Going bald - what to do?

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You really have two options: you can either accept and embrace it, or you can find some kind of remedy for it. The former option will likely be more psychologically difficult, while the latter option will likely be more practically difficult, so it's really a trade-off either way.

On the upside, hairpieces have come a long way in the last 20 years:
 
Rich person options, in order of expense:

Hair transplant surgery

drugs can stop balding, but not reverse it (minoxidil)

Modern toupees, for when you're really bald. They are excellent quality. They are expensive but look great. You take it to the barber shop to get all your hair cut together.
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I don't know what you're talking about, the most badass people in real life and fiction are all bald or have receeding hairlines
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sperginity said:
drugs can stop balding, but not reverse it (minoxidil)
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As far as I understood it, Minoxidil can make soft, short hair (similar to the hair on your arms) grow in your bald spots, which helps making the remaining hair look more dense, so that's a plus. Overall, there's some stuff called Regain that contains minoxidil which is (according to a friend who's a pharmacist) does work decent without causing too much trouble.
 
RomanesEuntDomus said:
As far as I understood it, Minoxidil can make soft, short hair (similar to the hair on your arms) grow in your bald spots, which helps making the remaining hair look more dense, so that's a plus. Overall, there's some stuff called Regain that contains minoxidil which is (according to a friend who's a pharmacist) does work decent without causing too much trouble.
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Rogaine will make you grow a lot of peach fuzz on the front of your scalp and maybe arrest DHT production enough to keep follicles from falling out. It's also a complete POA to use and makes your scalp quite itchy. The really strong stuff (not Rogaine) I used came out of the bottle in a medicine dropper and if a piece of confetti fall from the sky it would attach to the my upper forehead the stuff was so sticky. Made decent hair gel actually as well.

But Rogaine/Minoxadil does nothing for male pattern baldness that has advanced past the crown of your head.

Surprised nobody has posted the Norwood chart yet:

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Go bald if you think it's going to keep getting worse. Jump before you're pushed.

I knew a guy who shaved his hair off at 24. He had a beard to go with, and it was a big improvement on the clean shaven/monk spot combo
 
I actually just last year talked to my dermatologist about this. I was 23 at the time and I noticed a thin patch at the back of my head. Hair loss runs in my family so asked the doctor if he had any suggestions. He prescribed this prostrate medication and my hair's gotten thicker since. Definitely a "catch it early" kind of thing though. I don't think it'll help if you look like Lex Luthor. If you have a dermatologist ask him about it.

However,
I think it exacerbates blue balls because the last time I dealt with that it lasted for two fucking days

If it ultimately fails though and I wind up actually going bald, I'm just gonna go full Walter White. I'd rather be totally bald than have that dumbass dad look.
 
Baldness is directly caused by androgen, a male sex hormone. It's a sign of your manhood, own up to it and don't hide it like a coward. Shave it all off, go along with it, add a beard, adapt. But don't treat it as a defect. Show the world that you don't become self-conscious over a trivial matter as it relates to your appearance, especially one you cannot control, and especially if you already look great or have a good body. Appearances are only skin deep, a real man makes himself using his knowledge, skills, charm, and success. Good hair is just the cherry on top of a delicious cake--it doesn't make a great thing bad because of its absence, and like a cherry on top of a pile of sawdust, it doesn't make a bad thing instantly good.

For reference, here's a picture of balding, round-house-kicking, sex-in-a-crowded-horse-track, English action star heartthrob Jason Statham.

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If people aren't interested in you because you're lacking some hair follicles on your head, then they're the kind of shallow people that aren't worth your time associating with.
 
Shave off the rest of your head. At least then it will look more consistent with the bald spots.
 
Personally man, I say just shave your head, maybe grow a nice beard. The best thing you can do in my opinion is just embrace it and don't try to hide it. A nice chrome dome is infinitely more alpha and respectable than a guy with a combover or a bad toupee.

Though I will concede that keeping a little tuft on the back of your head to style into a little rat tail would be pretty fun to mess around with for a while if you're really committed to going that far for a lame joke.
 
Positron said:
Flaunt your baldness. And be glad that you'd save from shampoos from now on!


Don't EVER do that. Combover is the gayest thing ever.
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Combovers never fool anyone. Look at Trump. No one is fooled by that man's strange combover. Though his hair is also the result of a bad 80's hair transplant.
 
Back when I was in school, there was some guy riding the bus every morning with the worst combover ever.
He looked like 6
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But he had grown his hair on the left side of his head to a length of like 15-20cm and combed them over his massive scalp... problem is, it looked so awkward, it fooled noone, not even at a glance. And when he walked faster than a mild stroll or there was just a dog's fart of a wind going, his combover would start lifting like a cm above his head and float around, to settle down once the wind stopped.

It looked so stupid and indignified, that I decided then and there that whatever happens, the moment I go bald, I will just shave off that hair.
Now, it seems that I am slowly getting thinner hair, so I'm considering using some sort of medicine, just to see if that'll do me any good, and if it doesn't, well... at least I'm going to save money for the barber.
 
_01 said:
Baldness is directly caused by androgen, a male sex hormone. It's a sign of your manhood, own up to it and don't hide it like a coward. Shave it all off, go along with it, add a beard, adapt. But don't treat it as a defect. Show the world that you don't become self-conscious over a trivial matter as it relates to your appearance, especially one you cannot control, and especially if you already look great or have a good body. Appearances are only skin deep, a real man makes himself using his knowledge, skills, charm, and success. Good hair is just the cherry on top of a delicious cake--it doesn't make a great thing bad because of its absence, and like a cherry on top of a pile of sawdust, it doesn't make a bad thing instantly good.

For reference, here's a picture of balding, round-house-kicking, sex-in-a-crowded-horse-track, English action star heartthrob Jason Statham.

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If people aren't interested in you because you're lacking some hair follicles on your head, then they're the kind of shallow people that aren't worth your time associating with.
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God forbids someone doesnt want to fuck bald people.
That would mean they are shallow, right.
 
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