Shaving One's Head

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I saved my head bald almost four years ago. My wife loves it and I would never go back to having the thinning, graying hair I had before.
 
JW10631 said:
I’m bumping this old thread.

I saved my head bald almost four years ago. My wife loves it and I would never go back to having the thinning, graying hair I had before.
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Congratulations! It’s clean. It’s spiffy. And it’s a lot more graceful than some of the hysterical options.
 
I don’t shave my head, but I trim it down real close. If I’d have known how comfortable it was to have real short hair I’d have done it years ago. Also, I remember my Dad and his awful comb over. When the wind blew, he looked like a bald man on one side and a hippie on the other, God love him.🙂
 
I’m 19 and I’m balding and unlike most other guys I know, really couldn’t care less…unless my scalp has some horrible malformation I’ve yet to discover
I think im just gonna shave it clean bald and stick with that for life, won’t have to worry about any hair from now on 😃
 
My brother shaves his head, and so does our parish priest. Father always says his favorite story from the Bible is the one where Elisha sends a bear to devour the smart alecks who laughed at his bald head;)

My son in law just shaves his real, real short.
 
pete_29 said:
I don’t shave my head, but I trim it down real close. If I’d have known how comfortable it was to have real short hair I’d have done it years ago. Also, I remember my Dad and his awful comb over. When the wind blew, he looked like a bald man on one side and a hippie on the other, God love him.🙂
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Same here since June. #2 on top and #1 on the side. Graying and balding are not an issue in my family (it still looks like I have a full head of hair even that short). I like that I can wash my hair and it is almost dry when I step out of the shower. The only drawback is that I need to get it cut more often.
 
mercygate said:
Last week, my Beloved, who has fought manfully against the loss of his hair for the past 30 years, finally had enough and gave up his gel, hairspray and hysteria and

SHAVED IT ALL OFF!

He had never gone the route of hairpieces or plugs (the good Lord be praised!) but he used all kinds of shampoos and took “hair” vitamins and all manner of nonsense.

I say: Halleluiah!

Anybody (shavers or spouses of same) have reflections on the adjustment process? DH is overal positive but still kind of shaky.
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I think it’s a pretty good look on most men, too. Good for him!🙂
 
My own hair has been thinning on top for a long time. I used to work with a fellow who did a “comb over” to hide his baldness. I always thought it looked silly and was unconscionably vain. So I have done nothing to pretend that I was going bald. My wife rather likes it the way it is. Every time I go past one of those 3 way mirrors that allow you to see all around yourself I’m astonished at how little I have left. There is no reason to shave it off as far as I’m concerned. Just leave it the way God made it.
As for your hubby’s maintenance issues, I ran across a gizmo at the drug store in the shaving section along with the multiblade, swivel head doodads. This odd looking item was designed specifically to facilitate shaving the cranium! No kidding! You just slide the flat of the hand over your head with this thing looped over a finger and it is in just the right orientation to safely and cleanly give you the “Kojak look.”
Lots of luck to the old fella.

Matthew
 
I didn’t read all the posts except for the original one.

I shaved my head about 1 year ago (Jan. 3, 2007) and I have loved it.

It’s economical and I think it improved my appearance in that I had thick, curly hair where I had it and then I had the bald spot on top. (the “Larry” look of the Stooges).

So. . .I went from Larry to Curly.🙂

My wife was rather indifferent but you know who took it really hard? My sons.

For about a year, they keep telling me how much they hate it and I should grow my hair back.

Who would have thought 2 boys, 10 and 5 would have taken it so hard! My mom doesn’t like it either and she said she’d spring for half of hair restoration to get me to stop shaving my head.

I wasn’t doing it for the “cool” Bruce Willis look. To me, again, it was about avoiding the Larry look.

Now, if I could get rid of that pesky, itchy back hair. I know God made it there but it itches me.🙂
 
Scanner said:
I didn’t read all the posts except for the original one.

I shaved my head about 1 year ago (Jan. 3, 2007) and I have loved it.

It’s economical and I think it improved my appearance in that I had thick, curly hair where I had it and then I had the bald spot on top. (the “Larry” look of the Stooges).

So. . .I went from Larry to Curly.🙂

My wife was rather indifferent but you know who took it really hard? My sons.

For about a year, they keep telling me how much they hate it and I should grow my hair back.

Who would have thought 2 boys, 10 and 5 would have taken it so hard! My mom doesn’t like it either and she said she’d spring for half of hair restoration to get me to stop shaving my head.

I wasn’t doing it for the “cool” Bruce Willis look. To me, again, it was about avoiding the Larry look.

