Sly Bald Guys Forum
Discussions About Being Bald => Reactions to being Bald => Topic started by: Ghost1988 on December 04, 2008, 09:13:38 PM
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ive had a receding hairline since i was about 18. now im 20 and the hairlines gotten drastically worse to the point of just being this thin strip. (its gotten worse since my default). i might regret saying this later but..........i almost wish i had no hair on top instead of this thin strip because it looks rediculous with my already large forehead lol. being self conscious is a bitch....
what age did everyone start losing their hair? and when did it start really getting noticeable?
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I don't think a guy ever forgets the first day he realizes he is losing hair. For me it was around Thanksgiving at the age of 17. I started Propecia at the age of 21 (I'm not here endorsing drugs either). Now at the age of 31 I feel its getting noticeable, and tired of taking drugs.
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pharmer i dont see any hair loss? lol. is your crown balding or something cuz you definately dont have a receding hairline really?
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I started noticing my hairline receding at age 19, now I'm 24.
But I want to point out something. If it is considered inappropriate or against the rules then I would
hope a moderator would delete my comment.
So here it is. Ghost, you don't seem to be a peace with your hairline. I don't know if you are a religious
guy or not but research continues to show over and over that people who are religious tend to find more
peace when it comes to dealing with difficult moments. I find that praying to God and asking Him for help
brings me peace in difficult moments. So to me, religious commitment is the best way to deal with difficult times.
So again, I apologize if this is against the rules. I'm just offering an advice.
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mathematician thats good advice. i am religious actually. it doesnt mean people who are relgious dont get depressed over hairloss though. you can be at peace all you want, its not gonna bring your hair back though. you still have to deal with it on a day to day basis.
if it was as easy as that ide simply say...."god can i please have my hair back?" along with the millions of others. its not that simple lol. trust me......ive tried.
i still do.....haha
this was off topic though. i was just reponding to your comment. this board isnt really for discussing religion.
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well Baldmath I got your back 100%, I share your religious views... but I want to add that any kind of spirituality is probably more healthy than none, you have to be at peace with yourself, so whatever zen works for an individual is a good starting point.
Ghost, I would trade my rapidly thinning hair for a receding hairline in a heartbeat, just out of preference of having more shadow when I get older. However the purpose of this forum ( in my opinion and please correct me if I'm wrong) is to communicate with other bald men in order to become comfortable with MPB/ yourself, and to regain/rebuild your confidence
also I would like to add that drinking is not a spiritual activity...
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to answer the main post... 20/21 is when it was noticeable... 22 now, and still working on acceptance. In Hindsight though, it may have started as early as 18
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to answer the main post... 20/21 is when it was noticeable... 22 now, and still working on acceptance. In Hindsight though, it may have started as early as 18
Ditto.
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ive had a receding hairline since i was about 18. now im 20 and the hairlines gotten drastically worse to the point of just being this thin strip. (its gotten worse since my default). i might regret saying this later but..........i almost wish i had no hair on top instead of this thin strip because it looks rediculous with my already large forehead lol. being self conscious is a bitch....
Actually, I think a little shadow on top on a guy your age is kind of cool. It sort of tells the world that you shaved your head because you wanted to, and yes, the hairline may be receding but you really aren't bothered by it. Besides, the shadow is not as noticeable to the rest of the world as you might think.
You've already shaved your head, so there's really nothing more that can be done to address your hair situation. Instead of obsessing over something that's beyond your control, focus on things that you need to improve (we all have them) that you do have some control over. Maybe spruce up your wardrobe, working out more, learning to speak another language or play an instrument -- whatever floats your boat. All of those things will boost your confidence and by concentrating on them, you're concentrating less on your lack of hair.
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I was maybe like 18/19 when it started receeding and becoming noticable for me, but I kept at it clinging on to my hair, then I saw a photo that someone had taken with a flash and I was like g@@4
So I chatted to the GF and shaved it off age 21.....and here I am!!
