Anyone else feel like facebook is a humiliating look into your past?

[swingline747]

BTW Swingline, I read some of your posts, you mentioned having an FUE. How did it ultimately turn out for you? I am considering getting one myself.

still too soon to say, not going to lie though I have run into complications. Had bad folliculitis RIGHT after in the recipient area nd now it seems I have some folliculitis in the donor area after the healing was complete. I can only assume its shocked out hairs trying to come back out. Being Italian though I will say Im a pretty oily guy with coarse hair so I get ingrown hairs really easy.

Its been only a month and a half since so its too soon to say how regrowth of the new hairs is yet as nothing has sprouted.

Im a pretty rare breed though with abnormally bad luck so what happens to me should NEVER be considered the norm.... the fact I didnt end up with hepatitis and pink eye from my FUE is amazing!

 

[HairMagician]

Wow, hope it ends up working out for you. I too have coarse, naturally greasy hair. It sucks how there are so many potential cons us balding dudes can run into no matter WHAT we decide to do about balding

 

[uncomfortable man]

Isn't more of a humiliating look into our present? Just sayin.

 

[VeprSuper]

Wow. I got a neg rep for not trusting FB?

 

[overzealousfollicles]

Isn't more of a humiliating look into our present? Just sayin.

I guess that's the point I was trying to make. Comparing the now to 5 - 6 years ago makes me pretty anxious and depressed. Whereas a few years ago I would have no problem going out to concerts, bars, meeting up with friends - now I consciously avoid a lot of these interactions because I'm over concerned about my hair loss. A week or two ago one day I sort of had a "**** it" mentality and tried shaving my head to see what it looked like...no bueno. My ears sort of stick out and I have the face of a 16 year old so it looks super out of place. I'm rocking hats in public til I get more coverage on top.

But at least now I know what it looks like.

 

[hellouser]

I guess that's the point I was trying to make. Comparing the now to 5 - 6 years ago makes me pretty anxious and depressed. Whereas a few years ago I would have no problem going out to concerts, bars, meeting up with friends - now I consciously avoid a lot of these interactions because I'm over concerned about my hair loss. A week or two ago one day I sort of had a "**** it" mentality and tried shaving my head to see what it looked like...no bueno. My ears sort of stick out and I have the face of a 16 year old so it looks super out of place. I'm rocking hats in public til I get more coverage on top.

But at least now I know what it looks like.

Before I die, I really wanna shave my head... just for the hell of it and see how i'd look. I'd like to know how it is to be completely shaved before I die.

 

[swingline747]

Before I die, I really wanna shave my head... just for the hell of it and see how i'd look. I'd like to know how it is to be completely shaved before I die.

then do it. its not a tattoo what you had will grow back, maybe better.
I was shaved for a couple of years. It just wasnt me.

 

[SayifDoit]

Hellouser what norwood are you and you should shave you hair if you really want to, just don't have it so short..

 

[overzealousfollicles]

Before I die, I really wanna shave my head... just for the hell of it and see how i'd look. I'd like to know how it is to be completely shaved before I die.

If nothing else it gave me some satisfaction in knowing "this is what I'll look like" if I need to take that route a few years on. In all honesty it isn't THAT bad and I'm getting used to it. I look a little better with it grown out a week or two already because my hairline is intact, it's just diffused on top. The biggest challenge is actually rocking it in front of friends and family because besides my parents literally NO ONE knows (at least I haven't told them...maybe they see it) that I'm losing my hair yet. I've come to terms with how I look bald in a way, but at this point I look better with some hair and still have enough growth to pull it off.

 

[hellouser]

Hellouser what norwood are you and you should shave you hair if you really want to, just don't have it so short..

I'm at NW3. I wanna bic it completely, right down to the skin. It'll grow back anyway.

 

[VeprSuper]

I shaved down to a 1 guard a couple of times just to see the damage. I didn't like it much but it wasnt awful. Everyone should give it a try at least once to see what they are dealing with. I don't have the guts for a bic'ing:woot:

 

[resu]

When I shaved my head for the first time, I first shaved all of the top off just to see how it would look down the road.

 

[hellouser]

When I shaved my head for the first time, I first shaved all of the top off just to see how it would look down the road.

How'd you look/feel?

 

[resu]

How'd you look/feel?

It was one of the worst sights of my life, specially because the sides were long so it looked really goofy. I know once I reach that point I'll become invisible. It made me realize that being actual bald is so much worse than just thinning, when I see those guys that do an hair transplant and still look like they're balding I understand that they're happy just to have something.

I also ended up letting the hair grow, it's better than just buzzing. I felt like a prisoner. I also stopped looking at mirror so that's a plus because there's no point in checking how the hair looks but having hair is such a nice feeling, when it looks good I feel good about myself, always did.

 

[I.D WALKER]

Although it betrays my unsightly tell tale hair transplant scar, I regularly buzz my hair very close so I don't notice as much the daily amount of hair fall in my hands, on my comb or brush, on bathroom sink, bathtub, etc.,It's sort of a mental survival act for me, it helps a little but a big and dreadful compromise all the same.

 

[swingline747]

When I did shave I noticed (not to sound racist) but much more attention from spanish and black girls (more ghetto ones tho). I have never had issues picking up these girls before but its like white girls and foo foo spanish girls had ZERO desire to even know I existed. Probably because they are used to seeing guys with shaved heads. This wouldnt be bad if they werent all slightly more gross and always had like 3 kids at 24...... nothing hotter than a young chick with baby fat and a big C section scar!..... oh yeah get me hot.

 

[hellouser]

When I did shave I noticed (not to sound racist) but much more attention from spanish and black girls (more ghetto ones tho). I have never had issues picking up these girls before but its like white girls and foo foo spanish girls had ZERO desire to even know I existed. Probably because they are used to seeing guys with shaved heads. This wouldnt be bad if they werent all slightly more gross and always had like 3 kids at 24...... nothing hotter than a young chick with baby fat and a big C section scar!..... oh yeah get me hot.

Are you saying you don't fancy the cholas and chongas?

 

[I.D WALKER]

Hey Gringos, that being said we ought not exclude other affectionate like names from our Spanglish dictionary ie; chulas or chusmas. Can't help but feeling those bratz gals are simply chongalicious.