Wig, natural hair or bald?

[ashes]

Well, I am a tramp clown and I'm still working on ideas
for my costume, face and such - even after clowning for nearly
30 years...

I'm naturally balding - in fact, I've been growing out what hair I
have for a while now to give me a natural bald-pate wig without
having to buy one.

The down side to this is my every-day hair is now clown hair. I can
do fun things with it but it drives me crazy.

My other choices are to buy a bald-pate wig (boo-hiss) but they're
too hot here in Texas.

Or, just go ahead and go back to my really short hair (ALMOST shaved,
but not quite.)

The effect would be funny with a small fire helmet on that vast expanse
of head.

I'm still trying to decide. Any thoughts from the peanut gallery?
Anyone ever seen a bald tramp clown?

[saphireSue]

I do beleive there was one several years ago at a workshop I attended, He had a beard but not hair and an old hat. Look good

[mr_buckaroo]

i dont use a wig myself but my hair is red so it kinda works. i also use a old keystone gray cowboy hat with the brim turned up for my cowboy clown.

[Scruffy]

I believe Jobee does. Like you, ashes. I'm working my way there. My clown hair is my har. I have it left a little long on the sides and use moose (Mousse) to help control it. I also comb my hair back in to basically a pompadour, also known as a DA. For Scruffy, I just pull the hair on the sides out and shag it out a bit.

[BIPS]

Ya know, it's funny....

When I was a teenager, I wanted beard hair so bad that I would shave what little I had twice a day hoping it would grow in thicker...

The beard now twenty years later is thick, graying, and nice....and something I don't want any more!

I have a decent head of hair, although my receding hairline has made enormous progress in the last few years. I'm at the stage of my life where I am actually WANTING to be bald on the top, and have hair on the sides I can grow out.

Funny how life works, huh?

In the class that Chuck Sidlow taught during clown school he showed us how to use hair for comedic effect, and it was great! Ironically though, he doesn't use his natural hair. That schooltime was money well spent, and I hope in the next year or so to be able to afford more...

[ashes]

Well, actually, Chuck-o does use his real hair when he does
his Groucho character. If I remember correctly.

I've been growing mine out now for a few months. Maybe 6 months.

It works great for my clown character - perfect characterizaton and you
CAN do lots of fun things with it.

It's just that it bugs the heck out of me during every day life...

We responded to a structure fire last night and I had a terrible case
of bed-hair. My fellow reserves were laughing and getting a huge
kick out of it. I told them it was all by design!
They even had to have a picture of my hair, since one of them had
a camera with him. Can't wait to see how that one comes out.

It is a little bit of a problem since the firemen all have really short hair. I've
always kept mine really short also - up til now, that is.

It's a small problem, though, in the grand scheme of things.

[SouthwestSam]

I started out wearing wigs and loved the laughs when my hat would fall off showing a bald head with red curly hair, I even tied a string to my waistband in the back and attached it to my hat so that when I bent over to take a bow, the hat was guaranteed to fall off and get laughs.

But I sweat profusely so the wig had to go. Sometimes I would just wig my hair out with hairspray so that when my hat was removed, it was a Wacky mess.

I too was a Hobo/Tramp Clown back in those days. Now, I'm just a Wacky Cowboy Character.

-SWS

[Jobee]

I have the problem of being 25 but my hairline being 45. I shave right down to the scalp to try and keep my youth image but I might just let it grow out and shave the few hairs I got left on the top and maybe going for some hair dye to complete the image.

[Scruffy]

Hair loss is fast. I'm 36. Ten years ago before I was diagnosed with diabetes, I had a full head of theick, wavy hair. It was become fine and is thinning at a rapid rate. I guess I have a retreating hairline
My wife still loves me though

[SouthwestSam]

Hey Scruff,

You can say that again