Sly Bald Guys Forum
Discussions About Being Bald => To be or not be...Bald => Topic started by: bmw on March 02, 2008, 02:29:20 AM
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would you go for it? Or would you prefer to remain bald? Lets be honest, all of you would love to have a gorgeous head of hair, as would I. You all are doing a great job of making the best of a bad situation tho which is highly commendible. Science is understanding more and more about hair loss each day and the discovery of a hair loss gene (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23334554/) gives me hope that perhaps in a decade or less we'll see new and more effective drugs on the horizon and maybe even a cure? I'm new here btw so nice to meet you all in advance. :)
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would you go for it? Or would you prefer to remain bald? Lets be honest, all of you would love to have a gorgeous head of hair, as would I.
bmw...1st of all welcome 2 the sly fraternity. 2 answer your question...NO FRIGGIN' WAY...i choose 2 keep my slick smoooooth noggin' look over hair. so...speak 4 yourself. i'm sly 4 life and i'm loving it and there is no turning back. O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0
WARHAWK O0
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Welcome aboard there, bmw. Actually several of us here are totally BBC and could have full heads of head if we wanted. So the answer from me as least has to be NO WAY, I like the shiny slick dome.
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Hi, no way, as u get older with hair u nearly always look your age, with no hair u are agless, I am 59 but i look better now than ever
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As I'm BBC I could grow hair whenever I wanted, but I choose to stay bald and shiny cos I love it 8)
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Welcome to the forum.
For me, that'd be a tough call. My wife hates the slick look on me, so for that reason I'd strongly consider taking advantage of improved technology. However, there are two big reasons that I keep the dome smooth:
1. I like it
2. I get complete relief from a painful scalp condition. I would think that the return of hair would result in the return of painful itching & flaking.
So, I'll take a pass.
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I am on the fence a little with this one. My partner likes it, most people i know have got used to it. I am still not quite at ease with it myself although that gets better all the time.
Part of me says yeah would go for it like a shot, but the other part of me says that I have worked hard to come to terms with it - i have, and by paying for hair it would be like admitting defeat and vanity. One thing i know for certain is that it doesnt seem to make any impact on what other people say or think, so cant see the point. In fact I tend to find that i get comments from balding men all the time saying i wish i had the guts to do it!
Although i am sure that when there is a cure that many will take it, I think it will be a damning endightment of the society we live in and the emphasis placed upon a very specific set of norms. In 200 years life will be very dull, as medical science will effectively enable us to all look the same.
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Not! I thank Mother Nature every day for taking my hair away. I can't imagine being encumbered with hair ever again.
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No, but if there were a cure for hair, letting me go totally and permanently bald
I sure would go for it! ;D
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the other part of me says that I have worked hard to come to terms with it - i have, and by paying for hair it would be like admitting defeat and vanity.
That's pretty much how I feel. It took me a long time to get to this point and i would hate to go back now. I'm not convinced that a cure will ever be found, anyway.
It's somewhat unusual to see older men who haven't experienced some degree of hair loss. When I do come across those rare individuals, I have to say that they don't necessarily look any better than anyone else. There is something very incongruous about a weatherd face underneath a thick thatch of hair and a teenager's low hairline.
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No way I've come to grips with not having hair and that was a hard reality why would I want to go through it in reverse. Plus now that I've gone sly I love it I should have done it way sooner. But I'm with Zeta If they come up with a way to go sly without having to shave everyday that works and doesn't cost a fortune then I'm all for that.
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ill pass. i never had good hair when i had it.always more work styling and cleaning than just shaving and be done with it.pl;us i just love being bald after shaving it all off it just is great..
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I have some MPB. But when I embraced the "sly" look, I felt better about myself fairly quickly. Besides, I like the carefree nature of being bald. Plus I don't have to see my hair go grey. My beard has already done that. Yeah....I know I could shave off the facial hair or color it. But for me shaving the face is more of a chore than shaving the head.
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I will simply just respond with NO!
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Even if I didn't own this site, the benefits of shaving my head out weigh having hair by over 100 to 1. Also, they are talking about taking a drug and that always means side effects. So, no thanks! Shoot, look at what propecia does to you and it only "stops hair from falling out" on a small percentage of men.
