Ladies and Gentlemen, The Comb Over

It was much tougher trying to choose something to write about for Yuck than it was for Wow. It was not tough because of the lack of what I can write about but the sheer abundance of stuff that I absolutely hate seeing.

Let me give you a quick rundown of stuff that I thought of writing about.

1. The masculine wash.I just don't get why men need anything other than soap, I just don't.
2. The MMDA urinals. Yup, the dreaded (formerly pink and blue, now green) things that you see in the streets. However, upon closer inspection (don't laugh!) of the said urinals, I saw that the already the normal urinals, the kind we see in regular bathrooms. They no longer had the disgusting rubber funnel looking urine catchers that are absolutely disgusting.
3. Charice Pempengco's Botox injection, for obvious reasons.

But then I decided to write about something I really hate seeing. And yes, "yuck" is the first word I think about when I see this.

I am talking about the Comb Over. You may not be familiar with the term but I think you've definitely seen it. I'm betting one of your dad's friends is even sporting it.

This is the Comb Over.



This dude is known as the Baldy Man, a Mr. Bean like character but his story revolves around his obsession with his hair.

There are more samples of this hair style. Here is perhaps the most well-known comb over in the known universe, Donald Trump's.



The comb over is basically a hair style for balding men. What they do is grow a part of their hair extremely long, then comb it over the bald parts to make it seem like their not bald at all. Click here for definitions from the urban dictionary.

Here is a quick step-by-step guide.


Usually, balding guys comb over from the side, but if hair from the side of your head does jot want to grow, you can also comb over from the back for a more awkward look, like this guy.



In extreme cases, guys get addicted to combing over that they could no longer stop. Here is the around the world comb over.

And still some love it so much that they start giving their pets the same hair style.

The poor dog looks pissed at his new do.

Anyway, here are the reasons why I do not like the comb over.

1. It looks unnatural.
2. The guys who sport it can;t accept the fact that they are balding.
3. They're really not fooling anyone. Everyone who see them know what's up, yet they pretend like nothing is wrong.
4. It's ugly.
5. It attracts attention, specially when the long strands of hair aren't where they're supposed to be.
6. The comb over is a half-baked solution to a problem. You can do things if you're balding. First, you can learn to accept it. Take it all off and get a shine. There are lots of men who are happily bald. Second, if you really do not like being bald, there are measure you can take to grow your hair back. Mark Gil now has hair, if he did it, you can to.

Going forward, I think these are the things that I do not like in general that I see with the comb over.

1. I don't like it when people could not accept themselves. They try to do stuff that would hide parts of themselves when what they should do is accept it and move forward.
2. I don't like it when people try to get away with stuff when it is obvious that other people know it was them (example: farting on a crowded elevator and trying to look innocent, politicians stopping the right to information bill and trying to make it seem that they aren't thieves, etc.)
3. Things that are ugly. Comb overs are ugly. I've never seen one that I liked.
4. Doing things because other people are doing it too. I know some people who prefer comb overs simply because they've seen other balding men do it. I really do not like it when people start doing stuff no because they want to but because they saw someone else do it.

And that, my friends, is why I think the comb over hair style must die.