Why do you want to keep/regrow your hair?

[Folliman]

We all want to look good, but why? Is it for ourselves or is it so that other like us? Is it for girls? Maybe there is another reason?
I want to keep my hair because I don't want to look 30 when only I'm 23. I've done some test styling my hair differently and based on that, people can say I look 28 but they can also say I look 19 with a different style. I feel like girls my age (or a few years younger) will see me as "the creepy old guy" if I lose more than what I have. I want to appeal to my age group.

But most importantly, I want to keep my hair for myself. I like how I look with hair. I think that the most important thing is to like oneself and I believe this is the case for many men; they do it for themselves. Especially married ones since their wives cannot care less for most cases. I wouldn't shave it off even if the love of my life tells me she prefers bald men.

By the way, I actually think NW2 looks better than NW1 when one is about 40-50 a la Hugh Laurie

And I wouldn't mind vertex balding when I'm 50, I'd just keep it short. by 60 I wouldn't care being a Norwood 6, I'll shave it all off by then.

So guys, what are your reasons? Why is hair important to you?

 

[RoyD]

Because it makes you look better? Better looks lead to people being more attracted to you, more respect, more self confidence and more of a lot of other good stuff.

 

[hellouser]

Having hair = having a shot at living a good life.

Being bald = struggling to make people think that you're not a loser.

Quoted for truth.

 

[Bassist]

Having hair = having a shot at living a good life.

Being bald = struggling to make people think that you're not a loser.

Nailed it. For whatever reason, if you're bald/balding, society will do everything to make it seem like it's your fault. I want my hair regrown simply so I can live a normal life. Losing all of my hair by age 23 isn't exactly on my bucket list.

 

[Wolf Pack]

I've spent the last few days travelling a lot and meeting new people. It just reinforced that how much I need hair to look my best, which translates to a better life all round.

I saw a few clean shaven or buzzed bald guys and some disparaging remarks were thrown like they all look the same followed by laughter. People are more revealing once drunk. At one point a girl complemented a buzzed guys beard but said 'there is a lack of top coverage' and smiled. I'm sure it's obvious I have recession but it has not led to a decrease in quality of my life, currently it's bothersome to me more than anything.

I'm doing it for myself entirely and it looks horrible to me, lack of hair. I'm already in a relationship so nothing to do with that. Even bald people will be in relationships even if casual sex and ability to make instant impressions on new people is difficult.

 

[Dazzel]

Well, I don't want to look 50 years old at 20. Oh and I ain't bothered about women being attracted to me because even bald guys can get a women. So I would like hair for myself to feel confident and not old and past my prime.

 

[Agustin Araujo]

I need to keep my hair and regrow what I lost because hair a natural part of one's self. Hair loss is a medical condition, and is not something 'natural' that just happens to some people. I treat my male pattern baldness to keep the quality of my life the best I can and do it only for myself, not for women, not for anyone else. I suffer from Asperger's Syndrome, and way before I ever succumbed to male pattern baldness, I was always been seen as some kind of weirdo by peers, so I could care less at this point in my life what others think of me just because I'm a man who suffers from baldness.

And I wouldn't mind vertex balding when I'm 50, I'd just keep it short. by 60 I wouldn't care being a Norwood 6, I'll shave it all off by then.

Oh really?

So if you started going bald at 50, you would say to yourself "Well, I'm fifty years old, I don't mind that I'm going bald."? And when you reach age 60, would you still be saying to yourself "Well, I'm sixty years old and bald, I don't care. I'm shaving off what I have left."?

It is so common for young people think that they won't care about looks anymore whatsoever when they start getting into their years. Please tell me, how often do you meet or know older people that don't care at all about the way they look? Probably not very often. You can clearly see for yourself both older men and women caring about looks. Looks isn't something that only applies to young people.

 

[GoldenMane]

Everything I love is about bad *** hair, rock/metal/vikings/jrpgs/wrpgs/fantasy/LOTR. It's hard to face those things as a balding man.
Also, i have an awful head shape. Way worse than most of you. Very long and rectangular. Most of you have a tapering off/narrowing of your heads above your eyebrows. Mine actually expands at my temples giving a bulbous, long heart shape. I need hair to soften my features. I can't grow a proper beard either, facial hair density is low and patchy

Obviously self image and how others perceive you is enormous. Life is difficult enough without being the butt of jokes, sexually unattractive, looking 10-20 years older than your age and being perceived as inferior/sickly/threatening.

There aren't many positive connotations to balding. One of the few is the dominant alpha male like Vin Diesel, aside from us not being that handsome, we also have to consider that not everybody appreciates a dominant, aggressive looking male. The girls I like certainly don't go for the dominant baldie look. I know some do, but they tend to be older, and nobody wants to date old chicks. There may be someone out there for everyone, even baldies. The question is, do you want them?

