Who here started to bald in their 20s, and what was your solution?

a.)shave head
b.)who cares
c.)rogaine

I had a dream last night that as I approach 3-0, i'll be completely bald.. perhaps a haircut like Mr. Townsend.

B

A like a motherfucker. Started noticing it at my 24th birthday party (an event chronicled in the For The Worse song "Out Of Control," for you trivia buffs).

i got a different haircut to cover it up.

Ive been going bald since the 4 grade, so right around when i was 18 I started shaving it. No way would I go for a skullet

I have a feeling that now that I'm growing my hair out again, this may be the last. Must enjoy it while I can

I'm gonna buy Rogaine sooner or later, but it's fucking expensive.

Somewhat off topic, but Rush's worst song has to do with this.

A

I noticed my receding hairline when I was 18 but it never really bothered me that much until now. I'm noticing my hair in general is thinner now, so I'm going to talk to my doctor as soon as my health insurance is in effect again to see what the best bet is. I hate how I look with a shaved head and I like having hair (even if I do like it short), so I'm going with option C or whatever may work better than Rogaine.

not a single bald dude in my family, other than in-laws.

lol @ youz

I owe my hairline to my mother's side of the family; I think I owe the rest of my head to stress.

My family is the exact opposite, my blood relatives on both sides of my family are all bald/balding....sucks

EDIT: I should say that I meant all the men...none of the females are bald...lol

I've notice a bit of receding going on with me, but I'm still going keep my hair long. I'd look really ugly as a bald dude anyways haha.

The gene for male patern baldness actually travels in women. So, regardless of your dad balding or not, go home and blame mom for that one.

Mark, you might have some widows peaks going on, but I don't think it's as bad as you think right now. Have you noticed it thinning in any other parts of your head?

Seconded.

so the Mast boys are blessed with good hair genes....RAT BASTARDS!

I'll probably never go bald, but I'm 26 and have more gray hairs than Bea Arthur's bush.

My hair is starting to think big time up near my bang hairline. Not so much in the back.
I can't wait to become one of those comb-over dudes.
Like in Kingpin, but cooler.

I have too much hair.

Do the comb over and shave your ballz instead.

d. Do the comb over and shave your ballz instead.

Fixed.

Good one. "My hair is starting to think" - I meant thin. That'd be cool if my hair could think though; maybe then it'd realize it's doing a mistake by thinning up.

This thread seems made for Dwyer pic posts, and yet...

i've heard that too, but i don't know the validity. my younger brother is starting to show signs of balding, but my hair is as thick as ever at 28. our dad is bald, his father is bald, and his father is bald, but my mom's father has a full head of hair. my brother takes way more from my dad's side than i do, and he is the one that is starting to show signs. my hair hasn't changed at all.

It's called Punnet Squares. Do them.

haha Punnet Squares. Haven't heard those since freshman year in highschool.

I'll learn all about them next year. I can't wait to get my 8th grade diploma.

SICK MIDDLE SCHOOL LIFE SCIENCES BURN

I remember being bored as SHIT doing Calico cat exercises. Shit sucked hard.

touché

I have indeed sir.

A lot of people also go bald because they're not getting enough protein. Something to think about.

well, there are simple ways to have hot daily protein injections.

Nah, semen is mostly carbohydrate.

I hope you meant semen. I mean.

Shit, think Murph, say something not gay.

AMERICA!

Shaving your head totally makes you look tough so it's cool.

my parents were the type that until i was like 12 they would force me to have my hair cut as normal as possible, and it always looked like Lloyd from Dumb and Dumber, so i grew to hate the look of hair. i shave it due to laziness, i only have to pay attention to it once every few months.

NO REGRETS
NO SHAME
NO GUILT
NO LIBERALISM
NO CROWD
= TOTAL WAR

Think Colonel Kurtz.

I'd like to think Colonel Kurtz but apparently I got incarcerated? haha

Never.....ahahahahahahahahahahahahah

my hair is thick. i'll probably never go bald, but if i did, i'd just shave it. it looks better that way.

was definitely in HS when i started to notice. hoorah for clippers!

