It's now exactly a week since I first shaved my head, from having relatively long hair.
This week has been quite amazing. I live in halls at university so the first people to see my head were flatmates. Most were completely fine, said it looked good. From the lads there was the odd mickey take - but perfectly fine with that.
As I mentioned, I'm quite lucky with girls so was interested to see how a few I've been 'intimate' with would react. None reacted negatively and most just wanted to rub/kiss my head.
It's been relatively cold/dull here so outside, wandering about I've kept a wooly hat on, in part due to the weather, but also being quite pale and the cold sucking more colour of out my face, I didn't want to look odd.
But, I went to a lecture without my hat and again, comments and reactions were very positive, apparently I have a good head shape which is nice to hear.
I've felt much better in myself for doing it, much less like I've got this huge cloud over me and I can now do things I wasn't able to - wear helmets, play sports, go swimming!!
It's also nice to look in the mirror and not stress about my hair, I've felt much more free and at ease this week, which has in turn affected my mood and attitudes with people, I'm calmer, nicer and not as irritable.
I quite like the look of a day/two days growth, because I still have quite a lot of hair and it goes very dark, it looks quite sharp, so I've been shaving every other day.
I do however, have a few issues:
Shaving - I red bumps straight after a shave that lasts for a few hours, is this just the skin getting used to being shaved?
I can't seem to evenly shave my head, I miss bits and I can't work out which way the grain goes for certain parts of the head - I'm guessing this comes with experience.
Anyway, so far so good and I'd urge people thinking about it, to just do it. It's really a game changer.
