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bald by choice guys, what made you decide to become sly?

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slybeard:
I can no longer claim BBC, as nature has taken over.  But when I first shaved, I considered myself BBC.  I my early years, I always thought a shaved head was cool looking and made up my mind that when I started balding, I would rather shave it all than try to live with comb overs and bald spots.  Truth be said, I was never happy with my hair.  It was wavy - to much for any good looking hair style, but not enough for a curly hair style.  It took way too much time to attempt to style it in the mornings, with poor results.  So I normally just kept it cut short, in the typical side part style (back in the 80's when it was not considered a cool haircut).  I tried flattops, crew cuts, and longer styles.  None of them worked for me.  In my early 40's I noticed my hair was thinning.  It was not noticeable to others, since my hair was always very thick, it was still thicker than a lot of guys started with.  It continued to thin, and under certain conditions (wet, swimming), you could see skin through my hair at the crown.  That was all I needed to take a razor to it.  I think I was around 48 when I shaved, I am 54 now.

amatlock2778:
Mine was pretty wavy too, but that was never really an issue because i always liked shorter styles. Whenever i got a haircut, j would tell the barber i wanted it buzzed to a 1 or 2 on sides and finger length on top so that i could get away with not styling it if i felt lazy,  but still do something nice with it otherwise. Its always been very thick, still is. Even having the barber use thinning shears it was very thick. Fast growing too, so now that im bbc, i have to shave at least every day, if not more just to keep it nice and smooth with little evidence of a 5oclock shadow.

zeligtheblessed:
my story is kinda weird i guess, i never really thought about going bald since i have a very very full head of hair, if i grow it out its almost a afro, however i was put in a spot where i was going to have ear surgery and the doctor said we are gonna have to shave part of my head for it, being in the medical field all ready i knew that post surgery i'd have to keep the area clean, dry, deal with tape and bandages and i didn't want to deal with just a bald spot (no matter how big it was), so i started thinking about just shaving my whole head, be easy to take care of while healing, would look better and have some perks and after my head heals the hair can grow in all at once.  so i started looking around and found St. Baldricks organization, (shave your head to raise money for childrens cancer) and decided that if i did it i'd do it for them, so i made a video on facebook calling out all those people who did ice bucket challenge as trying to be cool kids instead of giving money to charity, had several people donate money to childrens cancer, and shaved my head haha. all ready had all the tools to do it since i cut my own hair to start with and after i did it, my s/o liked it, she loved my hair but she likes dome too (she supported me knowing about the surgery and all) and then my surgery got pushed back a little over a month so i kept my head shaved for longer than i thought haha, and it grew on me, i'm sure i'll grow it out someday but right now its fun and exciting and i'm experiencing something new. just going with it

amatlock2778:

--- Quote from: zeligtheblessed on March 30, 2016, 01:24:59 AM ---my story is kinda weird i guess, i never really thought about going bald since i have a very very full head of hair, if i grow it out its almost a afro, however i was put in a spot where i was going to have ear surgery and the doctor said we are gonna have to shave part of my head for it, being in the medical field all ready i knew that post surgery i'd have to keep the area clean, dry, deal with tape and bandages and i didn't want to deal with just a bald spot (no matter how big it was), so i started thinking about just shaving my whole head, be easy to take care of while healing, would look better and have some perks and after my head heals the hair can grow in all at once.  so i started looking around and found St. Baldricks organization, (shave your head to raise money for childrens cancer) and decided that if i did it i'd do it for them, so i made a video on facebook calling out all those people who did ice bucket challenge as trying to be cool kids instead of giving money to charity, had several people donate money to childrens cancer, and shaved my head haha. all ready had all the tools to do it since i cut my own hair to start with and after i did it, my s/o liked it, she loved my hair but she likes dome too (she supported me knowing about the surgery and all) and then my surgery got pushed back a little over a month so i kept my head shaved for longer than i thought haha, and it grew on me, i'm sure i'll grow it out someday but right now its fun and exciting and i'm experiencing something new. just going with it

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Thats a great story about deciding to shave it all for your surgery, and doing it in a charitable way like st baldricks. I sometimes wish i had waited to find a charity like that , but knowing my friends and the fact many of them live paycheck to paycheck, i wouldnt have been able to raise much money to donate. So my more recent thoughts on the subject is perhaps i could volunteer at a st baldricks event doing the shaving. I dunno. Will have to find out more about it, k might discover they only want licenced beauticians for that job. But if so, im sure they have other positions i could volunteer for.

DC:
I always had a full head of hair-got it from my Mom's genes.  I can turn into Wolfman Jack-even at 54 given the chance! 

It was in the Summer of '09 when I started to wonder what it would be like to be bald.  The shortest my hair was in a military buzz for ROTC over 30 years ago.  So, in '09 I first took my head down to a buzz.  Then a few days later I went sly.

My wife-a 2x cancer survivor who endured chemo-induced baldness-wasn't happy about the style; as were a couple of other people. My wife said my baldness reminded her of her experience, something I had to learn to have it not get to me.  However, I was blessed not to have no snide remarks my way.  Plus, the majority of the family, friends and coworkers were cool with the sly look.

My only beef that I had was being bald was just the extra shaving time.  Otherwise, I enjoyed the freedom and masculinity of baldness.  Shoot, I even love bald women! It's been a great ride. 

Over the last 7 years, I've gone off and on the sly wagon.  Currently, I'm sporting a no-guard buzz.  However, I plan to go sly in the not too distant future. 

Peace!

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