When I first started shaving my head around the turn of the century/millenium my (late) wife and I had a mobile espresso van and we had a route in a nearby town where we made drinks for a number of businesses. When we started this business I had hair down to my shoulder blades, usually tied back or braided. One of the businesses we delivered to was a hair salon with about 6 hair stylists (all women), and a couple of nail techs. When I shaved my head I was a little concerned about the reaction I would get, especially from this particular business, but the first day I walked in with the scraped grape one of the stylists walked right up to me and asked if I had lost weight. I told her that I had in a manner of speaking and then rubbed my head. At this point she still didn't get it which both pleased and relieved me. I finally had to tell her and she stared at my noggin for a few seconds before she got it.

Really kinda funny for someone who worked with hair for a living.

Quote from: DoberDaddy on February 07, 2025, 11:15:25 PM

Maybe this explains the almost total lack of traffic to this site.

Personally I think it has to do more with the fact that more people have migrated from bulletin boards like this to other social media platforms.  On Reddit there is a chat called "r/bald" that has a lot of daily activity.

Yeah, r/bald is extremely popular and has numerous posts every day.

One thing that?s better about this forum is that there?s much more focus on head shaving, products, actually being bald, etc than there is on there.

That subreddit is about 60% pictures posted by guys who think they?re going bald and want reassurance. I was in that boat once too, so I sympathize, but it tends to dominate the feed there.

When I buzzed my head, I had Oster clippers too ? but if you?re buzzing to 000, you really might as well razor shave. That?s so close you?re pretty much bald. Might as well get the benefit of the smooth feel.

I've found that the more expensive doesn't always mean better. I use plain old Dial bar soap in the shower. It's pretty slippery and works great for me.

Wally World used to carry a thing called "Shave Secret". It was a small bottle of oil and after showering I would apply it to my head while the skin was still wet. After that I put on whatever shave cream I was using but a really nice one was Cremo which was really slick. The oil in Shave Secret softens the hair a little bit, I guess, but the main advantage I noted was that it seemed to make my skin a little slicker. Head Blade used to have a shave cream also, I don't recall the name but I can't imagine them having given up on it.
I'm not familiar with Bald Bros so I can't give any kind of report on that.