Sly Bald Guys Forum
Discussions About Being Bald => General Discussion => Topic started by: FR8TRAIN on June 28, 2008, 07:51:24 PM
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Guys,
One of our new members (NWTRNR) has posed this question. Let's show him what's up. O0
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BBC....and voted such (sometimes folks just respond without actually voting....or vote without commenting.....3 votes and 2 posters....someone's holdin' out >:D )
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Not really MPB, here. My hair was just thinning out all over. Moreso on the sides that on the top. SLY was definitely an answer to my problems.
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Yes. >:D
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I was in the early stages of MPB, but I'm not going out like that!!! >:D
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BBC here O0
Dan
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BBC here... and damn proud of my bald head! 8)
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Totally BBC
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on another thread we started discussing what was and wasnt BBC or MPB. I am bald by choice, because I chose to shave my slightly receding hair. Very slightly receding. I don't have a bald patch, so I consider myself to be BBC because it could grow back ok. Even if it is slightly receding!!! :/O
Anyway: I'm bald by choice. Love it. 8)
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BBC. Was thinning out on top and really don't care for, as my wife puts it, the half moon look.
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BBC but the top is starting to thin a little so MPB is in my near future I think.
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both. mpb was getting me so i shaved before it got too bad.
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BBC
Also created the Yahoo! group some years ago
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/baldbychoicemen
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I consider myself bald by choice, but my hair was receding at the temples.
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BBC, with the qualification that I could grow an passable head of hair (for a fifty-six year old) with a receding hairline.
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I never want to deal with hair again if I don't have to.
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MPB!! Got tired of looking in the mirror and watching "home plate" getting bigger every day. :(
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Both. I had really long hair but got some north woods deer flies get caught in it while jogging. Came home from the run and did a "no guard" trim with a Wahl kit, then shaved it to the skin with a Sensor. People who saw me one day with hair to my shoulder blades saw me the very next day shaved slick.
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BBC but could see MPB was in my future!!
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BBC O0 :@`
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bbc, but a few more years and it may be mpb, I figured that I might as well get used to being bald before i have to be bald
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bbc, but a few more years and it may be mpb, I figured that I might as well get used to being bald before i have to be bald
Good job mate...
bald is way cooler than hair...
if you can grow it or not! ;)
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I guess technically I'm BBC. I had the receding hairline, and the whole top of my head was really starting to thin out and it was quite noticeable when i would fix it (which was every day). So I just went home one day after work, took my clippers and chopped it down with no guard and a few days later I took the Fusion to it.
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MPB here, I started shaving before it became too bad, when it was getting bad at the temples. It seems that the majority are BBC because of MPB.
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I consider myself both. Although I'm advanced MPB, I could choose to join the idiocy of comb-overs, hair systems, transplants, drugs or other nonsense. I choose to be bald so I'm just as much BBC as MPB.
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BBC O0 !
J
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MPB here, I started shaving before it became too bad, when it was getting bad at the temples. It seems that the majority are BBC because of MPB.
any before and after pics?
does anyone have before and after pic's?
that's mine:
(https://www.slybaldguys.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=5610.0;attach=3922;image)
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ben32, it looks great man. you really rock the sly.
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Here's mine:
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Here's mine:
WOW! great look with the goatee!! O0
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Thanks brutha! You too, by the way. Wish mine was like yours...without the gray! :)
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MPB here, I started shaving before it became too bad, when it was getting bad at the temples. It seems that the majority are BBC because of MPB.
any before and after pics?
does anyone have before and after pic's?
that's mine:
(https://www.slybaldguys.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=5610.0;attach=3922;image)
my hairline is almost exactly like yours. so does that make us bbc or mpb ???
John
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ben32, it looks great man. you really rock the sly.
thanks!
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MPB here, I started shaving before it became too bad, when it was getting bad at the temples. It seems that the majority are BBC because of MPB.
any before and after pics?
does anyone have before and after pic's?
that's mine:
(https://www.slybaldguys.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=5610.0;attach=3922;image)
my hairline is almost exactly like yours. so does that make us bbc or mpb ???
