Hiya!
My sly journey began back in 2008, when I went from long, flowing hair, all the way down to a smooth dome. I was BBC for about 2 months or so before the "white power" and "cancer" jokes got to me, and I grew it back. I've kept my hair in tact over the last two years, but a couple of months ago, a friend of mine awkwardly asked: "Hey dude, are you... uhm.... balding?"
I hadn't really thought about it until the very moment he mentioned it. I went home and looked in the mirror, and finally noticed that, along with my receding hairline (which had been obvious since I was about 14 or 15), I could see all the way to my scalp through my hair.
I thought this might've been normal at first (since I recently just lost 30 pounds, and I've read that with a big enough weight loss, you can have thinning hair), but when I got my hair cut yesterday, my barber started giving me tips on how to "thicken up my hair" to deal with MPB. I asked her how many years she thought I'd have left before it was obvious to most everyone, and she said.... "Well, hmm.... probably 5 or 6."
It didn't bother me as much as I thought it would, because I really dug the way I looked when I was sly, even if nobody else in my family did

So even though I'm out of high school, and no longer in a position where moronic people can refer to me as "Obama Killer", I'm still not sure I'm ready to take the plunge again. The reasons I say this are:
1) I'm not skinny, but I'm thinner than I was a few months ago, and since I can't grow facial hair just yet, the fact that I have no hair, added on to the fact that I'm
really white might give people the false impression that I'm sick or something, and people I know can't be talked out of first impressions

2) One of the reasons I didn't keep the sly look the first time was the shadow, which seemingly would be solved now that I'm thinning. However, I don't know if I'm thinning strongly enough to the point where the shadow would be less prevalent up top

(I'll have a pic up soon)
What do you guys think as far as the paleness and shadow are concerned? And have you ever had to put up with moronic people suggesting you were a cancer patient or some sort of hatemonger?
And it's great to be back (I was registered here once before, but I can't remember my account name)