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I was watching tv a lil bit ago and I seen this stuff ...I forget what it was called...but you only have to apply it once. Something new they are offering to the general public now. It showed this guy 3 weeks later and he had maybe a little bit thicker hair...but you could still see his scalp thru it. Hell I could achieve the same thing wiht a can of flat black spray paint....lol
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No for me too.
I too would prefer a cure for hair...not baldness.
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Uh no thanks. I like me the way I am.
Oh.... and welcome to the forum.
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I may be the odd man, but yes, I would go for it. There would have to be no side effects or surgery.
Please don't kick me out of the club.
Max
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I think the clue is in the subject you have chosen for this thread. You use the word "cure" as if baldness is a disease. This is an indication to me that the "hair replacement industry" or maybe society in general has been successful in guiding you along this line of thought. There is no cure necessary if there is no disease.
As others have mentioned, many of us have been successful in changing our thinking and our attitudes toward the way we are, and have embraced our individuality to the maximum. The quest to grow hair on a bald head is not a "cure", it is merely a treatment for vanity, which in most cases with the current state of technology is merely a way to get unfortunate people to pay for their insecurity.
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Again I say 'NO' because i don't think I said it forcefully enough last post, so I say 'NO NO NO NO NO...etc' Give me a cure for HAIR, man! 8)
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Again I say 'NO' because i don't think I said it forcefully enough last post, so I say 'NO NO NO NO NO...etc' Give me a cure for HAIR, man! 8)
I agree with "British" Rob!!!! NFW!!!!!!!!!!!
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nope... I would prefer a product that actually took hair off permanently. When I had a full head of hair I kept it buzzed down to a #1 anyway.
Give me something that will remove the hair from my neck, back, chest, head, face, etc. and THAT I would be into.
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nope... I would prefer a product that actually took hair off permanently. When I had a full head of hair I kept it buzzed down to a #1 anyway.
Give me something that will remove the hair from my neck, back, chest, head, face, etc. and THAT I would be into.
Marz is my man!
Dude, and no disrespect...but have you read a lot of the posts here before you wrote this....there are actually dudes that WANT a totally bald head...by their choice 100%, and yea some are very young, I include myself in that group (not the young, but the BBC)....a bald head is a very cool look....
I've chosen to live my life slick bald for the last 13 years and have LOVED every minute of it and have found it to be the one most empowering things a person can do for them selves....
so sign me up for that "Mr. Clean" product Marz spoke of...
hair (most anywhere) just isn't for me bro...and I WILL keep it that way for my time on this earth!
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I'm w/ ZZAAPP. I've been meaning to sound off about this "cure" crap for some time. The word implies illness, deformity, congenital issues, but MPB isn't any of these. Genetically, for MPB, it's in the genes and I think of it as evidence of evolution in that we with MPB are examples of the evolution of man and we're just further evolved genetically than the guys w/ full heads of hair. I think my view is supported by a common convention in science fiction of bald alien "people" who are from advanced civilizations. That convention is a way for the general public to live with its shared understanding of MPB as an example of genetic development--not illness or deformity, without an open admission. They can't have a "cure" w/o a problem. Let's not support this depraved view and let's strike the "c" word from our vocabularies regarding our gleaming domes. I along w/ most of the members of this forum w/ MPB have elected to get "ahead" of the game by shaving our heads, it's our statement and if those w/ a closer genetic relationship to apes and monkeys than we have don't like it, lump it :x!, but don't say the c word (and I appreciate the BBC crowd for emulating what is for us, natural.)
Would I engage in changing evolution? Not a chance, I'm here by the grace of God, and here I shall remain w/o drugs, rugs or plugs.
I'll get off my soapbox now. Thanks guys for letting me vent!
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WELL SAID BOTH ZZAAPP AND SAINTC.
I never really gave this angle thought, but as everything nowadays appears to be associated with some type of condition that can be cured with a pill, I just took this thread for granted.
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In the words of Scooby-Doo, "Absorutery not!!!"
I'm BBC too, btw
Welcome!!!!