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I started losing the hair on the back or crown of my head first. I guess I was in my 20's and it was very noticable.
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20 here.
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Didnt really notice. Although I class myself as BBC, my hair started receding when I was about 17, and gradually got higher at the temples. I didnt really notice it at the time, but when i see photos of me aged 16 and 17 I can see how much it receded in the meantime. 8)
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i started losing my hair at 17, but i actually shaved it at 20. I got tired of being in denial about it and having my hair make my head look like one of the Aliens from the movie, since the thick horseshoe made the back of my head stick out.
(https://www.slybaldguys.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffarm2.static.flickr.com%2F1158%2F1261477070_493acf2868_m.jpg&hash=465f22623444cc5bd898c9a36cac53b5f6d7a10d)
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i started losing my hair at 17, but i actually shaved it at 20. I got tired of being in denial about it and having my hair make my head look like one of the Aliens from the movie, since the thick horseshoe made the back of my head stick out.
(https://www.slybaldguys.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffarm2.static.flickr.com%2F1158%2F1261477070_493acf2868_m.jpg&hash=465f22623444cc5bd898c9a36cac53b5f6d7a10d)
Ha Ha, I don't think I have ever heard it described like that, but i like it ha ha!! ;D
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i started losing my hair at 17, but i actually shaved it at 20. I got tired of being in denial about it and having my hair make my head look like one of the Aliens from the movie, since the thick horseshoe made the back of my head stick out.
(https://www.slybaldguys.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffarm2.static.flickr.com%2F1158%2F1261477070_493acf2868_m.jpg&hash=465f22623444cc5bd898c9a36cac53b5f6d7a10d)
lol you have like NO shadow whatsoever so i cant tell exactly how your mpb is. did it just recede all the way back kinda like a half moon type thing or did you lose it all on the top?
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i started losing my hair at 17, but i actually shaved it at 20. I got tired of being in denial about it and having my hair make my head look like one of the Aliens from the movie, since the thick horseshoe made the back of my head stick out.
(https://www.slybaldguys.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffarm2.static.flickr.com%2F1158%2F1261477070_493acf2868_m.jpg&hash=465f22623444cc5bd898c9a36cac53b5f6d7a10d)
lol you have like NO shadow whatsoever so i cant tell exactly how your mpb is. did it just recede all the way back kinda like a half moon type thing or did you lose it all on the top?
Man, i lost it all on the top. i didnt even get the decency of a retreating hairline. There was no retreat, no "advance to the rear." It was just GONE.
Shading in a dimly lit restaurant does wonders for the shadow, per my avatar. haha
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ha its all good. you have a nice lookin girl so apparently the hairloss isnt a big deal lol. i just wish there were more chiks like that out there lol. i know like........2 haha. ide honestly rather lose it all on top than a receding hairline though cuz i already have a fairly big forehead to begin with. so when you mix that with a thin strip of a hairline it looks horrible at certain angles. you cant go wrong with nothing on top lol. but if only i could get rid of the shadow it wouldnt be a problem. i guess ill try the headblade.
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Hey, to find a girl that dug my bald look, I had to go to Brazil to find that. haha. As far as getting rid of the shadow as much as possible, try an incessant and probably obsessive regimen to scrape any and all hair from your head. You dont really need to have any feeling in your scalp anyway. haha.
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greeeeeeat! looks like im buying a plane ticket to brazil lol. cuz i know damn well american chiks are ignorant lol.
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Nice new avatar Peripheral!
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I started losing my hair at around 17/18, the look made worse by the fact that I always used loads of gel! From the age of about 20 I stopped using normal gel and use to this day stuff that isnt so "slick", my hair atm is in a kinda comb-over style.. I guess soon I'll be shaving it off..?!
