Sly Bald Guys Forum
Discussions About Being Bald => General Discussion => Topic started by: Razor X on February 07, 2007, 06:14:33 PM
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Does a shaved head tend to make a person look older or younger? Or does it just make it more difficult to determine someone's age? I think most people look younger completely shaved than with an MPB fringe, but other than that, I don't know. I think it's hard to say if someone looks older or younger if you never saw them when they had hair.
The reason I ask is that I was told today that I look older than my age because I'm bald. I don't really think I do -- the people who told me this are both older than me, BTW. Just wondering what others have experienced in this regard.
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A few people said it makes me look older, but than a couple other people said it makes me look younger....maybe it depends on the clothes and the light?
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I think it can work differently for different people. david looks older. mchammerhead looks younger. i feel like it can make it harder to distinguish one's age. mpb compared to sly. sly looks younger. IMO.
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People think i am younger than i am
on average i get 23 and i'm 26 only 3 years but still.
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Personally I think hair makes a person look younger but there is nothing wrong with looking a little older.I like the mature look as it looks more manly.I will be 50 in a couple of weeks and I keep my thinning hair cut short so it looks less balding.I have a goatee too which has quite a few gray hairs so I use Just for Men beard color.All in all everybody still says I look a lot younger than 50 because I have a baby face.
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I get carded much more often since shaving my head. Actually, I used to never get carded in College unless they carded everyone.
So, I would say that in my case it makes me look younger, but I agree with Paul that it depends on the person.
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I get carded much more often since shaving my head. Actually, I used to never get carded in College unless they carded everyone.
So, I would say that in my case it makes me look younger, but I agree with Paul that it depends on the person.
See i'm the exact opposite. I've ordered a drink three different times at a restaurant after going sly. Twice not carded, once carded. With hair, I know I would have been carded every time.
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;) I think it depends on the individual. Everyone, without exception, has told me that I look younger than I did with thinning hair and a full white beard. When I went sly, I chopped the beard down to a goatee, which may have something to do with the impression of youth. I am basically unwrinkled, since I have never smoked. Very few people, even those with whom I have worked for years, guess my age [64], which is an advantage. In general, a slick, shiny pate suggests youth and boldness, certainly more than a balding pate with a few desperate hairs attempting to like a full head of hair, or the middle-aged combover. Total baldness also suggests a connection with younger people's culture, since so many celebrities, professional athletes, and military men are headshavers nowadays. By the way, RazorX, judging from your before and after pics, I think you look younger sly; the fact that your goatee has not yet turned white helps. In time you might want to try coloring it to maintain the look. Professor Melon
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:-\ P.S. What does BTW mean? I am very bad at pop acronyms. Just figured out the other day that BBC=bald by choice. Melon
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:-\ P.S. What does BTW mean? I am very bad at pop acronyms. Just figured out the other day that BBC=bald by choice. Melon
btw means by the way :)
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I hope it makes me look younger. Well then again, if I really cared, I'd shave the greying goatee off wouldn't I.
BTW it means by the way ;)
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In my case, significantly younger. I am coming up on 41 and have received many compliments on the look.
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Gotta agree with Paul and Tyler. Depends on the person. In my case if I had kept my full head of hair which was going quite grey, people thought me much older. By going Sly people generally assume I am a minimum of 5 years younger. Besides looking younge, I am finding out that being Sly makes me feel younger.
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I feel younger and have received compliments reafirming my feelings. Though I would have to agree that it depends on the person
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;) I think it depends on the individual. Everyone, without exception, has told me that I look younger than I did with thinning hair and a full white beard. When I went sly, I chopped the beard down to a goatee, which may have something to do with the impression of youth. I am basically unwrinkled, since I have never smoked. Very few people, even those with whom I have worked for years, guess my age [64], which is an advantage. In general, a slick, shiny pate suggests youth and boldness, certainly more than a balding pate with a few desperate hairs attempting to like a full head of hair, or the middle-aged combover. Total baldness also suggests a connection with younger people's culture, since so many celebrities, professional athletes, and military men are headshavers nowadays. By the way, RazorX, judging from your before and after pics, I think you look younger sly; the fact that your goatee has not yet turned white helps. In time you might want to try coloring it to maintain the look. Professor Melon
As usual, Professor, you make some excellent points. I do think that if you have grey hair or very advanced MPB, shaving everything off can make you look younger. I've often heard the blanket statement that shaving one's head automatically makes one look 10 years younger. Of course it does not. A 22-year-old will not look 12, and a 35-year-old probably won't look 25 (unfortunately ::) It's much harder to evaluate oneself objectively than it is to evaulate others. I work with a few people who tend to give me negative feedback no matter what I do. They think I am obsessed with diet and exercise, and basically anything I try to do to improve myself gets a negative comment. It's difficult not to be affected by that. That's why I keep coming back here -- to get some reassurance!!!
