Shaving your head when you are 23. Do you think that it is too soon?

[xnewyawka]

I think if you are old enough to shave your face, you can give headshaving a try.
If you really do not like it (I think you will), it will grow back to a buzz cut in about a week.

As far as being neat and polished, like saint said, the whole package is what will be noticed.
Don't be sloppy in dress, have a nice tight buzz if you don't want to shave yet.
Come in with confidence, and the rest will fall into place.

Good luck.            

[mangosink12572]

BillOnBass - - -A very encouraging post

No, you are not to young at all  - - -Go shave it

[Luixmai]

Hi Again, here I am with a new cuestion for you. I am a very hairy man, and I realized that my eyebrows are so hairy, and I think that It would be a very big contrast if I leave them untouched when I shave my head. I think that they make me uglier.

Do you usually do something with your Eyebrows?

[Argyle]

I have just read through this entire post and thought I would chip in if you dont mind. 

I dont think eyebrows pose a big problem at all.  I have sometimes wondered the same thing as I am also hairy and have very dark eyebrows so they are quite dominant on my face.  Just one of the things that makes me me and you you. 

I also dont think 23 is too young.  On the ol Norwood Scale I am at or close to a VI if I remember correctly.  Basically, nothing more than fuzz on the top.  I have been that way since I was about 27 or 28.  I suspect, although it didnt bother me much at that time, that i should have shaved at about 23. 

As for living in Northern Spain, I took a trip to Bilbao and San Sebastian a couple of years back.  I saw plenty of sly guys, with the added bonus of the fact that you spaniards have more latin, darker skin which i think looks great with a shaved head.  Not like us sun shy Brits! 

I say go for it.  You are going to have to confront it at some point.  At that point you have options, you can either rock the MPB look which many prefer to do and to be honest is fine, or you can take it to the skin like we have chosen to do.  My preference is for shaving as I think it is a cleaner, lower maintenance look.  Also - now that I dont have hair I have started playing around with facial hair which ironically I have no problem growing at all - that is fun!

[fcb2001]

23 isnt too young, i shaved right after i turned 28, but i should of shaved at 25, with where iam on the norwood scale,, iam at a IV right now, the thinning is getting worse on top and iam almost 34

[fcb2001]

MPB is not reversable by any sane method, or any other one at all.  Don't do drugs, plugs or rugs--it's a waste of money and can be dangerous to your health. 

agreed

one of my cousins is infertile from taking a combo of hair regrowth drugs and now he just had a hair prodecure at Medical HAir Restoration and it cost him 15000 US dollars after wearing a toupee for 6 months and a transplant at Hair Club, and this cousin is 8 years older than me, he wants to have hair,
 and he still ridicules me for having a shaved head,
I will never uses drugs, plugs or rugs,

[McLinkous]

I live in Memphis in the USA and there are tons of sly guys here...with all types of skin colors, at all ages and at all levels of body hair and facial hair.  Everyone looks good.  Or at least nobody looks bad simply because of those issues. 

The most important thing is for you to be happy about yourself and I've found that most of the guys I know start to feel more confident about themselves within a couple of months of their first shave.  That first moment can be a shock though.

So, give it a try.  There's nothing to lose.  Worst case scenario is that you have to wait about a week or two to get back to where you are today.

[Vincent]

I don't think 23 is too soon. There's lot of young men who are bald.

My only regret about my shaving head: i should have done this one or two years earlier. If you feel that it's the right moment to shave your head, do it. It's useless to wait months or years and to worry about our hair. Just shave it!

[MikeInPdx]

I think if you are old enough to shave your face, you can give headshaving a try.
If you really do not like it (I think you will), it will grow back to a buzz cut in about a week.

As far as being neat and polished, like saint said, the whole package is what will be noticed.
Don't be sloppy in dress, have a nice tight buzz if you don't want to shave yet.
Come in with confidence, and the rest will fall into place.

Good luck.            

I agree....it's the whole package and how you carry yourself..

[kenny57028]

I'm 18 and shaving my head so you got 5 years on me.

[Luixmai]

Ok guys, sorry for being offline for long time, but I have been quite busy those days. Sadly, I could not get that job , but well, now I am waiting the answer of other interviews I had on this days.

And well, I think that this weekend or on the next, my brother in law will come and he will help me buzzing my hear and, maybe, shaving it.

Thanks for all ^^

[aarrggh]

WHAT ! ?  ::   I thought cartoon characters were in high demand  . . . .

[mdave87]

22 here. Your never too young to be bald. Just look at babies.

[Polarbear]

Some babies do not want to be bald though, those are the ones that cry all day We were the happy babies, that's why we are here to reunite

Anyway, about the eyebrow question: there is Andre Agassi with very dark eyebrows who is considered handsome. And I think there are more examples. I'm from Europe as well. Anyway, what was the question?

O right, 23 too soon... Not at all! I'm 23 myself. Although I am not sly myself I have had the shortest buzzcut, no gaurd, for over three years now I guess.

[DrewH]

I'm 23.  I honestly look and feel closer to 23 sly than I do with hair. 

I chose to "rock it up" a little bit, as Daughtry was a bit of my inspiration, and changed my wardrobe/general style a little bit.  It helped me feel like I was giving myself an edge rather than succumbing to a problem.  And a 23 year old can't really relate to Bruce Willis, if you know what I'm sayin.

I haven't had any negative comments about it other than my sister calling me "very intimidating", which I took as a compliment really.