Should I just go bald

I decided to start growing my hair because I was unhappy with the way most haircuts looked on me ( fades and lineups make my forehead look big and out of proportion with my face ). I was thinking of growing an afro but my friends discouraged me saying that it will look bad. My only choices now are either getting dreads or going bald but I have no genuine idea of how to start dreadlocking so I just might go bald. It doesn't help that I have no idea of what I really look like as every time I look at myself on a picture or on the mirror my face looks different, making hard to decide a hairstyle that would suit me. What would you recommend doing in my position (apologies for my bad english, its not my first language )