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Welcome to the forum TommyGun, if you post a introduction and your story in the Intros sections all of the bros will welcome you proporly!! O0
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started around 28 or so with a receding hairline. ok, i know not the same young as most here.
but i had more time to got use to my hair;) (JK)
it got really obvious getting 30. (35 now)
.i almost wish i had no hair on top instead of this thin strip
btw i also hate this "strip thing", bot somethimes i think maybe it's good as long there are still some hair :-\
i don't know what to think about that.
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I started receeding at the temples in my 20's. But the widow's peak was noticeably thinning when I was 30. For most of my 30's I was losing hair in the front. At 36
I started shaving my head as my stepmom started making comments about toupees, plugs and drugs. While I am not slick bald in the back, the one of the last times I grew it back, a co-worker pointed out the thinning in the back. Pictures and videos confirm this. So at 47 I would say I am slowly balding, compared to some!
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I guess I was one of the "luckier" guys. I didn't start a major recession until my 50's. A retired barber friend commented that I have the family hairline. He had cut many of my uncles heads for years. At first the recession was about a half inch. That's went I strongly considered going sly. Now I have about a two inch recession with a two inch bald spot. Hair in the widow's peak seems to be thinning. The recession seems to be progressing at a faster rate. Being sly, it doesn't show to the untrained eye. At this point, I'm glad my hair is going.
Bald Bill
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btw i also hate this "strip thing", bot somethimes i think maybe it's good as long there are still some hair :-\
i don't know what to think about that.
I started to feel that way when the widow's peak separated from the hair behind it to form an island, and the new "hairline" behind the island ran across the very top of my head. Up to that point it had seemed like the hair was going fast, but once you reach one of those awkward stages it seems like it can take forever for the process to complete. That's when I knew it was time to shave.
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43 while I was trying to stick with the spiked top look I noticed in a photo that some of the spikes had jumped ship.
45 is when I witnessed a hole forming in the back when I held up a mirror. That one freaked me out.
The deciding factor was at 46 when I saw a photo of myself at a bowling alley and the front of my hair (which I was combing straight back) looked like a bad combover.
I immediately busted out the razor and the rest is history.
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Thinning at 20; transplants at 25, and then gone by 45. No warning at 45, just receded and I was left with a combover/bad forest of odd haits. We know the rest.
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i started to notice when a friend told me my hair was thinning in the back and this was at 17 and i had a receding hairline so i always cut my hair short but im still slowly balding i just wish it would all completely fall out lol that way no shadow!!!!!!!!!!!! but yea im 20 almost 21 now if i do let my hair grow out i still have hair on top but you can def see where its thinning
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hey guys! i started 2 years ago at the age of 15!! thought i was the most unlucky guy in the world! now am 17 and was a norwood class 3! the doctors were baffled i must say, so the other day i was done with using topik that concealer nd just went for it... am loving it, feels so good! and the reactions at 6th form were bloody brilliant turned into a sex idol ;) bald is brilliant!
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Awesome Caleb! Glad you like it.
Post up in the intro section, and you'll get a big slyin welcome.
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real early! probably in highschool...but i didnt notice it until sophomore year in college
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yeh mine started receeding a bit when i was 18 but it still looked like i had hair just a high forhead... i noticed it but was in denile...
at the age of 21 is when it started getting worse and then the entire year after i turned 22 it receeded more then it tried to do the revearse mohawk thing which i still have at the moment...
I have not yet gone sly, ive been really busy with work friends, and business... but i plan on getting it shaved this weekend (i hope)
Btw im taking alot of peeps advice and workin out tryin to bulk up
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I've had thin hair since age 16. At age 21, I finally shaved for good. Been sly for about 2 years. The picture below was the last picture that I had with hair. Both my parents began to lose their hair at an early age. My paps still thinks he has hair but persists to sport a 'dry-look comb-over' ::)
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About 27 or 28....I noticed a pic of me with my head down, at the time I went with the gel and slicked back look....talk about thining, from that time on I kept it really short and then decided that it was time for it all to go at about 34...no regrets
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Used to have the thickest Frank Vincent hair until my number was called. The school nurse, the woman who cut my hair, and my girlfriends all used to complement my thick locks. Then I remember getting a haircut before HS graduation and the lady commented how I was getting thin...by 21 I was complete horseshoe sly. Spent 8 years hiding it and feeling like crap...got seborrheic dermatitis and couldnt even feel confident wearing a ballcap because the rash was mostly exposed down the back of my neck. I told myself if I could get rid of that s**t I'd make a commitment to being sly and working confidence up. Now I'm still working into my slyness trying to perfect the look but this place should help me get over the hump.
