I'm 57 and my hair is white. Started with a splotch on the front halfway between hairline and top of my head around age 27. It was salt and pepper mostly on top when I went into the military at age 30. 8 years later when I got out and grew it, it was white, beard as well.

Makes me look older than I am but doesn't bother me. Fortunately it's a nice shade of white.

My hair is thinning. But I own hats.
Problem solved.

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At the end of the haircut, he's bouncing up and down like a young retriever, saying "good job, good job, yes?"

Missed a golden opportunity there.

"I don't want Fop, Gahddammit! I'm a Dapper Dan man!"

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Originally posted by mark60:
My gray has been in a race with the thinning for years, so far it's about a draw.

this, and a gray beard as well,


does not bohter me at all, it actually runs in my family,
most of the men on my dad's side were salt and pepper by 50, gray by 60 and white haired (beyond gray) by 70

My gray started in the beard and expanded into the sides of my head. I'll probably end up cotton top like my Dad, and like Dad I'm not doing anything about it.

I had a particularly vain coworker whose hair was going gray, and he fell victim to a dye job called color camo. I'm not sure whether his wife did it or a low skill stylist, but they added about 4 colors to his hair to "camo" the gray. Having your natural color, gray, and 4 additional colors isn't a flatterng look and I felt bad for they guy walking around with splotchy hair.

Had a full dark brown goatee from age 18 to about 40 something. Then I shaved it when it started coming in gray. Now my head hair is going salt and pepper. They said some gals think it’s a good look, I’m waiting for those women to hit on me.

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Originally posted by egregore:
Not to mention spending thousands of dollars on implants.

Try $25-30 thousand. At least that's what a shipmate of mine recently spent on Follicular Unit Extraction (hair transplant surgery), and that was just for the front of his scalp. The back is another $25k if he decides to do that too. This particular doc is apparently one of the best though, so that price is on the high end. It's still too early to see how well the results are. So yeah, some guys really do care about it...to an extreme.

Gray runs in my family. I'm pretty much all gray, on my head and beard. Started graying on my head in my late twenties and my beard in my late thirties. I admit I do dye my beard. I grow a good beard, and at 43, it does make a difference in my appearance. I keep my hair salt and pepper though.

I’m about 70% gray. Hair line receded in my 30s about an inch on either side of my widow’s peak. Once I paused in front of the Just For Men. I came to my senses before I reached for the box. Spent that money on Doritos instead.

Compared to my two brother's thick bushy hair, I always had thin, fine hair.
As it got thinner, friends would comment to rib me. One friend even dared me to shave it off, like he did w/ his.

Shaving it was the best thing I ever did because I looked good. I think I jumped a good 2 points on the 1-10 scale.
My graying goatee, I don't care.

I remember having a boss who was coloring his hair and I flat out asked him what he was doing because it looked worse. Obviously he was doing something his wife wanted or to impress her.
Much to my surprise, weeks later he was back to his natural color.

Now that I think of it, I also told him he needed to spend less time at work and go join a golf league or something. He joined a golf league. I'm just now realizing my powers.

I don't like these age spots forming on my temples. If those were gone I'd be happy with my non-hair.

I started getting gray hair in high school and by the time I joined the Navy I looked older than my peers of the same age. Didn't start to go bald in back until my early 40's and by my late 40's even the high-n-tight flat top no longer hid the fact. So on a whim I tried shaving my head. After the shock wore off for my friends I got a lot of compliments, so I've been shaving it for a long while now. Sure saves on the cost of haircuts, but I absolutely need to keep a hat on outside. (A tip of the hat to Bald1's CUT).

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:

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Are there really men who are so emotionally affected by their hair loss, that they spray paint their heads?

^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Yep. Men are insecure about a lot of things.

Indeed.

Had lunch with my daughter last week and the topic came up. I mentioned that I'd seen my brother (10 years older than I) the previous week and that he wasn't half as grey as I. She said, "Dad, it'd be kind of hard to get greyer than you".

I hate that kid.

The beard is now pretty much all grey. Head hair is probably 70%. The grey I don't so much mind, the falling out I do. Been on finasteride for twenty or so years now. I've no desire whatsoever to be bald. I've even been pricing out hair transplant procedures. Looking at $10K roughly. It'll be money well spent in my mind. Call it vanity, call it whatever you will.

Interesting thread.

Never thought about it much. But I focus on being clean and neat. I can control that and it’s considerate of others.

I don’t care about my looks otherwise. I’m old, fat and ugly and don’t have any control over it. Serenity prayer stuff. Kinda like hating the weather.

Always said I didn't care if it turned gray as long as it didn't turn loose. Now it's turning loose, don't care about that either...

Not here. Couldn’t give a fuck less. If it’s gray it means I’m still alive. Not concerned about such feeble things. Hair transplants, dying your hair, might as well get you some lipstick too buttercup!

I'm almost 74, gray, and thinning. But it still covers most of my head.

My hair sucks. It’s thick, black and curly as hell. I had this old school barber in the mid 90’s when I was in my early teens who told me straight out that there was nothing he could do to make my hair look good and that I should use clippers at the zero level. I had him cut my hair like that and since then that’s been my haircut. While in the Marines I tried a high and tight for a few months but even that looked dumb with my hair, so I went and bought some clippers, threw away the guard, and never looked back.

I wish my hair would just fall out but unfortunately I’m plagued with a bald spot in the back, a badly receding hairline in the front, and terrible thick hair everywhere else. So I just keep my hair super short and usually wear a ball cap. One day I pray it will just fall out completely.

The upside is that I have the ability to grow facial hair really well. When I had a beard I used to get a lot of compliments about it. Now I usually just wear a goatee and it’s got a lot of grey in it, but I think that adds to the look. I like the color.

And, this morning I realized it didn’t all wash out, so now there’s a weird auburn tinge to my hair.

Will go talk to the old barber this morning about how to wash this crap out completely/that the PB needs to ask people before painting them.

From a gal’s perspective (mine):

I don’t give a shit about your hair. I think men with hair AND men without can both be equally attractive.
If you’re kind, clean, and have a good sense of humor that goes a long way. I’m going to be looking into your eyes, not at the top of your head