Interest in being bald as a kid

• Interest in being bald as a kid by Miller1989 on 13 Mar, 2026 16:12
• Was anyone interested in shaving their head as a kid? I was a fan of professional wrestling, and Stone Cold Steve Austin and Goldberg were two of my favorites, so I thought the shaved heads looked really cool. And when I was 12-13, Fast and the Furious and Vin Diesel were really popular, and I thought he looked really cool. I was really into action and war movies too, and I remember seeing Jason Isaacs with a totally shaved head in Black Hawk Down. I remember thinking to myself, "Yep, I'm getting that someday." And my mom was a hairdresser, extremely talented with both women's and men's cuts. So around that time I started asking her to cut my hair really short. Brushcuts, crewcuts, etc. And eventually my mom asked me if I'd want a total buzzcut. I enthusiastically said yes, so she put a #1 guard on the clippers and sheared me almost like a new recruit. I loved it, and so did everyone else. Even the girls at school complimented me. I continued with short cuts until I ironically began balding, and shaved my head at 27.
• #1 by slybeard on 14 Mar, 2026 08:53
• I never really thought about it as a kid, but back then (1970's), you almost never saw a guy with a shaved head. 
  
  The only exception was Yul Brynner, an actor in the 1950's and 1960's.  You may be too young to remember him, He was known for his portrayal of King Mongkut in the Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical The King and I (starting in 1951) and the 1956 film adaptation. He played the role 4,625 times on stage, and became known for his shaved head, which he maintained as a personal trademark long after adopting it for The King and I.
  
  I thought it was a cool look, but never really thought about it for myself.  The 70's and 80's were the long and big hair days, so short hair on guys was not in fashion.
• #2 by Miller1989 on 14 Mar, 2026 09:23
• Quote from: slybeard on 14 Mar, 2026 08:53

  I never really thought about it as a kid, but back then (1970's), you almost never saw a guy with a shaved head. 
  
  The only exception was Yul Brynner, an actor in the 1950's and 1960's.  You may be too young to remember him, He was known for his portrayal of King Mongkut in the Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical The King and I (starting in 1951) and the 1956 film adaptation. He played the role 4,625 times on stage, and became known for his shaved head, which he maintained as a personal trademark long after adopting it for The King and I.
  
  I thought it was a cool look, but never really thought about it for myself.  The 70's and 80's were the long and big hair days, so short hair on guys was not in fashion.
  

  Yeah, Brynner died before I was born. But I'm a HUGE movie buff, and I grew up watching movies from the 60s and 70s with my dad. So I've seen some of Brynner's movies like The Magnificent Seven, Invitation To A Gunfighter, and Westworld. I know Telly Savalas was another big actor back then who sported a shaved head.  But I know it wasn't really in style for anyone else back then, so it makes sense that you wouldn't have thought about it.  And like I said, when I was in my early teens it became much more popular.
  
• #3 by reddog on 14 Mar, 2026 13:45
• I grew up in the 60's/70's so like the guys said, only Benner and Savalas wore shaved heads. I didn't want a bald head, but I remember I was intrigued by those guys. When I was under 10yo, alot of kids got a "heinie" haircut for summer break from school. It was clipper shave all over. That was usually done by dads the day after school was out.
• #4 by O2BSly on 14 Mar, 2026 13:49
• I remember being fascinated by the band Right Said Fred because they shaved their heads. And one of their big hits was 'I'm too sexy for my hair' 
  The movie Major Payne was also a memorable one for me, not because of a particular interest in the military but because of the shaved heads.
  Definitely something I thought about doing 'one day' when I was still a kid
• #5 by reddog on 15 Mar, 2026 08:12
• No that I think about it, when I was 18, I enlisted in the Army, and I was actually looking forward to getting the induction buzzcut. I had shoulder length hair at the time. I never got to do it though, as I ended up 4F, they regected me because I was allergic to cats!
• #6 by Semi-Sly on 15 Mar, 2026 08:41
• No, I was not interested in shaving my head, however unlike almost everyone else in the 70s I was fascinated with very short haircuts the longest my hair ever got even in the Beatles craze was just above the top tip of my ear, but once I got to high school I was already cutting my hair above the ear, which was Extremely short for 1970s when I joined the Navy in 1979. I kept my Haircut much shorter than we were required to do by regulation. I was one of the few guys wearing a flat top in 1979.