Not telling you what to do, it's your life your call. But my two cents: it's what look you are comfortable with that counts, not what others think. Sooooooo
I would ask myself if I am uncomfortable with a shaved head (or whatever you do to adapt to the loss of hair) because I don't like how it looks, or if it's because I don't like how I think OTHER people will think it looks. But it's your choice, just throwing that out there. One more thing, and it's not a matter of choice, it is a clarification:
I would say that with a full head of hair i was about an 8/10 and now about a 6.5.
Presuming that you are using the "scale out of ten" for looks, let's not forget to take the woman's viewpoint into consideration: LOOKS DON'T MATTER. We men mostly use this scale to rate women in terms of attractiveness and for most of us this boils down to her face, her tits, and her ass (shallow but true). But we make a crucial mistake when we "project" this criteria onto them, expecting them to have the same priorities (good looking, washboard stomach, biceps, or whatever). Personally, I think Morgul's OP in this thread
http://www.naturalfreedom.info/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=163 is the most accurate thing I have found on what women find attractive (next to Kidd!! and peregrinus' posts peppered throughout the site).
Please don't misunderstand me - I am not saying to do nothing about these changes you're going through; basically what I am saying is that if you try to hide something about yourself that you are ashamed of, that shame may very well end up being more unattractive to women than the very thing that you were trying to hide.
This past year I noticed that my hair was beginning to thin out in some very prominent areas. Do I give a fuck? NO! Funny thing is, during the same period I have not only been jocked more by good looking women than IN THE ENTIRE DECADE OF MY 20's WHEN I HAD A FULL HEAD OF HAIR, but I have been fondled more in public, and have even had total strangers caress my leg (I mentioned this in another post), my back, or the back of my neck while walking past me, WITHOUT THEM EVEN BEING AWARE THAT THEY WERE DOING IT.
Shit, a few months before I discovered this site, I was standing up outside smoking a cigarette by myself,
getting comfortable in my body (using inner body awareness like how Eckhart Tolle etc. teach) - underlined for emphasis - wearing the shirt I most hated, the jeans that made me look the most bloated (laundry day
), a 5 o'clock shadow, bags under my eyes from not enough sleep, and in dire need of a haircut (and bear in mind what I said about my hair thinning - it musta looked really lopsided!) and noticed a girl walking out of a shop that was not only a 10/10 (using that friggin' scale AGAIN!
), but dressed so decently, tastefully, and casually that I couldn't help but be impressed and was maybe thinking that she's outta my league. She looked in my direction and immediately looked away (her beautiful straight brunette hair whipping back in the process) and I thought "Yep, I do indeed look hideous." I finished the cigarette - and note that this took 3-4 minutes after seeing her - walked around the corner and there she was in the parking lot, sitting in the open trunk of her car (much bigger than mine, btw - chick was probably loaded too
), doing nothing else and obviously waiting for me, and all I heard was a nervious but excited "Hiiiiiiiiii....." The energy coming from her was so intense (I had NEVER felt the likes of this from a total stranger before) that after I said "Hi, everything's good with you?" and she said "I'm great." I made like I was in a hurry and left.
Sad but true, but it does illustrate my point. (To Kidd!! & 'Grinus - this was one of the things that sent me online, through that PUA garbage, that eventually landed me here. I have actually just yesterday finally traced back to the root of my lack of any sense of deservedness - in a case like this self esteem was not actually the major issue as it's one hell of a CONfirmation - and I may post on that discovery elsewhere; haven't decided yet...)
I just wanted to get it clear that looks don't matter as much as we think, and posted all that crap above because I find guys have a problem accepting this concept (I have tried explaining it to my real-life male friends, but to no avail), but that doesn't mean you shouldn't maximise your appearance, of course. Like Kidd!! says, change the things you CAN, and then work on accepting the things you can't. That's sage advice......