Hello. I'm 18 and I started to get thinning hair when i was 17. Mostly it's thinning on top of my head and it's probably soon at a point where I can't hide it. It's slightly noticeable even when I have a 4 mm buzzcut. At least in certain lighting, I don't think that anyone notices it, though except for a friend of mine who I told I was balding. Nobody else has commented on it, not even my 3 really close friends who are really honest.

Anyway, I've been thinking about shaving it all off soon if I continue to bald (As long as it stays like this I won't shave it.), but I noticed recently that my head shape is kind of ugly (Or maybe "goofy" is the best word for it.), it's not that I have a dent or a pointy head or anything, but the back of my head is really big and it looks ridiculous to me. I feel like I look like a cartoon character. The rest of my head is pretty big too, but nothing too crazy, my head size is 60 cm (23.5) inches which is a fairly common head size, but it's just the back that bothers me so much. Fortunately I am pretty tall, 188 cm (6 foot 2), but I don't think I'm big enough to make my head proportional and like I said, the shape is still weird even it doesn't look big. I just think that if (Hopefully if.) I shave it with a razor it will look twice as bad for some reason, especially since I'm really young.

I have taken some pictures for the people on this forum to judge, please be honest. If you saw me walking by would you would you notice something weird about my head?

Imgur photo album: http://imgur.com/wsEdgMG&HufmXlT&kLwQmCX&mIkPJD6&pA6wsJU#0

Looks fine to me, shaving it won't make much difference and it will return back if you don't like it.

OK, you're not the first one -- far from it, there are many who have made similar posts -- who looks at a picture of his perfectly normal head and thinks it looks bad/weird/goofy/mishappen/whatever.

Must be some weird trick of our brains that makes us see flaws that just aren't there.

Your head is perfectly normal. In fact, quite nicely shaped.

I agree with the consensus.  Your head looks normal and proportionate to me, too.  Shave away, should you like.

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Thanks for the replies, guys. I feel much better now, it's probably just all in my head (no pun intended). I'm pretty insecure about my appearance in general so I tend to find flaws everywhere, but this is the first time I've gotten feedback.

I would post before and after pics, but I will wait for as long as I can because I live in Sweden where it's really easy to be called a racist if you shave your head at a young age (even the national anthem is considered racist by many). If I didn't live in such a judgemental society I would have shaved my head already. But that's a whole different story.

Anyways, thanks again for the help.

Regards.

Go for it.