I gots the baldness!!!

sobriety · 09-10-2007 02:23PM

Started to get bald at 21. Started regaine at 22 and got a good boost for a couple of years, but you eventually lose the battle. Tried other lotions and potions.. during this time I discovered hair systems, the type used by celebs such as Ben Affleck, Travolta, Elton John. Best of all, I discovered a place where I could get them at a pretty affordable price, without going to these dodgy rip off salons (who sell you crappy wigs anyway + charge you a fortune for maintenance).

I researched hair systems for a few years (it's a pretty big dicision imo), and then eventually made my big decision to go with a hair system. I've been wearing mine now for nearly 2 years and life has never been better. My hairline is totally exposed (check out recent Elton John photos for an example) and if you get them from the right supplier, you can get them for about 150 yoyos. It takes me about 1.5 hours per week maintenance but it's worth it. My girlfriend spends more time on her hair than I do hehe... it is also totally light, breathable and quite simply looks real (Ben Affleck has one in most movies).

About two months after getting my hair system, I met my girlfriend and now we're together nearly 2 years. I'm not saying looks are everything but .. I had never been in a proper long term relationship and found it difficult to meet women, so "go figure". Hair does make a difference..especially if you have features like mine (hair balances my features and frames my face quite well). After a couple of months I told her about it and she didn't care too much, she actually said "I wish more guys would do that, cos balding really takes away from a guys looks and makes them look older". Without my hair system I look about 35. With it, I like about 24. I can show you photos if you PM me.

If you want to know how my hair looks, it's basically similar to Ben Affleck (who wears a hair system very similar to mine). Sometime I use blonde highlights and I like to play around with it.

It's totally DIY - I do it all myself, and don't pay any of these rip off merchants in the industry (there are lots of them in the hairloss indistry, I wasted a lot of money on lotions and potions, and I know people who have wasted tons of money on dodgy hair systems too). I do my cuts myself, I customise my orders and measurements, I design everthing and they just send me the hair

A bind lasts for a full week and weather/tem doesn't affect it.. my girlfriend didn't notice anything for 2 months and she is constantly pulling at my hair and running her hands slowly through every inch of it.

There is a lot of help out there and lots of people who are in the DIY hair system scene helping each other out. I'm not going to post details on a public forum cos I don't want to blow my cover, and we don't want the public to know our secrets.

Just remember, there is no secret way to cure baldness. There are no micacle cures, and there are no specially designed hair matrix, extensions or har grafts, etc.. there is a lot of bull**** in the scene.

Hair system / hair replacement is not perfect, it's not for everyone. It takes 1.5 hours per week, or more if you swim a lot. Somedays it can be a challenge to get it right. But for me, it really is worth it cos I have my hair back and I look the age I should look (I'm 27 now).

sobriety · 09-10-2007 02:44PM

I will say one other thing; lots of women say they love a shaven head and find it sexy. And they will touch guys with shaven heads when socialising, and chat them up. But I can honestly say, from experience, that a lot of women - if given the chance - will go for the guy with a thick, nicely styled head of hair any day.

Exception: a shaven headed guy with *extremely* attractive and strong symmetrical features, combined with a nicely shaped skull

African males are a good example, e.g. Michael Jordan.

If you are the exception, go right ahead and shave it. But for the rest of us, we just look like pale, miserable, aids victims with out of perportion features. And all those chicks that tell you your shaven head is sexy, and want to touch it while they're drunk... well, they are misleading you. At the end of the night you'll find them with that fella with the thick head of hair. All of that nonsense about a shaven head being sexy is just a novelty to them. Although they do find it *cute*.

So beware of that... unless you look like good old Bruce Willis and have an amazing body

LegacyUser · 09-10-2007 04:20PM

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the_syco wrote:

The name of the game is testosterone. Too much, and your hair falls out .

So going to the Gym, working out, building muscle is all related to going bald ??'

estar · 10-10-2007 12:39AM

gettingthin wrote:

okay, so over the last two years I've slowly but surely been getting thinner and thinner on top.
I'm 30, and don't particularly want to have to shave my head. So, the thing is, whats the best thing to do. I want to try put a stop to this as soon as possible. I'm thin, but you wouldn't quite call it baldness just yet.

I've read up a good bit and majority of stuff out there just seems to be complete bollix.... just scams to attract the naive and desperate.

So it's basically down to the only proven treatment, which is regaine. Has anyone here every used it, what sort of results did you get? Anyone with a bad story about it?

One of the other solutions I have come across that, although unproven, may have some merit is laser treatment. Anyone know anything about that?

Please refrain from any silly comments... and I have no interest in getting a lecture or a speal about let nature take it's course blah blah blah.....

unless you have a strange head shape - and you can find this out by shaving the head on a long holida leaving time for it to grow back

shaving your head could be a very practical and non painful answer

those hair products usually dont work.

hair plugs work but are meant to be excruciating. and take a while.

i know two guys with shaved heads and they look far better without hair.

thats me two cents.

bostonian · 10-10-2007 05:32AM

shaving the head bc of baldness shows maturity, and an acceptance of reality. it shows perseverance in the face of adversity.

rogaine, plugs, transplants, etc., seem pathetic, like the old guy at the club.

Wibbs · 10-10-2007 08:54AM

Uri wrote:

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So going to the Gym, working out, building muscle is all related to going bald ??'