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I started losing my hair at 29 :o. Think it is realy unfair at that age :(. U think u have dodged the bullet (actually never thought about balding before that) when u survive the 29+ years with a full head of hair, but then suddenly i struck. Will be off Propecia untill january 2010 because of a bet. Since i stopped taking it my hairloss picks up again. Actually P seems to be really working for me, even though i don't really like this drug in me. if hairloss keeps up like this i will be a bald guy before medics find a cure :-[.
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I started losing my hair at 29 :o. Think it is realy unfair at that age :(. U think u have dodged the bullet (actually never thought about balding before that) when u survive the 29+ years with a full head of hair, but then suddenly i struck. Will be off Propecia untill january 2010 because of a bet. Since i stopped taking it my hairloss picks up again. Actually P seems to be really working for me, even though i don't really like this drug in me. if hairloss keeps up like this i will be a bald guy before medics find a cure :-[.
you think 29 is unfair? try 20. i woldnt give a s*** if i lost my hair that old. thats normal.
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I started losing my hair at 29 :o. Think it is realy unfair at that age :(. U think u have dodged the bullet (actually never thought about balding before that) when u survive the 29+ years with a full head of hair, but then suddenly i struck. Will be off Propecia untill january 2010 because of a bet. Since i stopped taking it my hairloss picks up again. Actually P seems to be really working for me, even though i don't really like this drug in me. if hairloss keeps up like this i will be a bald guy before medics find a cure :-[.
What does "fair" have to do with it? You want to talk about unfair? Someone I work with was just diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Does that help put things into perspective for you?
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you think 29 is unfair? try 20. i woldnt give a s*** if i lost my hair that old. thats normal.
Yeah, because 29 is way too old to be worried about one's appearance. ::)
Just kidding, Ghost. You're absolutely right. O0
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started losing at 21 here.
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Hello folks,
I started losing hair when I was 19..but it didnt bother me then as it was not very noticeable. The hairline just started to recede a bit but the rest of my head was full of thick hair..
I first noticed the terrible recede when the barber pointed it out to me on 20th Oct 2006 around 9pm. Yes, I will never forget the date, time and place.It was a complete shocker, the hairline had really receded a lot, but the rest of the head was still OK.
Man..I came back home and took pictures of my head from all possible angles and started analysing it..I wanted to cry. All this while my eyes where seeing what I wanted to see and never really noticed the receding hairline. Partly because my frontal hair was long and covered it up. During my analysis I noticed the hair at the top was also thining and the skull being visible upon close analysis..this completely shocked me.I have suffered some emotional distress since then. I am 24 now.
Over the last 2-3 years I tried various ways of saving the hair. The exhaustive list is below:
1. Not rubbing my head forecfully after a head shower
2. Going to the barber once in 2-3 months
3. Growing the hair long and combing it forward
4. Applying coconut oil, aloe vera +almond oil and lots of other sh*t
5. 5% minoxidil for 6 months
6. Looking at the mirror whenever I got a chance to make sure the hair is in place
But folks, its now May 2009 and the situation has become worse. I feel more sad as I wasted a lot of my time and energy brooding and crying over this and trying to save it. I just couldn't accept this and I am still fighting myself to accept it. I tried to open up to my family and friends but failed. My girl friend left me as she didnt llike bald men.
World was falling apart for me and it affected my performance in other areas of my life. It is the first time through this forum that I opened up so much and found so many like minded people. I have started to feel better. I thought all the sh*t is in this world is happening to me.
