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I actually continued this same discussion in a different forum. I joined a couple different forums at once and said the same thing. It developed into a pretty long thread which rambled off topic a bit: (promotional link removed) I wasn't trying to contact particular celebrities who had that hairstyle. It wasn't so much that I was trying to actually get with some guy who hair like this. It was more like I wanted to create a group of people who would all agree to grow their hair this way, something more like a community. The guys in those pictures are actually barely even bald at all, although I can't see what's under the hats in the last one, and I know who they are but can't remember their name - it's a band, and I'll recognize it immediately if someone says it. I'm talking about a Norwood 7 doing this, not just a Norwood 1 and 2 and whatever they are. I mean, NW1 and NW2 are included of course, but I was trying to be all-encompassing and trying to get people who were really, really, really bald, not just borderline bald. I'm sort of trying to directly confront the worst case scenario head on. I'm not excluding borderline people though. And now that I've said this I probably will regret it because they will think, 'Oh, she's not looking for someone with hair like mine.' Ideally I am trying to convince a large number of people to grow their hair long regardless of whether they are bald or not, so that includes everyone. The guys in the last picture who, I swear I can remember the name of that band - anyway, I know that they have short hair on their heads, I think. I think I've seen pictures of them before without their hats on. I don't like it when people cut their head hair short while growing their beards long. I want all of it to be long, the head and beard hair both. And they do have great beards. But the principle is unity and consistency: stop cutting all of the hair regardless of where it is, and regardless of how perfect or imperfect it is, and regardless of how bald it is on top.

Okay, sorry, it takes me a couple days to get back here. I'm using the wifi in a restaurant because I don't have an internet connection at home. I'm looking for people who would be willing to give up trying to achieve a particular 'look.' You would no longer be aiming for some particular style that you have seen somewhere. Instead, you would be letting your hair and beard grow completely until it stopped growing, and I realize that the remaining hair might not be very long, because baldness tends to cause many of the hairs to shorten even if they don't completely stop growing. The 'look' that will result from this is associated with negative stereotypes which I would like to counteract. People with natural hair are described as looking homeless. However, a homeless person also will often have other health problems, such as poor nutrition, alcoholism, etc, and so you will not really look or act like the 'homeless person' image. Your image will be that of a healthy person who has grown all of his hair and beard long. It will also not be a 'heavy metal band' image. This appearance has to be separated from all the stereotypes associated with it. You are not trying to achieve the look of a particular stereotype. This is instead the absence of a look. This is what the body does when left on its own. Some people, not everyone, are able to consciously choose to accept and tolerate a new and unfamiliar type of physical appearance. Other people are extremely uncomfortable with anything unfamiliar and different - they want everyone around them to look the same, and anyone who looks different is scary, repulsive, creepy, etc, etc. They try to classify people into stereotypical images and it's hard for them to understand that someone who looks a certain way is not necessarily that stereotypical kind of person. No, for this particular experiment, I'm not asking anybody to change anything else about their grooming and hygiene. I was answering StaggerLee123's joke. He jokingly said that he would do it if he could also quit brushing his teeth, etc. I don't merely want to meet one particular person who meets these criteria. I would like to create more people who meet this criteria. I am something like a missionary trying to convert people and convince people to accept a new idea. What I want to do is find people who are bald and convince them to grow their hair the way that I have described, and it could be thouands of people, not just one particular guy that I personally would be dating or marrying. This is more like trying to start a social trend, not just something for me personally. It is indeed an odd request. I'm asking people to go against everything that everyone ever told them about how to make yourself attractive after going bald. If anyone agreed to do this experiment, they would have to persist in it even though their friends and family would be complaining to them about it, telling them to cut their hair, telling them they look terrible. Different people desire different things. Different people find different things to be beautiful. A very simplistic example is, some men are attracted to blond women, and some men prefer brunettes. I'm saying that there is a small, but significant, minority of women who are long hair lovers, women who desperately want to find men who look this way, but those men cannot easily be found, or if they do find them, those men might fit into the stereotypes, and we don't want those kind of men. We want to find 'our kind of men,' except those men usually don't have long hair. Some men have an attractive, compatible personality type, but those men tend to make themselves look as 'normal' as possible, and they usually avoid the long-haired look. If I can convince more people to make this style, balding long hair with a beard, into a mainstream look (or a significant minority/niche look), then it might be easier to convince people to try it. I like long hair on all men, not just bald men, but I've chosen to directly confront balding men because they are the most difficult to convince and they are the most in need of doing something. They need some kind of other option besides taking drugs, doing transplants, shaving their head, and other options they are familiar with. I appreciate it that the doctors are working to help them treat and cure their baldness, but then, some people might not have the money or the insurance coverage to do it, or they might have bad reactions to the drugs, and so they want some other alternatives. I am giving them an alternative, something to hope for, something to look forward to. They can grow their remaining hair and beard long, they can watch its progress every day, they can observe and experience these changes, without paying any money to anyone or harming their bodies in any way. Which is more attractive to me personally: a man with a full head of hair who keeps his hair cut very short and his face clean shaven, or a bald man who grows the remainder of his hair and his beard long? The bald man with long hair is *more attractive* than a short-haired man with a full head of hair. This is extremely important! I am saying that a bald man can actually gain an advantage over a man with a full head of hair. Women who love long hair on men are so desperate to find long-haired men, but can't find enough of them anywhere, that even in spite of a man's baldness, he still looks extremely attractive and desirable if he grows all the remainder of his hair long. Having just some long hair is better than having no long hair at all. Long hair is touchable, short hair is not. There is nothing enjoyable about running your hands over a short, bristly stubble of hair that is cut down to only one inch long, the way most men keep it, even when they're not bald, even if there just happens to be hair over the top of the head and they have a full head of hair. Men's hair is usually so short, it might as well just be painted on, and there is nothing to touch, nothing to stroke. How is that any different from being bald anyway? I am totally not attracted to short-haired men with full heads of hair. When I pass them on the street, they are invisible to me, even though they have a full head of hair. But a bald man who has grown all his remaining ring of hair long and has grown his full beard long is *extremely visible and attractive* to me. And other long hair lovers will feel the same way. This is not a joke or a troll post at all. I want to convince people that they can do something to improve their attractiveness to a minority of people, even if they cannot get rid of their baldness, and not only that, they can become even more attractive to those long hair lovers than they were in the past when they had a full head of (short) hair. "Acceptance is the cure."

