How to Have Awesome Hair: The Art of Combover

The Classic or Textbook Combover

Before we get into some of the more exotic combovers that you might want to try on for size, let’s start with the basics. Pictured above, you can see wispy strands of hair pushed to one side of forehead and then plastered down using gel or adhesive so as to create the illusion of hair. This is what is known as the Classic or Textbook combover.

The Combover Glamour Shot

Good one, dude! I could hardly tell that you’re balding!!

The Baby Come Over

For those who start balding at an early age.

Mug Shot Combover

Charged with Fraudulent use of hair.

The Beard-Over

Why limit your combover to five inordinately long strands of hair on your head? Get creative and try out new styles involving your facial hair.

Combover Tip #1: Make sure to use a good adhesive

“Go ahead. Touch it.”

Gels, hair spray and crazy-glue are all suitable adhesives for keeping your well quaffed hair in place.

Combover Tip #4: Start early

Don’t wait until you are 40 to start on your comb over. If you start practicing your technique when you are young, you’ll be a combover ladykiller by your mid-forties.

Sam Donaldson: The Dignified Combover

I am never quite sure if Sam Donaldson has a toupee or simply one of the most aggressive combovers in the history of network television. I do know that whatever he’s got going on up there is quite distracting. It’s like a train wreck you can’t stop looking at.

John McCain

Gene Keady

For 25+ years, this Dapper Dan has eschewed hair gels and sprays, instead opting to use shoe polish to plaster down his awesome yarmulke-eque comb over.

How to Create Your Very Own Combover

Step 1: Part your hair starting at the back of your scalp.

Step 2: Comb hair forward at a 90 degree angle using the swirl technique, thus covering bald area with 7-8 long strands of hair.

Step 3: Add gel, spit, or shoe polish to giver your hair a shiny glow.

Step 4: Go out with the confidence of knowing that no one can tell you are balding.

The 360 degrees Full DomeCombOver

Amazingly, this guy has managed to wrap the whole thing around his head like some type of ingenious hair-turban. Phenomenal!

The Female Combover

A combover for the ladies.

The CombForward

A close relative of the comb over, the comb forward requires long strands of hair combed forward and then glued to your forehead until they reach your eyebrows.

Avoid attempting at all costs, as this undignified hair do is universally shunned by all civilized people.

Another CombForward

Jeebus Christ! This one is terrible.

The two inch mini combover

This is truly when the combover is at its most pathetic point

When Combovers Attack!

“Damn it!! I knew I shouldn’t have let Larry touch it!”

Combover Tip #2: Wear a prosthetic nose

People will be so distracted by your weird nose that they won’t have time to concentrate on your ridiculously pathetic forehead.

Comeover Tip #5: Avoid Windy Locales!!

Wind and combovers are mortal enemies.

Sam Donaldson animal celebrity look-a-like

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John McCain animal celebrity look-a-like

Looks very similar to McCain’s combover from the mid-eighties

Gene Keady animal celebrity look-a-like

Hollywood Loves a good Combover

Bill Murray in KingPin: Probably the most aggressive combover ever.

Romanian President, Mr. Traian Basescu.