this world hair or not is full of bastards what you think life was going to be like? everyone singing while holding hands? dancing in a circle? people call you names? and you are complaining? welcome to life you must be new here.
Amen to that.
With regards to muscle, I've worked on my body once or twice a week when I've had time over the last 9months with interval running and compound lift exercises and in the bars and clubs at least, I certainly noticed a difference in the way most girls respond to me, I'm not some nasty looking hulk now, but I'm certainly not the scrawny, small-bodied alien looking guy I was back last summer either, and it shows! lol The responses have been a lot more positive, I think this is also down to the fact that the running and weights have significantly helped in improving my POSTURE, which is also vital for sending out positive signals of masculinity and high status as opposed to the hunched, rounded shoulders, head down, scrawny looking guy.
Most importantly though, I now feel 100x more confident and comfortable in how my body looks and am happy to wear more fitted shirts, and t-shirts than I would ever dreamed of wearing 9 months ago. I can actually go out and be myself and not have to worry about how i look all the time anymore even if my hair doesn't look great.
Irrespective of whether women notice my physique or not, the internal confidence boost and self esteem boost for me is by far the greatest and most lasting benefit of lifting weights and getting into shape and why I would recommend it to anyone, especially bald/balding guys with self esteem issues.
With regards to tan, I think the fake bottled stuff is awful and not even girls can pull it off (I often notice white and orange patchy smear marks on girls arms where the tan is beginning to wear off) lol, but certainly a slowly-built up natural looking sun-bed tan does make a radiant difference and as a pale-faced irish-bearded guy, it's something I'd definitely like to work on when I've got a bit more time and looked into appropriate skin protecting creams etc...
Also Fred and UCMan don't have to worry as much about the working out business because they're 6ft 2+ so the visual impact of baldness is more spread out somewhat, however if you're a 5ft 8 or under guy like me it's kind of a choice between looking like a healthy, naturally muscly buzzed nw3 or not giving a sht at all and looking like Gollum...