John
john, i also thought about that.
maybe something like a balding BBC or so ;)
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my hairline is almost exactly like yours. so does that make us bbc or mpb ???
John
john, i also thought about that.
maybe something like a balding BBC or so ;)
Another balding BBC here.
There's nothing more aging than a thinning crown.
You look like an entirely different person Ben.
You were meant to be SLY. And so was I.
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Ben-u look fantastic!
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before and after?
(https://www.slybaldguys.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi91.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fk308%2FPea-brain%2FDCFN0021-2-1.jpg&hash=14bd3b4c43622ffc16432a789f935b9de7ac4e68)
(https://www.slybaldguys.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi91.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fk308%2FPea-brain%2FBaldglare-1.jpg&hash=a9d53e7a04a27e2b782280a19f30ffa9e9e5f05c)
I'll leave it to you to decide which one is before and which one after :D
Dan
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Just in case no one's seen my 'before' pic on the 'before and after' gallery, her it is again. I can't believe now how high my receding hairline was becoming! ???
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Me Before
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Well, as long as we're on the subject
Me before:
(https://www.slybaldguys.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi176.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fw166%2Frobmeisterbrau%2FJimmyComesHome_41008_9a.jpg&hash=ffac3c142d65bc77cf5948a1ba6cb5a1f657cee2)
I think I smile a lot more now that I'm SLY.
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Well, as long as we're on the subject
Me before:
(https://www.slybaldguys.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi176.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fw166%2Frobmeisterbrau%2FJimmyComesHome_41008_9a.jpg&hash=ffac3c142d65bc77cf5948a1ba6cb5a1f657cee2)
I think I smile a lot more now that I'm SLY.
I think before was better in your case. :D
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my hairline is almost exactly like yours. so does that make us bbc or mpb ???
John
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john, i also thought about that.
maybe something like a balding BBC or so ;)
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Yeah; I like that! I don't quite like saying i'm mpb; but don't feel quite honest in saying I'm bbc.
John
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but don't feel quite honest in saying I'm bbc.
I do. See my post.
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I consider myself both. Although I'm advanced MPB, I could choose to join the idiocy of comb-overs, hair systems, transplants, drugs or other nonsense. I choose to be bald so I'm just as much BBC as MPB.
I didn't see your post earlier. Great perspective; just what I was trying to express.
John
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bbc... i was thinning on top.
WARHAWK O0
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I think before was better in your case. :D
Well....I am glad I got that tooth fixed :XX
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For the record; my 'before'
John
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Like most of the guys here BBC but thinning on top...
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For the record; my 'before'
John
yea that similar to mine.
your before picture looks also good, with that tan and the bright hair.
but sly is the better way!! u look younger i would say.
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Thanks brutha! You too, by the way. Wish mine was like yours...without the gray! :)
There's nothing bad about gray hair! looks great the same, expecially when
it gets white like JohnMont's
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I have slowly been thinning. People still say they don't notice it, but I was using drugs and combing my hair certain ways to hide it. I worried if people could tell. So really, BBC encouraged by the early, early stages of MPB.
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Just in case no one's seen my 'before' pic on the 'before and after' gallery, her it is again. I can't believe now how high my receding hairline was becoming! ???
Wowsers Rob!! Have you ever been told that with hair you bear an uncanny resemblance
to Gomez from the movie The Addams family?!! :o
(no offence intended!)
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OK. There are 1813 members of this forum and I can only get 37 votes in this poll? :Xo! How pathetic. C'mon, inquiring minds, newbies, lurkers, fence sitters, etc. want to know. O0
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LOL....
1400 of those "members" have 10 posts or less = highly inactive or recently new
and about 200 have never even posted = ????
I hear ya, Fr8
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LOL....
1400 of those "members" have 10 posts or less = highly inactive or recently new
and about 200 have never even posted = ????
I hear ya, Fr8
WOW! g@@4
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my before pic....
(https://www.slybaldguys.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi245.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fgg65%2Fcurioushandiworker%2FChewbacca.jpg&hash=d82ab73d64e0eeb388ce9132303289804134ef56)
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my before pic....
