I'm white, 6', no beard (just light stubble), living in California. I don't look like a pro bodybuilder, just your average dude that goes to the gym and doesn't juice.I don't want to post my face for privacy reasons, but I like to think that I look like this dude, although not as good looking, obviously, with stubble, and I dress casual:The reactions I got to being bald are roughly like this: For every dozen under-40 year old women I see while running errands, shopping or going for a walk, a couple will doand one will doBefore shaving my head, I can't recall a single instance where a female stranger gave me this reaction, now it's a regular occurrence. There should be a word for this gesture in English, but there isn't.Black men sometimes look at me sideways, like thisbut there are not too many of them where I live. There are a lot of Asians though, including many foreign ones. Asian men stare more than any other group, sometimes pretending not to, but once you've been on the receiving end of their attention more than a dozen times, you notice the same patterns.White balding guys stare too, but they are much more discrete than "stop in your tracks, pull out your phone and pretend to fidget with it".Non-balding guys often fix their hair when they see me too:but unlike they don't try to hide it. When women fix their hair, it's over in 0.2 seconds.
I live in a mostly black neighborhood and get strange looks from people when walking around. I just make sure that I'm extremely kind to everybody. How you act makes a larger impression than how you look.