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When "bald by choice" turns into "bald by nature"

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chrisphilly123:

--- Quote from: Zooman on July 12, 2017, 09:29:46 PM ---I just had a similar experience myself.  I stopped shaving a couple weeks back when I was out camping and had no good way to shave.  When I came home, my wife and daughter encouraged me to start growing my hair back.  After two weeks, I still just had pretty sparse coverage on top, and was not at all pleased with how this whole thing was going.  So today I made an appointment with the barber to get my head shaved.  I have to say I am so much happier being sly once again.  I know it's dangerous to say never, but honestly I never want to grow my hair back again!  :)

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welcome back. no hair is 1000% better than a head of thinning hair.

skeeball:
I've been shaving my head every day for almost two months now and I've gotten really comfortable with the look, to the point that I really feel like I "own" the look now. It's weird how when you first do it, you feel "nude" and "exposed" and are sort of in shock at how you look, but it just feels like me now. It's also nice when you get used to a routine and instead of it taking 20 minutes where you end up with a head that is irritated and leaving blood behind (as I was when I first shaved my head), it now takes less than 5 minutes everyday (less time than I spent washing and styling my hair before) and I haven't nicked myself at all. Even though I planned to just keep it shaved through the summer, I can't say that I have any plans to pick some arbitrary date as the date where I say "OK, time to start growing hair again." I'll probably keep the look through the end of the year and beyond, because I'm at the point now where it just doesn't feel natural to wake up and NOT get rid of the stubble that has grown in the past 24 hours (and I really don't like the look of the stubble popping out). I'd still be willing to bet that at some point I'll give growing it back (and I don't mean for a few days or weeks, but something like a few months) a chance and see where I can go, but I'm really in no rush and have no interest in doing that at the moment.

Sir Harry:
Everyone has their own time and their own methods. That said, if you do grow it back, you still can pull off a serviceable short hairstyle until the MPB really kicks in. But it's good to see you're comfortable with the sly look, and the beard is starting to develop nicely again!

amatlock2778:
I actually secretly wish for my bbc style to become bbn. I have made the commitment yo myself that i want to be sly bald until my dying day, so if i were to start balding naturally, well that much less to have to shave. I have thought about laser hairvremoval, but too expensive, painful, and too many sessions required, so thats not an option for me. As for your beard, well i personally prefer either smooth shaved or short, neatly trimmed facial hair, but if thats what you like,  then  good on you. However, my advice would be, if you want a longer beard, it looks like you have naturally curly facial hair. You should try to find some wsy to straighten it. It would look much better, in my opinion.

skeeball:
 I definitely do like having options, but if and when my hair loss accelerates more (I'm assuming it will, but who knows), the choice will be much easier. So that's not a bad trade off. This might sound weird but I think a shaved head actually looks even better on people who are noticeably going bald even when their head is shaved than people who are just bald by choice, where you can see a pattern of where they've lost hair. It kind of gives a unique look of individuality, since every hair loss pattern is unique, and it seems like a way of both owning the look and showing that you proactively did something about it. For me, although I don't get any "mean" comments, I still get the "you have a full head of hair, why would you shave it" questions, and it certainly does appear that I have a full head of hair when I shave it and when I have long enough hair to cover up the thinning. That's not to say that I'm rooting for losing so much hair that there is no way to conceal that I'm losing it even with my head shaved, because as I said, I like having options, but it does give a little more of an individual and independent look.

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