How many of you are going bald?
 

I've been reading online about how more and more young people in their 20's are going through early balding. For some reason its a lot more common now for men to start losing their hair around the age of 21-28 than it used to be.

Since a lot of people on this forum are in their 20's, who here is going bald or having a receding hairline?

I'm greying...but not balding. Heck, my maternal grandpa still has a good head of hair. I'm safe...I'll just be prematurely grey, like my father.

I've had a receding hairline for years. I keep my hair short anyway, but my wife says she can already tell I am.

I started getting a few gray hairs right before I turned 30. I have my father's hair, and he still has a full head of luxuriously thick hair at age 66, so I don't expect my hair will thin either.

I still have a very thick head of brown hair and I'm not going gray. Tee-hee!

I'm 32 with a full head of dark brown hair. Was still passing as a high school kid up through my late 20's LOL. If genetics hold true, I've got about 15 years before I'll start to develop a very small bald spot on the left backside of my head that will very slowly grow, but won't have to worry about graying for another 30! :tsmile:

No hair loss here (I've got very thick hair), but it's turning pure white on the temples. Grandmother on my dad's side had snow white hair, so I think I'm taking after her. :) I'll probably be pure white in the next 5-10 years...

me! oh pick me! it's complete crap but i guess it is what it is

I am but Im not sure wire, (Had head trauma, left scaring)
My brother is acutual bald and he is 26. So I think (mostly) Genes and stress/ head trauma have caused my thinning hair...But its growing back :D
so I have been told...:P

I was recently told that the lighter your hair as a little kid, the earlier you go gray. Not sure if it's true, but if so, I'm going to be all gray by 40!

I'm 29 and I have about the same amount of grey as my 51 year old mother.

My dad (who's 53) has been grey for as long as I remember.

Being in my late 20s I've obtained some gray hairs with some thinning of my hair from up top. No receding hairlines but definite thinning on top.

I'm 32. I'm not losing hair and none of it turned gray yet.

No balding/gray here either. I don't think anyone in my family is bald now that I think of it. My mom's side of the family seems to turn gray fairly early in life though, 30s - 40s, so I may be on the lookout for that.

I've got grey hairs already, and I'm 30. Mom's been gray for as long as I can remember, and she told me that she started going gray around my age, so I know where I get it from.

My hair is black and I've got gray hairs even at the age of 34. It started when I was 26. That's why I wouldn't mind if I went bald. In fact, I always get my head shaved bald when I go to the barber. I don't have them shave my head completely, but just low enough.

I'm seriously considering one of those products that cover the gray in your hair.

I live by the old adage: "I don't care what color it turns, as long as it don't turn loose."

I don't see the problem with gray hair either, when it happens to me I doubt I'll mind. Most people nowadays look good with gray hair.

We're not in 1940 anymore.

I am reminded of a birthday card showing a gray kitten on the cover, and on the inside it says, "See? The more gray hairs you have, the cuter you look."

Ironically enough, cats are often gray as kittens and the gray in their fur darkens as they reach adulthood.

...unless your a female. Then you do anything to get rid of the gray.


I don't mind bald guys as long as they embrace it and go ahead and shave it off. Nothing worse than a combover....or hair on the sides with nothing on top. Add a goatee to that bald head and you win.

Heck no. I love the elegant look of an older woman with long silver hair. That's what I'll be doing.

Hahaha

That's what I used to say until I saw that first gray hair pop up (at 23). Then I didn't think it was so great or dignified anymore. Just meant I was getting old.

So how do you think Steve Martin reacted when he became prematurely gray?

I can't believe people still freak out over gray hair. Seriously, who the hell cares if you have a few strands of gray? Nobody will even notice it unless they're extremely close to you anyway.

And nobody should be that close to your hair other than your lover anyway.

It's not necessarily that you care what someone else thinks. Its a sign of your inevitable mortality......which I personally don't like to think about. That and I don't want to look like I'm in my forties when I'm in my twenties.

I'm so far the only one in my family not balding. I'm not sure how I've achieved this. I've gone a little thin, but that's it.

I have exactly zero bald people in my family on both sides, right down to both my 80 year old grandfathers, but (I think) my hair is thinning. I've always had really thin and dry hair, but I've noticed it more in the last few years. I typically shave my head, so it's not noticeable most of the time, but sometimes I feel like I can see a bald me underneath my hair.

I've read and been told that shampooing your hair daily can absolutely destroy it, which is something I do. I've worked as a contractor for nearly 4 years now and because of that my hair is filled with sh*t on a daily basis, so I feel disgusting if I don't rinse it out and shampoo it. It's weird, because I can pretty much date when I first had the feeling my hair was thinning within the 2nd year of my working my current job. I haven't actually looked into it, partially because I honestly don't care, but I've always thought balding was in the genes and unless it skipped multiple generations in my family, I guess I've either killed it or I'm very unlucky.

I'm 31 and beginning to grey on the sides (yuk)...my brother is 29 and bald.

Hair is thinning, but I wear a hat almost 90% of the time so whatever.

Neither. but then again I'm only 24. I doubt I'll bald but if I gray, then I'll gray with style and style my hair like Ra's Al Ghul.

I'm in my "early" 30s, and I started receding when I was 17 - but it stopped after about a year, and looked alright. Then it really started going when I was 30, and by the time I was 32 it was really noticable - it's just receded and gone very thin on top. Funnily enough though, I shaved my head about a year ago and it grew back much thicker than before. I seems to have levelled off for a bit...

I'm more concerned with the grey - I've got none on top, but my eyebrows & facial hair have a good amount of grey mixed in. To be honest, I'd much rather be grey than bald...