You cannot bring something back from the dead. There are products that will claim they can regrow hair, but those claims are false. “Firstly, we don’t talk about baldness here,” he explains. I meet Truefitt and Hill master barber Michael Symeon for a consultation, fully expecting him to administer my hair the last rites and dispatch what remains with a razor. It is barber and Royal warrant holder to the Duke of Edinburgh and pampers male celebrities, politicians and aristocrats alike – no other establishment knows better how a distinguished gentleman should adapt his remaining locks. Truefitt and Hill in St James’s, London, was established in 1805 and is the world’s oldest barbershop. For advice on this most delicate of subjects, I approach the best in the business. These standard-bearers have embraced hair loss with dignity, panache, and in some cases, a buzzcut.īut in the meantime, I must accept my fate and finally get a haircut befitting of a balding 48-year-old. Our icons are those who manage to do bald well Prince William, Bruce Willis, Jude Law, Jason Statham and even David Beckham looks to undeniably be thinning. The UK has the fifth highest count of balding men, with 39 per cent of males going bare-headed. But increasingly, the battle has been in vain the temples are now receding to meet the barren central plain and each time I catch a glimpse of my profile, I hear the buzz of the barber’s clippers. For too many years I’ve tried to maintain a mid-length modern style and cannot bring myself to engineer a comb-over or a complex Trumpian arrangement. It is a look I have never been comfortable with. From the rear, I am a tonsured medieval monk with a comical dish-sized shiny bald pate. Despite a range of different potions and gadgets, the problem has only worsened, and baldness has carved out a cruel shape on my bonce.
BALDING IN THE MIDDLE OF MY FOREHEAD FULL
Since my mid-thirties I’ve been living in denial, trying to maintain the illusion of a full head of hair while male pattern baldness has stalked my scalp. It’s best to end it while you still have your dignity,” she said tenderly. We both know that it will never get any better.
“You’ve been fighting bravely for so long now.
The other day my wife, Stephanie, took me by the hand and gently explained that perhaps it was time to let go.
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