How Do I Blend the Bald Head to Beard Transition?
Morning, Mr Clean!
Small joke aside, you are clearly one of the guys who prefers to clear the top completely. And fair enough. The classic bald head has style like almost no other "cut" going. Whether it is paired with a beard and the bald-to-beard transition that comes with it, or a full wet shave across head and face alike, the bald head is timeless. So we have decided to use this Charlemagne Premium blog post, since beard grooming is what we live for, to get into the subject of the bald head to beard transition and show you how to pull off the perfect style once you have given that bowling ball a proper polish. Enjoy the read.
The bald head itself
Going bald. Whether by choice or not is the question every man has to answer. Hand on heart, when the first hairs start saying their goodbyes in your younger years, that is not a happy moment for most men. Hereditary hair loss or stress at work, hair falling out when you did not ask for it is never a joy. There are of course ways to deal with the receding crown. Simply shaving it off, or hair growth products such as minoxidil, both offer a way out of a situation that can feel genuinely uncomfortable.
Head hair and beard hair behave differently
Much as with the first signs of beard growth, the same mechanics drive the hair loss up top that can leave you bald. The sex hormone testosterone is the deciding factor. Without going too far into the biology, we can say this much: sex hormones, produced in quantity by the body during puberty, cause the hair on the head to fall out when levels run high, while beard growth comes in all the stronger. Which brings us to the obstacle: the bald head to beard transition. If you would rather hold on to what you have, minoxidil might be something that helps.
What is minoxidil?
The key word here is hair growth treatment.
It is a pharmaceutical used for hereditary hair loss. Originally prescribed for high blood pressure, the compound turns out to slow hair loss and in some cases even encourage growth. A hair growth treatment like minoxidil is really a vasodilator. It widens the small blood vessels in the scalp, which means the hair, and specifically the follicles, get better nourishment. Worth noting: with minoxidil and similar products, results only hold up with continuous use. Stop applying it and you can expect a gradual return to where you started. Twelve months of use is the minimum before you can judge whether the course is actually delivering what you wanted, namely stopping the hair loss and perhaps even bringing some growth back.
Right, here we go
You have made the call to go for the shaved head, the way Vin Diesel and Jason Statham did before you. But how do you handle the bald head to beard transition? In short, it comes down to how you style your beard and what you want to project.
There are two ways to go about it:
The soft blend:
A soft bald-to-beard blend means the length runs up gradually from the bare scalp into the longer beard, either cut by you or by your barber. You are building a graduated bridge from the bald area down into the beard hair.
The contrast flows rather than jumps, which makes it a good fit for a business look.
The hard line:
A hard bald-to-beard transition means that, unlike the soft blend, the beard is cut straight to your chosen length with no gradient at all. That can create a very sharp contrast between scalp and beard. It is a bold look, and not one everyone can or should wear. If this is what you are after, definitely take advice from a barber you trust.
For either version your barber will be able to talk you through it and put the look you want on your face. That goes double if you are not yet practised in the art of shaving your own head, because a nick up there starts looking dramatic fast, so your barber will be a real help while you find your feet.
As you have read in today's Charlemagne Premium blog post, hair loss that leaves you bald is no obstacle to looking good. Beard wearers in particular can create a great overall look through a well-chosen bald-to-beard transition, the kind that gets noticed. A bald head reads as pronounced masculinity and high testosterone, which is said to correlate with a healthy appetite for life. So heads up, gentlemen, and get the razor moving. You will see the upside for yourself soon enough. And if, in the course of sorting out your bald-to-beard transition, and we are reading between the lines here given that you found this blog post, you happen to be after great, high-quality beard care products, it is always worth a look in the Charlemagne Premium shop, because:
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