Why did you start shaving your head?

[IRONHORSE]

I thought I'd satisfy my curiosity as to why others started.

[Mikekoz13]

Well I selected MPB............good old Mother nature and a set of strong Polish genes............

[IRONHORSE]

In my case, it was Male Pattern Baldness. I was in my mid-late 20's when it started (I'm in my 40's now.) After watching a cousin of mine (who makes a truckload of money) who was also going bald go through multiple failures with various methods of hair transplantation, including some rather gruesome scalp infections, I took the attitude "OK Mother Nature, You started this, but I am going to FINISH it!" Have never looked back. Now, being sly is just a part of who I am. About 12 years of slyness, and no regrets.

[skinhead002]

I think we had a similiar thread before.  Anyway, I ALWAYS wanted to be completely slick bald for as long as I could remember and always liked wearing recon flat tops, noguard clipper shaves, etc. Always thought it just looked really sharp.  I knew first time I peeled my recon flat top off and lathered up, I was a lifer skinhead and never looked back.  Nothing beats the daily hot lather against the grain headshave.

[PowerOfCheese]

Shaved Aug 22nd 2008 because what I had was either turning white or falling out. The more that happened, the more I became self conscious about it. I hated having to always worry about my hair and going sly was the perfect solution.

[Southworth14]

MPB set in, but what was left was gray.  Now that I am sly, I have taken 10 years at least off my age, and I am not old. 

[FR8TRAIN]

MPB but Sly is cooler.

[buuckkweet]

MPB with a side order of gray.

[captain blackleg]

In middle school I had a class and we were studying biology, genetics was the topic of the day and we all had to pull back our hair to see if we had a "widow's peak", my hair was at my shoulders at the time and when I pulled it back my teacher gasped and said, well you'll be bald before you go to college. I was paranoid as hell about it ever after. I always said if it got noticeable I would go sly. Well curiosity set in before MPB took over and here I am. I found out after shaving I have no noticeable hair loss at all aside from a semi deep hairline.

So maybe I'd be MPB or other, either way I totally dig the look and I truly am no longer worried about MPB. 

[marty22]

No choice here but to even out the top following removal of old hair transplants.

[GASlick]

I have plenty of hair.  I do it because it is cooler.
My hair was beginning to turn grey though.  Not that I'm vain, but it was that wiry grey hair.  Not the grey that looks nice.

[champ007]

It was MPB to a degree, but more about needing a change.
I found myself wearing a hat when I wasn't on the field coaching my kid's baseball team. I think it became a habit unintentionally. Being from the south, wearing a hat all the time puts you in the "redneck" category... even if your not!
So after some great answers and advice here, I found my change