I'm a 20 year old, Sicilian male in Ohio. I used to have Rambo hair but I started getting thin around 17. I've been shaving my head with a razor ever since. My hair is a black and dark brown mix when it grows, I wanted to have a mohawk when I was younger, but that isn't going to happen now. At the beginning of this year I started using a cup to shave around a lock of hair on the back of my head right under the "U" shaped balding zone. This is called a Sikha and mine is about nine inches long now. It's a hairstyle found in India, China, and Persia in classical times. This is where my question comes in. This is a part from the wiki page for Sikha:
Sir Thomas Herbert, 1st Baronet (1606–1682) described a similar hairstyle worn by Persians in his book 'Travels in Persia':
The Persians allow no part of their body hair except the upper lip, which they wear long and thick and turning downwards; as also a lock upon the crown of the head, by which they are made to believe their Prophet will at Resurrection lift them into paradise. Elsewhere their head is shaven or made incapable of hair by the oil dowae (daway) being thrice anointed. This had been made the mode of the Oriental people since the promulgation of the alcoran (Al Quran), introduced and first imposed by the Arabians.
I have looked all over the internet trying to find "The Oil Dowae (Daway)" and I can't find anything. I did however find a product called Ant Egg Oil which is used after waxing to prevent hair growth over a few months of use. I'm interested in this because I like my hairstyle but shaving around it takes more time and precision, even with the cup. I also do not like having the dark area that shows my hairline and the extent of my balding even after the closest and smoothest shave. I know about laser treatments but I don't have thousands of dollars to spend. I have considered the cheaper, home laser systems but I don't know if they're powerful enough for head use.
If anybody has used Ant Egg Oil to achieve a perfect bald head, please tell me about it. Also if you know anything about the mysterious Dowae Oil, I'd love to learn more about it.
If the Ant Egg Oil does work for forever ridding oneself of their head's hair, I plan on using it. I guess I would use it for a few days everytime my hair got long enough to wax until my head was all skin but the tail in the back.
I'll post pictures of my Sikha some other time in some other section on the forum.
