Sly Bald Guys Forum
Discussions About Being Bald => General Discussion => Topic started by: Miller1989 on December 31, 2018, 04:56:00 PM
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What age was everyone when they first became interested in sporting a chromedome? I suppose I was a bit unusual in the fact that I became interested in my very early teens. I always had short hair and buzzcuts as a kid. When the first Fast and Furious came out, I thought Vin Diesel looked really cool. About the same time, the Schick commercial where Andre Agassi shaved his head came out too. I thought he looked awesome as well, and kind of decided then that I would shaved my head someday.
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I was 16 when I first thought about shaving my head. Back in 1980, that wasn’t a popular thing to do. I finally shaved mine 35 years later.
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Not much different from me then. What planted the seed for the idea?
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Five years ago, when I was 59, had been thinking about trying a buzzcut just one time. Once my (then) girlfriend said ok, just once, we met my neighbor at a city festival. He is bald and had a fresh no guard clipper shave that looked great. I also noticed at least a dozen guys with shaved heads. So early the next morning I got the clippers out and did a buzzcut, didn't like it so clipper shaved it. Well, I thought it already looked shaved, so I jumped into the shower and razored it bald. When my GF got up, she was shocked. By that afternoon she said I should keep it shaved, and she loved it. Within a few months she decided I should grow my hair back, but I was hooked on the shaved head. She's long gone, and I still enjoy the bald look.
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In my early 20s, I knew I would eventually have to face the music, as I was already sporting and hiding a dreaded Norwood 5-6.
I could only remain in denial so long. Ugh.
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When I was in high school some of the guys on the football team got buzz cuts. I wanted to get one but did not have he nerve. In my late 20s I got a couple really short fades type cuts and can remember my boss in San Francisco saying you need to grow your hair out. Started getting flattops in my mid-30s. Always had short hair since. Started shaving it off once a year in my 40s. I 've been shaved now for a couple weeks and keeping it off.
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Started doing a buzz cut in my late 20s, it was already very short back and sides. First shave in my early 30s. I always preferred the buzz cut to clean shaven tbh.
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I wanted to get really short buzz when I was 17 (1948) and did so when I was 19 (nickname: cueball). seriously considered shaving it 1953. Did so 25 years later before the style became more common.
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i was 32 when i was thinking about buzzing my thinning hair down but didnt do it until i was 52.i shaved my head when i was 58,i am now 60 and loving it.
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I was 8 years old when I first fell in love with shaved heads, I had a student teacher in grade 3 with a shaved head. I buzzed my head when I was 13 and it looked horrible which held me back from shaving my head. I had blue hair for several months last year but needed to buzz it off as I was going to TV show tapings in New York City and knew I needed to buzz it off. After buzzing it, I thought I would shave it off completely and if I didn't like it it would soon become a buzz cut.
Side note: It's been 2.5 months since I started shaving my head and so many people have come up to me and told me that I look much, much better with a shaved head. When I show comparison shots, people are like "Don't grow your hair back." It makes me feel so good to hear that!
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Maybe at 12 or 14.
I shave it bald at 18
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Probably in my late 20's or early 30's. Prior to that, it was very unusual to see a guy shave his head, so the thought really had not occurred to me. Once I saw a few in real life (vs. TV and movies), I liked the look. I also never really liked my hair, even though it was thick. So I really decided then that I would rather shave at the first sign of balding, which I did in my late 40's. I wish I had just done it sooner since I like it so much more than my hair.
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When I was a kid I would get buzz cuts. When I was in 8th-grade biology I remember learning about genetics and that baldness was an inherited trait. I told myself that the day I find out I'm going bald I would shave my head. When I was 25 I was getting a haircut and the lady told me I was starting to thin. At that moment I told her to shave it all off and I never looked back.
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When I was a kid I would get buzz cuts. When I was in 8th-grade biology I remember learning about genetics and that baldness was an inherited trait. I told myself that the day I find out I'm going bald I would shave my head. When I was 25 I was getting a haircut and the lady told me I was starting to thin. At that moment I told her to shave it all off and I never looked back.
How did she react when you told her to skin it?
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I shaved mine at age 13 back in eighth grade after a botched haircut.
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When I was a senior in high school, 60 Minutes did an interview with Yul Brynner. They showed a clip of him shaving his head with a razor before going on stage for The King and I. I was both a little shocked and intrigued at the same time. I wondered how anyone could ever bring themselves to do that and at the same time part of me really wanted to try it. It wasn’t something that I ever thought I would actually do. About 17 years later, I gave it a try.
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Not sure I can answer that question but remember as a boy watching the "Boy with Green Hair" with my uncle and the kid gets his head shaved. Remember it as I had never seen anyone get their head shaved before. Did not associate that with shaving my own head.
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Was always fascinated... even at a young age. My dad had a friend who was completely shaved bald, back in the early 70s. He was a park ranger, and when he took off his hat, I was in shock and fascinated at the same time.
So I am going to say... age 8 or 10.
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Except for a very brief period of rebellion in high school I always wanted very short hair.
- As a tiny little guy I always asked for "crew" cut from my barber "Ed" (a very cool young guy with a Hollywood flattop haircut and a 56 Corvette). Ed gave me a #2 buzzcut with a tiny bit left in the front and glued up with a Butch Stick and then cut straight across like the "crew" of a ship manning the rails. i wanted Ed to shave it clean like I saw him do for one of the other barbers and he was very willing to do it - but my Mom wouldn't let me. (So Ed just cut my crew cut even shorter than a #2 after that - it was our Secret" from my Mom!)
- then, starting in third grade I started getting a flattop like all of the reallyh cool guyhs had in the late '50s and i kept that right through the eight grade.
- during my freshman year of high school the Hippie craze took hold and I grew my hair down across the top third of my ear - but that is the worst my parents would allow. Truth be told I hated long hair but I was a slave to fashion!
- By the time I went college I was wearing a regular businessman's haircut - cut above the ears - which was radically short in those days. I didn't like my hair to touch my ears and I kept it cut like that until my last year of graduate school (1979) when I joined the Navy and then kept in Military Regulation or shorter - kind of an Ivy League.
-But by 1981 I had gone back to the Flattop and by 1985 it was a full-on High, Tight And Brutal Horseshoe Flattop with razor shaved back and sides every Friday night.
-I first shaved my head in my 40's as part of charity fund raiser that I had organized with my fellow police officers and did that once a year for five years, (much to the chagrin of my Barber who then each year had to recreate the Worlds Greatest HT&B HF from nothingness!) I enjoyed the shaved head but hated the growing out process.
-for the last five yhears I have been keeping the head shaved for about 6 months of each year. This has progressed and now it has become the "new normal"