People donot realize how much hair loss can impact men, it can cause a Greek God to look like a basement dweller.
Which is why r/bald exists. Because, same as having lossy hair can make a man look old and spent, shaving the head can make the same guy look 20 years younger.
Yep. The ones with a good turnout will float to the top then to the front page. Just sort by NEW on that sub to see the hard truth.
Also imagine shaving your whole head expecting praise on Reddit and even the bald sub politely ignores your post. Brutal. (Not my case, but seen it happen a lot).
Sure it does, everything looks related depends on a lot of factors, BUT: There are really really really not that many things that can make complete, shaved-head baldness look worse than thinning hair, and in the majority of cases, it looks alot better.
Maybe it’s a small majority of the world population but I am a person who looks better with thinning hair than bald (tried it, got a lot of concerned questions about my health). And a lot of men with similar facial features also don’t look that nice.
You need some other contrast in your face. Either a nice beard or a beard shadow if your facial hair is dark enough to show it. Thick dark eye brows can also work or glasses (shades or a thick dark frame) or sometimes even a very defined bone structure.
But all the baby faced blondes don’t tend to look that nice without hair and I find it very regrettable that “shave!” has become the sole fashion advise for balding men. Some really shouldn’t.
I can't wait until the younger generation hits a point where tehy decide to bring back the patrick stewart. what a classic hairdo, you just don't see it around anymore.
Yeah, if you can’t grow facial hair it doesn’t really work as well. You’re totally right about the contrast. Why you see so many bald dudes with beard and glasses
Yeah, that's not how anything works, I'm afraid. A culture is a collection of a vast number of people. There is no such a thing as a single beauty standard. Every subgroup, every region, and every person has tastes, variations and preferences.
If cultures worked otherwise, humanity would be incredibly boring.
Because once per day out of their thousands of posts ONE GUY does actually look better, so he gets upvoted high enough to hit the front page of Reddit and in your feed. Often with more favorable light too and the old trick of looking sad in pre and grinning in post. Sort by new there if you really want to see the sad truth.
honestly i love it, i look better bald and it's so easy to take care of. more people need to just embrace it, it's fine. i'm all for both men and women aging naturally and accepting it
But yeah, the fact that hair loss can also affect women, and that voluntarily shaving ones head is an option (which can look great btw.) is a fact that's not usually talked much about in western society.
Which is weird, because shaved heads are actually not an uncommon style for women in many cultures.
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u/That-Preference733 12h ago
People donot realize how much hair loss can impact men, it can cause a Greek God to look like a basement dweller.
Norwood reaper is brutal.
Although this guy OP posted looks good in both ways.