Is shaving/buzzing your hair really the best solution to a receding hairline?

Apparently it bothered this guy with billions of dollars enough to do something radical about it. Amazing that he's so insecure about his hair, but that's how it goes.

Sean Connery wore a piece for his entire acting career and nobody said a thing.

rug munch wrote:

I agree that none of those surgical implant procedures look good or natural, even today. But am questioning the reception of the toupee in general. Cheap or expensive, good-looking or horrifying, it doesn't matter because as soon as someone finds out a man is wearing a wig, he is instantly an object of ridicule. Why is this, when a woman with tits down to her knees can sluice those puppies into a push-up bra and nobody would ever say anything about it? Both cases are mere victims of nature, both cases are using artificial means to cloak it, yet only the wig-wearing man is an almost universal object of derision.

I don't know about push-up bras (I've never known a woman who used one) but we accept all sorts of things that women go to great trouble to do to alter their appearance - makeup; dyed, permed, teased, and extended hair; colored or extended fingernails; high heels. Men are supposed to be above that kind of thing. Any obvious sign of vanity, like a toupee, is considered unseemly and cause for ridicule.

Elon Musk wrote:

http://www.quora.com/How-has-Elon-Musk-beaten-his-baldness

Apparently it bothered this guy with billions of dollars enough to do something radical about it. Amazing that he's so insecure about his hair, but that's how it goes.

Man, if you're a billionaire, why not? Elon Musk obviously looks better with hair than without it. And spending 50k for a billionaire is like spending 8 bucks (seriously, do the math on that one). Would you spend 8 dollars to go from his before to after?

For a receded and thinning hairline, the best option, if you have naturally wavy hair, is to grow it out long, like Roger Federer does. Ever seen his hair when it's wet?

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02909/roger-federer_2909825b.jpg

Grow your hair out long, swipe it to the side a bit, and no one will think you're balding. They might think you have a bad sense of style, but that's the thing about balding ..... You have to make a choice between style and coverage.

Gary Oldman wrote:

Sean Connery wore a piece for his entire acting career and nobody said a thing.

Michael Caine told a story of how he watched Connery doing a scene in James Bond and once the director called it a wrap for the day he just chucked the wig to one side.

hovels r us wrote:

It's better than a comb over or perpetually wearing a baseball cap. Sometimes its more a matter of what looks less stupid versus what actually looks good.

One thing that none of you has considered is skin tone. If you have olive, or dark, or tan easy then the bald route looks a lot better than someone with pasty, white skin AKA English soccer hooligan look.