BigEvilTurtle
Banned
I'm 21. My hair is thinning and my hairline is receding. I'm stressing out because I always had really nice thick hair. Can this be prevented or do I just accept my fate, get buff and grow a beard?
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I think I'm going bald.
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BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Accept your fate my man. Don't try to cling to something that's leaving you. Get a nice short fade.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
accept it now breh, cause it'll only get worse from here. Start grooming that facial hair right now to compensate before you end up lookin like Slayven.
Cloud Strife
Member
How many situps, pushups, and squats have you been doing per day?
DeaconKnowledge
Member
Thank me later.
John Kowalski
Banned
True beauty is inside!
GregLombardi
Member
Ninja Scooter
Member
Your hair is already in Elysium.
TangerineCloud
Banned
Rogaine and Finasteride (you'll need a prescription for the latter) are your new best friends if you're looking to maximize your chances of preventing hair-loss. Do your research re: Finasteride, though. The chances are small, but it can have weird side effects. For what it's worth, I've taken it for over a year with no problems.
EDIT: My personal recommendation: shave your head at least once while you can still re-grow most of your hair. It made me feel better about balding even though I'm still trying to prevent it.
EDIT: My personal recommendation: shave your head at least once while you can still re-grow most of your hair. It made me feel better about balding even though I'm still trying to prevent it.
Ninja Scooter
Member
Embrace it and join the bald bad asses.
Assuming the OP is also a good looking, rich Hollywood action star, but yeah no big deal.
Nothing that can't be fixed by hitting the gym.
Well maybe not the rich Hollywood action star thing. But who want's that anyway.
Well damn.
Zeus Molecules
illegal immigrants are stealing our air
Come on Home OP... shave it all off
Sorcerer
Member
Rush: I Think I'm Going Bald
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLumAQ-Y7DY
I feel you're pain, its happening to me too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLumAQ-Y7DY
I feel you're pain, its happening to me too.
chrisPjelly
Member
Life is truly cyclical my friend
Way to try and kick a guy when he's down.
Messofanego
Banned
Accept it before your self-esteem plummets into the abyss.
BigEvilTurtle
Banned
Thanks for the advice guys. I'm considering just buzzing my hair short and seeing if I can live with that. But I have a strange head shape so I doubt it'll look good.
My self-esteem is already plummeting.
My self-esteem is already plummeting.
Try it. You might be surprised.
Shave it and see. I was happy that my shaved head wasn't warped and it went with my face. If you hit the weights, work on your neck and traps and eat a lot of food to gain some mass, your head shape will change some.
SyenceLabb
Member
I started slightly going bald right around 21 around the crown of my head. Remarkably, now 31, it hasn't thinned out any further since it started 10 years ago. An 1 guard against the grain and it practically vanishes. There's still hope OP if you're like me.
Really? I mean, it's just a hairstyle. Most guys lose at least some degree of hair, and recession tends to start around your age (in varying degrees). I've got lots of balding friends, and it's sad to see how it impacts their self-esteem. The truth is, few looked as good hairy as they remember, and none look as bad buzzed as they think.
Team Alucard
Banned
You provably never had MPB. Its likely that your natural hair whorl was making you paranoid.
PunjabiPlaya
Member
Best start that fedora collection, hats are gonna be your new best friend.
d00d3n
Member
This seems like the sane option.
SyenceLabb
Member
I thought about this. I had a couple barbers in the past tell me that the center of my crown is hard to find. My hair grows every which way around that area which can be hard to cut if you're going with the grain (I'm a black man). i guess I'll know for sure as I approach 40.
If you haven't done it before it can be quite confrontational. The first time I did it (I did a complete shave) I was shocked and felt like everyone was looking at me. Mind you this was before a lot of people were doing it.
It took me a few weeks to realise that it looked ok for me. My friend liked it so much he did the same, even though he wasn't losing hair. His results weren't so fortunate - he had rolls of skin on the back of his head like a Shar Pei dog.
A lot of girls are ok with bald and a little over weight - but not at the same time. If you're bald you have to look fit. If you're over weight, you need good hair.
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
It's so nice to hear this from a source that isn't my own head.
LookAtMeGo
Member
One of us! One of us!
ThisGuy
Member
Flowing hair followed by a blistering solo....
Are men here with shaved heads really okay with it? Do you really feel confident? I just feel like a follicle failure.
Cut it short or shave it, but honestly the biggest thing is just being comfortable with yourself.
I know that's easy for some random dude on the Internet to say, but honestly being confident in yourself is you something that hair or no hair can't really change. You've got awesome qualities that transcend some fuzz on your head.
I know that's easy for some random dude on the Internet to say, but honestly being confident in yourself is you something that hair or no hair can't really change. You've got awesome qualities that transcend some fuzz on your head.
Your Entertainer
Member
Yeah it sucks man.
For some face and head shapes, really just makes you objectively worse looking, which has effects on your self confidence.
Best thing you can do is embrace it, in my opinion. It looks good on some people. Plus being cool otherwise really negates it any effects it has on your looks.
For some face and head shapes, really just makes you objectively worse looking, which has effects on your self confidence.
Best thing you can do is embrace it, in my opinion. It looks good on some people. Plus being cool otherwise really negates it any effects it has on your looks.
User 479360
Banned
I know the feeling. I started losing my hair around that time, too.
I've blamed some of it on stress and worry from OCD, and people always told me that would happen.
Thankfully, it seems to have tapered off. My hair is noticeably thinner in a horseshoe pattern, though, and I fear the day when it will completely go and look ridiculous.
I'm already undateable.
I've blamed some of it on stress and worry from OCD, and people always told me that would happen.
Thankfully, it seems to have tapered off. My hair is noticeably thinner in a horseshoe pattern, though, and I fear the day when it will completely go and look ridiculous.
I'm already undateable.
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