Hair transplants take a long time to heal.
The cost isn’t the problem. I would love the results, but the hassle of the downtime just isn’t worth it.
The relief I felt when I finally shaved it off and stopped trying to hide the balding was massive. Turns out, I look good bald too.
I tried Rogaine. It did nothing. Rather than cling to the old hair horseshoe, I shaved it all off (at a squadmate’s insistence).
If you or any other woman aren’t into me because I’m bald, that is your loss. My confidence is just fine.
That all makes sense. Appreciate you sharing, thanks!
I am not quite sure I follow. Could you clarify?
Why?
The best thing I ever did was start buzzing my hair every two weeks. Wish I had done it back in school.
Saved a ton of time and money not having to bother with hair anymore.
Bald is great! I should have been clearer. It is the in-between stage I struggle with. The obvious hair loss where someone has not decided whether to shave it off or try a treatment.
Just to be even clearer, I do not think hair has much to do with how interesting, funny, or worthwhile a man is. It is mainly about initial attraction, which is not everything. Attraction can grow.
I should have been clearer that I was curious about people staying in the in-between stage, where hair loss is obvious, but they have not decided whether to shave it off or try a treatment. A fully shaved head usually looks great 
I have been shaving my head since I was 12, so by the time it started going in my early 30s, I was well past caring. Having a perfectly round head made it easy to accept.
I started losing my hair in my early 20s. Looked into the cost of treatments and realised that if I just accepted it and invested the money instead, I could retire about five years earlier.
A few women have made comments about my baldness, but I have done just fine dating. Nobody seems to care as long as you own it and do not try to hide it.
My hair started retreating when I was 19. I could not afford any treatment that was actually effective or worth the money, so I just kept cutting it shorter and shorter until I finally had the guts to shave it.
Because I am not that vain. I started receding at 21, and back then, I had a Francis Rossi-style ponytail. It was a pain in the arse to keep up with, so I shaved it all off and went for the Kojak look, zero upkeep.
The most important thing is that I’m comfortable with how I look with a shaved head. I’ve been shaving it since I was about 15, and the only reason to change that now would be to present a false image of myself to the opposite sex. Something I have no interest in doing.
Even though I haven’t styled my hair in over 20 years, the idea of wasting time on that now is completely beyond me.
I’ve no desire to spend money on a transplant, a wig, or anything of the sort.
It would look ridiculous to suddenly walk around with a full head of hair after being mostly bald for 14 years.
I know I’m lucky to feel comfortable with being bald, and I’m not criticising anyone who’s found success with transplants or hair systems, they can be surprisingly effective.
If any potential romantic partner is only interested in me because I’ve got some fake hair on my head, I’d rather not get involved with them. I don’t hold those kinds of shallow or unrealistic expectations for the opposite sex, so I’ll avoid anyone who does.
Not everyone can get a transplant for various reasons, but those hair systems and scalp tattoos are surprisingly decent. I used to think they were a bit of a joke, but for some people, they really do give a huge confidence boost.
Rogaine is a temporary fix at best, and it mainly works for hair loss on the crown, not at the hairline where most younger guys first notice it.
The only real solution for some cases is follicle transplantation, and that comes with a hefty price tag. It’s hard to justify spending that much on something that, in the end, is purely for vanity.
I went the other way and dealt with it by shaving my head completely bald. It’s been about a year since I started, and I’m used to it now. For reference, I’m 36.
Why didn’t I try to treat it in a way that would let me keep my hair? A mix of time, money, and low self-esteem. I reckon I look even worse now that I’m bald, but the version of me with hair wasn’t good-looking enough for it to make much difference anyway.
Because my wife loves the bald look. It’s done wonders for my confidence. I used to feel really down about losing my hair, but when I got with my wife and shaved it all off for the first time, she loved it.
I don’t know if you’re simply unaware or have just bought into the media narrative that everything is men’s fault. Assuming it’s just a lack of awareness, I’ll say this.
Rogaine isn’t cheap unless you’re buying something massively underdosed, missing the active ingredient, or you’ve got a black market contact for minoxidil. Maybe it’s different elsewhere, but where I live, a month’s supply of Rogaine costs about the same as a year’s worth of my girlfriend’s makeup—so it’s hardly comparable.
And none of it is guaranteed to work. With makeup, the change is instant and customisable. Rogaine doesn’t work for the vast majority of people; you mostly hear about the rare success stories. For most blokes, you’ll actually lose hair early on as part of the so-called “regrowth” process. The real issue is, if you’re already balding quickly, you’re just accelerating the process. What actually happens is that Rogaine freezes your hair at the point it’s at after three months of treatment and then slows the rate of loss. Pretty rubbish investment if you ask me—especially considering that’s the best-case scenario for 99% of men.
And that’s without even mentioning the health side effects: weakened masculinity, lower testosterone, erectile dysfunction, spermicidal infertility, and so on. It’s a massive issue these days, just like the growing pressure on men to get vasectomies because it’s supposedly “not a big deal.” Absolutely bizarre. People seem to have forgotten that male birth control pills were once used to force suicide and cause mental retardation in criminals. Now, people throw around comments like, “Men should take birth control; it’s not as bad as what women go through,” without any understanding of history or biology.