Our culture lets men get away with many things. In order to be presentable, all men need to do is shower and smell nice. Men take advantage of this but for some inexplicable reason, when their hair starts to go, vanity takes over.
Bald men take the most incredible paths in order to hide their lack of hair. It doesn't matter if the paths are filled with failure. It doesn't matter if everyone can see through them. For most men, just having a way to hide the baldness, no matter if it doesn't hide anything at all, is a great achievement.
However, looking at these hopeless failures are irritating. Because there are other ways to achieve a great hair style for balding men without looking like a doofus. Here are some ways to do this.
Buzz cut. If a man's hair is thinning, instead of fighting it and looking like a hypocrite, you can do something else. You can try to get to the jump first. Use a buzz cut. Instead of covering your baldness up make it so it doesn't matter. For balding men, this should be their first reaction. A buzz cut hides thinning hair and receding hair lines. Use an electric razor to keep your hair in this cut.
Faux-hawk. Sometimes the celebrities and movie stars have great ideas. This is one of them. The faux-hawk looks sexy. It's popular and it makes you look young again. It's also a great way to hide receding hair lines at the temples. It can also help with thinning hair at the middle but don't overdo it. A comb over is bad enough. A comb over in the style of a faux-hawk is atrocious.
Bald. Embrace your fate. It's not a bad one. Not all men can successfully look good without hair but for those who do, look awesome. Their heads are filled with win. Becoming bald might be scary for some, but becoming ridiculous should be scarier. If your hair is thin and your bald patches can't be hidden any longer, then please just let your hair vanity go. It's not helping raise your coolness factor. A shaved scalp can look suitably badass. Most shaved celebrities have that tough image.
Fringe. Your top is gone. There is no hair on it at all and you weep at the loss. You can't go bald because there is still hair at the edges. Stop whining and make it work for you. Patrick Stewart has the same hair and nobody ever called him a pushover. It's not bad to look like a monk. Remember, monks were badass too and knew kung-fu. Oh wait, those are Shaolin monks and they were bald. European monks simply held the remaining knowledge of civilization in their hands. And they used it to banish the devil along with ignorance.