Now, if I could get rid of that pesky, itchy back hair. I know God made it there but it itches me.🙂
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When DH was working up the pluck to do the deed, he signed onto a web site called Sly Bald Guyz, where veteran and new head shavers traded tales of how to do it, how families and GFs reacted, etc. The consensus was that while colleagues and friends reacted positively, family members often took it very badly.

“Professor Melon” (that’s DH’s handle on “Sly”) counts himself fortunate that I was his number one fan from day one.

May I suggest shaving that back hair that makes you itch?
 
A few years ago, I realized the silliness of the comb-over and accepted the hairless reality. Those contemplating the shaved look should consider using a electic hair trimmer. I started with the shortest plastic length attachment and moved to just using the trimmer without a length attachment. It is one step short of using a razor to get the Yul Brenner look. And the dulling effect of the fuzzy remnents (think tennis ball) may save me from Aeschylus’ fate.
 
drafdog said:
My own hair has been thinning on top for a long time. I used to work with a fellow who did a “comb over” to hide his baldness. I always thought it looked silly and was unconscionably vain. So I have done nothing to pretend that I was going bald. My wife rather likes it the way it is. Every time I go past one of those 3 way mirrors that allow you to see all around yourself I’m astonished at how little I have left. There is no reason to shave it off as far as I’m concerned. Just leave it the way God made it.
As for your hubby’s maintenance issues, I ran across a gizmo at the drug store in the shaving section along with the multiblade, swivel head doodads. This odd looking item was designed specifically to facilitate shaving the cranium! No kidding! You just slide the flat of the hand over your head with this thing looped over a finger and it is in just the right orientation to safely and cleanly give you the “Kojak look.”
Lots of luck to the old fella.

Matthew
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What you are talking about is called Headblade. I have one and love it.

Sometimes I see a certain fellow get on the bus on the route I take. He has the worst combover I have ever seen. Long in the back to comb it over the left side, and long on the right side to have a make believe hairline.

Gee whiz, just shave it off.
 
May I suggest shaving that back hair that makes you itch?
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I don’t shave it. It’s just “au naturale.”

But I often fantasize about getting my back and an adjoining part waxed. I don’t do it for 2 reasons:
  1. I figure it’s money better spent elsewhere
  2. I wonder how much it will hurt
I have heard conflicting information on that - one website says shaving doesn’t make it thicker, others say it does. I have a wallmounted back scratcher down my basement on a 2 x 4 that a co-worker bought me a few years ago.

Sometimes it’s good to just behave like a male bear. 🙂
 
Scanner said:
I don’t shave it. It’s just “au naturale.”

But I often fantasize about getting my back and an adjoining part waxed. I don’t do it for 2 reasons:
  1. I figure it’s money better spent elsewhere
  2. I wonder how much it will hurt
I have heard conflicting information on that - one website says shaving doesn’t make it thicker, others say it does. I have a wallmounted back scratcher down my basement on a 2 x 4 that a co-worker bought me a few years ago.

Sometimes it’s good to just behave like a male bear. 🙂
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Shaving does NOT make hair grow in thicker. I think this delusion got started for 2 reasons:
  1. When boys start to shave, their beards are more downy than whiskery, so as they continue to mature, and the beard gets more “whiskery” people attribute the natural maturing to the shaving.
  2. When you shave, you slice the end of the hair off straight, giving it a tougher feel than the worn-down “point” of unmolested hair, so people say: Shaving makes it grow in thicker.
Honest. If shaving made hair grow in thicker, every bald guy in the world would be lathering up the dome and giving himself a “treatment.”

My daughter had a young boy friend with a coat like a gorilla. The relationship ended when he asked HER to wax his back! Some things need to wait until marriage, and some things need never to happen between a couple. Honestly: what would a guy say if a girl asked him to shaver her legs? EEEEWWWWwwww!
 
Well, if that’s the case, maybe I’ll just buy one of those long back razorblades.

Why wax at a salon if shaving can accomplish the same thing?

Actually, I had this discussion with my barber (hey, if a guy can’t talk to his barber about body hair, then who?).

He recommended getting clippers and just clipping some of the body hair down - “manscaping” I think they call it.

But it still begs the question - how am I going to do that on my back?
 
Scanner said:
Well, if that’s the case, maybe I’ll just buy one of those long back razorblades.

Why wax at a salon if shaving can accomplish the same thing?

Actually, I had this discussion with my barber (hey, if a guy can’t talk to his barber about body hair, then who?).

He recommended getting clippers and just clipping some of the body hair down - “manscaping” I think they call it.

But it still begs the question - how am I going to do that on my back?
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Figure out how to market a solution to that and you’ll be rich. Somehow shearing my spouse with an electric razor does not raise the gag alarm the way waxing does . . .
 
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