Sly Bald Guys Forum
Discussions About Being Bald => Bald Stories => Topic started by: Baldgoal on July 16, 2010, 10:24:51 PM
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After reading may of the posts on this great board, I just can't seem to find one about how you became bald. I myself am now 3 and a half months into my bald life, and I love it. I can't imagine at this time going back to having hair. The bald look has become my look.
Now with that said, I am Bald By Choice. I have a full head of hair that I shave everyday, some days twice a day depending on what I am doing.
How did you end up with the best hair cut in the world, was it your "CHOICE" or did "NATURE" help make your decision for you?
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Nature came knockin on my door at the ripe age of 17.
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combination here! nature was going there quick so i just sped up the pace!
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Totally by choice.
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Well I'm from a long line of horseshoes so I knew early on that MPB was inevitable. In my early 20's it started to go, by my mid thirties it was very thin on top so I buzzed it down. At the age of 47 I finished off what Mother Nature couldn't and have never for a second regretted it.
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Genetically gifted for the look O:O, and I really don't like the look of a hairy toiletseat :Xo!, bozo ring :Xo!, whatever you want to call what's left at whatever age.
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Half and Half. I have moderate temporal recession and some frontal thinning/recession, but no loss at the vertex, so I still have a reasonable amount of hair (white, so negligible shadow), and am probably (at sixty-five) only in the balding ("I just have a high forehead"), not bald category, so BBC from one point of view. That's the one I favor. Am I still in denial, I wonder?
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Nature - although I hid nature's toll for several years under a dead squirrel that was glued to the top of my head.
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Nature suggested it but it's my choice - so I call it BBC.
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Exactly, I consider myself both. I have advanced MPB, but I choose to be bald over drugs, rugs or plugs. So I consider myself BBC.
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I'm bbc -- though my hairline is receding i have a full head of hair. I liked buzzcuts and crewcuts and kept going shorter and shorter. I was never really into the shaved head look until a buddy of mine buzzed my head without any guards (pretty close to a #0 blade). I looked pretty much bald and I liked the look of it. So I started getting curious about using a razor to shave my head. After a few months of where the short buzzcut, I did the deed and bought a head blade and shaved it off. At that point the I knew the bald look was for me.
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Yes nature was taking me there. I could have gotten away with keeping the hair for a quite a bit long.
I have had quite a few people tell me that the skin on my crown was visible, but from the front you could not tell at all.
I have a could friend that shave the head and it look good on them so 10 days ago I said to myself, "Self WTF, go for it", and I did.
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combination here! nature was going there quick so i just sped up the pace!
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I developed a bald spot on the top of my hair in my twenties, in my thirties the temples started to recede and the bald spot got to be worse to the point that my front hairline was an island. My brother on a dare took the clippers and did a zero on me. Mind you I have always been a head scratcher, itching and flaking, so I though it would look disgusting. i grew it back just out of fear and did not embrace it. Once I found this site and the headblade site, I rushed to the clippers and did a zero and then in the shower I shaved. i used the 30 day rule and guys I have to tell you that since going sly I do not scratch my head I have no flakeness and itching. And I love shaving my head and feeling the smoothness. With all my scratching and dandruff which is thing of the past being sly the only thing not perfect is a scar I got from my days playing football.
But let me remind you guys we are not china dolls, we are men and a lot of us have wear and tear from being men --- we are not kept in glass protection . Guys out there if you have blemishes, scars, embrace it you are a man, not an exhibit in a museum, for ladies blemishes are a problem, but look at Bill Murray or Toby Mguire their faces are not perfect yet they are succesful celebrities. Your "battle wounds" make you special and unique. Hears to being Sly and proud of it!!
Fred
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BBC! O0
My hair is so thin that it requires constant maintenance and hair spray or mousse to keep it styled. Any wind would mess it up and it wouldn't re-style unless re-washed and sprayed etc. BONDAGE! :Xo!
But not any more! O:O
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Nature got me close but I finished the job myself.
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BBC here ;-) pretty much for the same reason as razorhead. Have a full head of head, tried the shaved head look a few times, liked it and after awhile just decided to stick with it and love it!
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Exactly, I consider myself both. I have advanced MPB, but I choose to be bald over drugs, rugs or plugs. So I consider myself BBC.
Same here. I have the combination as well. I had always said "when the time comes, the hair is coming off".
No question.
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Mainly BBC... though I suspect if I had given it another decade or so, Nature would have gotten a little impatient! ;D
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I was receding at the temples, but that's not why I shaved: I shaved because I like it SLY! 8)
So I consider myself to be BBC :)
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combination here! nature was going there quick so i just sped up the pace!
What he said!
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Definitly bald by nature.Have almost no hair in my crown now (maybe 20 thin scattered hairs left) and my hairline is now in the back of my head (i'm 24 and already a norwood 6/7).Gotta say though, I've been flip flopping from the sly look to MPB and after this last stint with growing my horseshoe of hair out,I'm bald by choice now and really kind of loving it.I know Ive said this before, but after seeing how horrible my hairloss has gotten the last two months I grew my hair, I think it's safe to say I'm bald for good this time
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At age 66, after continually clogging up shower drains everywhere I went, I decided to help mother nature finish her work so shave off the horseshoe/Bozo the clown look. Also, my wife at the time said she thought I would look younger completely head-shaved so off it went.
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Totally Bald by choice - have a full head of hair. Decided to try something totally different, so I shaved it all off. Definatly like the look!! And less maintenence
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I will say BBC/BBN. I have lost a bit of hair in the front. The top is "see through". While only a small area in the back is smooth, you can see a "fringe shadow", where the fringe is more shadowed but the other parts are not slick but quite a bit thinner. So I just not want the plugs, drugs or rugs!
