I'd've left it just like it is in your picture. People would stop picking on you and leave you be.

There's real value in that, why, one day I sat down at the dinner table fresh from the shop where I had been wire wheeling some parts on the bench grinder. I had one of those 3/4" wires sticking out of my forehead. My wife and kids were scared to talk to me.
Finally, I could sit and eat dinner in peace...