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nope... I would prefer a product that actually took hair off permanently. When I had a full head of hair I kept it buzzed down to a #1 anyway.
Give me something that will remove the hair from my neck, back, chest, head, face, etc. and THAT I would be into.
I'm with Marz on this one. I would rather remove the hair than get it back. And to echo Marshd, I would rather shave my head than my face. It's way more enjoyable to scrape the dome free. I've said this in other posts and I'll say it again; my stubble or shadow tells me I'll be shaving again in the next day or two. Which I always look forward to.
Saintc and zzaapp had it right too, It's not a disease!.
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There is only one cure for hairloss, it was invented by a Frenchman, it is called the Guillotine.
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Well said saintc
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You all are doing a great job of making the best of a bad situation tho which is highly commendible.
Welcome to SBG, BMW. First let me hit on this particular comment. This tells me that your having issues with your hairloss, which is causing confident issues.
I know this because I am "Sly" due to my hairloss, and too felt like it was a bad situation. But I have to say, after meeting the BBC brothers on the site here I realized that it was a choice even hairloss people have to make. When I shaved for the first time, I found freedom from the mighty chains that weighed me down. The chains I have come to realize was not my situation from hairloss, but the hair that I have always had. I always worried about my appearance with my hair, how to style it, cut it short or keep it long, where to part it, mousse it or use hairspray, if it was drying out and causing split ends, and how to keep the rain off of it.
With my shaved head I found confidence that is undescribable, I look years younger, and have no issues with my appearance from the next up... actually no part but particually the neck up.
I see this is your first post and I only hope you read through some of the discussions of people who have experienced the "freedom" that alot of guys here have found. I also will say that shaving is not for everyone, and we have met people here that could not let go. What makes this a great site is that everyone also supported them in their decision, did not pressure them to shave, and offered advice to help them deal with their situation. There is a diverse group here that are main contributors and great people.
To answer your overall question, I would never go back to the "hair" days, that time will only remain in my memory of the eighties.
Hope to see you around the forum.
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I think abou 99.9% of the folks here in this fraternity would shout "NO!" Me included. And ditto on Marz's comment about hair removal from everywhere else. Well, except the goatee. I'd feel naked without it.
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I wouldnt want a cure for hair either. I know it is something you have to do everyday....but If I elected to have my hair permenantly removed....that would take away my freedom of shaving. I feel it liberating to be able to shave. No more would I be able to tell people because I can.....I opt to still have my hair....but shave it off everyday...BECAUSE I CAN....
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You all are doing a great job of making the best of a bad situation tho which is highly commendible.
Welcome to SBG, BMW. First let me hit on this particular comment. This tells me that your having issues with your hairloss, which is causing confident issues.
I know this because I am "Sly" due to my hairloss, and too felt like it was a bad situation. But I have to say, after meeting the BBC brothers on the site here I realized that it was a choice even hairloss people have to make. When I shaved for the first time, I found freedom from the mighty chains that weighed me down. The chains I have come to realize was not my situation from hairloss, but the hair that I have always had. I always worried about my appearance with my hair, how to style it, cut it short or keep it long, where to part it, mousse it or use hairspray, if it was drying out and causing split ends, and how to keep the rain off of it.
With my shaved head I found confidence that is undescribable, I look years younger, and have no issues with my appearance from the next up... actually no part but particually the neck up.
I see this is your first post and I only hope you read through some of the discussions of people who have experienced the "freedom" that alot of guys here have found. I also will say that shaving is not for everyone, and we have met people here that could not let go. What makes this a great site is that everyone also supported them in their decision, did not pressure them to shave, and offered advice to help them deal with their situation. There is a diverse group here that are main contributors and great people.
To answer your overall question, I would never go back to the "hair" days, that time will only remain in my memory of the eighties.
Hope to see you around the forum.
