by Uma Rajagopalan

Created on: December 23, 2008

I would have never thought in million years that a shaved head can make a man look hot from cold/colder. Mind-blowing, eh?

Do I have anything against balding men? Definitely not..my father is a baldy and I respect his baldness provoked by his modest intelligence for the past 55 years..but, my jaw dropped, when a hair transplant specialist told me that "more you think, you become intelligent, more you worry, you get bald"..I looked at him with an IQ of -80 and said "really"? He said it only makes sense, think about it! Probably he didn't get my blank face of -80 and asked me to think about it..

My mom and I used to make fun of my dad, but in a very non-offensive way and to our dismay he handled it extremely well! It takes a self-confident man to be satirical of his own shortcomings and he is one!

Why am I blogging this topic? Ah..Here it goes..I have a boy friend who is 33 years old, razor-sharp intelligence and is smart as a whip in his comebacks and humor..but, I dread to tell him that he needs to shave his head, than having left over hairs from a cow-grazing phase..seriously! As much as I convince myself that he has got his vivacious personality to offset every possible set back I could think of, can I ask for a boon that would encourage my man to shave his head off! He has been told that "He looks hot and tasteful, with the shaved head and a french beard"..not by just one woman, but more than five women of different nationalities in a period of 24 hours..if that is not a clue, what else could be? He comes up with the reasons like it is the wrong time of the year to shave! And I look at him like, if I am giving you reasons to shave and you counter argue with reasons not to shave, are we really going to attain consensus..sure we are, probably I am going to cave in and let it go..

But, I want to say, it is not a seasonal fashion..It is a hair cut, in fact a no hair cut - Shave it and forget it! if it is during summer, it is great, one less thing to accessorize, if it is winter, one more thing to accessorize..How much more simple can life get?

I know, if i love this guy, this shouldnt matter..It does not matter that he is bald, but it does matter that he is refusing to make the best of it! It is not cosmetic, but it is about making oneself presentable! And I genuinely care about how he looks:) No yeah right! But truly!

It would only be appropriate to quote this "Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair, But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough" - Larry David

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