Going bald before you're 40

I've been going grey since 15 and now at 24 it's pretty grey but now my hairline is starting to recede a bit. Don't really bother me to be honest, can't really do much about it so I just leave it.
 
Started loosing mine at 21 and was very upset at the time (was a rocker with big hair) - 33 now and have loads on the back and sides, but nothing else.

I get a grade 4 haircut twice a year max - and that's only if I need to look particularly smart for something, or if it's too bloody hot.

Embrace it and look like a mad scientist - works for me. Just don't try and hide it - everyone always knows.

I have a particularly shocking beard going on - I think that helps for some reason.
 
Began to lose my hair at 24, came to terms with the fact I look like friar tuck at the age of 25, and now get a zero all over each week. Dont kid yourself and just shave it off. Embrace the bald.

If you can grow a decent looking beard, do it, it helps compensate for my lack of hair.
 
32 and thinning hard on the crown. It's taken me about a year to mainly come to terms with it but not entirely. I aim to try and keep it short as its way more noticeable when my hairs longer. Cant just shave it... the fat man bald look isnt good
 
Angilion said:
Here's an unrelated oddity - my remaining head hair is the same colour it's always been but my body hair is going grey.
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Think I may be slightly more odd. My arms and legs look bald because the hair on them is so fair. My head and beard are dark blonde turning to light blonde as it get longer. Plenty of silver in both though. My back, chest and stomach however are covered in black hair.
I look like I'm made up of parts of random people!
 
Mine receeded at the front bit when I was younger but thankfully has stalled there and started thinning on top. My main issue however is that I have a Gorbachev style birthmark at the top of my forehead which I hate and would feel really self-conscious about if my hair creeps any further back...
 
I'm in my mid 40s and still have a full head of brown hair. It grows thick and fast. I usually shave it back to a #3 every two months or so.

:)
 
32 - full thick head of hair, I sometimes shave it all off anyway so if I did start going bald it's no drama for me.

If you do start going bald just shave it. You will look much better than the people hanging onto what hair they can grow.
 
I probably started losing mine around 23-24. Clung to it for around 4years when it was still at a reasonable level and then about 2 years ago i made the call to shave it off. I do have a beard though so am now just an upside down face.
 
I feel like a fraud after reading some of the posts by guys who started losing their barnet in their twenties etc.
I must have been pushing fifty when the barber first held the mirror up to show me what my hair looked like at the back after he'd finished cutting it, and I saw a spot of scalp about the size of a 20p piece.
For years after that, I kept my hair shortish, rather in the style of how Kevin Bacon's looks today, as he approaches sixty, but at around sixty myself, the 20p piece bit of visible skin was by then the size of a silver dollar,
so I asked my barber to crack away, but try to keep me looking reasonable for an old fogey, he settled on a 1.5 at the sides, and a number 2 on top, it took me about a week to get used to it, and I worried about
feeling cold in the winter, but once I got used to being able to get out of the shower, and virtually just smooth it down with my hands, no poncing about brushing it, I was happy with it, and the fact that what I have is all grey now.
 
I started losing mine in college when I was 18 yet everyone else in my family had a full head of hair until at least their 60s. No clue who I inherited this from. Now 36 and have been shaving it off with a 0.5 guard for at least a decade. The look doesn't bother me in the slightest but I always get caught out by the first post winter/spring sun burn of the year around May time. :o
 
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