Bald is beautiful, head shaving, etc. - Alopecia World2024-03-29T11:47:38Zhttps://alopeciaworld.com/forum/categories/bald-is-beautiful-head-shaving/listForCategory?feed=yes&xn_auth=noSmooth shaving my head or not?tag:alopeciaworld.com,2024-01-17:2022678:Topic:19817722024-01-17T15:46:13.327ZTvSindrehttps://alopeciaworld.com/profile/Sindre
<p>I am boy and I have always had short hair, but sometimes let it grow out until the fringe be too long. I am now 29 years old and haven't been at the hairdresser since the end of 2022. I have tried to let the hair grow until it's easier to find a female wig that look like my hair, so that I don't suddenly go out with longer hair than I used to have.</p>
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<p>My main problem with wearing a wig is that I excrise a lot and cycle a lot. I sweat so much that I can't wear a sweater when I…</p>
<p>I am boy and I have always had short hair, but sometimes let it grow out until the fringe be too long. I am now 29 years old and haven't been at the hairdresser since the end of 2022. I have tried to let the hair grow until it's easier to find a female wig that look like my hair, so that I don't suddenly go out with longer hair than I used to have.</p>
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<p>My main problem with wearing a wig is that I excrise a lot and cycle a lot. I sweat so much that I can't wear a sweater when I work out, but I'm fine with a t-shirt. I guess a wig will make my head way too hot. And when I cycle I wear helmet witch will make a wig impractical if I don't take of the wig before I cycle.</p>
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<p>Now my hair is long, but the bangs are very thin and at the same time so long that I'm considering to going to the hairdresser to get shorter bangs and otherwise thin out my hair a bit, but there's not much more hair left. The hair covers the spots, but is not long enough to make a ponytail after saving for about a year after a normal men's haircut at the hairdresser.</p>
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<p>I am now considering shaving my head completely smoth, but I am afraid of reactions from others. I have shaved my head few times in the past with machine and I got many reactions, but mostly just positive. Kind of got really fussy when I didn't care but was always told I was bald. Maybe I just shave it all off and shave it regularly so that I always have a shiny head.</p>
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<p>Does it hurt to shave the head with a razor? Do I have to hold a mirror behind me to see where I've shaved? I'm mostly afraid of people's reactions and that I'll regret shaving off all the hair that was left.</p> Masked & Bald Liberationtag:alopeciaworld.com,2022-06-27:2022678:Topic:19597542022-06-27T01:04:57.457ZPeace to youhttps://alopeciaworld.com/profile/SunshineTimes
<p>I still wear face masks in public, & I frequently don't wear my wig while wearing a mask & sunglasses. It's been very liberating to me to be an "anonymous bald chick" in the grocery store, & etc. </p>
<p>I still wear face masks in public, & I frequently don't wear my wig while wearing a mask & sunglasses. It's been very liberating to me to be an "anonymous bald chick" in the grocery store, & etc. </p> Need advice - should I shave my head?tag:alopeciaworld.com,2019-07-30:2022678:Topic:14903472019-07-30T07:30:35.996ZPatcheshttps://alopeciaworld.com/profile/Patches587
<p>I’m a 35 year old male. No facial hair. Lost my eyelashes and one eyebrow. I have microbladed so that looks ok. I’d say I’ve lost 30% of the hair on my head. I can cover the large patches but it’s super annoying. I use keratin sprays to help when I need to look formal. But my haircut is longer than I want, really uneven, and especially requires me to have long end messy hair at the back where I’ve lost a whole lot. It’s a cross between hockey hair and a mullet. I have patches at the sides…</p>
<p>I’m a 35 year old male. No facial hair. Lost my eyelashes and one eyebrow. I have microbladed so that looks ok. I’d say I’ve lost 30% of the hair on my head. I can cover the large patches but it’s super annoying. I use keratin sprays to help when I need to look formal. But my haircut is longer than I want, really uneven, and especially requires me to have long end messy hair at the back where I’ve lost a whole lot. It’s a cross between hockey hair and a mullet. I have patches at the sides (around my ears) and all over the back of my head. Only the top of my head and the front are fairly full. </p>
<p>Part of me thinks I should keep covering my hair because it’s possible. Then another part thinks I should bic it all off because that’s the direction things are going and because covering my hair is stressful and feels phony. </p>
