If you are 100% sure that you want to be bald forever, then you should go for the laser hair removal on your head. From what I have seen on YouTube, when it is done right, it is a completely smooth, clean, shadowless, bald head. I think it is quite a clean, masculine, and bold look.

That said, if you are even slightly hesitant, I think it is better to err on the side of caution and just keep shaving your head.

May I ask what other reasons (besides reducing shaving time and liking the bald look) that you want to go for the laser hair removal, given the questions and points you listed? When you see the successful results online, do you like the completely smooth shadowless bald look?

What else does your partner say?

All the best.

The title says it all. I'm booked to do my first session of laser hair removal this Tuesday. This is the third time I've booked to start and the first time I chickened out and cancelled by phone. The second time I did a patch test but didn't do the session. And this time I'm bringing a friend to support me.

I like the bald look and am 100% sure I will be bald forever. And I want to be more bald than what I am and avoid shaving time. Whenever I book it the desire to do it outweighs the fear but but when the appointment comes up I get so scared because it's a huge visible body modification. It's some mixture of

- fear of being overly shiny, bizarre or freakish afterward.
- fear of being patchy for months
- fear of being left with a stubborn patch they can't remove

Finally I have my partner on board with it, so it's just my own fear at this point. Am I really ready for it?

I really could use some supportive comments.  Thanks so much guys.

WOW!

Sounds interesting, I'm glad it's working out for you!

Got my original SMP about three years ago.

Other than a large and growing bald spot on the crown of my head, I still had a full head of hair. I?ll be very light, very thin and very fine. The original SMP job filled the ball spot on my crown and blended it into a very light dusty hairline at the front so that I look like an older guy with very gray very fine thinning hair, who shaves his head. Think of it as looking like a high bald fade.

Overtime, the bald spot has gotten larger, and the so-called horseshoe on the back sides of my head has turned almost pure white.

On Wednesday I drove back to my SMP professional in Boca Raton, Florida a 4 Hour Dr. each way for me to have him touch up the top and fill in the back sides of my head so now it looks like I have very thin very fine like gray hair on my entire head and that I am BBC by choice.

It looks great. I am so pleased that patchy look is gone and I truly look BBC and it looks good!  Also, if I do want to try to grow the horseshoe Flattop back, it will look a bit thicker because of the SMP underneath the thinning hair

What a confidence builder!

I cannot recommend highly enough the owner of international hairlines of Boca Raton,  his name is Seif Sidky.  He has locations in Boca Raton, Fort Lauderdale, Arizona, and even in Cairo Egypt. He really knows how to do a light dusty hairline so that the SMP does not look fake.

The only aftercare is that for the first three days you cannot wash or shave your head after that there is no aftercare and you can go 3 to 5 years without having to think about getting a touchup done.