When Hair Loss Started
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lucky me I started to get a receeding hair line when I was 17, I'm 25 now and I've been told I look 40.
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Started thinning at about 20. At about 27, the dome had a golf ball sized bald spot. I'm 30 now, and I now shave my head bald. No sense covering up a bald spot. Besides, thanks to Michael Jordan, bald is beautiful! I am so happy I shaved it off! I get out of the shower, and I am ready to go to work! No wasted time worrying about my hair! And it looks much better too!
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Originally Posted by da cubs
Started thinning at about 20. At about 27, the dome had a golf ball sized bald spot. I'm 30 now, and I now shave my head bald. No sense covering up a bald spot. Besides, thanks to Michael Jordan, bald is beautiful! I am so happy I shaved it off! I get out of the shower, and I am ready to go to work! No wasted time worrying about my hair! And it looks much better too!
and all the other bald and beautiful men!
Look on the bright side:
the more hair you lose, the more head you get.
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If you're losing your hair, grow a mustache and goatee, then shave that hair off! you might be surprised how good you look.
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I've been told that the hair/baldness gene comes down to us through our mother's side...so I guess if your mother or grandmother is bald, you likely will be too?! I don't know, my father still has a thick head of hair at 70, and I'm doing OK...it's just that when you hit 40, you start growing hair in places you'd rather not. I hate shaving my ears, for example. I knew a guy who refused to shave his ears, and had 3-inch beards hanging from each earlobe. Really gross. I feel for you guys losing it early, but don't fall for the comb-over thing, it looks way worse than the bald spot, and you're not fooling anyone but yourself. -TD
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I was about 21 when I started getting bald spots from stress, first one on my left, then on the right, then in the back! I would keep the sides shaved, with only hair being on top. Earlier this year I started noticing that coupled with the spots my hairline was starting to recede in the corners, so I did what any other 23 year man in man position would do ... took a Mach3 to my dome, and never looked back. I've been shaving my head for a couple of months now, and love it. Chicks dig the baldness, I get way more attention now than ever before. I don't think I want hair anymore. 