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I found this most hilarious instructions on how to style a comb-over. This style is almost as ridiculed as the skullet hairstyle. One of my dad's friends is fully bold on the top and he tries pulling over a few locks of hair on the side of his head across to the other side, to cover the absence of hair. What makes it worse is that it's very thin and sparse and looks very obvious, definately not subtle.
Hehehehe, so funny. Most guys that suffer from bad MPB, such as my dad, periodically get their head clean shaven every few weeks. I think many men with MPB can still grow hair or even long hair and it would look fine with a bit of noticeable thinning patches. Some mens' MPB, such as my dad's, is so major that it is really best to just keep the hair short/shaved, otherwise it would just look silly and daft.
My father is about as bald as this guy on top. This is what i refer to as a severe, or major case of MPB. This photo epitomises the skullet look.
Right... a person with a Red X on their head is obviously bald and in bad need of treatment, if there is any.
yes, either a hair transplant or a shave
I think it works for him...
agree...lol!
Where are your manners, boy?
Have you forgotten, or ignored, those of us on this board who are bald and sport the skullet? I'm not the only one, you know.
There are also those here who seem to think it looks okay. Quoting from http://the-light.com/longhair/messages/142943.html "brucew's hair looks good - if we could achieve something similar that would be great."
Naturally, you're entitled to your own opinion...
It sounds like you're advising men like me on the longhair hyperboard to get shaved and get lost. Should we go into denial of our baldness? "Oh, I'm not bald. Really. I intended to be a skinhead."
Sorry, I disagree.
I didn't get to choose my genetics. (Had I, I would have chosen some more important things first.) I have to work with what I've got. Simply because I'm bald doesn't mean I shouldn't be permitted to enjoy what remains, in the same way you, and everyone else on the board does.
People here get enough crap from parents, employers, partners and the public at large. We don't need it from from other members too.
Wow, sorry if i did offend you. I have nothing wrong with the skullet hairstyle and it is good to see receding men who still have the guts to let the rest of their hair grow long. I may be one of those oneday. When i said it is ridiculed, well that is a fact that you cannot deny. If i said mullets are ridiculed, and you had a mullet, you would naturally think i am picking on and mocking people with mullets or that i dislike them. Maybe i should have said "generally speaking, the skullet is often ridiculed by society and popular culture", that is a emperical fact, not a personal attack on people like you.
Male long hair are a minority in society, let alone receding ones. I always joke with my dad to get a skullet and just "let it grow", i always make fun of him for being bald, he knows i am joking with him. Just lighten up a bit will you?
Does the very word "skullet" offend you?
I didn't think that this term carried any negative connotations and was just a neutral, descriptive word, obviously a spin-off of the mullet. The only difference being the involuntary absence of hair, whereas with the mullet, the wearer chooses to keep his hair short at the top and sides.
Sorry if i caused any harm or offended you, that wasen't what i was trying to do. I just found a funny comb over diagram and decided to show everyone cause it was so entertaining.
MPB is really evil and most of us are going to get it, it is inevitable, so lets just enjoy what we have and be happy :)
Let me catch my breath. That one had me laughing so hard I nearly fell out of my chair! ;o)
No, and I find it's much easier to say than "bald guy with a ponytail." Fewer syllables, and the sequence of hard and soft sounds is kinda fun.
And no, I wasn't personally offended. Your apology is accepted in the spirit intended, but not required.
Where I was going was that, on this board where some days it seems every other post is either someone asking if they're going bald or someone is upset about being told to cut their hair, no matter how well intended, a line like, "it is really best to just keep the hair short/shaved, otherwise it would just look silly and daft" is, IMHO, inappropriate.
There's plenty enough anxiety over acceptance and general hair anxiety around this place without adding to it.
I should have stopped there so that you wouldn't feel I'd taken offense. Sorry. The bits about denial and genetics are part of my standard reply when I'm told to shave my head or at least get a proper bald guy haircut. Including them was little heavy-handed.
Funny, that's exactly what I think in response to all the "Am I going bald?" posts here.
be happy :)
I wouldn't go quite so far as "evil", but I agree with the sentiment.
It's 63% of men that will experience some degree of hair loss whether it is just slight or all gone on top.
'Evil' isn't really applicable to random genetic anomalies in human males. All the fun stuff that comes along with being male has got to have some price I suppose. I look forward to whatever result comes of my hair or lack thereof, in that for me to have lived long enough to have lost hair, will mean that I have lived a great many more years.
ive been told that the gene for hair loss is aquired from the mothers side........
Thank God I should never have to fret about MPB, since none of the men with the genes I'd be inheriting for baldness have gone bald themselves. They just end up with thinner hair
