The perfectly shaped head

[Tabouli]

Sheryll:
> Even the best physical shape won't compensate if someone has a head
that just looks wrong bald, IMO. Andy has a perfectly shaped head, which is probably why bald suits him so well. <

Ah, yes.  That other well-worn justification for razing one's locks... the perfectly shaped head!  Transfixed as I am by the glory of hair (or anguished as I am by its deliberate absence), I have never managed to establish what this paragon of skull shapes actually *is*.  Can one of you baldness admirers enlighten me?

David (quoting Cindy)
> > It seems that young, handsome men are shaving their heads in great 
> > numbers
>
>and so cease to be handsome, and look either 30 years older or 30 
>years younger

Heh.  Much as I agree with David's sentiments, I am distracted by his curiously precise definition of youth.  I am vague on the age at which babyhood baldness gives way to luxuriant locks, but if I assume this happens around one to two, David's definition of "young" would appear to be fixed at no younger than 30-32 years of age (or perhaps down to 29 years three months, at a pinch).  Most interesting.

30 is an odd sort of an age.  Depending on what end of the human lifespan it's looked at, it can appear either verging on senility (she says gloomily, recalling her teenage prejudices) or ridiculously young to be worried about getting old (by people over 40).  Trouble is, of course, you can only approach 30 from one direction.  Just when you've got thoroughly used to thinking of yourself at "young", you hit 30 and wonder if you still can...

Tabouli.


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