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Interesting. When I was on OKC I got as many or more responses after I shaved my head than before, and many of those were initially contacting me. Go figure.
Yeah, but your very real experience wouldn't have made an awesome "aha, GOTCHA!"-type article so men who couldn't get dates could continue to blame women for that.
I mean how can you pull the "women are liars who claim not to be shallow, but they ARE, they are SOOOOO like TOTALLY SHALLOW" card with an experience like yours? Not to mention the loss of the "see, women are shallow too, so it's perfectly all right for me, a 50-year-old, pregnancy-bellied hairyback with halitosis to stalk 19-year-old hotties" factor...that is just not playing fair of you.
As others have said he looks better in the second pic, mostly due to better lighting and angle, irrespective of the hairline. And he is good looking in general. This is not to say that a good head of hair is not a plus, I am just making the point that the article was more an ad for the hair transplant doc than it was an actual article.
Article says the guy is 31, so probably 29 or 30 in the before (looks 35 to me but off topic). If he has that bad of hair loss at 30, it does not bode well for his future hairline, there is still a good chance a shaven head is in his future.
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Interesting. When I was on OKC I got as many or more responses after I shaved my head than before, and many of those were initially contacting me. Go figure.
We can reasonably assume that you were pretty far gone, Norwood 3 or higher with thinning, if you decided to shave your head. So it is not a good comparison. Guy in the before photo I would say was Norwood 2.5 at most, and had otherwise good density. And the article addressed this phenomenon, men with a clean shaven head are considered more attractive then men with considerable hairloss
The number of responses/contacts you get is only relevant if they are women you would consider dating. Better to get one contact a week from a woman you would find attractive than 10 contacts a week from women you do not find attractive. Quality is the unaccounted for variable that renders almost all dating studies irrelevant.
I spent some time on Monday checking out my competition on Match (undercover). LOL, every time a guy was wearing hat in his main profile pic, he turned out to be bald. I suggest to such men you just own it and not put the hat pic as your main profile pic.
We can reasonably assume that you were pretty far gone, Norwood 3 or higher with thinning, if you decided to shave your head. So it is not a good comparison. Guy in the before photo I would say was only Norwood 2, and had otherwise good density. And the article addressed this phenomenon, men with a clean shaven head are considered more attractive then men with considerable hairloss
The number of responses/contacts you get is only relevant if they are women you would consider dating. Better to get one contact a week from a woman you would find attractive than 10 contacts a week from women you do not find attractive. Quality is the unaccounted for variable that renders almost all dating studies irrelevant.
But how "terribly far gone" was the man in his first pic? Not very.
I have no idea what "Norwood" he was nor what a "Norwood" is.
But I mean look at the pic. It's not ridiculous, he doesn't have a 3-hair Gollum comb-over. He just has a reasonably far-back hairline. TBH even in the "transplant" pic he still has a fairly far-back hairline, just less so. I wouldn't say it's a "ZOMG hundreds of responses all of a sudden"-worthy difference. It just isn't. Not the hair itself.
The clothes, lighting, angle and come-hither look are the real, major differences. Plus maybe half an inch of hairline?
I will say I have fought hair loss successfully. I have a bumpy head, so me bald would not look good!
Lets face it. the majority of women like hair on mens head. Just the way it is.
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We can reasonably assume that you were pretty far gone, Norwood 3 or higher with thinning, if you decided to shave your head. So it is not a good comparison. Guy in the before photo I would say was Norwood 2.5 at most, and had otherwise good density. And the article addressed this phenomenon, men with a clean shaven head are considered more attractive then men with considerable hairloss
Not sure why you are assuming this, I started shaving my head at 22 or 23 and didn't have really any noticeable hair loss. It just looked better.
I'm sure some will ridicule this article, saying they don't care about such 'superficial' things, but let's face it the facts don't lie in general. Nothing wrong though with people preferring a potential date based on looks, it's human nature.
But how "terribly far gone" was the man in his first pic? Not very.
I have no idea what "Norwood" he was nor what a "Norwood" is.
But I mean look at the pic. It's not ridiculous, he doesn't have a 3-hair Gollum comb-over. He just has a reasonably far-back hairline. TBH even in the "transplant" pic he still has a fairly far-back hairline, just less so. I wouldn't say it's a "ZOMG hundreds of responses all of a sudden"-worthy difference. It just isn't. Not the hair itself.
The clothes, lighting, angle and come-hither look are the real, major differences. Plus maybe half an inch of hairline?
Absolutely. Not the hair. Definitely not the hair.
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