[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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