<p>I just can’t find any advice online about this. I can’t find pictures of guys who have done it (except pictures advertising scalp micropigmentation so obviously those pictures make the shaved head look pretty bad with all the patches).</p>
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<p>Anyone here have any advice? Will it be too hard to maintain? Will it look even more abnormal than my current cut and occasionally visible patches? Am I likely to feel freedom or anxiety?</p>
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<p>Thanks friends!</p> Accepting my conditiontag:alopeciaworld.com,2019-04-24:2022678:Topic:14651292019-04-24T13:28:54.076ZMaud Velosohttps://alopeciaworld.com/profile/MaudVeloso
<p><span>I have alopecia areata and started showing up for about 4 years. In the last 2 years I have hair loss gradually despite all the struggles and money spent on treatment. I am married at the moment, I realize that my marriage is by a thread. My husband constantly implies my hair. I feel really bad when he do this. I think you're ashamed of me. I try to accept my condition, but I cannot stand walking on the street that I think people are looking at me. I thought I'd shave my head and put…</span></p>
<p><span>I have alopecia areata and started showing up for about 4 years. In the last 2 years I have hair loss gradually despite all the struggles and money spent on treatment. I am married at the moment, I realize that my marriage is by a thread. My husband constantly implies my hair. I feel really bad when he do this. I think you're ashamed of me. I try to accept my condition, but I cannot stand walking on the street that I think people are looking at me. I thought I'd shave my head and put on a tattoo, change the look. What do you advise me?</span></p> anthony carrigan on Seth Meyerstag:alopeciaworld.com,2019-04-21:2022678:Topic:14636392019-04-21T01:11:10.812Zchris_shttps://alopeciaworld.com/profile/chriss
<p>Actor Anthony Carrigan being interviewed on Seth Meyers' show. a good advocate, helping to remove the stigma</p>
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<p>Actor Anthony Carrigan being interviewed on Seth Meyers' show. a good advocate, helping to remove the stigma</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj__oPLigFc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj__oPLigFc</a></p>
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<p>On Going and Being Bald</p>
<p>I started losing my hair in my late teens, but I didn’t know it until I was 19 and attending college. I had just taken a shower and was combing my hair when I saw something shiny at the back and top of my head. I had no idea what it could be, as I felt around back there. My fingers felt ... skin? Is that my scalp? Snatching up a hand mirror while still staring into the vanity mirror, I found a spot . . . a bald spot – not a thin spot, but a serious bald patch –…</p>
<p>On Going and Being Bald</p>
<p>I started losing my hair in my late teens, but I didn’t know it until I was 19 and attending college. I had just taken a shower and was combing my hair when I saw something shiny at the back and top of my head. I had no idea what it could be, as I felt around back there. My fingers felt ... skin? Is that my scalp? Snatching up a hand mirror while still staring into the vanity mirror, I found a spot . . . a bald spot – not a thin spot, but a serious bald patch – two and a half inches in diameter! My heart sank and I felt panicky, but not because of what most people think.</p>
<p>I’ve been picked on about my weight, so I now had something else that people will probably tease me about. How long will it be before it really becomes noticeable? How long before they start calling me “skin head” or “baldy.” Actually, I kind of like being called “Baldy” by women who mean it affectionately.</p>
<p>In case you missed it, I was worried about people teasing me about being bald, and not baldness it’s self. A part of me was intrigued about losing my hair. How much would I lose? How fast will it take for the hairs predestined to fall out and not grow back? Would I have a nice looking head? Should I shave my head and be done with the disloyal little bastards for abandoning ship, I mean, abandoning my scalp? I wasn’t interested in trying “snake oil” cures, or transplants, and certainly not wearing the dreaded toupee. I shudder just thinking about it. And then there was Dad’s “solution” – a comb over! No thanks, Dad!</p>
<p>Ten years later I wasn’t balding, I was bald. I wasn’t totally bald, of course, just mostly bald. I have androgenetic alopecia, which is also called MPB (male pattern baldness). I inherited it from my Mom’s father. I had the classic horse shoe shaped fringe – hair still on the sides of my head and the lower half of the back of my head. When a hair falls out, it grows back, only thinner in diameter and with a fading of pigment. Eventually it does stop growing back, like a well that has gone dry describes it the best. As my hair line receded, the more comfortable I became being a baldy. I liked the way my nude scalp felt . . . I wasn’t hassled very much . . . it didn’t effect my dating women . . . and so I began to ask myself, should I take a razor and finish what nature had started? The answer was a resounding YES! All I needed was the nerve to do it.</p>
