03 Baldness Cures and Consequences
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This article is from the Self Improvement FAQ, by Loren Larsen llarsen@cs.clemson.edu with numerous contributions by others.
03 Baldness Cures and Consequences
A summary of ways for handling balding has been contributed by a
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Baldness Cures and Consequences
1. Does baldness need to be cured?
The answer is up to you, if you're losing your hair. It depends on
your self-concept, on how happy you are with the way you look now, and
how happy you'll be with the way you will look once your pattern
expands to its ultimate stage. You might get some hints on this by
looking at pictures of your maternal grandfather in his later years;
in any case, debates concerning the actual hereditary links of
male-pattern baldness, while of scholarly interest, are mostly
unhelpful to individuals and thus beyond the scope of this FAQ.
2. Bald can be Beautiful
Star Trek's Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) provides an excellent
example of a person who, by a happy combination of personality and
physiognomy, has managed to be handsome and quite sexy while still
being bald. St. Anthony, while not sexy, was good looking too,
despite his bald crown. Your case may be a different story. It all
depends on how you want to look.
You might attempt to accept the fact that baldness has always been a
natural part of growing old. Are you unhappy about your baldness or
are you just not accepting the fact that you're no longer 15? You may
not agree with this, but there is probably a natural beauty and grace
to your unaltered baldness pattern. Could you possibly learn to love
that natural grace and let your inner beauty shine through along with
it? Many people can and do. They save a lot of money that way.
3. Combing to cover
The solution, adopted by some, of combing hair over bald spots is
probably counterproductive. In other words, the larger your spot, the
better you might look if you just accepted its presence and had your
hair styled so that the spot was not being hidden. This is, of
course, a matter of opinion, but a person with a full-cap bald pattern
who tries to cover it by letting hair on the sides of the head grow
unusually long and flipping it up generally looks like a person who is
doing just that. Most independent observers find it odd; people who
had once "combed to cover" generally find that they are perceived
as much more attractive by others once they let their spots be what
they are. (When used in combination with spray-on hair, however,
combing to cover can produce a natural effect for some--not all--
people. See discussion below.)
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