[Closed] Slapheads. When did you decide enough was enough?

I think if your friend is aware of the situation then it's time for a set of clippers to be added to the kit list. And some Factor 30 sun cream. 🙂

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Balding is definitely not a good look.

I first noticed wads of hair in the plughole aged 15 , by the time I'd got to 28 my hair was seriously thinning on top. My hair was halfway down my back and one day as I looked in the mirror I thought crikey thats looking a bit thin and shiney.
There was no way i was going to have a bald top with a ponytail as I believe thats worse than a comb over so I went out and bought myself a set of clippers , I've never looked back and like having very short hair (no clip in winter, bic'd in summer)
I just look a prat if I go headbanging at gigs.

When you stop combing it and start arranging it.

Clipper time!

in my 20's i realised it was all looking a bit sparse and went for a set of clippers and no1 grade not brushed my hair since.

Your friend knows its clipper time 🙂

#2 or less all the way since mid 20s here!

Been receding since a 14.

Aged 17, then gf kissed back of my head (don't!) as I was sat down. "Ah, I just kissed your bald spot"......"My WHAT?"

Now 35, about 2 months ago, triggered by sick of paying for a hair cut and being shown the back of my head, I went out and bought clippers.

Grade 3, won't even look back now. Should have done it at 17.

EDIT: Mine also looked reasonable from the front, but from the top and back it was a different story.

Further Edit: also convinced bald spot cause by later-found-out-child-molester teacher, that used to lift me up by my hair in primary school. Shit.

'Mates' shaved my head as a going away present when I was 20.Never bothered growing my hair long again after that and 10 years later I started malting anyway.
Now approaching 40 ,I just compensate with awesome beardness.

When I saw the top of my head on the cctv screen as I entered the local B&Q and backed up by my son announcing " Dad you have no hair in the middle of your hair ".

Started using clippers when I was about 25 as the hairline slowly disappeared skywards.
Started on a longer setting, graduated to the shortest.
Then, when I was about 30 I decided even that looked wrong and took the razor route.
Best thing I ever did; shave head and face once or twice a week, job done.
God knows how much I've saved in haircuts....

It's not going bald it's evolution sped up. We are advanced 🙂

What do men need hair for?

First shaved my hair at about 28 and I'm 40 now. Best thing I ever did, if there were a cure for baldness tomorrow I wouldn't be interested in it whatsoever. More than happy being bald and using the clippers once a week, wouldn't go back to having hair in a million years. Use clippers with no attachment and close as possible.

shaved the pate at 25 kojak now at 47

never bothered never worried no cares best move I did following new romantic haircuts and punk fashion

line of business I am in I get lots of abuse and comments some are positive aka Hitman or Elysium man some okay Brucie (willis not Forysth) some cook an egg on that mate....not many though

tell him to shave it

about 4 years ago. knew i was developing a solar panel but it was highlighted by mrs vander panning a video around the back of my head. the relulting glare almost blinded the camera. went to boots later that day and clippers were bought...

Clippers? CLIPPERS???

Wet shave twice a week for smoothy goodness. Make suncream a daily application from about May onwards.

Do I know your "friend" Samuri? does he go by the name "Jon"?

Maybe. I blame being sat at a bank of desks with you, norm and ken for this.
You infected me with your slap head disease.

When I was 17. If I grew my hair now I'd look like Terry Nutkins (RIP)

" Dad you have no hair in the middle of your hair "

😆

Hate hate hate hate being bald. With a seething intense passion. Tried growing it as long as I dared but whatever you do you are just the butt of jokes from all sides.I feel I left behind any right to Join inthe human race 25 years ago and regret every day.

And breathe.

Its only hair ffs. Think of poor girls and hair loss. By far much worse.

the correct time is at least 12 months ago

6th June 2006.

Been using the clippers for 10 years now (now 41). It has never bothered me until the past 6 months or so. In some ways I wish I had a head of lovely locks again - but it aint gonna happen, so why worry.

And Junior 2 tells me I look like an old man, if I leave it a bit too long between clipping sessions 😥

I started shaving my head aged 19 as maintaining hair annoyed me. I stopped washing my hair 2yrs before and havent washed my head since.

