I was diagnosed with leukemia on Dolly Parton day and started taking the chemo pills that night. It’s only been 18 days, but my long hair started to break and fall out within a couple weeks. The cancer and chemo tried to take my cool hair, so I shaved it on my own terms. I’m happy to know that I can, indeed, rock a bald head.

I struggled with my thinning hair, but getting rid of it has given me a huge confidence boost.

Had someone close to me convincing me for years that it was better to have some hair.

Shaved it today and I’m real happy with how it looks. What do you think?

I took the plunge a few years ago because I just didn’t have as much on top as I did on the sides and I didn’t want to look like I was trying to hold onto something that just wasn’t there anymore. Chewbacca has puppy-pattern baldness. He is bald from his chinny chin chin to his comically hairless butthole. He is my everything burrito. Do we belong?

So I'll be honest with you, I haven't shaved my head for 4 weeks as I've been booked in for a second HT.

I really noticed how bald I was on the top of my head in a full length hotel mirror...and now I'm wondering if it's any point going ahead with it at this stage?

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Ok hair me out on this one. Obviously i already know the overwhelming response on this sub will be yes do it! No one is going to say, No dude, keep holding onto your hair and embrace it lmao 😆

So i love having long hair, running my hands through it. I'm not attractive, never had a girlfriend am short,(which let's be honest guys is a turn off/ deal breaker a lot of women)

Am in my 40s and I'm no Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Bruce Willis or Vin Diesel 😭🧑‍🦲

And i really don't want to do this alone with no support. I have a lack of friends and family.

I would consider shaving in certain circumstances. I know it's unlikely to find a woman who would join in this with me and that's not a deal breaker. I just am more or a feminine man and am ok with admitting that.

I don't want to go to the barber and be all over in 5 minutes with my hair on the floor and swept in the rubbish.

I've grown my hair long for 15 years. So there's an attachment to it that women can relate to. It's become like a limb. I have had a buzzcut when i was young and was in the army for serval years. Those days are long gone like my hairline 😭

I would like to make this occasion memorable and love the idea of a fun roleplay like Samson and Delilah where i "fall asleeep" in a women's lap where she brushes and braids my hair and cuts ✂️ off the braid and then shaves the remaining hair to baldify me 🧑‍🦲😭

I understand that it's a long shot due to location (New Zealand) and having someone trusting enough to have this done with. Ultimately a platonic friendship where trust is built up first would be a must. (Don't think anyone would be trusting enough to see this like an acting role with a ramdom stranger)

I'm not manifesting this and in the end, this sub just wants to see before and after images and not long boring stories like this one lol 😆

The time has arrived. Fr tho I feel so much more confident now that I got rid of it. I'm aware that I'm not good looking but it's a massive W over thinning hair

Edit: the uneven side of my head is from operation when I was younger. Just FYI

my roomate said (in a good way) i kinda look like a hairless cat now, so in honor of that i drew myself as one➡️

Someone mentioned I should cross-post this over here! 🖤 glad to be rid of my long(ish) hair & feel like myself again!

I know it maybe looks pretty well covered up in the 2nd picture but that was only cause of the good lighting and angle. Which is why I wanted to shave it cause I was constantly worried about angles and what lighting would make my hair look noticeably thinner and the wind exposing me and getting my hair wet and so on and so forth. I do miss my hair a little bit already but I also feel a lot freer now too 😌

After talking about it i ordered some clippers

They arrived and my wife jokingly said you doing it tonight? I think my reply of yes thats the plan shocked her a little

The kids got involved and shaved most of it off

All 3 (9, 6 & 3) say they prefer it

I jump back and forth whether i like it or not

My wife still isnt sure - but shes perimenopausal so hates me some days, likes me on others so ill take her view with a pinch of salt

I completed a half marathon at the weekend and didnt recognise myself in the post race pictures. But comparing them to the last time i ran that half marathon i actually looked happier (trained much more this time round)

I didnt realise how thin my hair really was at the front until i shaved it. I went for 1.5mm but the next day had to shave it again with no guard

For anyone thats thinking about taking the plunge my honest thoughts

- I thought id get more comments from friends. But my best friend didnt even notice until i mentioned it to him, although we hadnt seen each other for a few months. Other friends ive seen since shaving it havent even mentioned it

- I work remotely and again on video calls no one had mentioned it. It was only on a company wide call that a colleague slacked me about it, its now given him confidence to do the same

- I still have a bit of my tan so i notice the lighter areas alot more but this will change now were entering the cold and dark months

- There are some days where i look at myself in the mirror and love it, but there are some where the internal voice shouts WHY DID YOU DO IT? or YOUR HEAD LOOKS LONGER NOW. I think the longer it goes on the positive voice wins

- Its so good having to not worry about my hair. Changing clothes and then having to sort my hair, having to sort my hair before i go out, sorting my hair before a photo, not liking the photo because my combover wasnt right. These are all gone now, although my Chandler level smiling skills are questionable sometimes

Biggest things for me now are to get into a routine of shaving my head every few days, continue building the shoulders and attempt to sort out the facial hair

But the main reason for this post is to say go for it, you will likely switch back and forth for a few weeks about whether you like it or not but mainly if you worry about what people will think they hardly mention it or say something positive - the last part is something i didnt expect!

I have been balding since my mid-30s. I was hiding it with hats and getting haircuts pretty regularly. During COVID, I shaved my head since the only person who saw me was my wife, and I wasn't crazy about it, so I let it grow back while secretly cutting the sides down to allow my crown to fill in. Earlier this year, I just got tired of running to the barbershop every two weeks, the endless algorithm of get a hair transplant or a toupee, try all sorts of remedies and products that I never really kept up with, hearing people's opinions on my hair, and worrying if my wife was going to leave me because I didn't have hair anymore (which she didn't she says she like me in all my baldness). This time it felt official I was trying my best to own it. The few people that have seen it have been really positive. The only people that are weird about it are my parents; they are like Why do you keep do shaving your head and trying this for it. So I still have to keep a hat on standby with them. So my question to the council does the insecurity of being bald ever truly go away?

I decided to shave it all off at first I wanted a hair system and then, I got it I hated it. Next I was like you know what what the hell!! let's just go for it and while we're at it let's try minoxidil while it "grows back" I see the vision still haven't fully embraced it I used to have the most beautiful hair was told by hairdressers that I would "never lose it" and look at me now 😔

Not really sure how I feel about it 😅

Counselors, please advise.

I've been a lurker on this sub for a while, and y'all gave me the courage to go through with it a couple of weeks ago. Thanks for that. Unfortunately, I didn't get any before pictures to show the damage because I really didn't think I was gonna post here. Anyway, more to the point of the post, the facial hair in the picture is all that I can grow that isn't super patchy and awful. It didn't take me long to feel surprisingly confident about the smooth head, but I'm feeling sketched out about the goatee. Maybe because it's disconnected, idk. Should I trim it differently? Just go mustache? Full egg? Or am I just overthinking it?

I keep the sideburns lower than most but I think that works better for my face. Currently at a #2 clipper