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About Balding & Beards

BALDNESS AND BEARDS

Let’s start at the top. Male pattern baldness and beards, which are stimulated by androgen activity, personify manliness. Most men will face balding and baldness at some point in their lives, although it can vary widely from person to person.

For some men, going bald can be the cause of much angst, and they may seek medical treatment to lessen the impact.

The flip side, however, is that many men who experience male pattern baldness have the ability to grow thick, full facial hair that is worthy of envy. Properly maintaining a beard to help it reach its full potential is something every man should consider. Like many things in a man’s life, however, a one-size-fits-all approach isn’t always going to serve your personal needs and tastes.

Let’s face it; people are visual beings, so looking your best at all times will help you feel better about yourself, enhance the way people perceive you, and even help you succeed in the many areas of your life.

WHY I STARTED BALDING & BEARDS

I understand that men have a lot of questions when it comes to facial hair, hair loss, grooming, and style. While there’s a lot of easy-to-access information out there, none of it goes into great detail about these topics.

To go beyond basic facts to provide the latest, most detailed, and highest quality information for men who are seeking genuinely relevant answers to their questions.

GROOMING AND STYLE DECODED.

If you’re looking for in-depth information on how to grow a thicker beard, we’ll have it. We’ll explain in detail many elements that go into proper beard maintenance. We understand that hair loss can be of great concern, and we’ll help you deal with it. But we don’t stop there. Want to know how to apply cologne properly? We have you covered. We’ll provide instruction for trimming your mustache the right way, and also discuss the best hair products you need to have in your grooming arsenal.

We’ll also discuss the tools of the trade when it comes to men’s grooming – from beard trimmershair clippers, and nose hair trimmers, to products such as beard oil, its ingredients, and how it’s made. Hair and body care don’t just stop there, so neither will we. We’ll offer reviews of the best combsbody groomers, and more. We understand that proper grooming involves a whole-body approach in which no stone should be left unturned.

While many of our product reviews are geared toward men, our information on hair loss usually contains information for both sexes.

Affiliate Disclosure: We’ll regularly review and compare products related to facial hairhair loss, and men’s grooming. The reviews will contain links from affiliate links — mostly notably Amazon — from which we receive a small commission. We also make money through Google ads. You can read more about it on our privacy policy page. We’re open and honest about where our money comes from. While we’ll always be grateful if you buy through our affiliate links, we’ll never pressure you to do so.

You can also be assured that we put a lot of time and effort into researching all of the products we review, and in the vast majority of cases, we’ve either used the product and/or continue to use it today.

As men, we like to have fun, too, and we’ll often take a light-hearted – yet still informative – approach to what we write for this website.

Balding & Beards is updated with new articles about two times each month, and our existing guides and product reviews are updated regularly. Our goal is to provide men with the latest and most relevant and recent information available.

We also run a footwear resource website Footwear Ox – another obsession of ours. If you care about your feet, be sure to check it out.

I have also partnered up with Jordan Sully in a natural, eco-friendly brand ZELEN Life. If you are interested in premium organic products for sensitive (and normal) skin, you should check it out.

EDITORIAL GUIDELINES

To ensure that the information we provide helps you look good without compromising your health, we follow some strict editorial guidelines:

Medical disclaimer: We will always be a grooming and style resource at heart, but we are aware that when covering topics such as male pattern baldness and hair loss, we are providing general information relating to medical conditions and their treatment. Such information is provided for informational purposes only and is not meant to be a substitute for the advice provided by a doctor or other qualified health care professional. You should not use the information herein for diagnosing a health problem or disease, and you should always consult with a doctor or other health care professional for medical advice or information about diagnosis or treatment.
Putting your health first
Our mission is simple: To provide you with the most useful information on facial hair, hair loss, grooming, and style, to help you become the man you want to be. But with one important principle, which is – your health comes first.

When we cover a topic that falls within the realms of providing medical information, we ensure that we only publish content that is written by, or at the very least, reviewed by a qualified and credible health expert. Our medical writers are highly experienced and qualified to write in the subject matter. They are also well-practiced researchers. Any medical information or claims made are backed up with credible and proven scientific studies. We also only link to trustworthy medical websites. All our sources and citations are fully referenced within the content and at the bottom of each article.

This ensures we provide ‘medically correct’ content that enables you to make the best choices about your health, as well as your grooming and style. We take this responsibility seriously, but we still want to present the information in an entertaining and easy to read way.

Editorial Team
Our awesome editorial team spend a significant amount of time fact-checking and ensuring all our content remains accurate, before and after publication. They are mindful that medical information can change over time. They remain in close contact with our medical writers and regularly request their content is reviewed.

The Team

  • domen hrovatin

    Domen Hrovatin

    Founder & CEO

    Domen is a facial hair and grooming addict, and someone with personal experience with male pattern baldness. In 2014 he combined both aspects of his life to create Balding Beards. He has got his style and beard shaping down to a fine art.

  • Kyriakos Papadopoulos

    Kyriakos Papadopoulos

    Head of Content

    Kyriakos is our Head of Content and a grooming enthusiast. Rocking a wicked beard, he certainly understands how to grow one. His expertise in beard grooming keeps to amaze us while always having a tip or two on how to style thicker hair – which, believe us when we say he has a lot of that too.