It's time when you sit in front of a window and you can feel a cool draft on the top of your head. About 7 years ago for me......so much easier in a morning 🙂

Hora why's it worse?

The day before our wedding 4/9/99 to be exact. No loss, my excuse for hair was always hideous anyway, fine and blond that grew vertically if left, wouldn't style for anything, good riddance.

I reckon I must have saved a fortune in hair cutting fees in the last 13 years!

Every time I go into changing rooms that have mirrors that let you see behind you I think 'oooh, it's getting worse, I should probably go for the trimmed look soon' and then keep putting it off.

I am getting married in a few weeks and I think that once I am back from honeymoon I will be getting a closer cut hair-do!!

I remember sitting in a pub and the older squaddies were ripping the piss out of the youngest as he hadn't started to recede. Sat there thinking that these were my kind of people.
Flip side.. on the tube and a pissed up nazi skin gets on. A few sieg hiels are thrown and then his attention is drawn to a bald Indian man.
Skin walks up to Indian man and starts rubbing the poor sods head and saying "alright baldie." I managed to hide behind that pole you hold onto!

First clipped it when I was about 21 that was 22 years ago.

Needs the back comb. My grandad had a fringe about 14 inches long that combed back covered the massive bold patch underneath. I never realised he was bold until I'd seen him comb it forward one day to see the shiny baldness underneath and now horrified to now know its hereditary.

Hate hate hate hate being bald. With a seething intense passion. Tried growing it as long as I dared but whatever you do you are just the butt of jokes from all sides.I feel I left behind any right to Join inthe human race 25 years ago and regret every day.

There is no way the above is serious. If it is, you either have serious self confidence issues or you are femail.

I can categorically say that my hair or lack of it has never been the butt of jokes from any side. Firstly, people just wouldn't to my face anyway, and secondly, what jokes? Where is the humour in baldness? This is 2013 and I'm sure that any effort to extract humour from something as mundane and commonplace as male baldness would go down like a mother in law joke...

Why?

How many heros and manly villians in movies are bald?

How many ladies?

All girls should have thick lovely hair. Us men don't need it.

I just wished the bit i've got left would do the honourable thing and fall out so wouldn't have to clip it every couple of days.

No loddrik I am serious and do detest it. Have been the butt of tiresome jokes since school about it, which I am fairly fed up with. Probably explains the self-confidence lack, rather than due to it. Being a fat biffa doesn't help either.

Apologies, this thread touched a nerve. Will stop reading it and sulk like a teenager for a bit!

Number two for ten years now, maybe more. I think once you get to my age thick hair looks a bit weird to be honest.
My Uncle had a killer combover when I was a kid, I got the shock of my life when I saw him dive into the pool at pontins with a full head of hair, and surface with it all sliding off the side of his head.

^^^ 😆 ^^^

I wish my face would go bald.

Don't think it'll be very long before the clippers come out for me too.... Very sad.

I can feel hair there, but when the barber shows me the back of my hair when they finish, a little bit of my dignity shuffles off.

I used to work with this bloke that looked like Willie Thorne the snooker player. He had a proper comb over, all carefully 'styled' from right to left, with a parting at earlobe level. Anyway, one day I saw him walking over the yard on a windy day and this curved carpet of hair was gently hinging up and down like a haunted trapdoor. Bloody hysterical!
Nobody laughs at a bald bloke (I've been using clippers for years, I'm thin on top) but everyone laughs at a bald bloke that tries to cover it up

Guy at one place I worked at would put boot polish on his head.it would run when he got wet or sweaty.

He hated women as well. Nasty bloke.

If you've got a big jaw and/or interesting eyes I think you can more than get away with it.

If you have small piggie eyes and/or a weaker jaw no hair makes you look like a fiddler.

hora - Member
If you've got a big jaw and/or interesting eyes I think you can more than get away with it.
If you have small piggie eyes and/or a weaker jaw no hair makes you look like a fiddler.

That mate is the stuff of STW Gold!! A genuine Laugh out loud moment!!

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I thought facial hair made you look like a fiddler. The rules are so complicated.

guy i worked with used to have a combover.