I am one step closer to going sly. I just got my buzz cut and even though I dont like at all, I am going to accept it. I have no other option. Some people have given me lots of negative remarks over the last last 24 hrs, but I am gulping it all down. I want to succeed and take control and I am not going to let my hair be a show stopper.
Do support me and I will try my best to support you folks in whatever way I can.
I will post pictures when the time is right and I am comfortable with my look.
Honestly, I still feel like sh*t but I am optimistic that good times will come.
Cheers!
Ryan
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Hey privateryan. trying to save something that cannot be saved is a waste of time and effort.
About the buss cut, please don't forget you will look much different with a shaved head. You will be surprised!
One thing to remember is that losing hair is not the end of the world. You will have to learn to live with something
that doesn't hurt you physically, is emotionally painful at times, but is indeed not so big of a problem when you
look at other forms of suffering in this life. Cheers.
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Hey privateryan. trying to save something that cannot be saved is a waste of time and effort.
About the buss cut, please don't forget you will look much different with a shaved head. You will be surprised!
One thing to remember is that losing hair is not the end of the world. You will have to learn to live with something
that doesn't hurt you physically, is emotionally painful at times, but is indeed not so big of a problem when you
look at other forms of suffering in this life. Cheers.
emotional pain can hurt 10X more than physical pain.
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Hey privateryan. trying to save something that cannot be saved is a waste of time and effort.
About the buss cut, please don't forget you will look much different with a shaved head. You will be surprised!
One thing to remember is that losing hair is not the end of the world. You will have to learn to live with something
that doesn't hurt you physically, is emotionally painful at times, but is indeed not so big of a problem when you
look at other forms of suffering in this life. Cheers.
emotional pain can hurt 10X more than physical pain.
I disagree :). You are facing both now I believe. Which one hurts more, losing the hair or the stomach pain that you may have to live with for a long time (according to you)? Be honest.
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Exactly guys...I am more concerned about the emotinal suffering I went through..so much of time and energy was wasted..I would like to share some of the failures I had during this period (I want to do this so that the other younger folks dont repeat such mistakes, accept MPB gracefully and move ahead in life);
1. Below potential performance in the GMAT exam . I am the same person who got a 1st Class Honours for my bachelors degree and for O and A level scores
2. Broke up with my girl friend as I used to indulge in self pity, she completely became averse of me. Her last words were: I hate bald men like you!
3. Loss of self-esteem and development of pessimistic attitude in life
4. Loss of confidence interacting with pretty girls
5. I was in Glasgow(UK) for some business meetings, it is a very windy place and you can imagine what must have happened to me emotionally getting to the place from the hotel. My hair was all over the place and the sales manager even pointed to me to set it properly before entering the meeting. So much trouble for growing it long to cover the recede and ending up in so much embarrasment
6.Too much self-denial and trying to justify to myself and others that I dont suffer from MPB!
It is not too late anyway, now that I have realised this completely and made up mind to accept it, I just have to fight off the next few months and focus on other more important aspects such as career, friends, family etc.
Ultimately I want to do something meaningful regardless of whether I have hair or not. There is already too much sh*t in the world today.
Cheers!
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Hi Math guy,
Bro..I believe emotional pain is more serious than physical pain..emotional pain can drain you of your resources in no time..honestly at the age of 24 people are all out enjoying life! Unfortunately not everybody is able to enjoy life to the fullest..but the key point is to accept things which are not in your control and move on without wasting much time..How I wish I could have enjoyed the last 2 yrs and not thinking so much about saving my hair! Ultimately this situation was out of my control.
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Hey privateryan. trying to save something that cannot be saved is a waste of time and effort.
About the buss cut, please don't forget you will look much different with a shaved head. You will be surprised!
One thing to remember is that losing hair is not the end of the world. You will have to learn to live with something
that doesn't hurt you physically, is emotionally painful at times, but is indeed not so big of a problem when you
look at other forms of suffering in this life. Cheers.
emotional pain can hurt 10X more than physical pain.
