Reply to: The chances are you're going to go bald eventually

[TimberWolf]

The only rule is; the more it falls out, the shorter you should have it cut.

Andy
(currently down to a No 1 back and sides and No 2 on top).

If you used mm, goddamit, instead of those hairdressers numbers, you'd still have spare capacity to cut down on cutting, so to speak.

[Lockhouse]

The only rule is; the more it falls out, the shorter you should have it cut.

Andy
(currently down to a No 1 back and sides and No 2 on top).

[Ignis Fatuus]

This thread made me glum

Take a wider view. It doesn't matter.

Firstly, it doesn't really matter because in the long run you'll be dead, not just bald. The question of what you will do in the meantime with the limited but sufficient life that you have, is much more important that the question of when and how much you will lose your hair.

Secondly, it doesn't even matter in detail because you have no way of knowing what the future may hold, and what effect that will have. In my case for example I spent approximately the first half of my adult life hairy and skinny, but usually without much in the way of the female company that I craved. In the second half of my adult life, I have lost my hair and gained a stomach, and always had at least as much female company as I wanted, sometimes more than I wanted. I can not explain it but if I had stopped on the way to worry about outward signs of ageing, I would only have been more confused.

Just let it happen.

[BlasterBates]

This thread made me glum

I think the article is rubbish, and anyone in their 40's knows it is, because that's when you notice that your hair stops falling out.

But I though I'd scare some of the younger ones...

[Churchill]

This thread made me glum

Don't be glum, people love you because you're bald, fat and ugly!

Have a <--- Manly hug, I was never confused...

Seems to work for me

See? Every silver lining has a cloud!

[Cliphead]

Don't be glum, people love you because you're bald, fat and ugly!

Seems to work for me

[Churchill]

This thread made me glum

Don't be glum, people love you because you're bald, fat and ugly!

Have a <--- Manly hug, I was never confused...

[fullyautomatix]

This thread made me glum

[OwlHoot]

7mm sideburns and nape and 12mm everywhere else except scissors for the front works for me.

You must look like a freshly sheared grunt at a US bootcamp.

OH in "This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My rifle is my best friend. It is my life..." mode

[stek]

I've spent all my life worrying about going bald, as I have that crap limp shapeless thin hair like Charlie George had and two bald grandads.

Results so far? I'm 50 in June and lost none of it and not even gone grey....

[Cliphead]

Mine receded a bit twenty years ago then stopped. I keep it short with clippers anyway and couldn't care less if it started again and went completely.

[BlasterBates]

My view is as long as it falls out where you can't see it, it doesn't matter, I didn't know I was bald until my Mother pointed it out, but when I look in the mirror I don't see a problem. I reckon it's a conspiracy.

[TimberWolf]

I haven't combed my hair since I bought electric hair clippers a few years ago. What a lot of faffing about with seeing hairdressers and expense that solves too. 7mm sideburns and nape and 12mm everywhere else except scissors for the front works for me. A 10 minute job not including hoovering up afterwards. I also hoover my head.

[xoggoth]

At 40ish you may find it getting rather thin on top and imagine you will soon be completely bald but it stops. Mine still still looks okish from the front.

PS It may be because I can never be arsed to comb it. Some of the apparent thickness might just be mould.

[Ignis Fatuus]

For those of you in your 30's with thinning hair, wondering where it's all going to end:

Male Pattern Hair Loss Information

You're going to be completely bald.

HTH

It neither helps nor hinders. It's normal, it happens. So does death. It's coming anyway, and trying to prevent it is not necessarily the best way of spending the limited amount of life that you have. Come to think of it, neither is posting here.