And the interesting thing is that I am seeing a different face whenever I look in a mirror. Sometimes I feel like it looks very good, sometimes I think that it is awful. I am not sure why I feel that way. I feel like that girl in one Seinfeld episode who looked drastically different under different lightings I've started to develop this into an obsession and I don't want this. So guys what do you think? Is it normal for me to feel that way or is it simply because I can not accept the truth that I do not look good with a shaved head? Has anyone felt insecurities like that when they shaved their heads?
Thanks!
Yes, it is normal and yes some of us have felt insecurities just like that. I know I did. I know exactly where you're coming from. I haven't read the replies yet, but I'm sure you got some great advice. Keep visiting this site to bolster your confidence. That's what finally clinched it for me.
I went through a two-year cycle of shaving my hair, growing it back, shaving it again, etc., because I felt exactly the way you do now. Finally I shaved it and committed to keeping it for 30 days, which turned into three months and then into six before I felt like growing it back again. By then I'd lost so much hair and it looked so bad I knew I had to keep shaving it.
Hang in there, it gets better.
Everything else being equal, I've also found that a shaved pate is certainly a conversation starter. That certainly can't be said for almost any kind of reasonable hair-do! Definitely, its something that sets you out, and a lot of the time, isn't that even better than pleasing everyone? We're the purple thread in the otherwise white toga, so to speak. I find that quite cool.
That brings to mind another change as a Sly-Guy, for example I don't have to give the lady at the cleaners my name anymore, she remembers it now, nothing changed but the clean scalp! It's happened at other regular vendors I use too. Good to be recognised, better more personal service!