I disagree :). You are facing both now I believe. Which one hurts more, losing the hair or the stomach pain that you may have to live with for a long time (according to you)? Be honest.
to be honest....as much of a pain in the ass my colitis is i never even complain about it. i just suck it upand deal with it. hairloss is different.
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Hi privateryan, one major difference between physical and emotional pain is that emotional pain depends on your reaction. So you can "choose" to have it affect you to the point where you commit suicide and say it's more painful than physical pain, or you can control your emotions, look at the blessings you have and be happy.
With physical pain that's really not possible. The pain doesn't depend on your reaction but on itself.
emotional pain can drain you of your resources if you let it do so.
I think the only way to know which of the 2 is more difficult is to get opinions from people who have faced both types of pain, because truly experience is the mother of wisdom.
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I am one step closer to going sly. I just got my buzz cut and even though I dont like at all, I am going to accept it. I have no other option. Some people have given me lots of negative remarks over the last last 24 hrs, but I am gulping it all down. I want to succeed and take control and I am not going to let my hair be a show stopper.
Sounds like you've made the important first step. The rest, especially the confidence, will come. Until it does, just fake it. ;)
Forget about what other people think. Your girlfriend who left you because you're losing your hair is a shallow person who is unworthy of you. Better that you find that out now instead of wasting more time with a person who doesn't really care about you. Don't worry about what your family thinks, either. I know this can be a tough one, but you just have to stick to your guns. Ultimately it is your decision and no one else's. You can't live your life to please other people. Your mother might think you look better with thinning hair than a shaved head, but let's face it, is she the one you really want to look good for? ^-^ It's no good going along with her wishes, against your own. It might make her happy, but it will make you miserable.
You've got all the power here, even though it may not seem like it. And exercising that power is what gives you confidence. It's not so much about looking better (though that does play a part), it's about taking charge of a situation, and doing what you want to do, in the face of a lot of opposition, that will make you confident.
You might not be crazy about the buzzcut now, but listen to your head and not your heart. Take a look around you at other guys who are balding. Which ones look better -- the ones who buzz/shave it all off or the ones who grow it long in a futile attempt to try and hide it? And what makes you think you're the exception to the rule. You might not like the buzzcut now, but eventually you will. And when the time comes, you will freaking love having a slick bald head. It's one of those things you can't really understand until you've been through it. Just trust me and the rest of the guys here.
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I started having a receding hair line about age 19 then a small bald spot started forming in the back of my head about age 24 but around age 28 it started to get worse. I then tried rogaine but I just happened to be one of those cases where it magnified my hair loss (read the back of rogaine it warns of this) I'm glad that it did just putting off what was going to happen anyway. I then started shaving around age 31 been better ever since.
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I started losing my hair at 29 :o. Think it is realy unfair at that age :(. U think u have dodged the bullet (actually never thought about balding before that) when u survive the 29+ years with a full head of hair, but then suddenly i struck. Will be off Propecia untill january 2010 because of a bet. Since i stopped taking it my hairloss picks up again. Actually P seems to be really working for me, even though i don't really like this drug in me. if hairloss keeps up like this i will be a bald guy before medics find a cure :-[.
you think 29 is unfair? try 20. i woldnt give a s*** if i lost my hair that old. thats normal.
Hmmmmm, now i feel realy old (and bald). Normal or not (in your world), losing your hair after getting acquainted to it really sucks, no matter what age. Maybe dudes like me are used to hair longer than dudes like u!!!.
Judging ur pics, you probably look better without a full head of hair than with one, so i think u are the lucky one being a handsome bald dude.
P.s. know i should stop whining and complaining about fate. Not the end of the world, but still think i should have hair. Still have a grocery-store-load of hair styling products i cannot say goodbye to even though they are worthless right now.
