Going Bald: Good And Bad Grooming Ideas

By Sam Stilson
[Grooming]
Have you been finding half your hairdo remaining on your pillow every morning?  Sam Stilson gives some tips for what works and what doesn’t if you’re going bald.
There is an awful moment in every man’s life that can represent the beginning of the end or a narrow escape from a terrible fate.  It is the day that some cruel soul points out how far back your hairline has receded or how pronounced your widow’s peak has become.  You look in the mirror with your hands holding back your bangs and you think, “Oh Mary, Mother of Christ, I am going bald.”

Whether you actually will become bald is entirely up to your genetic history, but still the first time when you realize your hair is thinning in some capacity and you’re not even 30 is a harrowing experience.

Fighting baldness is a losing game.  If you’re balding, you will eventually be bald.  It’s that simple.  You can slow it down, cover it up and hide it, but you will be bald eventually and that sucks.  Here are a few follically challenged faux pas for all the bald dudes, a group that all of us dread joining every time we check the progress of our hairlines.

Cue Ball

The first reaction to going bald for many men is to shave all the remaining hair off immediately.  Fight fire with fire, so to speak.  Although logically speaking, getting rid of all your hair because you’re afraid of losing all your hair makes no sense; it’s kind of like quitting a job when you know you’re going to be fired.  You save yourself some dignity and from an outside perspective, no one has to know the truth.  The problem with shaving your head is if you don’t have a very attractive noggin, you’re kind of screwed.  If you look good bald, you can keep this up for quite a few years, but after a while (maybe post-marriage?) you should drop the act and just be bald.

Inventive Combing

Comb-overs have to be the worst anti-balding technique in the world.  It never works, never.  One can understand the guys who let their hair come in a bit longer in the front if they still have a full head of hair or even the guys with the spot at the back of the head that they try to overlap by letting it come in thick in the back.  Those guys aren’t spending hours meticulously combing single hairs into place.  Bald guys, if you are bald, save for 12 hairs that start coming in where most people wear their headphones strap, sprawling it across your forehead and getting those stragglers good and wet won’t make you look young; it will make you look insane.  It’s a terrible idea.  Period.
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