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O0 Y gou're an easy guy to whom to give assurance. Your posts are always insightful, meditative, worth reading. Colleagues can be blockheaded and invidious; don't let them get you. Own baldness and it will repay you. Prof. Melon
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Well, I'm 25 and I think being bald makes me look older. I look fairly young in the first place, so the combination of soul patch, side burns, and bald make me look older. If I were to shave all of my facial hair off, then, aside from looking like an idiot, I would look significantly younger. So I guess it's not only the slick plate but the combination of slick plate and facial hair that makes people look younger/older.
-Cam
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well i get a 50 50 response ...cloths do make a big difference i have seen that ...but all in all I am 29 and still holding...lol 30 is a odd number for me..lol I like 29 better...
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I have people who think I look younger since I shaved my head. Before I shaved, I had a very receeding hairline in the front which is getting salt and pepper. My beard is also pretty grey now. So my current photo, in which my goatee is brown, makes me look a bit younger. But a friend that I convinced to shave his head even says I look younger bald, even with a grey goatee.
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I think the bottom line is that it makes younger guys look older....and older guys look younger.
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I think the bottom line is that it makes younger guys look older....and older guys look younger.
I concur
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I think what makes me look older is standing in the aisle of a frickin' drugstore trying to remember which brand of blades to buy for my razor. Finally picking one and getting back to my motel room to find that I've picked the wrong ones. ugh, being old sucks. If it ain't alzheimer's it must be mad cow. Stay away from the Alberta Beef guys, I don't think it's good for you. :-\
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I think what makes me look older is standing in the aisle of a frickin' drugstore trying to remember which brand of blades to buy for my razor. Finally picking one and getting back to my motel room to find that I've picked the wrong ones. ugh, being old sucks. If it ain't alzheimer's it must be mad cow. Stay away from the Alberta Beef guys, I don't think it's good for you. :-\
Just buy one of each and keep the receipt.
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If it ain't alzheimer's it must be mad cow.
Denny Crane!
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;D Almighty God has given us these [in most cases] magnificent domes. It is for us to shave and maintain them as the Creator intended us to do. Saint Paul, without whom there would be no church, was bald.Keep shaving and offerig up. Professor Melon
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;D Almighty God has given us these [in most cases] magnificent domes. It is for us to shave and maintain them as the Creator intended us to do. Saint Paul, without whom there would be no church, was bald.Keep shaving and offerig up. Professor Melon
A hearty AMEN, Prof!!!!
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I'll sign that O0
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Well, I'm 25 and I think being bald makes me look older. I look fairly young in the first place, so the combination of soul patch, side burns, and bald make me look older. If I were to shave all of my facial hair off, then, aside from looking like an idiot, I would look significantly younger. So I guess it's not only the slick plate but the combination of slick plate and facial hair that makes people look younger/older.
-Cam
I think you look a little older with no hair and with facial hair. Damn sexy if you ask me! :@`
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Well, I'm 25 and I think being bald makes me look older. I look fairly young in the first place, so the combination of soul patch, side burns, and bald make me look older. If I were to shave all of my facial hair off, then, aside from looking like an idiot, I would look significantly younger. So I guess it's not only the slick plate but the combination of slick plate and facial hair that makes people look younger/older.
-Cam
I think you look a little older with no hair and with facial hair. Damn sexy if you ask me! :@`
aaaw! I can feel the love!! :-* :)
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I actually look older with a shaved head. When I put a hat on, I look about 21. People don't even recognize me sometimes. Anybody else have that problem?
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I actually look older with a shaved head. When I put a hat on, I look about 21. People don't even recognize me sometimes. Anybody else have that problem?
How else would I be so evading to those who track me ???
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I actually look older with a shaved head. When I put a hat on, I look about 21. People don't even recognize me sometimes. Anybody else have that problem?
Nah, when I put a hat on, I just look like an old bald guy....with a hat on.