On a windy day, sat in the passenger seat of a car, the manager who was driving managed to close the electric window trapping the flap of hair! 😯

wish i'd been there

Facial hair is a no-no with a big baldy bonce! You look like you've got your head on upside down

Clippers are the most liberating thing ever. Unless you're the kind of [s]self-adoring tart in denial about their sexuality[/s] bloke who buys Mens Health magazine, then grooming is something that happens to teenage girls on the internet, and dogs.

So being able to clipper your head on a Monday morning and know that's your haircare routine taken care of for the next week is perfect! I really don't know how anyone can be arsed with owt else*

* See Mens Health disclaimer above 😉

on a windy day and this curved carpet of hair was gently hinging up and down like a haunted trapdoor.

😆

passtherizla - Member
Don't think it'll be very long before the clippers come out for me too.... Very sad.

I can feel hair there, but when the barber shows me the back of my hair when they finish, a little bit of my dignity shuffles off.

Genius!

Clippers are the most liberating thing ever. Unless you're the kind of self-adoring tart in denial about their sexuality bloke who buys Mens Health magazine, then grooming is something that happens to teenage girls on the internet, and dogs.

It's a sad day that I agree with anything Binners has to say, but he's damn right.

As a relative newbie in the having no hair world.

Any recommendations for sunblock to use on thinning hair. It's clipped pretty short #2 maybe, but there is still a fair amount of hair and it makes a right bloomin' mess with sun cream.

oddjob - hats are your friend. Though remember the wise words of Mr P Docherty....

[i]He knows there's fewer more distressing sights than that
Of an Englishman in a baseball cap[/i]

Its only hair ffs. Think of poor girls and hair loss. By far much worse.

Wise words there hora.

I'm losing my hair due to health issues and am distraught that I may need to wear a wig at some point. 🙁

I have plenty of hats, but sometimes it's not appropriate or convenient.

Oddjob: mostly bowlers with razor-steel rims, I guess?

Clippers set at 0 for me, these days.
Over the last 15 years the clip length has been steadily shortening. I may get to the wet shave soon. I like it short, & my daughter likes the feel of head stubble so I get the occasional head massage too.

Hora, not so sure about your examples but the original quote was genius!

The best comb-over i've seen belonged to a BA cabin crew chap in his 50s. Amazingly crafted, blow dried number that 'leviated' above his head.

Honestly, you could have put your hand under it from the front without touching his head or the hair. Quite amazing to behold.

The first time was when I got out of the shower and saw that the hair at the front of my head was shorter than the hair at the back. It has grown out again and looks a bit rediculous, when I get home from work next week I am going to buy some clippers and be rid.

Clippers are awesome.

I come at it from the other side, full head of hair and my father has a lovely full head only slightly grey(aged 69) and both my grandfathers were all still well equipped on that front when they popped-it.
But I'm from the other side. I can't style it as it's too thick, too straight, I have a double crown and a 'cowslip' (is that what it's called) on one side of my fringe.
Tried 'curtains' with hair to lower ear length in the 90's but didn't work. I know I'd be a pillock if I went to pony tail length so started on no. 3 length shaving.
Swiftly got fed up of paying £4.50 to the local ex-con when I lived back in London to cut my hair every 2-3 weeks so got some clippers from Argos for £30 10 years ago. Still on original pair and never looked back.
Jeffing Bargain they were!
The ladeez like to stroke freshly cut (grade 1) hair as it's so soft!

About 25 or so I did it. I would have loved longish floppy surfer dude hair, being blonde, but it would have looked shite anyway because it was always incredibly thin even when I had it. Started to shift from the top rather than the back age about 18 or so, became noticeable at 25 and my colleages persuaded me to take it all off.

That was when I realised you have to play the hand you're dealt, something fashion-conscious women would do well to bear in mind.

I'll say it again - embrace your hair if you have it. 🙂

I went from nasty student dreadlocks to a no.1 for my graduation when I was 25... my tutor thought it was hilarious when I walked on stage to pick up my certificate with no hair... F-me that was a long time ago 😥

Longest my hair has been since was about an inch... clippers with no guard and the odd wet shave is how I do it now.

