New guys! Stick with it!

• New guys! Stick with it! by Slim_ on 12 Nov, 2015 23:04
• I meant to post on my 1 year anniversary, but never got around to it. It's now been something like a year and a half. I no longer remember my screen name. So I re-registered. This forum was a big help. Those first couple of days were difficult.
  
  Things I've learned from being bald and observing other baldies:
  
  Tanning is not optional. If you're a white guy you've got to get at least some tan on your head, just don't over-do it and look like a Boehner.
  
  You've got to step up your over-all grooming game. Trim your eyebrows. Use a moisturizer. Your shaves have to be perfect, any weakness in your shaving game will be noticed and punished with social ostracizing. However, a little scruff on our head is not always a bad thing. Shiny isn't always better. See Jason whats his name the movie star. The point is: it can't ever look slovenly or half done.
  
  A wardrobe upgrade is must likely going to be necessary. You need shirts that fit and contrast with your skin color. Dark skin? Light shirts are gonna look good. White skin? Dark shirts are what you need.  Anything that matches your natural skin color too closely will make you look like a James Bond villain. Add some razor cuts and pasty white skin and people will be crossing the street to avoid you.
  
  Shiny leather shoes/boots. Buy them. Pitch those molded sneakers into the trash. Shiny head/shiny shoes is the look you want. Think Mr. Clean. He was invented by a marketing team to sell household cleaners to ladies. What does that tell you?
  
  It may be true that a shaved head is not be for everyone, but the more experience I get with it the more convinced I am that the only people it is not for is the people who don't embrace it and rock it. I had always heard that chicks dig bald dudes, but I was not prepared for just how much they dig it. Girls tend not to be as playfully flirtatious and even sometimes struggle to make eye contact, but when they do? Oh, Yeah.
  
  The only down side is you will be noticed in a way that you weren't back when you had hair. People will take you very seriously and expect you to take the lead in social situations. They will just assume that you are confident and in control and may even assume that you dislike them when you don't initiate an interaction.  Even very mild displeasure on your part will sometime be mistaken for anger.
  
  Each step of my journey was difficult -- from taking the ball-cap off to taking the remaining hair off -- but at each step the difference in the way that the world related to me was amazing. I've gotten zero negative verbal feedback, only some strange looks when I first did it, and some questions as to why, but that was it.
  
  New guys, stick with it, experiment, see what works for you. It will be worth it.
• #1 by john.peachie on 13 Nov, 2015 01:03
• Good on you slim!   
  
  Well written summary of your observations and experiences on this fashion.  I began the SBG journey here in dark Africa this past March, and looking forward to unleashing myself on western civilization in Jan. when I go to the states to see family, and will definitely retain your pearls of wisdom.
  
  Thanks for the post!
• #2 by MunkyMunk on 13 Nov, 2015 11:00
• Good comments, Slim!
  
  I've started dressing a little nicer since I shaved my head. I didn't want people wondering whether I had become a skinhead or if I was going crazy. 
• #3 by Calvo1029 on 20 Nov, 2015 23:08
• Sunday after Thanksgiving a year ago is the first time I shaved my head last year.
  
  Didn't know then that I would being a bald dude. Wish I had done it sooner.