Do you ever notice how most jacked people are bald? Or maybe it has to do with the fact that going bald makes you look jacked! Today I am going to discuss how hair makes you look less muscular in most cases and why being bald can make you look at least 5lb more muscular, not to mention that it also looks badass!
HAIR
Hair may be a beautiful thing (especially for women), but as far as looking muscular is concerned, it makes your physique look smaller. One of the most important things to discuss first is the darkness of the hair. The darker your hair is at the top of your head, the more it draws the eyes to that area and adds volume to that spot which will detract the attention away from your physique. This means that if you have a head full of black hair like Hardy in the photo below then the focus while go off the upper body and onto the hair. In other words, the more hair that you have, the bigger your head looks and the smaller your body looks.
On the other hand if you go bald then exact opposite happens.
When you go bald, it makes your head look smaller which automatically makes your shoulders and your traps look bigger along with your neck. For example, imagine how big your upper body would look if your head was as small as a tennis ball? Well being bald gives you a similar effect because your head will look a lot smaller depending on how much hair you cut off.
The photo above clearly shows that the smaller your head looks then the more muscular you appear and the bigger your head looks then the smaller your body appears, pretty straight forward right?
This is very good because the traps, neck, upper back, shoulders and upper chest are typically the hardest muscles to attain as a natural drug-free lifter due to androgen receptor related reasons and they automatically look bigger when you go bald.
This is actually one of the reasons why many bodybuilders such as Phil Heath actually shave their head bald because it improves overall body composition and symmetry automatically. These bodybuilders think to themselves; “if I look more muscular by shaving my body then imagine how muscular i would look if I shaved my head”?
As a bonus, since being bald makes your shoulders look broader then that automatically makes your waist appear smaller from an illusion standpoint. If your waist looks smaller then your glutes will appear bigger due to the new proportions of the head to glute ratio. I’ve mentioned in previous articles that the key to having a big lower body is to have big glutes because they are the muscle that pops out of the lower body in a similar way to how the delts pop out of the sides of the upper body.
In other words, a simple haircut could literally enhance the way most of the muscles in your body look!
I see a lot of people on the internet preaching about how they are bald and they are honestly very far off from being bald. Being bald literally means that you haven’t got even one spec of hair on your head, not a buzz cut or a fade.
WHAT ABOUT THE BEARD?
I am personally a big advocate of keeping the beard if you are going to go bald because it makes up for the lack of hair on the top. On top of that, the beard will actually draw the eye more down which will add more emphasis and volume to the neck/trap.shoulder area so that it will look more pronounced and it will also make you look more muscular as well, but that’s another article for another time.
HOW DO I SLOWLY EASE INTO GOING BALD?
I am personally in the same shoes because I am 21 years old and I have a receding hairline but it would be weird to go bald at such as young age. If you are in a similar situation then all you have to do is go to the barbershop and ask for a skin fade. This look will get you used to not having a lot of hair and then you could gradually remove more and more hair every few haircuts until you are eventually bald.
CONCLUSION
If you want to maximize your size as much as possible then try shaving your head and let me know how it goes, I promise that you won’t be disappointed with the look. I personally found that I would feel a lot less stressed out when I would get my hair cut extremely short and on top of that I really like the look. Also remember that 0.5 on your head doesn’t make you bald and there is actually a huge difference between being skin bald and having an extreme short buzz cut.