I've just had all my hair shaved off

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Well, I had a number two all over, at the persuasion of my team-mate Jessica. "Oh, it'll grow back in a couple of days if you don't like it," she says. Well, I want it back now - it looks rubbish! It makes my head look like a squashed squash. I would post pictures, but I'm too distraught.

Console me, tell me that it doesn't look as bad as all that, and other conforting things. Also, tell me about the time that you changed your hair - did it look better than you originally thought, or did you think it looked rubbish then and wanted your hair back straight away?

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

COuple of weeks, even.

Oh, why did I do it! I keep geting amused glances from co-workers, and just to cap it off, the fellow who sits opposite me goes and says "Bloody hell JOhn, what happened to your hair?" which makes me feel even worse than I did already. WIll this torture never stop?

I need to buy a hat.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)

It's only hair.

― Alix with an I ? (alix), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

After 8 years with floppy indieboy hair, impending baldness meant I had to have it all cut off. I did this the day of my best mate's 21st birthday, and the combination of a suit and a crewcut made me look like a bouncer. However, I did end up spending the evening chatting to a very friendly 3mili4 F0x, so I obviously didn't become repulsive overnight.

It takes a while to get used to it, and you almost certainly think it looks worse than it does (really, it just looks unfamiliar and naked, not bad). But it *will* grow back, and you may well find yourself getting unexpected compliments, looks etc.

The one definite plus is that it's totally easy to look after. This is a big bonus - enjoy it!

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I shaved my head when I was 16. It took over a year to grow back. (Possibly because I had an ill-advised mohawk for part of the regrowth period.) However, I had an interesting several month period of random people liking to "feel my head" because it was very velvety and soft when it regrew.

A stilish hat, however, can make all the difference.

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Easy to look after, yes.
Unfamiliar and naked - I guess.

It's still bloody terrifying. I think there must be a limit on teh number of double-takes you can get in a day before you're allowed to go home and cry and drink beer.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

You are well on your way to hooliganisim.

― Jimmy Mod Has Returned With Spices And Silks (ModJ), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I was thinking of getting a haircut tomorrow, as well. So this thread has been a lesson to me.

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I was kinda liking the hooliganism thing - I think the incongruity between my duff-you-up-and-steal-your-pocket-money look and my over-posh accent might be quite fun. Challenging expectations and all that malarky.

Kate, don't you have long flowing pretty hair? WHatever you do, don't follow my lead!

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

It's long and flowing but I wouldn't exactly call it pretty.

I just need to find a new and exciting way of keeping it out of my face. I'm bored with ponytails and braids and things. (then again, maybe I could get cornrows.) I was thinking of shaving it... but after that 16 year old experience, I discovered I had totally uneven ears, which are *really* noticable when you have no hair.

Perhaps you could get a wig! Or a variety of wigs. That's what I did after one particularly bad haircut.

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Johnney, when are you going to come to an event so we can ~~vet~~ meet you?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, I'm coming to poptimism tomorrow night, so you can see the carnage for yourself. Have any wigs had number one records? Might come in handy - I could get in for free!

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I should have done it for charity, at least then someone would profit from this misery. Dammit! Dammit dammit dammit! I've just plucked up the courage to ask a lass who I've been crushing on for ages out for a drink and boom! I suddenly look like a turnip with ears.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

shaving your hair off is gurd, forget the image think about the not having to brush in the mornings and savings in shampoo etc.

After years of veeerry long hair and constant jokes about me looking like 'Neil-off-the-Young-Ones' i had mine shaved and ive never looked back, and my head is the size of a proton.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, I had a number two all over

You guys do this to me on purpose, don't you?

― The Ghost of Juvenile Giggling (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

That was an improvement on my first attempt at a title.

I've just had a number two on my head, and I hate it

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Time for pics, Johnny.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't get my phone to talk to my computer and work, but I'l do some tonight for tomorrow, I promise.

Honestly, it looks rubbish. I'm scared I'll break the internet.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh no! I've just found a big line where no hair grows! I look like skinny white Mike Tyson!

I'm going to take the next fortnight off work and stay indoors weeping.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

You look like a skinny white TOUGH MOTHERFUCKER, don't you mean?

I have a patch where no hair grows (to go with the entire top of my scalp, where no hair grows, hoho) which I used to worry would look really dumb, but it just adds character.

