hey everyone, I've been extremely busy at university over the last few months and never got round to updating my progress on the forum. Over the summer i posted at length about my initial decision to buzz all my hair off in this post:
http://www2.slybaldguys.com/smf/index.php?topic=17587.0Since then things have went better than expected. In September I finally got the disposable razor out and went completely sly. I was quite socially inactive over the summer due to being a poor student, so none of my friends at home (in Northern Ireland) saw me without my long hair. I didn't tell any of my friends back at university (in England) that i'd shaved or even buzzed my hair off so when I moved back to uni at the end of September everyone was pretty shocked to see I was bald. I was interested to see what peoples responses would be like; a few people seemed to get used to it instantly while others didn't even recognise me walking around town. I took a few jokes initially from my mates but generally people liked it and respected me for doing it. My family and mum in particular like it too since they were never really fans of my longer hair.
One thing I was quite worried about was how it would affect my success with girls, especially this one girl from home, let's call her "Sally". Things were going fine in England girl-wise as when I met new people they had no idea what I looked like before going sly, so the dramatic change was a non-issue. Anyway, I'm back in Northern Ireland for the Christmas holidays and I met up with "Sally" a couple of weeks ago on a night out. I was convinced that she wouldn't find me attractive any more and wouldn't be interested. Things went better than expected though and after the initial "wow, you're so bald", it was just like normal and we really hit it off again. I suppose that put my mind at rest after worrying about it for months. Now I have so much more confidence and can enjoy being young without worrying about my hair ALL THE TIME.
I get a lot of questions from people like "are you going to grow it back?" and I've decided that even if I could (I probably can't) I enjoy being bald too much. It's easy, liberating, a bit 'edgy' for a guy of my age and I've found that drunk strangers are less likely to make fun of a guy with a shaved head than a guy with a receding hairline, probably because the shaved head can look intimidating, haha.
Thanks again to you guys for the inspiration to take control of my life again. I'm gonna try and be a bit more active on the forum now, particularly in helping other young guys address their hair loss and make positive changes in their lives, as most of us know - losing your hair can really get you down, especially at a young age.
Here are some picture of me having fun and being bald.