(https://www.slybaldguys.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi245.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fgg65%2Fcurioushandiworker%2FChewbacca.jpg&hash=d82ab73d64e0eeb388ce9132303289804134ef56)
Wait a second...I don't think that's you. I dated this chic before!
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I voted! BBC here. I have a full head of hair. Used to have long hair down to my shoulders. I'll try to find one and get it posted up here.
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OK. There are 1813 members of this forum and I can only get 37 votes in this poll? :Xo! How pathetic. C'mon, inquiring minds, newbies, lurkers, fence sitters, etc. want to know. O0
yeah, that is pathetic!
I'm gonna cast my vote right now! ;)
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I have to say both because while I was thinning up top and had a high forehead, I still had hair and buzzed it down of my own choice! And though not totally sly, as of last evening I'm down to a .5 buzz....and liking it alot!!!!!!!
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I'm BBC because of MPB, how's that for an answer :)
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MPB kind of shoved me towards the Sly look. But I would not be considered "bald". So put me in the camp of being a "Balding BBC". If I was to grow the hair back, I have a high forehead with the "peninsula" in the middle of the head eroding away. The "cul-de-sac" on the back of the head is getting thinner. So eventually the two areas will probably meet. But here is a picture taken about 2002.
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OK. There are 1813 members of this forum and I can only get 37 votes in this poll? :Xo! How pathetic. C'mon, inquiring minds, newbies, lurkers, fence sitters, etc. want to know. O0
I couldn't vote because there's no choice for both.
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OK. There are 1813 members of this forum and I can only get 37 votes in this poll? :Xo! How pathetic. C'mon, inquiring minds, newbies, lurkers, fence sitters, etc. want to know. O0
I couldn't vote because there's no choice for both.
You may cast your vote now BB. O0
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Suuuuuuure, now you add the 'both' option lol. :)
I honestly don't think (Ok, I'm 99.9% sure) I wouldn't have shaved my head if I had a full hairline... Guess it was just meant to be. ;)
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Have any of you thinning guys been suddenly surprised to realize how much hair you've lost since you started shaving? I've been noticing lately that my crown is always nice and slick. It used to be the spot where the stubble came back first. I was receding from the front but always had plenty of hair in the back. That no longer seems to be the case.
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Yeah, that will be an interesting thing to try and spot.
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When I was a kid, I had a dime sized bald spot and it was a bit back from the front of my head. After I started shaving, I eventually noticed that the MPB has since swallowed it.
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After watching right said fred, they looked amazing. Before them there was nobody I thought looked good bald.They changed me to wearing earings, chains, sunglasses etc.Never looked back.They made the bald look cool.
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Like Lucky13MN I too am BBC because of MPB. MPB, a family trait, and the pepper evaded very quickly once the salt started to shine. So, I went BBC and according to wife: Look Younger (w/o gray) and the shine is complete.
I wear a Glow for a Fro, by now you should know - My Bling don't cost a thing!
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Like Lucky13MN I too am BBC because of MPB. MPB, a family trait, and the pepper evaded very quickly once the salt started to shine. So, I went BBC and according to wife: Look Younger (w/o gray) and the shine is complete.
I wear a Glow for a Fro, by now you should know - My Bling don't cost a thing!
Rusty... I think you should stop watching MTV! ;)
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Both for me, i decided to shave before the male pattern baldness got worse,
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Just in case no one's seen my 'before' pic on the 'before and after' gallery, her it is again. I can't believe now how high my receding hairline was becoming! ???
Wowsers Rob!! Have you ever been told that with hair you bear an uncanny resemblance
to Gomez from the movie The Addams family?!! :o
(no offence intended!)
No offence taken!
Mostly people used to tell me I looked like Freddie Mercury, so that's a new one on me! :D
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I'm gonna go with both, since like many of the other bro's, my mpb has made me become bbc.
I can still grow plenty of hair, but with the "hole in back" and the top front starting to get thinner and thinner, I just don't dig the look.
Smooth is way better! O0
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i hade a full set of hair even hade a long ponytail i love the shaved dome
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Just in case no one's seen my 'before' pic on the 'before and after' gallery, her it is again. I can't believe now how high my receding hairline was becoming! ???