Good words Champ! O0
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bmw said on 3-2-08 "You all are doing a great job of making the best of a bad situation tho which is highly commendible." And he is wrong, entirely misdirected since the clear predicate of his comment is that something is wrong w/ MPB, ist's not and never has been a "bad situation". Let's all get over this attitude, consciously and sub consciously, there is nothing "bad", diseased, deformed or otherwise unpleasant about MPB, it's just that genetically the guys w/ MPB have been moving faster than our compadres who don't have it and some guys fear that they're different and inferior to less genetically advanced guys. Really, enough of this :Xo! :Xo! :Xo!. In the future, and probably not too distant future MPB, that seems to be a dominate gene factor, will be the vast majority. Get over it now, and those who have some electricity between their ears are going to opt for a shaved head so as not to look like disaster areas. I mean, why hang on to a look that really means nothing more than a damaged memory of pre-puberty hair display? :/O :/O :/O Get ahead of the game and live w/o the hassle. I'm really getting tired of Sly guys having to "justify" our choice over and over and over again. Shaving the head for a guy w/ MPB--at whatever stage--is an entirely rationale and desirable option. bmw's apprehension is just the result of his manipulation by hair "replacement/restoration" economic predatory politics. Believe me, bmw, and all other "fencers" with MPB, Stay smooth, stay natural, stay strong. And, NO MORE OF THIS CURE CRAP :x! :x! :x! :x!, okay? Get off the fence, get on with life, and, hopefully, join us and be frequent contributors to this FORUM. I really don't want to see this again, but, please, we're still here to help you over the issue, and that is an issue of self-confidence--not MPB. MPB isn't the problem.
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I have no desire to have hair on my head, I could, but don't. I do have a desire to stay slick and bald!
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would you go for it? Or would you prefer to remain bald? Lets be honest, all of you would love to have a gorgeous head of hair, as would I. You all are doing a great job of making the best of a bad situation tho which is highly commendible. Science is understanding more and more about hair loss each day and the discovery of a hair loss gene (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23334554/) gives me hope that perhaps in a decade or less we'll see new and more effective drugs on the horizon and maybe even a cure? I'm new here btw so nice to meet you all in advance. :)
I was very happy when I shaved my head because I have fine, blonde hair that was difficult to manage. As someone else mentioned, hair is an indicator of age, so people with shaved heads don't age like everyone else. Plus, I think I'm too hooked on the ritual of head shaving to give it up. It's nice never having sweaty hair in the summer, never worrying about your hair in the rain, never combing or brushing, and so on. And besides that, let's be frank, there's not going to be a guaranteed "cure" for balding. It's part of your DNA, not a disease that can be fought with antibodies.
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love the sly too much. Must admit I'm tempted very occasionally to grow my hair a little just to see if any more grey hairs have appeared, or if the bald patch has grown any, but it's too much trouble to let it grow. Wish there was a cure for not being able to grow a full beard though! 8)
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Heck no! I'm waiting for an affordable cure for hair! :*))
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i have been lazy since monday. four days was enough to show me that i have lost too damn much. so i am sly/slick again.
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i have been lazy since monday. four days was enough to show me that i have lost too damn much. so i am sly/slick again.
Four days of growth? :/O
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Probably not, you never realize how much hassle hair is until you go SLY... O0
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A few guys here have picked up on the key word "cure". To need a cure, you need to have an illness, or deformity. This is true for a woman who is balding; she needs a cure. But it was put into the DNA of man when God created him. God intended men to go bald, some more, some less, some none. Since we were intended to go bald, that is why most of us look a lot better with shaved heads. To try to use a "cure" for their baldness, man is going against nature and God.
Since there cannot be any cure for baldness, I find this question moot. It is impossible to answer.
bwm...welcome to the sly group. Are you still here? You haven't posted anything since your original question.
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A few guys here have picked up on the key word "cure". To need a cure, you need to have an illness, or deformity. This is true for a woman who is balding; she needs a cure. But it was put into the DNA of man when God created him."
Actually, the genetic code for hair loss is an X-linked trait. We inherit it from our father's but from our mothers. Women have to have the trait from their mother AND father to develop baldness. However, neither are maladies that require treatment in the way that heart disease or diabetes are diseases. Baldness is not life-threatening, nor is it debilitating. Women who are balding should just shave their heads too. If you're pretty WITH hair, you're pretty WITHOUT it.
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Yes, Johnny, you're very smart, but can you figure out how to use the quote function?! :/O
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lol johnny :D