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I was born with no hair! Dr went to smack my ass and it was my head! I should go visit him lol
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Started losing at around 16, sucked. HARD
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probably about 16.. norwood 3 currently aged 20.. and as above.. it SUCKS hard.
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I guess I am lucky in that I didn't start thinning until my mid fifties. Granted, I still have a lot of hair. My choice to go Sly only came about from the dislike of hair texture. If I slept wrong, I had to spend hours trying to get the S**t to lay down. Going Sly has completely gotten rid of this problem. I can't tell you how many people had complimented me on the slick dome. Talk about an ego booster. Everyone says that they have received bad comments over going Sly. Try, bad comments over crappy hair. Explosion in a brillow pad, head full of pubic hair, etc. Really got old. Sooooooooo, it is the Sly life for me. What a relief!!!!!!!!
Ghost and the other's who can't accept hair loss, I really eny you. If all mine fell out today, I would be the happiest man in the World.
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My hair has never thinned and the hairline hardly receded at all.
I'm going prematurely gray, though, and shaving seemed like a good way to help me look younger.
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I haven't been to the forum in awhile, but just reading through people's posts (namely the younger guys) who are sad about hairloss, makes me want to jump in - grab you by the bald head, and shake the nonsense out.
Like Razor said: True confidence comes from standing in the face of opposition. So very TRUE. Am I the only one who finds that exciting!?!? No real man wants to live life in the background letting people walk all over him, doing what others find as comfortable. NO. Do not worship your neighbor. Be you.
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around age 34
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early 20s
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Early to mid 30's cant remember to tell the truth. I've been cutting my hair with clippers for almost 20 years and one day the wife (who used to cut it for me) said "you're getting thin up here" so I said "huh, let's go shorter then". The rest is history.
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The first little bald patch was at 15 or so and from 17 onwards it retreated and oddly enough it stopped at 22 ( or maybe that´s just because the loss is not that obvious anymore ;D )
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In my case, I was about 42 when it all started to thin a bit, in the past 3 to 4 months it seems to have become a bit more rapid and it is now noticeable if I let it grow out for a week or so. I mentioned in a past post that I have relatively coarse hair, I was not expecting perhaps so much thinning. Does anyone else have coarse hair that is also balding? 8)
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Noticed some thinning on top after I turned 40, and it's now pretty much all gone on top, 'cept for a bit of light fuzz.
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Hey there JJ,
If I'm not being too rude, what age are you now? As I am trying to work out how long it took from initial onset to having the balding you have now.
I am 43 and it appears to be a rapid process, kinda has taken me by surprise.
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30 ish :(
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Mine started at 17 with high widows peaks and by about 21 or so MPB was really noticeable on top.
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Hey there JJ,
If I'm not being too rude, what age are you now? As I am trying to work out how long it took from initial onset to having the balding you have now.
I am 43 and it appears to be a rapid process, kinda has taken me by surprise.
I will be 45 in August.
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13 years of age my hair started thinning out. at age 17 I had the back of my head thinning a lot. by 18 i started buzzing down and it was very noticable. I'm 21 now and smoothley shaven. Bets choice I ever took.
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20's....sly was definitely not an option at that point.
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20's....sly was definitely not an option at that point.
The look was starting to become more common then, but it definitely wasn't as mainstream as it is now. Musicians and artsy-types were sporting the look but it wasn't something you saw in the corporate world like you do now.
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Close-cut for the business folks is still in. Shaving became popular say 12-14 years ago. A lot more guys 40+ are going completely bald.
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A lot more guys 40+ are going completely bald.
Younger than that even.
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What's most scientifically interesting about this is the wide age spread. Although I realize that the body of knowledge is a lot bigger since I last studied biology, it wasn't long ago that MPB was thought to be caused by only one gene. If that were the case, wouldn't it stand to reason that guys who have it would all lose their hair at more or less the same age?
What does the conventional wisdom say about this?
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i started noticeing it at 16
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25... :'(
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16 :(