Combing over
John McCain, Al Gore, Rudy Guiliani in the nineties, Donald Trump.
All these rich, famous and powerful men are known to sport the horrendous thing known as a “comb over”. You would think that being rich and powerful, that they would be able to get state of the art hair transplants, or an imported toupee, or at least try some sort of hair growth serum. Perhaps it is their pride getting in the way, or maybe they have combed themselves into a corner and now cannot find a way out of the situation without admitting that they know that they are losing their hair.
The Donald
Mr. Trump is perhaps rocks the most famous ( or infamous) combover in the free world. I think that he is the prime example of someone who is now trapped by a thing that he is now famous for. He must know that everyone knows that the mess on top of his head is out of control, but he seems unable to do anything about it. Donald is known for his wacky hairdo and in unable to change it because he does not want to mess with the public image, good or bad, that he has cultivated over the years. What is Donald Trump without his windblown combover? Just another billionaire businessman who likes to marry models.
Rudy and John
Rudy Giuliani is perhaps one of the few celebrity politicians who was brave enough to do away with the dastardly do that he carried with him for so many years. Remember what he looked like in the nineties, with that string of hair wrapped over his bald spot? Now he looks much better, much less anemic. A politician with a comb over looks like he is trying to hide something, but is not doing a very good job at it. John McCain might be excused since he is old, and most men his age are lucky to have hair at all. Still, he has a good looking young wife, so the hair plastered over the top of his cranium makes him seem a little but desperate. Perhaps things would have turned out a little differently this past Super Tuesday had he went with a different style (okay, that’s a bit of a stretch)
Why the comb over?
I think that we men who end up combing it over fall into a trap of denial and resolution. When our hair starts to leave us in our twenties and thirties, a sympathetic barber or hairstylist gives us a nicely layered haircut that adequately covers up our thinning spots. Since it looks good at the time we decide to keep it and then keep coming back to the same shop, hoping to get the same results as our hairline recedes further and further. The person you are paying to cut your hair is not about to tell you that the style the have been giving you for the past decade is no longer working. You and your combover have become their meal ticket. Instead, they just make sure you do not look to long at the growing blank spot on the top of your head when they give you the mirror to check out their handiwork. Most of your loved ones will probably not say anything either since they have gotten used to your hairstyle and love you in spite of how ridiculous it looks. Since no one says anything about it, we allow ourselves to walk around in denial of the obvious.
combing to terms
It takes a lot of guts to come to terms with a combover and to finally take steps to do something about it. If going Giuliani is not your cup of tea there are other options out there. Hair transplants have gotten better over the years, and so have wigs and hair nets. Also the topical solutions that they sell to regrow hair have also gotten better thanks to the discovery of the miraculous minoxidil. Whether you comb it out of existence, or find another way to hide your bare scalp, be brave, be strong and do something about it already!
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