<p>I’ve never felt good about my looks – especially after I developed my life long weight problem. I didn’t think I was out and out ugly – I didn’t frighten small children. I was just nothing to write home about. The only thing that stood out about me was my belly and my butt. The issue of my self-esteem became complicated after I became a follower of Christ. Because of the Holy Spirit, I can honestly say I didn’t see ugly people any more. Unfortunately, most of my brothers and sisters saw me through worldly eyes, so they couldn’t see me as beautiful or attractive. Uhm, it’s like having gold coins, but no one accepts them as legal currency. I was and still am disappointed by this harsh reality.</p>
<p>I began to read about what women thought about bald men, and what life was like for balding men who shaved their heads. From what I was reading and asking my female friends what they thought, the more encouraged I felt about shaving my head.</p>
<p>I don’t recall what the trigger was, but one Thursday night in April I shaved my head for the first time.</p>
<p>I took electric clippers and slowly ran them over the sides of my head, and then the back of my head. Clumps of hair fell all around me – on the counter, on my shoulders, and on the floor. At this stage I had a buzz cut; my head was covered with stubble now instead of proper hair. I didn’t look in the mirror, as I wanted to see myself after my er, well, transformation.</p>
<p>Next I took a shower and washed my head. I needed to remove the oil and dead skin cells that had accumulated on my scalp. My head felt kind of strange. The stubble felt prickly.</p>
<p>I then towel dried my head, and applied shaving gel. I worked it in all over my head until my whole scalp was lathered. Obviously, I had to look into the mirror and I looked pretty strange. I looked like a human sundae, without the chocolate syrup. I took a razor and went over my head with smooth strokes and before I knew it my entire head felt as smooth and soft as the patches where I’m naturally bald. I then rinsed my head to get rid of the little bits of lather left behind. I towel dried it again, and then I ran my hands all over my scalp feeling for places I may have missed. I got it all, but ran my hands over my head again to make sure. Actually, I did it so I could enjoy the feel of my totally hair free scalp as I ran my fingers over it.</p>
<p>I wasn’t completely happy with what I saw in the mirror. On the one hand I discovered that I have a nicely shaped head, free of any dents, knots or bumps. Clearly this was a great “look” for me, and can carry it off well. On the other hand, all the areas where there had been hair were white – I mean chalk white. The hair had prevented sun light from tanning my scalp so that it didn’t match my face or the bald patches. Oh, well, it would only be temporary as the sun would tan it so my face, scalp and my whole head really, would be the same shade.</p>
<p>You’d be surprised at all the products they make for bald and shaved heads. I’ve tried a number of them, but never really saw or felt any change from using them. I did once let my friend Holly give my scalp a “facial,” but other than having clean pores, all I got out of it was the feel of her hands applying the whatever it is that you peel off. I usually need to apply a moisturizing lotion, and I have to use sun screen in summer; sometimes I’ll massage my scalp with baby oil if I want my head to look shiny. While I prefer it matte, some of the women I dated wanted my head oiled and buffed so it shined like chrome. I guess the nick name “chrome dome” came about because of the women who liked us baldies to shine!</p>
<p>So that’s what going bald was like for me. A lot of guys are traumatized when they lose their hair. I was not one of them. I consider it a blessing.</p>
<p>Now that I’m “hair free,” people want to know what being bald is like.</p>
<p>I guess the first thing I noticed was how pleasurable it felt. Standing under a shower head was magical. One thing I learned as have many other baldies, male of female, is you can shave your head without shaving cream just by standing under the shower head. When I do it, I find that shaving my head this way is faster and I get a closer shave. Without hair to provide insulation, my head feels the cold more. Since heated air rises, you can see it “escape” up there on cold mornings, just like your breath. I’m usually the first to notice that it’s raining, too.</p>