I'm getting a little thin, but I still have hair. I am old, so it just figures. I'll probably shave it off if it gets worse.

ive got some thick ass hair i'll probably never go bald but ive got a mean widows peak and my dad went totally gray in his mid 20's

REAL TALK

HOWARD WULKAN'S BALD - B A L D BALD

Took a minute last night to admire how my hair is thinning on top. Bald in 3 years or less. I normally wouldn't care, but there are some massive scars on my head that I'd rather not explain every time someone asks.

I love long hair but the way it's going I'll be happy to make it to 30 before I have to cut it off. 35 would be awesome but that's probably too much to ask. :( I don't want to shave my head so I will probably just get a normal-guy haircut at that point.

only skullets are real

My dad was bald in world war II

i would kill myself if i started to go bald in my 20s

i will never ever worry about going bald. easy for me to say with my full head of hair, but i never understood men who obsess over it. getting old is brutal enough.

slag went bald when he was fifteen

My dad and brother were already bald at my age, I'll take this to mean that my body ages slower and I will outlive my grandchildren.

Made it to 30. Still have hair. Starting to thin. Ask again when 40.

My hair is still in tact and not grey at 24. I definitely don't have the right kind of hair for growing it long though.

lampfro?

Hahaha well...

This is a picture of me from mid-2007 and I let my hair grow for about six more months after this:

Oh man, my initial reaction:

Walked into band practice the other day, and my bandmates were saying how they were looking at old Life at Zero pix and saying "Wow dude, you used to have a lot more hair". Fucking dicks.

If I have but one hair left on my head, it will be long. Bring on the skullet.

I hear a lot of talk from people who have never had an impending skullet.

I think it's fine in this picture. It looks like you're in the just-starting-to-grow phase. Six additional months was probably not enough time. You likely gained about 3-4 inches in that time, right? (Unless you eat really well or something.) If you gave it a solid year you'd probably like the results.

I'm working on that skullet @ 36.
Andy's got a bandy?

oh and I'm just starting to get some grays on top. all my hairs have been going "turn gray or fall out" and then they choose to fall out.
Unfortunately, you can dye grays, but you can't dye hair back onto your head.

It's not even really the length that was a big deal, I just have super thick hair and don't like it long anyway...

Are you referring to my secret musical project or the band of baldness in the back of my head? If so, then yes.

you mentioned band practice.

I THINK IM GOING BALD is terribbbbbble

Just because I don't play shows doesn't mean I don't still play. I will share when it's recorded -- fuck knows when that will be, this project has been going on in some way, shape or form for the last few years.

I've got a ~3" scar across the back of my head and when I wore a buzzcut I just told people it was from hunting Nazis/wrestling sharks/a failed assassination attempt.

(It's actually from getting too excited about receiving a copy of Yo Noid! for NES when I was seven and falling into a radiator.)

So the solution is lying.

i am now 30 and my long flowing locks are as thick and brown as ever.

I've got a similar scar. Mine's from getting bottled.

This is a pretty funny story though, ha.

When I was about 8 or 9, I was just becoming aware of "heavy metal" and "headbanging" and I was trying to do it while sitting in a chair at my kitchen table. I banged my head backwards too hard and the chair fell over backwards, and I conked my head on the floor. no scar though, oops.

Also around this age I used to enjoy running up playground slides for whatever reason (excess energy I guess). This one had a metal crossbar across the top of it that I didn't see, and ran full speed into it. Had a huge egg on my head from it (but no scar since it wasn't an actual cut).

I wouldn't mind if it was a 3 inch scar, but this is more WTF than "cool scar bro." It's shaped like a reverse question mark, with some extra hole-shaped scars from the hematoma drainage tubes. Shoulda been dead.

fapfapfap

I have a similar scar. Looks like an upside down L. I got sick of people asking about it, and as it covers the entire right side of my head, covering it isn't an option without long hair. So my receding hair line can suck it. I look like more of a tool with a shaved head.

i have a bunch of scars on my head too, but the only one i remember was in 2nd grade i was on a swing, and at it's peak i jumped off and landed directly on my forehead. i stood up and blood was shooting out of a hole like a fountain.

A+ Yo! Noid reference.

Battle damage from a fight with the Riddler.

Gave yourself a mohawk with a straight razor.

You can just look wistfully off into the distance and mutter, "Shoulda been dead...shoulda been dead" whenever asked about it.