In the YMCA guy's defense, the earrings are only a month old and the beard is only 10 days old. So I guess I changed my look a lot in a short period of time. It's funny though: I forgot! He kept staring at me and asking for more information to confirm it was me, and I couldn't understand why, and when he finally smiled and said, "You shaved your head," I thought "Oh that's right! I did shave my head." So I think it's good I wasn't thinking about it. I want to say again, I'm grateful for this site. If you look up ANY kind of appearance issues for men online, let alone things about hair or shaved heads, the information is just awful and shallow and insulting and selling products and blah. I'm glad this exists.