The title says it all. I'm booked to do my first session of laser hair removal this Tuesday. This is the third time I've booked to start and the first time I chickened out and cancelled by phone. The second time I did a patch test but didn't do the session. And this time I'm bringing a friend to support me.

I like the bald look and am 100% sure I will be bald forever. And I want to be more bald than what I am and avoid shaving time. Whenever I book it the desire to do it outweighs the fear but but when the appointment comes up I get so scared because it's a huge visible body modification. It's some mixture of

- fear of being overly shiny, bizarre or freakish afterward.
- fear of being patchy for months
- fear of being left with a stubborn patch they can't remove

Finally I have my partner on board with it, so it's just my own fear at this point. Am I really ready for it?

I really could use some supportive comments.  Thanks so much guys.

WOW!

Sounds interesting, I'm glad it's working out for you!

Got my original SMP about three years ago.

Other than a large and growing bald spot on the crown of my head, I still had a full head of hair. I?ll be very light, very thin and very fine. The original SMP job filled the ball spot on my crown and blended it into a very light dusty hairline at the front so that I look like an older guy with very gray very fine thinning hair, who shaves his head. Think of it as looking like a high bald fade.

Overtime, the bald spot has gotten larger, and the so-called horseshoe on the back sides of my head has turned almost pure white.

On Wednesday I drove back to my SMP professional in Boca Raton, Florida a 4 Hour Dr. each way for me to have him touch up the top and fill in the back sides of my head so now it looks like I have very thin very fine like gray hair on my entire head and that I am BBC by choice.

It looks great. I am so pleased that patchy look is gone and I truly look BBC and it looks good!  Also, if I do want to try to grow the horseshoe Flattop back, it will look a bit thicker because of the SMP underneath the thinning hair

What a confidence builder!

I cannot recommend highly enough the owner of international hairlines of Boca Raton,  his name is Seif Sidky.  He has locations in Boca Raton, Fort Lauderdale, Arizona, and even in Cairo Egypt. He really knows how to do a light dusty hairline so that the SMP does not look fake.

The only aftercare is that for the first three days you cannot wash or shave your head after that there is no aftercare and you can go 3 to 5 years without having to think about getting a touchup done.

I started shaving my head full time about 3-1/2 years ago, after going back and forth for about 4 years prior.  Since then, the longest I?ve gone without shaving is about 6 days.  I get a smoother shave if I do it every other day, but it?s hard to wait that long.   I had 6 laser treatments last year, which got rid of most of the dark hair.  If I let my hair grow 3-4 days, it comes back snow white and I look 10 years older.  I?m a bald guy for life, now!