<p>Touching. First of all, dudes aren’t allowed on the “ranch;” ladies are always welcome to explore the Ponderosa, even if they don’t ask first. We humans are tactile creatures and we respond to touch. We like to hug or be held when we’re upset, be patted on the shoulder or back when in need of encouragement; and if you’re a bald man, you feel reassured when a woman pets, rubs or kisses your head. This isn’t limited to just being a sexual thing. A lot of my sisters in Christ and other women I have platonic relationships with, just enjoy touching and playing with my scalp. It’s all perfectly innocent, and even the ladies who are married or have a boy friend just seem to have a well, a craving to see what my head feels like. Several women have said they are drawn to wanting to touch my head because it reminds them of babies. I have no idea what that means. Others want to rub or kiss it for good luck. I don’t believe in luck, but hey, it feels good no matter what the reason is. And yes, it’s true – the scalp is sensitive to touch. I don’t know if it’s because follicles have nerve endings in them, but the scalp, for me at least, is an erogenous zone.</p>
<p>People remember me.</p>
<p>“Larry?”<br/>“Oh, he’s the fat, bald guy.”</p>
<p>Not all women like it, and that’s ok – all I need or want is one . . . one special lady. If I never find Ms. Right it won’t be because I’m bald.</p>
<p>So now you know what it’s like to go bald and be bald; at least you have one man’s experience of them.</p>
<p>Larry S. Barbee</p> Shaving my head was awesomely terrifyingtag:alopeciaworld.com,2019-02-19:2022678:Topic:14504562019-02-19T19:51:51.379Z5DHhttps://alopeciaworld.com/profile/JasonM
<p>I wanted to share my story. I am a white man, 33 years old. I've been struggling with AA since 2007. After quite literally a decade of carefully growing out my hair and holding it in place over my patches with what felt like half of a can of hairspray, I took 2 weeks vacation from work at the end of 2018 and shaved my head. My hairloss finally got over 50% and I was having to wake up at 5:30am before my 8am workday just to have time to dry my hair, apply makeup underneath, then get every…</p>
<p>I wanted to share my story. I am a white man, 33 years old. I've been struggling with AA since 2007. After quite literally a decade of carefully growing out my hair and holding it in place over my patches with what felt like half of a can of hairspray, I took 2 weeks vacation from work at the end of 2018 and shaved my head. My hairloss finally got over 50% and I was having to wake up at 5:30am before my 8am workday just to have time to dry my hair, apply makeup underneath, then get every stand put into place. And it still didn't look great, although passable to people who didn't look too closely. </p>
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<p>I was super scared. I work in a highly public facing job. What would people whom I've worked with for 10 years say the next time I walked into our weekly meeting?</p>
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<li><strong>Lots of weird comments didn't happen.</strong> I was bracing for a ton of bad comments. I posted a selfie on social media a few days before I returned to work to prepare as many people as I could and I think that helped. But I realized how little people actually care, haha. A few people asked why I shaved my head (not negatively), but two months later, only two people asked if I was healthy. I interpreted that as pretty cool actually, it's nice to have people care about you. Other men with male pattern baldness have made comments about taking the leap themselves. They are showcasing their own insecurities. I want to say "I actually don't have male pattern baldness!" But I figure why force the subject!?</li>
<li><strong>People who you are meeting for the first time don't realize anything is different.</strong> Think about that. How often do you see someone and mentally think about their hair. Almost never do I look at a bald guy and really "notice" that he's bald. It's just his look, it's who he is, I no more notice his eye color or suit color in terms of thinking anything is "off." If you have the confidence, no one will notice a thing.</li>
<li><strong>It didn't look as bad as I thought.</strong> I was terrified about the map of the world / shadow. I have very pale skin and very dark hair. Certainly, you can easily tell where I have hair roots and where I don't. But the way my AA pattern is, I don't have patches all over the place, but one big continuous patch - almost like the light and dark side of the moon. If you're facing me you may not even realize anything is off, because the roots toward the front of my head are all still there. I'm weirdly thankful that my AA got worse, because now it almost looks better shaved with less roots showing.</li>
