Male Hair Loss

my husband has lost a lot in the traditional bald-spot area in the back. he's really bummed about it. so bummed that he bordered on comb-overing for a year or two, until i had to sit him down.........
he had beautiful flowing hippy hair when i met him. i think that's the thing, he misses the rock star look even though it wouldn't fit with his job now.
so he keeps it very short and it looks dynamite. if it all goes, he'll look better yet. i don't have one single problem with bald, but i'm with you, no 'coping' techniques, please!
khairete
S.

I think Troy just likes to look good for me. :)

He is kind of a lemons make lemonade kind of guy. Thankfully he knows comb over and the like don't make for tasty lemonade.

pete had long wavy satl and pepper thick curly hair. I was jealous.

But, I have to say...he ROCKED the bald during the chemos. When it got wispy...and was considering a 'comb over' maneuver, He agreed to let me shave it (and my 2 sons, at home the first go with chemo shaved their heads as well). He had a nicely shaped head...as do my sons! Who knew?

I was glad that he was comfortable with himself.

Nope, he doesn't have any. Actually, that's not entirely true - he has hair all over his body, which he tried to knock down with laser treatments that didn't work, a goatee and a moustache that he keeps nicely shaped and trimmed, and a horseshoe of hair on his head that he's kept that shaved for as long as I've known him so for all intents and purposes, he's bald. Fine by me! I think that once hair starts to recede, shaving it looks better than trying to pretend it's still there.

My husband was bald when I met him :). He was 36 and had lost his hair in his 20;s. I think it's sexy!

I always thought I would love a head full of hair, and I'm not saying I wouldn't if my man had it, but I'm good with a bald man too!

J., this reminds me of an embarrassing moment when I used to work at Texas Instruments, with all male engineers, back in McKinney, TX and many of the local men were quite 'cowboy-ish.' So this one industrial engineer used to visit my office quite frequently, for work purpose, but we became friendly, and I was very pregnant at the time, and this other engineer used to rub my belly for good luck. I was the only token female manager for miles. But this one guy, really put too much effort into his looks and clothes, yet he had an adorable personality. I think I took on a motherly role in his life and he seemed to enjoy my compliments, so one day, in my salesman approach of trying to build him up after a disastrous date, I told him it was such a pleasure working with him, and how much I truly enjoyed his sense of humor and how it was refreshing to meet a young man who was not so hyper focused on his looks and was comfortable with himself, including the fact that he was prematurely balding. Well, for some odd reason, he stopped coming by as often, and when I saw him a couple of weeks later, he had those hair transplants corn rowed across his scalp. Disgusting, to say the least.

I was only 27 years old, and did not get what a deep struggle this can be for some men.

Now, husband, has very thin hair on top, and applies way too much product, making it look like plastic atop his head and I tell him frequently that less product makes his hair look fresh and clean, but he's had the same ol' haircut and style and styling methods forever. But there's not one vain cell in his head. My efforts are lost on him.

Nope! My husband shaves his head and has for longer then we have been together. Which is fine by me I loved shaved heads on guys!

Nope! Well, not really. He started to lose it early (like 21) and I know that he looks at John Bon Jovi and curses "why me?" But he shaves it down very short and it looks good.

Now the hair on his back - that is a whole other story!!! It stopped growing on his head and migrated down south!

Wait, husbands are supposed to have hair? Like on their heads? Yeah, check out my 8 year old profile picture.

;)

(I could not possibly care less. Am too distracted by other parts.)

**WaitI didn't answer your question! I think he DOES think about his lack of hair a little. But then when he meets up with his brother, whose little hair he has left is GRAY, he feels better.

Not at all. His dad is bald, so we will not be surprised if he goes bald too (he hasn't yet). If he does, he'll just buzz it all off and be Mr. Clean.

Those men who are obsessed about not being bald don't realize how sexy a bald man can be! Embrace it, I say!

Oh, heck no! My husband started losing his hair in his early twenties (before I knew him.) He just shaved it all off. He actually looks great with a shaved head, and has the perfect head and face for it.I met him in his mid twenties and I've only ever known him with a shaved head. I see pictures of him before, and I"m like "thank you!" I'm so glad he didn't try to worry about it.

I'm with you. I think it looks worse for a man to try and conceal it. It just looks foolish, we all know. I'm not attracted to that kind of insecurity. Most women I know, don't care about baldness. They sure as heck care about embarrassing hiding techniques, though!

Nope. My husband has fuller, thicker hair than I ever will. (Do you sense hair envy??) I will probably go bald first.

I can't say that I've noticed many comb-overs etc. lately because bald seems to be the in thing with this 'younger' generation. It seems like once hair loss is eminent the men shave their heads and it actually looks good.

