Why did you start shaving your head?

• Why did you start shaving your head? by IRONHORSE on 03 Sep, 2008 12:49
• I thought I'd satisfy my curiosity as to why others started.
• #1 by Mikekoz13 on 03 Sep, 2008 12:54
• Well I selected MPB............good old Mother nature and a set of strong Polish genes............
• #2 by IRONHORSE on 03 Sep, 2008 12:54
• 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.
• #3 by skinhead002 on 03 Sep, 2008 12:56
• 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.
• #4 by PowerOfCheese on 03 Sep, 2008 12:59
• 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.
  
  
• #5 by Southworth14 on 03 Sep, 2008 14:15
• 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. 
• #6 by FR8TRAIN on 03 Sep, 2008 15:46
• MPB but Sly is cooler.
• #7 by buuckkweet on 03 Sep, 2008 16:29
• MPB with a side order of gray.
• #8 by captain blackleg on 03 Sep, 2008 17:16
• 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. 
• #9 by marty22 on 03 Sep, 2008 19:28
• No choice here but to even out the top following removal of old hair transplants.
• #10 by GASlick on 03 Sep, 2008 19:41
• 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.
• #11 by champ007 on 03 Sep, 2008 21:15
• 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