There are still large numbers of men who are attracted to me if, for instance, I use a dating website. However, these men are usually on a lower standard than I would like, for instance, people who are not very intelligent and not able to communicate well with me. They are people who are looking for nothing but sex. The men who are very intelligent have not yet been able to appreciate me, but then again, I have not been attempting to date anyone for a couple of years because of various personal problems that have been going on. So I have not actually made any serious attempts to go out seeking exactly the type of guy I want to be with. Some men have a 'fetish' (I disagree that this is abnormal, so I put fetish in quotes - I believe that hair on women's bodies is the norm, and shaving is the unnatural abnormality) for women with body hair, so I sometimes encounter men who respond *very strongly* to my body hair, as in, an extremely positive response. I have dated men during the time when I have had this hairstyle, while not shaving, and with a mustache. They tend to just ignore it. I explain it to them, and they tolerate it. However, they don't necessarily like it. They date me for other reasons (personality, friendship, how well we get along, sex, etc). I have a couple more things to say, but I'm out of time. I want to answer this but I on my lunch break at work. I will write more later.

Actually, there used to be a web page with a bunch of pictures of heavy metal guys who had this hairstyle, and I remember Devin Townsend, though I can't recall what David Crosby looks like and would have to google him again (I'm terrible with names). That is exactly the look that I am aiming for, except that people would also grow their full beard if they were able to. Warning, the web page was actually a page that was making fun of the hairstyle and saying it was a fashion faux pas, which is the idea that I want to counteract. However, the web page changed for some reason, and it no longer has photos of every single guy, just a couple of them: TOP TEN Skullets in Rock | LOVE-IT-LOUD.com . I can't stand heavy metal. I have sensitive ears. All that I can hear is high pitched screeching, and I can't understand any of the lyrics. I prefer quieter, more melodic music. So, that's why I can't bring myself to go looking for heavy metal guys. I agree with you, there are a lot of them in that particular subculture. Nostril and ear hair is also acceptable, along with monobrows, the hair that goes across the bridge of your nose, and even that one random hair growing out of that big wart, if anyone happens to have one of those. It is also okay to stop taking showers and using deodorant, and it's possible to stop brushing your teeth, but only if you eat a special diet which is designed to prevent tooth decay.

Oh, are you joking? Look closely at my photo. I already do have a mustache. Maybe the photo isn't clear enough. I grow all of my own hair natural as well and I stopped shaving many years ago. My hair is in a ponytail and you can't see it, but I have natural dreadlocks (which, ehh, are not necessarily a good thing, but they are an experiment that I am doing for now).

Hi, I just joined this forum today. I am a female and I myself actually do not have hair loss. I came here to see if I could find anybody who would be willing to do an experiment for me. First let me explain the background behind this, so that you can understand why I want to do it. I have always loved long-haired men ever since I was a young child. I remember having a crush on the longest-haired boy in the class when I was in nursery school. So I was pretty much born with this attraction to long-haired men. It frustrates me that long hair is so hard to find, and that it's so hard to convince men to grow it, and I was always trying to understand why they wouldn't do it. When I grew up, I understood that one reason why more men don't grow their hair long is because of potential baldness. I decided that it should be acceptable for men to grow their remaining hair long even after going bald on top. This hairstyle should not be taboo or frowned upon, but instead viewed as a legitimate, good, normal hairstyle. I am looking for people who would be willing to grow all of their remaining hair, and also their beards, long, even in spite of baldness. You do not have to do anything to 'fix' the baldness itself. Just leave the balding areas the way they are, and grow all of the rest of the hair that you have. For the experiment I would ask you to not cut or trim or shave any hair at all, but instead to let all of the hair grow completely freely, including all of your beard and mustache hair, including all the hair around the edges, everywhere, with no exceptions. It is very important to grow the beard along with the hair on the head, if you are able to. (I understand that some ethnic groups do not have beards, such as many Native Americans. This is okay.) I would like to see all of the hair grow as long as it can grow, even if it is 'imperfect.' I understand that this will take a long time, and that your family, friends, and employers will probably not like what you are doing. I am asking that you continue to do it anyway. The goal is to accept this as a good hairstyle so that long-haired men do not have to be afraid of baldness anymore. Is there anyone here who would be willing to do this experiment and take pictures?