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  • - We're shooting a video trying

  • out different hats and stuff,

  • how do you think I look?

  • - Uh, it's a hat.

  • - How do you think I look?

  • (girl shrieks)

  • (upbeat music)

  • - Today the Try Guys are going bald,

  • which is something that happens to most men.

  • - [Voiceover] Alright, you guys ready to go bald?

  • - I was born bald, I'm ready to be bald again.

  • - Going bald for me, it's not a question of "if,"

  • it's probably a question of "when."

  • Hair loss runs in my family,

  • it is something that is happening to me.

  • It's very common among Jewish men.

  • I think that's why Jews started wearing yarmulkes,

  • to cover up their bald spot.

  • There was a long time that I didn't care about my hair,

  • and I didn't care about it

  • until I realized I was losing it.

  • I look back at photos, and like, it's going.

  • So it's something I've been trying to combat,

  • but it's also something I've been trying

  • to come to terms with.

  • It makes me feel bad.

  • - I have a little bit of thinning starting here.

  • I guess going bald crosses my mind every so often.

  • I'm afraid that my head is an ugly lump of skin.

  • I think my main concern is that I have this mole

  • on the back of my head that you've never seen likely

  • because I always make sure my hair

  • is cut long enough to cover that mole.

  • I don't care that much about my actual hair,

  • but I do care about how I look.

  • And being bald with a big mole on my head

  • would change how I look.

  • I'll be ugly.

  • - My grandfather has lost a lot of his hair,

  • so it's probably something that's in my future.

  • To just jump straight to what I'm gonna

  • look like 50 years from now, that's gonna be shocking.

  • My fear today is that my wife is gonna think I'm hideous,

  • because when you're in love with someone,

  • like, "Oh, I'll love you no matter what you look like."

  • But now we're gonna test that assumption.

  • Will she still find me attractive? I don't know.

  • - I think when people describe me physically,

  • the first thing they say is hair.

  • Second probably Asian, but first I'd say hair.

  • When I was young, when I felt very unattractive,

  • the one thing people always said to me

  • was I had great hair.

  • So, I kinda have this attachment to it.

  • My hair is kinda like another appendage.

  • Kinda like the boobs of my head, so eyes down here.

  • I just have very specific features that look really stern.

  • My personality is softened by the way my hair is presented.

  • I feel like without my hair, I'm not gonna be me.

  • (rock music)

  • - Today what I'm interested to see

  • is what would I actually look like when I'm bald.

  • Maybe it's not so bad.

  • - Let's do this: three, two, one.

  • (laughs)

  • What a nightmare.

  • Oh wow, that is one ugly fella.

  • It's not as bad as I thought it would be,

  • it's a lot smoother than I thought.

  • Woah, that's a feeling.

  • That mole is big.

  • (growls)

  • Well, that's sort of how I fear my mole to appear.

  • My ears are so much more prominent.

  • If it's not one insecurity, it's another.

  • - Alright, I'm ready.

  • Holy shit. (chuckles)

  • Oh no, I don't like that at all.

  • It looks like a different person.

  • I've never seen myself without hair.

  • This just isn't me; it doesn't feel like my personality.

  • I'm astounded.

  • I've never been this floored by a transformation.

  • I look like every martial arts character,

  • like I'm gonna kill somebody.

  • Okay, I'm done.

  • - So my father has kind of more of like around the side.

  • I'm gonna try and get as close to that today as we can.

  • The hope is a sexy Bruce Willis or Vin Diesel type.

  • I'd probably look more like a baby turtle.

  • Let's meet future Zach.

  • Oh, no.

  • Oh man, I look like Dr. Phil

  • and the kid from Jerry Maguire had a baby.

  • There are no words for how much I dislike this.

  • This is a real hit to my confidence, guys.

  • How can I look like this and confidently talk to people?

  • I'm really pretty speechless.

  • I'm pretty stunned.

  • Fuck.

  • - Confidence is sexy right?

  • So if I'm gonna rock the Friar Tuck haircut,

  • then you can call me Friar Fuck.

  • One, two, three (yells).

  • Oh no.

  • (dramatic choral music)

  • Oh, I hate it.

  • Oh, isn't that sad?

  • Why do I just feel awful about myself

  • just 'cause my hair changed?

  • Oh, I don't want to be friends with myself.

  • Check out the back.

  • Ooh, sexy.

  • She's not going to like this; she's gonna be horrified.

  • What if actually lose my hair and then she divorces me

  • 'cause she thinks I'm ugly?

  • I'm being silly, but also somewhat serious.

  • I just want to crawl into bed and not wake up.

  • - As much as guys like to act like they don't care

  • about how their hair looks,

  • I think every guy really, truly, deeply cares

  • about what their hair looks like.

  • It's way more deep than we allow ourselves

  • to admit as a society, especially as men.

  • We're stepping into a lot of different shoes here,

  • not only into male insecurity,

  • but there's a lot of people out there

  • when it comes to cancer, alopecia

  • who can't control the fact that they are losing hair.

  • I'm interested to see how people will react.

  • - I'm not looking forward

  • to what everyone else is gonna think and say about this.

