by S.S. McDaniel

Created on: July 24, 2009

Gentlemen, I must ask: do you care if a lady is naturally blonde? Do you look at her and think "Oh man, I see roots. How disgusting. I can't possibly date that girl who is naturally a BRUNETTE!"?

I doubt it.

In much the same way, very few women make note of a man's baldness unless there is some other issue at hand. If your head is not shaped like a peanut (or pointed very distinctly in a cone shape), you don't have any unsightly veins or scaring, and you don't have a tattoo across your scalp (although, according to tastes, some women may actually find a tattoo attractive), chances are that the lady you're looking at isn't even paying attention to the shiny state of your dome.

Some of the first places women look are at your eyes, your hands, and your mouth. We're looking for humor, friendliness, and maybe just a bit of randiness. We aren't going to see any of those things in your hair or lack thereof. Well, unless you're Conan O'Brien and have hair that closely resembles the butt of a duck or Donald Trump and his bleached out comb-over (please see the next paragraph).

What we will notice is your desperate attempts to cover up your balding. There is very little less attractive than the comb-over, gentlemen. Nothing screams "I'm middle-aged, but I don't want you to know that!" any louder. Even the toupee (oh devil rug of dating), can not make itself any clearer than this one, desperate stroke of the comb. If you lack hair on the top or back of your head in a small (or large) round patch, my best advice to you would be to shave your head. That's right: shave. It takes a lot more courage (and lets us know you have it!) for you to shave off all your hair than it does to try and cover those spots with your other hair. Not to mention that it actually does minimize the appearance of balding: a woman has to be pretty close to you to make out where your stubble stops and the balding begins. At which point, we should hope, she is so in love with your dazzling personality that she couldn't care less that you're a few hairs short.

So please, gentlemen, go out and wear your baldness openly. We're paying about as much attention to it as you are to that "blonde's" roots.

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