Wowsers Rob!! Have you ever been told that with hair you bear an uncanny resemblance
to Gomez from the movie The Addams family?!! :o
(no offence intended!)
No offence taken!
Mostly people used to tell me I looked like Freddie Mercury, so that's a new one on me! :D
oooh, you'd have to start singing before I could pass judgement on that one!! ;)
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I guess I'm somewhere between to be real honest, but f**k hair. It bugged me for so long anyway and time to move on to next problem, my insecurity and self confidence.
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I had thining hair on top but the back of my head looked like someone took a dinner plate, drew a circle around it and shaved it.......finally decided to just get rid of the rest of it after my daughter took a Pic during a family gathering and I seen what the back of my head really looked like from a distance.....Yikes !!!
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I voted for both...I was thinning on top, and in the front, and I was in the military at the time and did not have a whole lot of hair in the first place. So if there was a category of "Did you shave you head because of MPB or BBC or Just friggin easier to deal with", I would have went with that one....
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This is me and the last time I hair that was more than a buzz...
a week after that first pic i was bald like the wedding photo 2 years later...
bald is WAY better on me, both me and the wife agreed that's why i was thankfully bald for my wedding and
...that's ultimately why I'm,
Bald by Choice! 8)
(https://www.slybaldguys.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi279.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fkk136%2Fbaldandre08%2Fbeforeandafter.jpg&hash=60958a0431a07abe16604bee3a6406251d913100)
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You both look younger and hipper in the newer photo.
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You both look younger and hipper in the newer photo.
Thanks...me thinks so too! O0
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This is me and the last time I hair that was more than a buzz...
a week after that first pic i was bald like the wedding photo 2 years later...
bald is WAY better on me, both me and the wife agreed that's why i was thankfully bald for my wedding and
...that's ultimately why I'm,
Bald by Choice! 8)
(https://www.slybaldguys.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi279.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fkk136%2Fbaldandre08%2Fbeforeandafter.jpg&hash=60958a0431a07abe16604bee3a6406251d913100)
So how old is that hairy pic?
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This is me and the last time I hair that was more than a buzz...
a week after that first pic i was bald like the wedding photo 2 years later...
bald is WAY better on me, both me and the wife agreed that's why i was thankfully bald for my wedding and
...that's ultimately why I'm,
Bald by Choice! 8)
(https://www.slybaldguys.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi279.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fkk136%2Fbaldandre08%2Fbeforeandafter.jpg&hash=60958a0431a07abe16604bee3a6406251d913100)
Andre, you should bring back the goat. It looks good!
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That photo was about 9 years ago...
hee hee i was in a "growout" for my sister's wedding ( see I played by "those stupid rules" a few times)...during the grow out is when I met my soon to be wife..
it's funny I kept telling her when we first met that I usually have a shaved head and what she thought of it...well I think she thought I wasn't serious, so once that wedding was over I shaved my head smooth without telling her..
I met her at the door with my new bald head...she was a bit shocked but liked it (I kept it smooth from that day)...
until I tried growing it out a 1 1/2 years later for our wedding...then after 3 months of growth, she looked at me at dinner and said "you know "hair" just isn't you...you should shave it...
next day slick as a cueball and bald for our wedding...and have been that way everyday since! ;)
Great girl! O0
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Can you imagine anyone asking you to grow your hair out for a wedding today? Bet it doesn't happen as often these days since the look has become more commonplace.
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Andre, you should bring back the goat. It looks good!
Razor would argue this...but I'm not opposed to goat..
just diggin' the "Mr. Clean action on myself...plus it's cool to see me and the little dude BOTH have the same cleft.
I guess it's a daddy thing!
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Can you imagine anyone asking you to grow your hair out for a wedding today? Bet it doesn't happen as often these days since the look has become more commonplace.
Naw...my sister is cool, would never ask that..
just I thought it would be proper..
foolish kid, eh?
Never, ever again!
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BBC for me, I could grow it back out with a full head of hair.
I am Bald By Choice :@`