P.S. - My dreadlocks frequently had bits of stick and leaves in them... what was I thinking 😐

Mine started sliding backwards at age 18. Had hair to my waist before then.

Gave it a No1 with the clippers when I was 23. Been doing it ever since and have the perfect male pattern baldness.

Just realised I've been a slaphead for more than half my life now.

Wouldn't go back. So much quicker and easier.

Hat in summer, hat in winter though.

4 here, my hair is not going, it's just relocating...
Whenever I get my haircut, the 'view round the back' always sees the mirror being placed at 'waist level' - this tells me i'm also developing a bald spot...
I figure it'll be some time this time this year when I get all 'removed'.
Actually, in for a cut tomorrow, might even go shorter than normal - a test run 😉

Oh and grade 1 really makes wearing a helmet more comfortable.

This is all real STW stuff of legend. A bunch of middle aged guys trying to make each other feel better about each other's hair loss.

I'm glad to see that (nearly) everyone seems to accept their slapheadedness well enough though. I honestly hate the fact the fact that I'm well on the way to baldness. I always remind myself how many Hollywood leading men are bald and the answer is pretty much none except a few action hero types that generally make films more marketed at men anyway.

I'd like to go with clippers but when i doI look like I've just escaped from Belsen due to thin face and very pale complexion.

Nobody laughs at a bald bloke (I've been using clippers for years, I'm thin on top) but everyone laughs at a bald bloke that tries to cover it up

Iv'e had no hair pretty much since i was 21- I cut all the 'excess' off every week with a pair of clippers. With no attachment- that's a number 0 i guess 😆
Why? I'd look pretty stupid otherwise and earn then nickname 'Friar Tuck' 😆 😆

Helmet hair? What's that then? 😉

Hat in summer, hat in winter though

Yeah- this +1. A sunburnt head (or frostbite!) is no fun....

I got my first 'skinhead' when I was 14 or 15 (t'was the fashion back when I were t'lad)...

Got my first proper all over #1 when I was about 33 or 34 (which is around when my bald spot was no longer deniable), it was a very liberating day, I haven't looked back since.

Got clippers as got fed up paying money for a 2 minute low skilled job that it turns out I could easily do myself... especially when I binned the guards

In all honesty I'd prefer the choice to have hair but ircc correctly it was never particularly well behaved and refused to do what I told it to do anyways.

What does piss me off is the way that it appears to have redistributed itself over my shoulders and back. Nasty...

To echo all the above - get some clippers and embrace never going to the hairdresser again.

This time of year is not the best time to take the plunge though, as severe hair removal may leave you with interesting tanlines when you reveal scalp that's not normally exposed to the sun!

I wish I still had a good head of hair (well at least full head of hair) but I don't and I can live with that.

In reality nobody really cares except those who are losing or have lost the hair.

Slaphead PSA.

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Remember your sunscrean folks 😉

Oddly enough, there was a link to this article on cyclingnews.com earlier
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I'd like to go with clippers but when i doI look like I've just escaped from Belsen due to thin face and very pale complexion.

IMO it looks better on skinny blokes.

If one is starting to thin, and on balance you'd prefer it didn't, then minoxidil is well worth using.

Worked wonders for me. Put my date with the clippers off by 10 years I reckon.

I am 36 and I still have to get my hair thinned every time I get it cut as its so thick and luxurious.

You can all boast about saving money on haircuts but you all wish you had my hair really.

And I don't need glasses either. 😉

I always remind myself how many Hollywood leading men are bald and the answer is pretty much none except a few action hero types that generally make films more marketed at men anyway.

Kelly Brook shags baldies- that's good enough for me 🙂

I started last year but have been very slack on the upkeep.

Most of all I miss my bushy side burns 🙁

I've had a 1 or shorter all over since about 21, always had crap hair!

I think Jason Statham is a good example of a proper Hollywood baldie. No messing, no covering up, just embracing the slap. I like to think he stole his look from me 😉

Me

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Him
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[s]Most[/s] All baldy bonces (myself included) would love to think that we look like Jason Statham. The reality however, is this...

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That's you, that is 😀

Ha 😀

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