Fringe or forehead?

[Mise]

"bangs" You yankies are so silly!

Anyway, I used to have a "fringe" by default, back when I had big curly hair. Now that it's shorter, and now that my hairline is receding, I no longer have the luxury of an option. Fortunately I think I look better without a fringe, so it's all good.

 

[azzaman333]

When I get lazy and grow my hair disgustingly long, I have a fringe by default, but I generally look better without one.

 

[Peck of Arabia]

I've always had a fringe and couldn't imagine life without one

 

[classical_hero]

I am not emo. Mostly emo's have fringes.

BTW what a weird word you Americans have for fringe.

 

[Peck of Arabia]

I've always had a fringe and couldn't imagine life without one

I'm going to have to backtrack on my previous statement- I had a brutal haircut today that's left my fringe so short I don't think it counts...

 

[Smellincoffee]

I have curly hair, which doesn't lend itself to bangs/fringes, but my preferred style is to come my hair to the right, with a curl hanging over my forehead.

 

[Disgustipated]

I am not emo. Mostly emo's have fringes.

BTW what a weird word you Americans have for fringe.

What a weird word you Brits have for bangs.

 

[_random_]

Classical is Aussie. But yeah, it's an odd word. Both are really.

 

[Mise]

Fringe isn't odd at all, it's exactly what the word "fringe" means. The fringe of a dress, the fringe of a curtain, the fringe of one's hair -- it's the decorative bit at the bottom.

Where you got "bangs" from I have no idea. EDIT: tfd has this to say: "bangs - The practice of cutting horses' tails the same length was called "banging off," which led to this term for a woman's hairstyle."

 

[Borachio]

It's just another mental 'mericun thing. They have special research facilities there specifically to discover new outlandish words for stuff. This is well known.

 

[JohannaK]

I style this fringe, a bit in the style of that photo that VR posted. You can check it out in the Member's Photos Thread.

 

[madviking]

I have flowing locks of magnificent hair.

 

[Borachio]

On your head?

 

[JohannaK]

I have that too. Everywhere. Most prominently on my head and between my legs.

 

[madviking]

On your head?

Where else?

 

[Borachio]

Enjoy it while you can.

edit: Where else? In a jar by the bed, perhaps? Don't know. I was asking you.

 

[Kozmos]

My forehead is kinda big so I take my fringe and just kind of move it to the side with a little wax so I get a happy middle-ground.

 

[madviking]

Enjoy it while you can.

edit: Where else? In a jar by the bed, perhaps? Don't know. I was asking you.

My 70-something year old grandfather still has a full head of hair. Balding doesn't run in my family.

 

[Borachio]

Well. I suppose that's a kind of good thing. It may not save you though. You have or had two grandfathers. And numberless ancestors. Any of whom may or may not have had the genetic makeup for baldness.

Is there a particular reason to favour hair over no hair? A lot depends on the shape of the skull though.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

If I recall correctly, the main baldness gene is found on the x chromosome, so men inherit it only from their mothers. The father, paternal grandfather, etc., are irrelevant. There may be some other genes involved in baldness, more pertaining to the pattern in which one balds (receding hair line vs bald spot), that may no be x-linked though.


It always seems weird to me when I heard that people close to my age have grandfathers in their 70s, since my father is soon to turn 74. He still has a full head of hair (or more accurately, he has a full head of hair again now that he has recovered from the effects of chemotherapy). His father still had a full head of hair in his mid 80s, although it thinned considerably and he looked almost bald by the time he died at age 91. Unfortunately, my mother's father and 2 of her 3 brothers went bald quite early. Her oldest brother (now deceased) still had plenty of hair in his 50s but it thinned almost to the point of baldness in his 60s.