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And yeah, I think if I was a 60 year old man, who had already sewn his wild oats, dated lots of women, had his career, made his friends, had his family etc, and lived a good 75% of his life with good hair, then I don't think I would mind so much. I would always care, but for every decade that passes, hair loss becomes an easier pill to swallow. It will always be a pill.

 

[winnyblues]

Cause i dont wanna look likr im 40 at 24.
i already shave my hair to the skin so im ok with the buzzed look. And although i look better with hair its easy maintenance and i have a good head shape for it. Plus i syill have hair to frame my face

 

[Wolf Pack]

Everything I love is about bad *** hair, rock/metal/vikings/jrpgs/wrpgs/fantasy/LOTR. It's hard to face those things as a balding man.
Also, i have an awful head shape. Way worse than most of you. Very long and rectangular. Most of you have a tapering off/narrowing of your heads above your eyebrows. Mine actually expands at my temples giving a bulbous, long heart shape. I need hair to soften my features. I can't grow a proper beard either, facial hair density is low and patchy

Obviously self image and how others perceive you is enormous. Life is difficult enough without being the butt of jokes, sexually unattractive, looking 10-20 years older than your age and being perceived as inferior/sickly/threatening.

There aren't many positive connotations to balding. One of the few is the dominant alpha male like Vin Diesel, aside from us not being that handsome, we also have to consider that not everybody appreciates a dominant, aggressive looking male. The girls I like certainly don't go for the dominant baldie look. I know some do, but they tend to be older, and nobody wants to date old chicks. There may be someone out there for everyone, even baldies. The question is, do you want them?

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And yeah, I think if I was a 60 year old man, who had already sewn his wild oats, dated lots of women, had his career, made his friends, had his family etc, and lived a good 75% of his life with good hair, then I don't think I would mind so much. I would always care, but for every decade that passes, hair loss becomes an easier pill to swallow. It will always be a pill.

Interpreted that as taking finasteride. I saw an old asian guy with all full white hair and shoulder length, looked bad ***. Speaking of Viking, Floki's hair does improve a bit or is it me, what's he done? No surprises, my gf says Rollo looks good :devil: I think Jarl Borg and Knut may not be as good looking but with their hair, beard, facial features, they look masculine as ****. Lagertha would be a perfect babe but I am really liking Thoruun too.

 

[resu]

Because being short and bald is social suicide and no one wants to be ridiculed.

 

[GoldenMane]

Old Asian guys rocking the long hair look bad ***, like a samurai or kung fu master! There's a metal bar I used to frequent back in Dublin, the sound tech there is an old guy, long white hair, white beard, everyone calls him Gandalf. Lucky bastard. In my younger days I thought I would be like him, and old man rocking the wizard look! A friend once said "that'll be you in 40 years" and I thought, cool! Now I wonder if I'll be able to make 40 with my hair relatively intact. I see old guys in Japan all the time with amazing hair. Like I said before, baldness/hair loss doesn't seem to affect anyone under 40, then reaches normal prevalence in 50s and 60s. There's nobody in my workplace under 50 who has less hair than me. Sucks...

No idea if Floki regained hair. I was actually an extra in Vikings, met some of those dudes, Floki is SUPER tall. Hair loss doesn't seem to bother him, though of course he would look much better with hair, he's a very confident and outgoing guy. Jarl Borg clearly had hair loss as you said, but at his age and with his beard, he still looked cool.

Actually Loki in Avengers (Tom Hiddleston) also has significant hairline recession, but most people still think he's cool and women still fancy him, he hasn't crossed the threshold yet, and he has a good head shape.

Sometimes it's painful seeing these cool people and characters I love with such great hair! I want to hair like Thor or Legolas, but instead I have hair like Aragorn or Loki (but with an unfortunate head shape!). Except those dudes have a few years on me! At least it's good to know there are a few heroes out there with hairloss.

 

[swingline747]

Old Asian guys rocking the long hair look bad ***, like a samurai or kung fu master! There's a metal bar I used to frequent back in Dublin, the sound tech there is an old guy, long white hair, white beard, everyone calls him Gandalf. Lucky bastard. In my younger days I thought I would be like him, and old man rocking the wizard look! A friend once said "that'll be you in 40 years" and I thought, cool! Now I wonder if I'll be able to make 40 with my hair relatively intact. I see old guys in Japan all the time with amazing hair. Like I said before, baldness/hair loss doesn't seem to affect anyone under 40, then reaches normal prevalence in 50s and 60s. There's nobody in my workplace under 50 who has less hair than me. Sucks...

No idea if Floki regained hair. I was actually an extra in Vikings, met some of those dudes, Floki is SUPER tall. Hair loss doesn't seem to bother him, though of course he would look much better with hair, he's a very confident and outgoing guy. Jarl Borg clearly had hair loss as you said, but at his age and with his beard, he still looked cool.

Actually Loki in Avengers (Tom Hiddleston) also has significant hairline recession, but most people still think he's cool and women still fancy him, he hasn't crossed the threshold yet, and he has a good head shape.