<li><strong>Shaving has improved my life.</strong> Only a couple of times have I caught people staring. And yes, it was deeply uncomfortable. I think they noticed "hey this guy has a hair line on the side of his head..." It's human nature. Often I looked for people who might be staring and realize they're not - they're on their phones, or just don't notice things. For over a decade a gust of wind would cause me to physically seize up and dart for cover. Rain was a nightmare. If I hadn't "done" my hair that day, I couldn't go out anywhere that didn't allow for a hat with my wife because I didn't want to go through the two hour-long routine of getting ready, so I fell into hours of playing video games to escape reality. Now we go on walks all the time or meet friends for dinner. And when I did do my hair, I could never rest my head. It sounds so trivial, but literally hairspray was keeping everything in precise place. Never using a headrest in my car. Never putting on sunglasses because it could mess up my sideburns. Coming home from dinner with my in-laws to watch a movie and sitting up the entire time.</li>
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<p>I am posting this because I shaved my head, in part, because of the UNANIMOUS urging of others with AA to do so. I swear over 98% of those who shave say "I WISH I DID IT SOONER" and I am one of them. I changed my lifestyle over my hair. I basically wasted my 20s. Don't make the same mistake I did, ESPECIALLY if you're a guy and DOUBLE ESPECIALLY if you have darker skin complexion. These groups have even less to be worried about in terms of the social implication.</p>
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<p>No one notices what you perceive as imperfections more than YOU LOOKING IN A MIRROR. Hate to say it, but the random public doesn't care much about you or what you look like, so you shouldn't care about them.</p> Why my hair are going thin day by day and getting damaged?tag:alopeciaworld.com,2019-01-26:2022678:Topic:14434252019-01-26T09:51:13.845ZMaira Rafiqhttps://alopeciaworld.com/profile/MairaRafiq
<p>I don't know why I start losing my hair. My hair get damaged at the edges. Hair line is receding. I am taking too much stress for it and I am very worried about it. Please suggest me some solution of this problem. One of my friend suggest me to take some hair treatments and she told me different hair clinic and <a href="https://www.hairtransplantdubai.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Hair Transplant Dubai</a> Clinic is one of them. I don't know em very confuse just suggest me something…</p>
<p>I don't know why I start losing my hair. My hair get damaged at the edges. Hair line is receding. I am taking too much stress for it and I am very worried about it. Please suggest me some solution of this problem. One of my friend suggest me to take some hair treatments and she told me different hair clinic and <a href="https://www.hairtransplantdubai.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hair Transplant Dubai</a> Clinic is one of them. I don't know em very confuse just suggest me something please!!! </p> When to shavetag:alopeciaworld.com,2018-10-31:2022678:Topic:14324622018-10-31T06:56:28.375ZJbhttps://alopeciaworld.com/profile/Jb290
<p>Hello all,</p>
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<p>When did you decide to shave ? A bit of background male, mid 40's - have had alopecia areata for past 18mths or so (on medication steroids not doing anything) .</p>
<p>As of writing, crown is bald - a few wisps. rear left side gone - rear right in the process of.</p>
<p>From the front I look OK (ish), it's getting difficult to keep positioning myself :)</p>
<p>So I have to do something, I've had long hair for most of my life - what's the best way to approach…</p>
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<p>When did you decide to shave ? A bit of background male, mid 40's - have had alopecia areata for past 18mths or so (on medication steroids not doing anything) .</p>
<p>As of writing, crown is bald - a few wisps. rear left side gone - rear right in the process of.</p>
<p>From the front I look OK (ish), it's getting difficult to keep positioning myself :)</p>
<p>So I have to do something, I've had long hair for most of my life - what's the best way to approach something like this, straight shave or did you go for a buzz cut - get used to it and then shave ?</p>
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<p>Thanks,</p>
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<p>saw this on the news this morning, they didn't specifically call it an alopecia emoji though</p>
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<p>saw this on the news this morning, they didn't specifically call it an alopecia emoji though</p>
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