My Hair Used To Bring Me Happiness Now It Brings Me Pain (still Better Than Baldness)

[The Baldy Man]

I used to take such pride in my hair and I loved experimenting and changing my hairstyles. Can't do that anymore since I am receded and diffuse now, all I can do is fight the eternal war to keep enough strands to do a combover so I can look somewhat normal and not like a bald mutant. I hate my hair now, and am only keeping it because baldness is so much worse. IDK, maybe I will feel better about it after I can get a transplant to fix the hairline, but man losing density sucks *** because you can no longer spike it or style it and you don't have any volume or bounciness anymore, all you can do is comb-over. I get depressed thinking about how I am likely to become much balder in the future and the pitiful state my hair in right now is probably the best it will ever be again since I am diffusing in a NW6-7 pattern and will only ever have about the same density long term as I do now since transplants can only create an illusion of density for severe Norwoods. I hope Tsuji comes out soon. I know I sound greedy and that I should be grateful for the hairs I have left since a lot of you are slick bald but it still kind of sucks since I have already lost so much. Hair is only great when you have almost all of it. You need to be NW1 with great density to pull off any cool looking trendy hairstyles and enjoy having your hair. After that it becomes a matter of just having hair so that you don't become "the bald guy". When you are in the middle stages of balding like I am, you enter a frustrating purgatory state where you hate the way your diffused rat's nest looks but are holding on for dear life because you know the Hell you are soon to enter once you reach the terminal Norwood stages.

 

[blackg]

Well said, mate. I can totally relate to the purgatory stage.

 

[Guzam]

I used to take such pride in my hair and I loved experimenting and changing my hairstyles. Can't do that anymore since I am receded and diffuse now, all I can do is fight the eternal war to keep enough strands to do a combover so I can look somewhat normal and not like a bald mutant. I hate my hair now, and am only keeping it because baldness is so much worse. IDK, maybe I will feel better about it after I can get a transplant to fix the hairline, but man losing density sucks *** because you can no longer spike it or style it and you don't have any volume or bounciness anymore, all you can do is comb-over. I get depressed thinking about how I am likely to become much balder in the future and the pitiful state my hair in right now is probably the best it will ever be again since I am diffusing in a NW6-7 pattern and will only ever have about the same density long term as I do now since transplants can only create an illusion of density for severe Norwoods. I hope Tsuji comes out soon. I know I sound greedy and that I should be grateful for the hairs I have left since a lot of you are slick bald but it still kind of sucks since I have already lost so much. Hair is only great when you have almost all of it. You need to be NW1 with great density to pull off any cool looking trendy hairstyles and enjoy having your hair. After that it becomes a matter of just having hair so that you don't become "the bald guy". When you are in the middle stages of balding like I am, you enter a frustrating purgatory state where you hate the way your diffused rat's nest looks but are holding on for dear life because you know the Hell you are soon to enter once you reach the terminal Norwood stages.

Social expectations are very heavy. In this day and age, 'good hair' is thick and shiny NW1-2.
Anything else is unaesthetic and ugly, i.e. the purgatory is wide and variegate, while the 'good hair' realm has clear boundaries.
Hollywood and Netflix magnates completely ruined us. In media all I see is thick NW1s, unless one plays an evil slimy guy; in that case, balding/bald is used. I think the vast majority of actors are either on fina, minoxidil, concealers or a combination of the three, or they just get screened based on their hair and dumped if balding (see Jude Law, naive f***** didn't get on fina and now is paying the price). Poor Prince William is not a Royal, a Prince anymore, he's just a bald loser in the eyes of his beloved people. I hate this disease.

 

[The Baldy Man]

I actually think Jude Law still looks OK. He is one of the VERY RARE men where receding can occasionally work in his favor and give them a certain gravitas, since he has perfect facial features and head shape otherwise. He also still has good density on his crown despite only having an island of hair left at the front. He would look completely sh*t with poor density but since he still has decent density he still looks okayish. Jude is in the Young Pope and is going to play Dumbledore in the Fantastic Beast movies so he has not been completely Norwood blacklisted yet. Still I don't know why he hasn't gotten a transplant yet, his donor looks thick enough and he would look much more handsome if he could get back to his "Talented Mr. Ripley" hairline. receding and balding looks ugly on the vast majority of people though. I also think you are right about actors, for every "Vin Diesel" there are 10 who are on finasteride with transplants or wear rugs.

 

[whatintheworld]

Dude I know what you mean...I'm like a cyborg...kept alive by finasteride and minoxidil.