Move over vajazzle, the new bedazzling the body trend, the baldazzle, is going to our heads.

"If you are bald, embrace your baldness. Make it a superpower," suggests London-based entrepreneur Philip Levine, who began using his head as a canvas four years ago when he started going bald, and chronicles his jazzy looks on his website, Phil Says Head Designs.

"I wanted to shave my head," he remembers, "but I didn't want to just leave it and be that standard guy who walks down the street, so I thought, 'Why not use it as a canvas for my creativity?' Then people can look while I walk."

Since then, Levine has worked with friend and body painter, Kit Sinclair, to create multiple works of head art, including a scene from "The Wizard of Oz", a tsunami wave, eyeballs, Betty Boop and even a head full of sewn-on buttons.

Levine's latest work is a Swarovski crystal headpiece (pictured, left), which he calls his best design yet -- and may give Jennifer Love Hewitt's vajazzle a run for its money.

It includes 1,000 crystals that are painstakingly placed one by one onto his scalp. For the faint of heart (or head), he offers the same look in a cap. "That means ladies can have it as well," he says. "I have had people with such conditions as alopecia email me because they love it and want to do it themselves. It's the perfect accessory for a lady (after a man on her arm of course!)."

Because most designs only last for a day or two, Levine is always busy creating new looks for his bald head, including 100 designs for a gallery display in May 2011. "I seem to be on the cusp of making it a trend," he says. "I hope to open a salon one day to do 'head styles' rather than 'hair styles'."

If you ask Levine which is better: hair or head art? It's not surprising that he chooses the latter. "Who wouldn't want a beautiful head design like the ones I do?"

Artist, designer, head stylist, entrepreneur or just a man with something to say, you can bet that Levine turns a lot of heads and makes quite a statement when he walks into any room. No doubt, the art is striking, but perhaps, even moreso, he is garnering the attention of so many because he has managed to take something that most people dread -- baldness -- and turn it into something that's celebrated.

"It never ceases to amaze people," says Levine, who is not afraid to try new forms of expression. "Nothing is outrageous in my world."

i don't understand why blading men don't embrace it. i think shaved heads are VERY hot.

cborgman said:

He's a stupid bitch.

i don't understand why balding men don't embrace it. i think shaved heads are VERY hot.

i don't do mine often, but i had to for a show once:




it makes guys look so macho.
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I hate that I have a bald head...I have serious hair envy....so fuck you Dan, Jersey, HERMAN (showoff) and the rest of you folically wealthy bastards...

I miss the little things like going to get my hair cut...so relaxing...

Alas....I am left with a razor and regrets...

Genesia said:

god, we need a fourth one of those. i nominate going with an older woman like gertrude or doing kate from shrew.

cborgman said:

You saying I don't look macho?

cborgman said:

Nope. It has to be a woman in danger. You know...a Lifetime moment.

And he can't do Gertrude - there's already been one from Hamlet.

OMG - Lady MacBeth would be perfect!

Number23 said:

wow, bunny. it's been so long since i have seen a pic of you, i almost didn't recognize you.

and yes.

cborgman said:

Ach, that's from about four years ago. Awful lighting too, darling. I had it really long again until last weekend when I shaved it all off. Number three razor all round, done it in the mirror and felt like crying. It just gets too Poison. I currently look like a Nazi florist who enjoys anal rape for the power aspect.

As one of my dragz notes, "Please, drag queens have been gluing crap to their faces and heads for, um, basically EVER. This guy acts like he invented it!"

While you guys are waiting for a new sassy gay friend installment, here's the same guy in a different skit...




Oh, and just to be on topic: baldazzling sucks.

Number23 said:

mine is shoulder length, and i am debating cutting it off. either the prince lesbian gold experience cut that is bangs heavy or jaw length

I love me one bald headed man and he is funky too
love you baby
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cborgman said:

Id say only go short if you have a strong jaw. Long hair covers a multitude of sins - jug ears, wonky eyes, crooked nose, neck tattoos, crow's feet, low cheekbones etc. However, buzzed hair with a perfect jawline bedazzles all imperfections. Look at Jeff Goldblum.

Number23 said:

everytime i see him in new york, i want to punch him in his stupid face. everytime i have seen him at an event or dinner, or plays, he is such an ass to everyone around him.

i have a strong jaw, but too much fat in the face, so shorter hair actually helps me.

Genesia said:

JINX!

Number23 said:

everytime i see him in new york, i want to punch him in his stupid face. everytime i have seen him at an event or dinner, or plays, he is such an ass to everyone around him.

i have a strong jaw, but too much fat in the face, so shorter hair actually helps me.

While you guys are waiting for a new sassy gay friend installment, here's the same guy in a different skit...




Oh, and just to be on topic: baldazzling sucks.

cborgman said:

Jeff Goldblum is an ass?!?! Damn. I thought he was one of the cool ones. That sucks.

cborgman said:

Jeff Goldblum?