  • - We're going to the office to see

  • how people like how I look.

  • - I think it's kinda getting used to it.

  • - Alright, I'm going to go

  • show some friends what I look like.

  • - You've done some things in your day,

  • this is not one of them you should be doing.

  • - Do you think some people look okay as bald men?

  • - Is this like divorce for a week?

  • No one can pull this off.

  • (girl yells)

  • - What do you think?

  • - I think that was my honest opinion.

  • - Woah, look at you without hair.

  • - Dream come true right here.

  • - What's the dream?

  • - I secretly pray that your hair falls out, every day.

  • This is just bad for everybody.

  • - I was really looking forward to my coworkers helping me,

  • telling me that it was okay to be balding,

  • that I'm still beautiful.

  • And so far, that has not happened.

  • The opposite has happened; I feel awful.

  • - I look like a bald Thomas Jefferson.

  • - Fact is, I don't give a fuck what people think.

  • If this is how I look, don't deserve me at my worst,

  • can't handle me at my best.

  • - The more I see it, the less I'm as upset

  • by all of us honestly.

  • - You look really good, you look so good.

  • - I think I look really mean.

  • - Yeah, of course.

  • - This is amazing. How do you feel?

  • - Actually, now that I'm walking around more,

  • I kind of enjoy it.

  • - You look dope. Why does he look cool still?

  • I thought that hair was like 90% of it, but it's not.

  • - What do you think?

  • - I think you have a really good shaped head.

  • - Yeah?

  • - That was the thing I was worried about

  • when I was going bald.

  • - Yeah, it's like, what if my head's ugly?

  • - Absolutely.

  • - (Laughs) This is the best image.

  • - We all look adorable.

  • - Honestly, yours looks regal and dignified.

  • - You're the first person to complement me.

  • - Oh really?

  • - When did you go bald?

  • - I started going bald when I was 21.

  • - 21?

  • - Yeah, it threw me off.

  • - But you look great.

  • - Well thank you.

  • - I have no problem; this looks fine.

  • I just don't know how I feel about the ponytail.

  • - Now that I know that my head

  • doesn't have any lumps or anything.

  • I would get a lot of haircuts, like very tight.

  • - This works for you;

  • if you have to shave your head, you're gonna be...

  • - [Keith] I'm gonna be okay?

  • - Even if people are shocked, I don't give a fuck.

  • - Yeah, just own it.

  • - You've been so confident throughout this whole thing.

  • - I don't know how everybody else is gonna feel about it.

  • - When did you see it?

  • - So early.

  • So I'm back at home, and I'm going

  • to surprise Ariel with my new look.

  • - So I'm standing on a street corner as cars go by

  • to see if anybody gives me a second look.

  • - I guess without hair I don't really need

  • to deal with this section.

  • I can go to what's most important, bam.

  • - Giving myself a hair cut,

  • kind of putting control back in my hands,

  • we're gonna see if people react to me little better.

  • I feel like I look like a respectable dad.

  • - You look so happy.

  • - This is like a cool dad.

  • - Kind of like the dad from "Honey, We Shrunk the Kids."

  • (Coworkers agree)

  • - You look like a director of a big time movie.

  • - Oh, you cut the sides?

  • - You've always had a really cute, boyish face,

  • that doesn't change.

  • - It looks a lot better.

  • - Yeah, it looks so much better.

  • - You heard it here first, totally fuckable,

  • I look great like this.

  • - The checkout clerk actually recognized me

  • even without my hair.

  • Do you actually think this looks attractive?

  • - [Clerk] Very sexy.

  • - Oh, very sexy. Oh man.

  • - Nobody seems to be giving two shits

  • about what I look like.

  • It's not that big a deal,

  • or I'm so ugly they can't even look at me.

  • - My neighbors might think I'm a person trying to break in.

  • - Oh my god.

  • It looks so real.

  • - [Ned] So do you think you would still love me

  • if I started losing my hair like this?

  • - I would love you no matter what.

  • Would you love me if I started losing my hair?

  • - [Ned] I would, yes.

  • (rap music)

  • - What do you think, Ariel?

  • - [Ariel] I think you look great.

  • - [Ariel] Yeah.

  • (rap music)

  • - As I adopted a more confident attitude,

  • it became easier to own my hairstyle.

  • And the people that know you best

  • are the people that are gonna care the least.

  • - People fixate on their negatives

  • and they get downtrodden by it,

  • but I think if you look at your negatives

  • and think of a way to find positivity.

  • You can't choose what happens to you,

  • but you can choose what you do.

  • - My biggest takeaway is that

  • my hair doesn't make up my identity.

  • Bald, full head of hair, whatever you are:

  • just fucking like yourself

  • and fuck anyone else who says otherwise.

  • - When we started this video by talking about how for men,

  • and for me in particular,

  • this is probably my biggest concern.

  • I've seen what that might look like,

  • and it's really not that scary.

  • - You're not mad at dad.

  • (Everyone laughs)

  • - I see how it is, so you like bald but not balding.

  • - That's how it is?

- We're shooting a video trying

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