I like Mason’s (“67 guy”) ice cream hairstyle/haircut. I thought that was called Wings but ice cream hair was new to me

Maybe a little more understated/less flare-outey but thr general form I am envious of

Very fun and elegant in its own way. Super quirky

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    But if you could magicall_ have anything,

    in your heart of hearts, did you always want a #2 as a kid When you still had the good stuff

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      What I wanted was a kid and what I want now are very different, and that’s really my point. As a teen, I wore my hair somewhat long and that’s what I wanted. I wouldn’t have given it up, and going bald was really painful. But after the decades of being a bald guy, I honestly prefer it over that. It’s so much easier to deal with, and I even think the look suits me.

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        Nice, I’m glad it all balanced out in the end. I like when people are able to find and exploit the value in obstacles rather then be tyrannized by the things they cant control

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          I’ve told a lot of people that going bald is a horrendous torture, but being bald is completely fine. If it happened all at one and you woke up bald, it would be a terrible day but then you’d adjust and be fine. Instead it happens little by little. You keep having to adjust to a new reality every week/month/year. The you that you see in the mirror doesn’t match your self image, and that’s really disconcerting. Once it levels off, and your self image matches, it’s fine.

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            Did you fight it by taking like dutasteride and minoxidil or did you passively let it take its course

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              My dad was bald, so I knew there was a good chance it would happen to me. When I realized that as a teen, I found myself looking at bald guys and what looked good or bad. Comb-overs look bad. Bald on top with long hair looks bad. My dad wore a toupee (a good one), and it actually looked fine, but he was tied to it; he never wanted anyone to see him without it, and he had to wear the hair hat even when it was hot. The rogain type stuff was new when I was going bald, but I didn’t trust a brand new drug, and I read that you had to take it forever or you’d lose whatever gains it provided.

              In the end I decided that the only things that looked good were cutting it short or shaving it off. I tried shaving it once and didn’t think it suited me, so I’ve just kept it short. Admittedly I had a period early on where I should have cut it shorter but was still holding on to a an old look even though it wasn’t working.