got longer, it seemed that it was quite uneven naturally. So it seemed best to go back to the sly look. But my question is, has anyone experienced a uneven fringe?
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Well, I should say that tonight, I got rid of the MPB fringe. I was hoping to let it go for two months. But One of the reasons I shaved it off was that my fringe was uneven. I know that there are different ways that balding happens. I know that I said my head was not slick bald. But from my photos, I am a balding pattern 6 on the Norwood Scale. Because I had the stunted hairs, O did trim them off. But as my fri get got longer, it seemed that it was quite uneven naturally. So it seemed best to go back to the sly look. But my question is, has anyone experienced a uneven fringe?
Probably. Mother Nature doesn't seem to be big on symmetry.
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I keep my fringe hair - I feel more comfortable for whatever reason (making me kind of an outsider here). But I trim it twice a week and if it is longer the 5mm I'd go crazy because then I really do look much older or worse (there is nothing inherently wrong about looking older).
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As of this past Friday, I quit shaving my head. Sly will always be my default. But I am again curious about being a bald man with a fringe grown out. At this point, I don't plan on shaving down the balding area. But I would like to keep it at least through Christmas. I will post pictures. Also, ai am continuing to grow the Epic Beard!
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Marsh, believe it or not, if an MPB fringe is kept neat, it blends in well with a thick beard like yours (though some of the consensus will disagree). Please post pictures and keep us posted. You certainly have more willpower to grow your hair out than I do!
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I feel like my fringe hair is great for hats -- keeps them in place. As far as growing it out, I can't go for more than three days or so without busting out the razor. I will probably have a fringe when I am older, though.
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I will at some point go back to Sly. I know I had grown out the fringe before and then gave up. But I am hoping to se what my real balding pattern is like now. So for awhile, I am not even planning on shaving down my balding area. I do embrace my baldness and shaving it down helped me to cope with losing my hair initially? But now I want to see what my DNA had destined for me! Who knows, I may end up being that old bald guy with the ponytail. I figure it goes along with my Epic beard, which I am hoping to never trim again!
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Here are some photos where my fringe has been growing out. Also in these photos I have not trimmed the hairs on the top of my head. But when I trimmed them down, there was not a lot of hair in the sink!
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It is intwresting to see that I am fully a Norwood 6. I knew I was from when I had grown out the hair before. But it seems like there are even less stunted hairs on top! I will say that I still prefer the sly look but it is fun to grow out the fringe. But at least I avoided most of the awkward thinning stages!
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The fringe doesn't look bad, Marsh! But I must ask...Do you go through any itching phase? If so how do you handle the itching?
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I do have some itching. Before I started going sly, I had a fairly bad case of seborrhea, including my ears and eyebrows. So I actually use dandruff shampoo to help in these areas. So I just started to use that on my head again. On a side note, when I was a teen, the seborrhea was so bad, I had a couple of dime sized bald spots. So when the MPB started, it was interesting to see those bald spots join up with the larger bald areas!
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Well, I ended up getting rid of the fringe tonight. So, I tidied up the top of my niggin like I had been doing. In the process of doing that, I made my already naturally lopsided baldness pattern, even more lopsided. I don't think anyone notices it. But I do! I also didn't like the stunted sparsely spaced hairs on top. So maintaining a MPB fringe is more work than being sly! So back to sly I went!
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Perfect symmetry rarely occurs naturally.
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Mine is gone!
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Mine is gone!v
Dober, when did you shave yours off? Is it a thing of great minds think alike? I do hope you will join me on the big beard adventure! You have great beard genes!
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Yep!
Head shaved... beard still growing.
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Awesome Marsh and Steve.
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Two weeks of not shaving from December 13-27....Don't want to bore you with the long story but here is what my MPB looks like even with SMP
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I've been off work - and off my normal routine- all week. I went to the gym Monday morning and showered there and ended up not shaving. Same thing happened Tuesday. Was going to shave when I got home but never did. By this morning the stubble was feeling pretty thick. Let's just say it wasn't pretty.
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Since September of 2018, I had been growing out the fringe. This is the longest that I had gotten it! I will say that I thought I looked good with the fringe grown out! I was even considering g growing it long! But finally it just seemed that I was missing the cleaness of the sly look! I also trimmed up the beard too! But here are some photos of various stages of hair growth. But I will say that while I started shaving when I was just receding, there is not much left on top! I had some strands but cut them off!
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Since I started shaving, I have never been able to grow more that 3 weeks worth of stubble. And I only did that once to just see how my MPB had progressed. I started shaving at the first sign of thinning, and after 5 years, my top was similar to yours.
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@marshd1000 it worked well for the Santa outfit.
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You need a haircut, hippie!!
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I've let mine go for a few days from time to time just to see if it is grayer or thinner - it usually is. Yours looks good with the beard.
I hope that your recovery is a quick one!!
Ha! Doing the same, watching for the gray. But I'm getting solid hints of that in my beard!
I'm prob NW6+ by now, the more thinning the better. The less to shave. ha!