NY Times Head Shaving Article

[OzPete]

Great article, Tyler.

[RoachX]

“If you get to the point where you’re shaving your head,” he said, “you’ve gotten to the point where you don’t give a damn.”


Love that quote.

[Tyler]

Yeah, that is a great line!

[Razor X]

Hey does anyone know anything about this Magic Shave stuff by L'Oreal that they mentioned?  I Googled but nothing usefull came up.

I actually tried it Shiny,  smells bad, doesn't remove all hair and left chemical irritatioon.  Labeling on the stuff I had said formulated for black men so that may be the reason.  But I definitely wouldn't use it again. 

Yeah, don't do it.  I got a very nasty burn from that stuff - just two days before I started a new job.  Talk about embarrassing - having to start a new job and meeting new people with this huge scab the size of a quarter right on the top of your head.  It's probably because I have very fair skin and this was designed for black men, whose skin can probably better withstand a litte abuse from a depilatory chemical.

Even if you don't burn yourself with it, one application doesn't remove all the hair, and you have to wait something like 48 hours before you can reapply it or shave or tweeze the rest of the hair.  It also grows back just as quickly as shaved hair does, so there is no real advantage to using it.

Oh, yes -- it also smells really bad.

[Shiny]

Hey does anyone know anything about this Magic Shave stuff by L'Oreal that they mentioned?  I Googled but nothing usefull came up.

I actually tried it Shiny,  smells bad, doesn't remove all hair and left chemical irritatioon.  Labeling on the stuff I had said formulated for black men so that may be the reason.  But I definitely wouldn't use it again. 

Yeah, don't do it.  I got a very nasty burn from that stuff - just two days before I started a new job.  Talk about embarrassing - having to start a new job and meeting new people with this huge scab the size of a quarter right on the top of your head.  It's probably because I have very fair skin and this was designed for black men, whose skin can probably better withstand a litte abuse from a depilatory chemical.

Even if you don't burn yourself with it, one application doesn't remove all the hair, and you have to wait something like 48 hours before you can reapply it or shave or tweeze the rest of the hair.  It also grows back just as quickly as shaved hair does, so there is no real advantage to using it.

Oh, yes -- it also smells really bad.

Let me make sure I've got this right....  It literally BURNS your scalp, does NOT remove all the hair, regrowth is just as fast as shaving AND it smells bad.      IS there a downside?    

[KALBO]

Good read, thanks for keeping it posted Tyler!  Have a feeling the next major article that appears will probably mention SBGs as well! 

[skinhead002]

The only issue I have with the article is that it doesn't mention the movie, TV, and stage pioneers for us baldies: Yul Brynner and Telly Savalas. Jordan helped to popularize it but there were those that were there decades before him. Jeeeze, I was shaving my head years before Jordan! lol