  • Dr Shane Jackson

    Dr. Shane McKeown MBBS

    Medical Writer

    Dr. McKeown is a UK based NHS clinician with over 10 years experience in both hospital medicine and surgery. After a career in maxillofacial surgery his focus now lies in elderly care and rehabilitation medicine. Outside of his clinical work he is teaching or a medical consultant to healthcare startups.

  • Jordan Sully

    Jordan Sully

    Operations Manager

    Jordan is a grooming enthusiast and self-confessed skincare geek. He has over a decade of experience formulating his own natural skincare products. Since joining the team, he finally took the leap of faith and grew his first beard, and loved the results!

  • Aleksandra Popovic

    Aleksandra Popovic

    Executive Editor

    Our longest serving team member, Aleksandra is the genius who ensures our content is perfectly edited for all you guys to read. She is a hair growth enthusiast with personal experience with fighting Telogen effluvium, giving a valuable female perspective.

  • Mohammed Youisf

    Mohammed Yousif

    Web Developer

    Mohammed is our developer extraordinaire who looks after our website and keeps it looking as nicely groomed as he is himself. He’s got the coding know-how and design skills to ensure you get the very best user experience when you read our content.

THE BOTTOM LINE

The bottom line is that we know you’re faced with a lot of decisions when it comes to men’s grooming. We want to make those decisions easier for you by providing the kind of information that’s truly helpful. Enjoy the ride!

ANY QUESTIONS? CONTACT US

  • Wanting more information about Balding and Beards, our team, or our editorial process?
  • Needing specific grooming and style advice, or for our opinion on a product choice?
  • Just looking to connect with us? Hey, why not!
Whatever question you may have, know that it’s important to us, and we are ready to help. So what are you waiting for? Here’s how to do it: You can use the contact form on our Contact Us page. Alternatively, you can drop us an email or shoot us a DM on our socials:
Domen

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  • Hi Domen,
    Just want to really commend you for the amazing work on your website. We at Travel-Gentlemen have seen numerous websites that do reviews of products and accessories for men but yours really stand out for its relatable and authoritative content. Just to find a site that really discusses hair and grooming for men in such great depth is fantastic.
    We recently reviewed best beard trimmers for men on our website. We highlighted what we like about the Remington TouchTech Beard Trimmer just like you did one yours. Your post on beard trimmers and how to use the beard trimmers compared to other devices is truly insightful. There’s so much for every consumer to learn from you.
    Thank you for the inspiration and keep up the great work!!

  • Hello,
     
    My name is Rachel Dyas and I am an account manager at Rakuten Advertising. I am reaching out to see if you can provide me with any media kits/rate cards or information that I can pass on to my clients as a few in my portfolio are interested in learning more about partnering with you.
     
    Please let me know if you have anything you could send to me that I can share with my clients, or point me in the right direction to who I should reach out to.
     
    Thank you!
    Rachel

  • Hi there,

    you had a great article called Best Hair Loss Treatment For Men: A No-Nonsense Guide

    I can’t seem to find it on your site anymore

    pls help if you can

    thanks

    balding in Toronto

  • Hey Domen, you have made an awesome job in this blog. You inspired me alot. As a guy like you, I like the hair on my face and head. BTW, if you have been thinking about FUE or something I can give you some tips.Anyways keep up the good work:)

  • I’m looking to buy my husband a good grooming kit for his birthday. He has a full grizzly-Adams beard that he likes to keep trimmed up. He shaves his head bald. And he shaves his back. I’d like to get him set up for under $100 with a kit (or putting pieces together) to give him something solid and useful for something he maintains daily. Any suggestions?

  • Great, informative website and thank you. Wear my hair a 1 on top and a close skin fade. Looking to maintain a five o’clock shadow stubble effect for side burns, mustache and under chin. Any grooming recommendations for this look? Thanks, Ken C

    • Get the right tool for the job – a stubble trimmer. And perhaps keep your goatee a tiny bit longer compared to other stubble.

  • Just recently discovered this website and it seems a excellent one for the liking of me who has wanted and could have grown a beard since I was 18 but was never allowed to, yes I was never really a strong willed person. At first it was my parents who always sent me back to the bathroom if I missed at the most 2 days without shaving saying I looked like a “beachcomber”, scruffy and unkempt, so I just had to shave and that was that. When I got married if I did not shave twice a day my wife would refuse ‘ you know what’ at night, saying my face was like a ‘hedgehog’ so it was a shave at 7am and also at about 9pm as well.
    Sadly my wife died just over 5 years ago and it was only then that I have attempted not to shave for about 8 or 9 days in a row, however, that dreaded itch made me shave it off after that time UNTIL I read this website asking men to persevere the itch and continue with the beard. I have achieved that and I am now almost month without shaving, I feel great, my daughter likes my new look as well, in fact I might never shave again, one can never say never, medical reasons might make me have to shave but up to now at the age of 68 I have always had good health. Its very evenly spread all over my face from the lower neck where there are many hairs spreading up from my hairy chest to just under my eyes and my mustache is thick as well with no break spreading on to my face, a full beard is what I want and it seems is what I am getting. The only problem I have had is a few hairs from my mustache getting into my mouth when I am eating but I have been advised by I think one of your staff Domen to comb it sideways, yes I have done that and the hair is NOT going into my mouth. Like to go a yeard or MORE without trimming (forget the word shaving) BUT if it really gets like Rasputin I might have to trim a bit, not sure if I would like my beard to be more than 8 or 9 inches IF it does do that, have to wait and see what happens in my personal beard journey.

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