Unless....I put on my backwards baseball cap...then, I look like an old bald guy trying to look like a younger bald guy with a backwards baseball cap on.
Best of all...the backwards visor....LOL
(https://www.slybaldguys.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffarm1.static.flickr.com%2F130%2F392636074_35307684ab.jpg%3Fv%3D0&hash=a69f35b4cdbe955e91755c644cc44c6175f51ec4)
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My wife and everyone else I've heard from tells me that I look 10 years younger with my shaved dome. The wife said that my combover was pathetic and I looked old! She now says I look way better, and judging by all of the young ladies who hit on me, I guess she's right!
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always take the LAY-DAY's opinion. 8)
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Well I am 62. I have always looked younger that my age, but I think the shaved head helps with the illusion. I have no idea how gray my hair might be be now, ( my younger brother's is mostly white) but the goat is mostly still brown. Just for Men does the rest
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I had a very receeding hairline in the front which is getting salt and pepper
What does "Salt and pepper" mean?
Well I am 62.
Tim, that is a joke? right? If not then I think you look alot younger
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I had a very receeding hairline in the front which is getting salt and pepper
What does "Salt and pepper" mean?
It means after you shave you pour salt & pepper on your head to slow the growth of the stubble... ;D
Its actually when you have a mix of gray and brown/black hair in areas, could be your head or your face ...
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I had a very receeding hairline in the front which is getting salt and pepper
What does "Salt and pepper" mean?
Well I am 62.
Tim, that is a joke? right? If not then I think you look alot younger
Thanks.It is no joke I was born in 1945. I am a part of the lucky sperm club I guess. Both sides of my family tend to age slowly and live pretty long. 90s is common great grandma lived to 102
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Ok I feel kinda dumb now, I guessed you were early 40s
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Ok I feel kinda dumb now, I guessed you were early 40s
No don't feel dumb. I took it as a compliment :) Most people think the same thing
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Well, I'd have guessed you were in your early 40's as well Tim, but I am also amazed to read that Professor Melon is 64 - neither of you look anywhere near your age.
I think though that generally speaking it does make older guys look a bit younger & younger guys look a bit older but it's only on first impressions.
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Thank you! Well, they say 60 is the new 40! :)
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It makes me look a wee bit younger, I have been told. Depends on the person I guess.
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It makes me look a wee bit younger, I have been told. Depends on the person I guess.
Perhaps it does but you are a very young man so you would tend to look younger probably. Don't worry about looking older that will come soon enough
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Definately younger...because the total effect going SLY has had on me losing weight to ensure the SLY look is as good as it can get! Hard to explain, but I got my new college ID today...and when you compare it to my military ID taken just 14 months ago, it's hard to believe it's the same person. In my new ID I look more like my pictures from my 20's rather than my pre-SLY 30's look.
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Last night I ran into someone I had not seen in a couple of months. They told me that they just about didn't recognize me or thought that it was my "younger brother".
That's what happens when all the gray hairs are gone....
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I often found that hair made me look alot older, and now that I have shaved off the mop, people are actually guessing my age without the spare 5-10 years! ;D
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How old is everyone? I'm 41
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How old is everyone? I'm 41
43, but I think the SLYness has taken at least 5 off of that. O0
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47
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I'm 28.
A few of my friends have told me that growing a goatee and shaving my head made me look more "mature", but not "older".
I think I can accept that. 8)
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;) I think it depends on the individual. Everyone, without exception, has told me that I look younger than I did with thinning hair and a full white beard. When I went sly, I chopped the beard down to a goatee, which may have something to do with the impression of youth. I am basically unwrinkled, since I have never smoked. Very few people, even those with whom I have worked for years, guess my age [64], which is an advantage. In general, a slick, shiny pate suggests youth and boldness, certainly more than a balding pate with a few desperate hairs attempting to like a full head of hair, or the middle-aged combover. Total baldness also suggests a connection with younger people's culture, since so many celebrities, professional athletes, and military men are headshavers nowadays. By the way, RazorX, judging from your before and after pics, I think you look younger sly; the fact that your goatee has not yet turned white helps. In time you might want to try coloring it to maintain the look. Professor Melon
Some people are negative no matter what you do. There's nothing wrong with caring about your diet and exercise. Keep at it , and ignore the nay-sayers!