Sometimes it's painful seeing these cool people and characters I love with such great hair! I want to hair like Thor or Legolas, but instead I have hair like Aragorn or Floki (but with an unfortunate head shape!). Except those dudes have a few years on me! At least it's good to know there are a few heroes out there with hairloss.

Floki is really my fav character on Vikings. I think he is the one guy EVERYONE is afraid of regardless of how big they are or how much they act like they dont like him. The character really is an intelligent, conniving monster of a man. To bad the bald cool guy is also a paranoid, temperamental lunatic as well.

 

[GoldenMane]

Yeah, but in fairness, he still comes across better than NW1 Rollo, who is a slightly boring, stupid, jealous rapist in that show. Kind of cool that at least we have this balding, but cool bad ***, even if he is a bit schizo and a religious zealot. He's certainly one of the more interesting characters in the show. I do like how Vikings treats balding guys, it's one of the more evenhanded shows. Floki is only 35 btw.

 

[Dazzel]

I need to keep my hair and regrow what I lost because hair a natural part of one's self. Hair loss is a medical condition, and is not something 'natural' that just happens to some people. I treat my male pattern baldness to keep the quality of my life the best I can and do it only for myself, not for women, not for anyone else. I suffer from Asperger's Syndrome, and way before I ever succumbed to male pattern baldness, I was always been seen as some kind of weirdo by peers, so I could care less at this point in my life what others think of me just because I'm a man who suffers from baldness.




Oh really?

So if you started going bald at 50, you would say to yourself "Well, I'm fifty years old, I don't mind that I'm going bald."? And when you reach age 60, would you still be saying to yourself "Well, I'm sixty years old and bald, I don't care. I'm shaving off what I have left."?

It is so common for young people think that they won't care about looks anymore whatsoever when they start getting into their years. Please tell me, how often do you meet or know older people that don't care at all about the way they look? Probably not very often. You can clearly see for yourself both older men and women caring about looks. Looks isn't something that only applies to young people.

Off course I would still care a bit but not as much as now, ill be a wrinkly old man by then with creeking bones

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Cause i dont wanna look likr im 40 at 24.
i already shave my hair to the skin so im ok with the buzzed look. And although i look better with hair its easy maintenance and i have a good head shape for it. Plus i syill have hair to frame my face

True it's all about the framing of the face, once past the norwood 2 stage, it make a person very odd looking like a part of what made you "you" just disappear. I certainly don't feel right when I shave my head now as hairline has receded

 

[Wolf Pack]

Goldenmane:

My friend said something similar about the asian old guy too. That he could be an old warrior in one of those movies! Yes, for orientals to bald it is very rare, especially early in their life. It's important to remember every celeb will have some female following and not necessarily reflect reality for your ordinary guy in a similar situation. Having said that, I like Floki a lot too. His charisma, loyalty and funny side shines through. Not to mention he doesn't do a dodgy comb over but he styles his forelock in a very alternative way, it suits his character in the show. I think he is thinning too much and nor is he good looking, a thick Norwood 3 is the limit even in your 30s 40s. He does seem to be regaining more hair in the later on series and it looks more acceptable. As you say he is still only 35 which is nothing for a man.

You think Vikings are kinder to bald people? Maybe more than Game of Thrones but not really overall. I definitely saw a few things.

http://putlocker.is/watch-vikings-tvshow-season-1-episode-5-online-free-putlocker.html

Check this from 18 minutes onwards. The Earl arranges for her daughter to marry a rich powerful man. Except he is old, ugly, bald. And don't forget it's mainly because he is bald. There are plenty of powerful men in that show who marry younger women and it's portrayed as perfect. Like the Earl himself is old and married to a younger woman but he has hair. Or lagetha sleeps with a much older king but he has hair too and is good looking enough. Anyway in this situation the girl and her mother act all repulsed by this man. Later on she is in bed with him and he fails to perform and falls asleep much to her delight. Next day he goes I will beat you up unless you show me you enjoy sex!

And how could you forget this bald guy, the pathetic minion of the Earl? Perhaps the most hated guy early on in the show. He is a weasel, no masculinity, no female interest, strangles a young boy and is generally a weak loser yes man. They kill the bald guy off without him putting up a fight or anyone supporting him too.

 

[Alex3366]

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I love my hair as it makes me feel secure. Despite being tall, I feel very small as a person and my hair just makes me feel cozy.

 

[MI92]

Nailed it. For whatever reason, if you're bald/balding, society will do everything to make it seem like it's your fault. I want my hair regrown simply so I can live a normal life. Losing all of my hair by age 23 isn't exactly on my bucket list.

Truth.
Personally growing up I've always had bad skin and a ton of dandruff. Tried all sorts of remedies to try and treat it and I live a very healthy lifestyle compared to the average bloke. Yet when people see my skin/hair they assume I'm some unhygienic dirtbag.