Dealing with hair loss in college isn’t easy. Some men start the painful process before college, while still in their awkward high school years. Anyway, this is a cool video that shows a young man going bald in real time, one day at a time. He’s a great piano player and the song you hear in the background is his original work. Check it out below.
Robert Price is a writer, consumer advocate, and hair loss researcher with thousands of hours of experience in the field. His goal is to keep you out of the hair loss rabbit hole, underworld, or whatever you want to call it. He founded Hair Loss Daily, the unbiased hair loss blog, in 2016. You can learn more about Robert in the my story section of this website.
What a lucky guy, bald by college graduation! I wish I had gone bald in my 20s. But I can’t complain. While I had to wait until my early 50s, it took me less than two years to go bald. I couldn’t go bald soon enough or fast enough. All my life I had a powerful urge to go male pattern bald, so when it finally happened I was thrilled. I wish I had documented it with daily pictures, or even weekly of monthly photos. It looks like that guy really enjoyed going bald. So did I. I never had so much fun in my life. Twenty years later, it’s still fun. I absolutely LOVE being bald.
I tend to agree with you, in a way, it does look like he enjoyed going bald!
I had to look at this video again. It reminds me of how much I enjoyed going bald twenty plus years ago. Four years is fast, but I went bald in less than two years. Not only that, after two years I had much less hair on top than the guy in that video. Oh, how I loved finding gobs of hair on my pillow and in the shower drain every morning. And oh, how I loved getting teased and all the good natured jokes about my receding hairline and growing bald spot in back. And best of all, I got to go bald twice. Yes, twice. As I mentioned in another entry, I took saw palmetto and other supplements to relieve prostate discomfort which had the effect of partially regrowing my hair. I hated regrowing my hair and wished it would all fall out again. Fortunately, after several years the hair regrowth effect began to wear off and I started to lose the new hair. Seeing that, I stopped taking the supplements for many months, hoping I would go bald again. It worked, and I had the immense pleasure of going bald again, but this time in less than six months. What a relief and what a thrill!
What can I say? Going bald fast was a blast!
Haha, going bald fast was a blast…another great quote! This is a cool video, you’re right. May need to check it out again myself!
That video is over one year old now. I wonder if that guy has continued to go bald and is now Norwood 6 like me. I would love to see a followup video. Looking back, I wish I had documented my going bald transition, both times I went bald. Now, if I notice someone is taking a photo of me I make sure I’m not wearing a hat and my head is not covered. Male pattern baldness is definitely NOT something to be ashamed of. It is not necessarily a thing to be proud of either, as I had nothing to do about it. It just happened without my having to do anything to make it happen. I was just lucky to have inherited that wonderful trait and lived long enough for it to happen to me. And it happened while I was still young enough to enjoy many decades of male pattern baldness. It was ‘luck of the draw’ or ‘roll of the dice’ or ‘I drew the bald card’. I come from a large family and I am the only male sibling and the only male cousin to go bald. So far. They all feel sorry for me and they sometimes tease me at family gatherings. I love the good natured teasing, but pretend to be a little annoyed. If they knew how I really feel, they would think I’m nuts. Heck, I’m the lucky one! They don’t know what they are missing.
My advice to a young guy who realizes he is going bald is: Relax and just let it happen. Learn to love it and then wish and pray it happens to you very fast. My bald great grandfather would have said: ‘Go bald, young man. Go bald.’ 🙂
Robert, I understand that you are still young and you are not bald or balding. But you have bald male relatives, so there is a possibility that you will eventually go bald. After all, I still had an almost full head of hair at age 50 and was almost sure that it would never happen to me, but four years later I was bald.
Question, if I might ask: What do you plan to do if your hair starts receding and you begin to go bald? Will you fight it and try to keep your hair, or will you embrace male pattern baldness and relax and just let it happen? Do you have strong feelings one way or another? Should you be so lucky as to go bald, could you learn to love it? You’ve probably already expressed your personal feelings about this in other postings here, but I don’t recall. How do you feel about it now?
Excellent question, Eric! I should probably do a full post on the subject at some point, come to think of it. It would depend on the degree of the MPB. Honestly, with a “mature” hairline, and given my age (34 in two short months), it’s still quite possible I’m experiencing some super-slow and minor type of balding. If I follow my dad’s course, which is most likely at this point, I won’t have any significant hair loss until sometime in my 50s. He was pushing 60 before it really became apparent, though I’m sure the process began much sooner. Still has most of his hair, just thinned out and receded a bit.
If I follow that course, I’ll either just let it go or get a hair transplant. No drugs. That’s my best-case scenario.
And No, I don’t think I could learn to love baldness, sorry! I’ll just always associate that with being “old,” no offense! Times are changing though, and the buzzed look is en vogue right now, so who knows. The shaved head isn’t your cup of tea, I realize! Maybe I’ll convert eventually, we shall see. If I developed aggressive balding, I’d probably opt to fight it, though I would be hesitant to use Propecia.
Thank you for your honest response. So you might learn to tolerate it, but never love it. I understand, given the strong association of baldness and old age. And I don’t blame you. After all, who wants to grow old and decrepit? I learned early on to dissociate male pattern baldness with old age. If I am decrepit, it’s because I am old, not because I am bald. But that’s just me. Almost everyone else feels like you do.
I would choose Norwood 6 or 7 any day over a full head of hair, but I would not like partial baldness: stuck in between at Norwood 3, 4 or 5. That would have been frustrating for me and I didn’t/don’t like the look or feel of partial baldness.This is one reason I hated partially regrowing my hair when I began using saw palmetto. When I began to go bald, I worried that it might take decades to go bald, so going bald in less than two years was a joy. And going bald the second time, in six months was a thrill and a huge relief. I tolerated in between/partial baldness because I could see rapid hair loss and hairline receding almost on a daily basis. Another thing I worried about was that I might lose all my hair and I would look like a cancer/chemo patient. I love my remaining ‘horseshoe’ fringe of hair and I didn’t want to lose it. I wanted it to be obvious to any observer even at a distance, that I was male pattern bald.
Bottom line: my wishes and prayers for going male pattern bald all came true. Although it didn’t happen soon enough (in my 20s), it happened fast, and I am immensely happy with the end result. So all my worries were for nothing. That said, I wouldn’t mind losing a bit more of my ‘horseshoe’ fringe, as it would make me Norwood 7 bald, but I can live with the way it is now. My hairline is almost perfect and my lovely wife loves it as much as I do.