John
As usual, Professor, you make some excellent points. I do think that if you have grey hair or very advanced MPB, shaving everything off can make you look younger. I've often heard the blanket statement that shaving one's head automatically makes one look 10 years younger. Of course it does not. A 22-year-old will not look 12, and a 35-year-old probably won't look 25 (unfortunately ::) It's much harder to evaluate oneself objectively than it is to evaulate others. I work with a few people who tend to give me negative feedback no matter what I do. They think I am obsessed with diet and exercise, and basically anything I try to do to improve myself gets a negative comment. It's difficult not to be affected by that. That's why I keep coming back here -- to get some reassurance!!!
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A few months ago when I was strongly considering shaving my head; someone told me I'd look like I was born in 1968 instead of 1953 (my actual birth year). This guy recommended a full shave; head AND face . I guess I could request a little poll here. Would sly work better for me with a full face shave , or keep a goatee / beard? ( I would not be interested in the 'just for men' thing' ... so it would be a white (salt/pepper) goatee .
John
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JohnMont, I think you'd have to experiment to see what works, but no doubt, you will look younger when you lose the rest of your hair.
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How old is everyone? I'm 41
41 this month
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I'm 37,, personaly I think It make's me look older.. As you can see from my goaty.. I'm going grey and white all over.. but that's fine..
I feel like I'm 20.. sometimes even act like a 20 year old sometimes.. ;D.. no offense to anyone..
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JohnMont - You would probably look younger with a full face shave obviously, since the salt & pepper look only comes with age but I think it really suits you so I'd probably say keep the face hair & go for a full head shave but obviously it's entirely up to you.
oh & I'm 45 now btw (where did all that time go?) but I'm with you danyroo ... is fun to not always "act your age!"
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At 55, I'm one of the old guys here. My hair is/was mostly gray, so shaving it does make me look younger.
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34 here.
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294 in dog years....41 in schro years.
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I have been being 25 years old, and shave my head for a month, people says that I see myself but young bald !!!
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It makes me look a wee bit younger, I have been told. Depends on the person I guess.
Perhaps it does but you are a very young man so you would tend to look younger probably. Don't worry about looking older that will come soon enough
yeah, maybe 50 years from now!
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I turn 30 in about 58.5 hours. But, who's counting? ;D
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P@^ HAPPY BIRTHDAY TYLER! 30 isn't so bad. P@^
PS: How do you plan to celebrate the milestone?
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P@^ HAPPY BIRTHDAY TYLER! 30 isn't so bad. P@^
PS: How do you plan to celebrate the milestone?
Thanks Bill! I'm going to do dinner with some people and then hit the dive bar next door. Nothing to crazy since I have to move the next day.
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Congrats Tyler...after the milestone of turning 21,I think the best was turning 30...seems like you're in a nice place for the "big turn"!
Have a good time my balded brutha!
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WOW, a lot of milestones for you this year Tyler, Congratulations. YR*(k 30 is a great age....and 40......and 50..
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Congrads Tyler on turning the big 30, I remember it like it was yesterday
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30 was a good year for me. Unfortunately, it was a long, long time ago. lol
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Me too skinhead002, like 15 soon to be 16 years ago
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Congrats on 30, Ty.
It's all downhill from there.
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P@^ HAPPY BIRTHDAY TYLER! 30 isn't so bad. P@^
PS: How do you plan to celebrate the milestone?
Thanks Bill! I'm going to do dinner with some people and then hit the dive bar next door. Nothing to crazy since I have to move the next day.
Now see... if you were going to be still in your 20's, you'd do dinner and the party all night until it was time to move the next morning! You better toughen up a little T... :*))
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I'll be 29 in October, but act more like I'm 21........hehehe
Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional
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P@^ HAPPY BIRTHDAY TYLER! 30 isn't so bad. P@^
PS: How do you plan to celebrate the milestone?
Thanks Bill! I'm going to do dinner with some people and then hit the dive bar next door. Nothing to crazy since I have to move the next day.
Now see... if you were going to be still in your 20's, you'd do dinner and the party all night until it was time to move the next morning! You better toughen up a little T... :*))
Hey - he's an old married man with a baby on the way. He's becoming sedate!
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He's becoming sedate!
Sedate or sedated? :*))
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Might better ask Mrs. Tyler that one!
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Congrats on 30, Ty.
It's all downhill from there.
Speak for yourself, Schro!! O:O