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Except for a little thinning spot at the crown, I've got a ridiculously full head of hair, so when I'm sly it's by choice. And a big commitment because hair this thick requires at least daily shaving.
As I've said here before, I go back and forth from sly to hair. I do have to admit that right now I'm going throgh a furry period, but the hot summer is starting to get to me, so it could all come off any day now...
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BBN :(
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I had a Bald spot on top which seems 'stable' for quite a number years, but I didn't really liked the colour change. From very dark (close to black) into silver gray. However, there were still dark spots visible, which I didn't like.
So, after cutting it shorter and shorter, I just decided to get rid of it all.
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NATURE!! Started working on me, which seems strange, after I stopped playing organized sports. Stopped the sports due to knee injuries and caring about my studies more, and then presto---hair started letting loose like crazy. I love the SLY and would keep it this way even if I had a full head of hair. O0
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BBC definately :)
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I know what the Original Poster meant, but I like to think of it as a little of both.
Nature certainly decided to remove the hair on the top/back of my scalp; I got rid of the other half.
But I guess I'm BBN.
"Hairy toiletseat", LOL! What an apt description.
I don't really get nature.
If follicles die on top, where they're even more useful than on the sides insofar as protection to the scalp, then why not the sides too? or why doesn't MPB remove hair on the sides and back first, and/or then work towards the top?
Just weird. Dunno what Mother Nature was thinking..(or drinking!?)
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in my case it is BBC. Really Bad skin condition Seberic Dermatitis lets just say at any given second i could make it snow down to my pants. plus the persistent itching now that i am sly no more snow and rarely itch.
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As I have said before, I'm BBC. Full head of wavy, unruly hair that drove me crazy. No two hairs would lay down next to one another. I went Sly on a bet and embraced the look and feel. I now have five laser treatments under my belt. Maybe one more to go. The dreaded shadow is about 90% gone. God, I love the new me!
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BBC - -for me - - although I had a bald spot which was getting bigger and bigger and the hair on the dome was getting thinner and thinner - - -- - -so nature did help - -
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While my hair was getting thinner, it wasn't really noticable, so pretty much BBC for me and love it! Its an attitude haircut!
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I'm proudly BBC. O0
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There is hairloss in my family. Both grandfathers were bald. Dad had real thin hair. I also had a uncle with a bald spot in the back and a bald cousin. So I knew the bald gene was out there. So when I first went sly, my front was noticibly thinning. . But now it is more bald by nature. The back is bald. The front is also gone. The top is very thin. I am so glad I took the blade to my head! I did my hair a favor!
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I made my own pre-emptive strike as it turns out. I originally shaved for a St. Baldrick's event locally. Decided to keep when my son was diagnosed with retinoblastoma at about 18 mos. old. (He's very healthy and in remission now) But about two weeks ago, after gettin lazy and lettin it go for a couple days, I went to my girlfriend and asked, "Is it just me or is there more hair here (pointing to the side of my noggin) than there is here?" (Pointing to the top of my noggin) Her reply was "Yep". SLY for life, end of story. (Doesn't hurt that she really digs the look too)
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Hey PigPen, good to see you post. I know what you mean about realizing there's less hair on top. Since the Winter I have pretty much been going with a low buzz more often than fully shaved lately, and while I do see a difference on top, it's actually not as bad as I thought. Don't get me wrong, it's a lot thinner at the front top than it was almost four years ago, when I first decided to shave it down.
It's not an issue to me and I enjoy having the ability to make that choice. That being said, believe me, once it starts getting really hot here I won't have much tolerance for the hair at all, lol.
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Both.
I was dealing with MPB since my early twenties, in full denial mode. :/O
Along came 2003 and a diagnosis of NH Lymphoma at age 38. A side effect of my chemo treatments was what hair was left by nature soon began falling out. Shaving the rest off just seemed like the best course of action from a practical standpoint, and also was a symbolic way of flipping off cancer and saying "I'm in charge here!" :x!
I liked the look so much better that I've been sly ever since. By the way, cancer lost this round. In remission since 2003. O0
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half and half here
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Hi,
Has anyone gone BBC on a first date? And actselly inpersed a gril.
KJ
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More BBC than BBN. Definitely thinning on top but not horribly. I kept it really short for more than a decade, then got down to business and shaved it all off. I like it a lot more sly than with hair.
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BBC. A friend asked me to join a charity fundraiser and shave my head. Once I did, I became a convert to the look and feel. I'll admit to having a small bald spot, though!
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welcome!
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BBN first, BBC ever since.
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Completely BBC. Just started trimming more and more down until I couldn't resist and then when I did it, I just couldn't go back.
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You wouldn't want to see how it grows out on me...what little is left. ;D
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It's an old thread but... I've gone from BBC to BBN (Bald By Necessity). :*))
I'm glad I chose to be bald first but I skipped shaving for a few days a to my amazement, some of my hair has given up on me! :Xo! My head was so splotchy I dropped what I was doing and quickly shaved before anyone saw it! (yeah, I'm vain like that)
So I guess it's no longer a choice but, I would choose it no matter what! ^-^
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It's an old thread but... I've gone from BBC to BBN (Bald By Necessity). :*))
Congrats--think of it as "less to shave and dull blades!"
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I'b BBC :D
I've had too much hair, lol:D
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Congrats--think of it as "less to shave and dull blades!"
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:*)) :*)) :*)) Good juan!