I really just wanted to start this post because I have been on a recent journey lately that brought me back to my hairloss days. Let me start out by saying that I am only 26 years old, but have been shaving my head CLEAN for about 5 years now, started out progressively like many, clippers with lowest attachment, to no attachment, to finally taking the plunge. I have always been a very fit, athletic guy, but over the last 3 or 4 years I have put on some weight, after graduating college, finding a "real job" I have dealt with the fast life and eating on the go and so forth. This isn't a weight loss forum, so I will leave it at that.
It has reminded me of the struggle I had when I began losing my hair at a very young age. Slowly but surely my hairline was receding, and I was voted in my senior class in high school as the "most likely to go bald first." Great. Real encouraging. It was then that I really began to notice it myself. I always thought, "there is no way I can be going bald, I'm only 19." Denial. Denial. Denial.
I struggled with the thought of shaving my head, I resorted to, like many of you, wearing a baseball hat. The classic 'cover my balding' move. That went on for about a year or so, and I finally found some clippers, and just went for it. My parents were against it, thought I should just grow my hair out, even though I know it would only look worse, and I would only look older. Boy what a sense of relief. You know before I did that, I always though, I will never find a girlfriend if I am bald. No girls like bald guys, etc. It couldn't of been more wrong. Girls loved it. There are plenty of women in the world, and if you aren't happy with yourself first, there is no reason anyone else is going to love you. Some won't like it, some think it is bad, but the others, they love it.
My point of this is just to go for it. I wish I wouldn't have procrastinated on the subject for so long, and just started shaving at first sight of balding. It is a rewarding experience, one that you will not know until you actually shave it off. Take a look at my blog for shaving tips, health and wellness trips, and my road to being a Headblade "User of the Month" at
www.alitjourney.wordpress.com.
Happy Shaving! And remember, A real man combs his hair with a razor!