Although now that you mention it, I wonder what it is like for a man to decide one day to go bald... while I think they look good today (bald) I wonder how drastic of a change it was for them and those around them.

While we're on the subject there are times that I wonder what our bald friends looked like 'back in the day' with hair... fun question. Hmm....????

My husband has great hair, and he and I both love it so he/we would be sad to see it go, but he will never be one to do any of those things you mention. He's 50 now, and still has a thick head of hair, but when it does thin or recede, he'll just keep it shorter.

My husband - not so much. My son - he is stressed! Both of his grandpa's are pretty much bald. He has a gorgeous head of curly hair and at 16 faithfully prays to the hair gods not to curse him. It's also a family joke that Grandpa D's comb-over, when blown to one side of his head, is just his inner hippie trying to escape! I love bald heads, which I'm sure is part of why my husband could care less.

J.:

Nope. My husband gets a flat top because that's what I like on him. otherwise? he'd use a #2 all the way around! EEEWW!!!

My boss was losing his hair so he shaved it all off...he looks BETTER!!

My dad? Oh my word!! He's had the "U" or horseshoe baldness all his life...to cover up SOME of it - he has done the "comb over" and it's not like he has a huge comb over....a few strands...even when I was little - I would laugh at it. Told him STOP!!! But he's been doing it his whole life...how funny!

I don't know if 'concerned' is the correct word. He's always worn it long and it's starting to thin on top. We'll see what he does with it. I imagine that acceptance is likely more attractive to him than getting hair plugs or some wacky comb-over.

I imagine he'll just have that 'long hair with a balding spot' look for a while, I guess. No worse than my wearing pigtails day in, day out, I suppose.:)

No.. my husband seems to have accepted that his hair has thinned. he keeps it cut super short and that does make it look better..
However, his uncle.. held on to the comb-over for years, and only recently FINALLY had it cut short.. it looks so much better..

Some women do the same who have had the same style or long hair for years and years.. yet, it's not nearly as thick and healthy as it may have once been... yet.. they keep it long...

Seems like both some men and women may have an attachment to their hair :)

Nah.... his hair started thinning a long time ago. He used to wear it cut really short and spiked up on top just a little with some light weight gel. But then, it became where you saw his scalp when he did that, so he went to a style that just laid down. (still cut short, though---no comb overs!).

Now, there is no pretending that he won't one day be bald. He still has hair there.... just very thin. He still gets it cut regularly and keeps it short. He hates it getting too long. His doesn't stay long enough to do "comb over" even if he wanted to. LOL

He does, however, buy special protein enhanced shampoo from the health food store... to hopefully encourage more hair growth. I have no idea if it does anything.... but I don't really care either way. I liked his hair when we were dating, but that isn't why I married him, ya know? And the shampoo isn't that expensive, and he earns a decent living so I just buy what he wants. No big deal.
:)

Nope.. except that now that he gets a buzz cut, the moment it grows a certain length, it drives him insane.

His father lost most of his hair in his 20's.. So my husband assumed he would too, but he hasn't..

We have a friend same age as us.. Has a bald spot on the back top of his head.. but none of us are supposed to mention it to him.. he is a bit of a dandy.. his wife says she is not sure if he understands how bald it is, they are not supposed to mention it.

LOL, J.! I'M the one who cares about his hair! He said one time that maybe he should just shave it. I told him if he did, I wouldn't look at him until it grows out. I reminded him that he looks at my colored hair instead of gray hair, so I want to look at his comb-over!!!

Nope, he still has super thick dark hair and is almost 60.

My husband started losing his hair when he was 16. It never seems to bother him. He has mentioned a couple times where he thought about trying Rogaine to see how it works but never has. He used to wear bandanas and hats a lot and recently has cut down on how much he wears them. Amazingly, some of it has started to grow back.

I met him when he was 19 and I was 18. He was bald then so I always tell him I wouldnt know what to do if he had a full head of hair. That might help as to why he doesnt care. :) Oh and he just turned 32 and has gray hair....I'm more worried about it then him. LOL

Luckily for us both, my husband has great thick hair and no thinning.

~He has however started to get a wee bit grey on the top and sides and he isn't entirely feeling it...I, on the other hand, LOVE it! He looks SO handsome! Very distinguished...and it doesn't hurt any that I have always been into 'older' men, Ha! He is only 42 and is in a job field full of young guys, so I know he is starting to think about dying it but I hope he doesn't, even with the grey (actually it looks white to me) he still looks like he is in his early 30's!

My BIL is a bit younger than my husband and is really thinning on top, he just shaves his head! Problem solved!