Very distantly. Testosterone builds muscle, burns fat, gives men(and women) their physical libido and other cool stuff. Men who go bald just have a genetic trait that makes their head hair sensitive to testosterone at very low levels. Sadly for the baldies it doesn't mean you have any more testosterone than a man with a full head of hair. You could even have less. Women can get male pattern baldness too(though much rarer).

bostonian wrote:

shaving the head bc of baldness shows maturity, and an acceptance of reality. it shows perseverance in the face of adversity.

Well put.

sobriety · 10-10-2007 10:50AM

you can find lots of hairloss info on this website:
www.hairlosshelp.com

there are forums to help you as well, and lots of baldies who are dealing with the problem who can give you advice on what to do. that site has helped me a lot.

moco · 10-10-2007 11:22AM

The lotions and potions cost alot and generally don't' work. Regaine might work a bit but you lose your hair again as soon as you stop using it.

Try taking perfectil hair skin and nails tablets, I hear they work well. If your hair wants to fall out very little will stop it but I'd say give it the best chance of growing by taking perfectil which provides all the nutrients hair needs, plus have eggs for breakfast. Sounds silly but I've read that folicles are at their weakest in the mornings and as hair is made from protein eggs give them a boost.

Linoge · 10-10-2007 01:05PM

Good post sobriety. I'm glad that you are happy with your hair system.

But... do you not think that you are fighting nature? Being bald is who you are. If your gf does not find you attractive with your natural look then maybe shes not the one for you?

Being bald is nothing to be proud of, but certainly not something to be ashamed of.

Baldie · 10-10-2007 02:00PM

Shave it off! It's alot less hassle in the morning with putting in gel and what not! My girlfriend prefers me with the sahved head look... Go for it man!!!

sobriety · 10-10-2007 02:24PM

do you not think that you are fighting nature? Being bald is who you are. If your gf does not find you attractive with your natural look then maybe shes not the one for you?

Not really, as far as I'm concerned I've accepted nature - that I'm bald. I'm not trying to fight it anymore, I don't take any drugs, pills or potions, lotions, etc. I'm a baldie and I'm happy with that, and when I take off my hair system - I look in the mirror and I have a little laugh at how different I look without it, but I still accept myself like that.

BUT, I look at wearing the system as a style choice. If you lose your two front teeth, what will you do? You will probably pay for the dentist to replce them, right? If you want to make yourself look good, you will wear clothes that make your figure look as good as possible right? You will make the best of yourself as a *styling* choice.

We are only here for a few years, and my head looks pretty ugly without hair - fact. So why not cover it with something that makes the best of what I've already got? I'm not an ugly guy, but without hair, my face just looks *off* somehow, or imbalanced (nose is not in proportion). Also, with a thick head of hair on top, my eyes look brighter and healtheir for some reason (dont' know why). Balding had made me look old and tired. I was amazed at people responses after I got my system; they told me everything from "have you lost weight", to "you look well rested", to "you look younger for some reason, dod you get a new hairstyle". Hair seems to solve all the image problems I'd had in my early 20's, and I'm so glad I made this choice at the age of 25. I'm now 27.

Let me just say one thing; if you saw my before and after photos it would all make sense

Linoge · 11-10-2007 11:10AM

sobriety wrote:

Not really, as far as I'm concerned I've accepted nature - that I'm bald. I'm not trying to fight it anymore, I don't take any drugs, pills or potions, lotions, etc. I'm a baldie and I'm happy with that, and when I take off my hair system - I look in the mirror and I have a little laugh at how different I look without it, but I still accept myself like that.

BUT, I look at wearing the system as a style choice. If you lose your two front teeth, what will you do? You will probably pay for the dentist to replce them, right? If you want to make yourself look good, you will wear clothes that make your figure look as good as possible right? You will make the best of yourself as a *styling* choice.

We are only here for a few years, and my head looks pretty ugly without hair - fact. So why not cover it with something that makes the best of what I've already got? I'm not an ugly guy, but without hair, my face just looks *off* somehow, or imbalanced (nose is not in proportion). Also, with a thick head of hair on top, my eyes look brighter and healtheir for some reason (dont' know why). Balding had made me look old and tired. I was amazed at people responses after I got my system; they told me everything from "have you lost weight", to "you look well rested", to "you look younger for some reason, dod you get a new hairstyle". Hair seems to solve all the image problems I'd had in my early 20's, and I'm so glad I made this choice at the age of 25. I'm now 27.

Let me just say one thing; if you saw my before and after photos it would all make sense

Thats fairly understandable. I guess some men are more suited to having a shaven head than others. Some people, when they see pictures of me with hair they think I look weird!

At the end of the day, if you are not feeling confident in yourself and it really gets you down change something. Whether its losing weight, bulking up, getting your teeth done or getting a hair system they all have the same effect, they make you feel better in yourself.:)

LegacyUser · 16-01-2009 04:44PM

I'm starting to receide at the sides, going bald doesn't scare me much, what scares me is the shape of my head. I have a really bump head and a strange dip on one side of my head. So count yourself lucky if you have the option of shaving your head and not look hideous.
I might just wear a hat indefinelty when I go bald.

kiwikid · 16-01-2009 10:35PM

i am married to a very sexy fine baldy!

He does nto shave his head because i think its silly to get rid of it all for no reason - its feckin freezin as it is! Just keep it cut tight every few weeks. Its only a small part of him really.

CDfm · 16-01-2009 11:14PM

long hair is becoming quite fashionable - get a transplant mate -you know you want to

Wibbs · 17-01-2009 02:45AM

Very helpful CDfm.:rolleyes: Anyway zombie threaditus so closed.

I gots the baldness!!!

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