The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
-
Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
-
Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
-
Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
-
Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Notes -
A good barber.
It's possible to style your hair well at any stage of hair loss. Most men don't. They simply keep styling their thinning hair in the same way they styled their non-thinning hair. This is how you get obviously ridiculous and horrible looking comb overs.
A good men's barber can help out a lot. They'll give you a guide to how to style your hair and also do you favors in terms of working with different lengths on different parts of your head to create an overall better composite.
Or, take the plunge and star shaving your head. This has been 11/10 excellent for me. If you're a white dude, don't go full cueball - a 1 or 0 gauge gives a little texture and prevents you from looking like you have a medical condition of some sort. I personally don't like the bald-with-beard look, but that's an option.
+1 on Finasteride not being worth it. There are better ways to deal with hair loss.
What, you don't think having a hairstyle such that you can polish your head to a mirror finish is a good idea?
What if you get lost in the woods, need to signal for help, but forgot to bring a mirror or a flare gun?
More options
Context Copy link
More options
Context Copy link