Anyway, you're a skinhead now, you're not allowed to cry.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

When, late last year at the age of 35 I started to notice my temples going grey (I was ready for bald, just not grey for some reason) I immediately clipped off almost all my head hair with a beard trimmer to make it less noticible. Prior to this I had often thought of my golden-brown, curly locks as my most attractive feature (not an aazing feat considering the rest of me, but still - nice hair.) Now I constantly look as if I shaved myself bald about two weeks ago. Granted, I'm fairly used to the idea, having gone through some shaved head phases a few times when I was younger. I always hated paying for haircuts, and now I do 'em myself. Also, although my hair is pretty nice, no stylist ever seemed to be able to make it into something hip and trendy - I've always felt my headfur was slightly to ridiculously out of date.

Now I've got a timeless classic (if minimalist) hairstyle I spend no money and little time fussing with, and as you say - I can dress it up with a variety of hats if I so desire. And when it starts to grow back you can pull a mid to late 80s nostalgia look out:

I can't believe this album cover is the only example of a high top fade custom cameo cut I could find on the internet! There must be others.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

get the oil paints out, j-man: from ridicule to really cool, yeah?

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Bald in New York.

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I'[m sure it'll be fine with time, but at thye moment, it DOES look rubbish. Grrrr!

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Momus, I think that really suits you!

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I have not had one dud haircut, apart from the one time I let a, well, white guy do it. I do look grebt (and scarier) when bald. Even when I dyed the front of my hair blonde, I looked GOOD.

― The only bald Bari that's actually hardcore, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeh, Momus looks alright - but he would. He doesn't look that bad wearing flip-flops as ear-warmers, for god's sake.

Sorry, I'm whining now. I will stop.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

If a bald(ing) man tells you he doesn't mind the fact that he's losing/lost his hair, honest... he's lying

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

On His Baldness

At dawn I sighed to see my hairs fall;
At dusk I sighed to see my hairs fall.
For I dreaded the time when the last lock should go...
They are all gone and I do not mind at all!
I have done with that cumbrous washing and getting dry;
My tiresome comb forever is laid aside.
Best of all, when the weather is hot and wet,
To have no topknot weighing down on one's head!
I put aside my dusty conical cap;
And loose my collar fringe,
In a silver jar I have stored a cold stream;
On my bald pate I trickle a ladle-full.
Like one baptized with the Water of Buddha's Law,
I sit and recieve this cool, clensing joy.
Now I know why the priest who seeks repose
Frees his heart by first shaving his head.

― Po Chu-i (Archel), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

If a bald(ing) man tells you he doesn't mind the fact that he's losing/lost his hair, honest... he's lying

What if said bald(ing) man has been shaving off all of his hair since he was 19 anyway?

― The Ghost of Sleek And Ready For Trouble (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Yarbles to that

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

(haha except I'm not balding yet)

― The Ghost of Accidentally Talking Out Of His Ass (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a dream the other night that I was going bald. (Typical stress dream, I know.) I opted for a lame-ass combover, though.

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah well Dan you have the marvellous luxury of shaving or not shaving your hair!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a dream the other night that I was going bald.

She drew her comb across her scalp
And brushed what she had left
I tried to salvage what I could
And threw it in a sack
She made a beeline to her room
And grabbed all kind o' juice
She started pourin' it on her head
And thought it'd grow it back
Ah-HAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaa!!!!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Get thee to a barbers hairy guy

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll have none of that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, the more I look at it the more I realise how rubbish it looks. My god, I hate myself and I want to die.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

so, you did this why?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I did this when I was about 18, hated it and wanted to die and then didn't get my hair cut again for a year

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

It seemed a good idea at the time.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

so, you did this why?

at the persuasion of my team-mate Jessica

― The Ghost of Feminine Wiles Strike Again (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah. To impress a chiX0r.

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

ah so you fancy Jessica?

haha xpost

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

No no no! There's no jess-fancying going on at all, I swear. My mate Richard suggested it a while back, and Jess and I were chatting the other day, and she mentioned it too, and I though "Why not"?

Well, I'll tell you why not, it looks fucking rubbish, that's why. You lot have got the wrong end of the stick.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish my hair didn't grow back so quick actually, i shave a number 0 at least once a fortnight.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

What does Jess think of it?

I do the same, Ste, only it doesn't grow back, most of it. Sigh.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

She's got the afternoon off, so she won't see it till tomorrow. Everyone else in teh office agrees with me that it looks terrible, and I'm sure she won't waver from popular opinion.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Wear the fox hat

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Still looks rubbish
http://www.funny.co.uk/siteimages/18.jpg

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

If a bald(ing) man tells you he doesn't mind the fact that he's losing/lost his hair, honest... he's lying

Oh, I hate the fact that I'm slowly losing it both in front and in back, but I'm not interested in surgery or medication to reverse the process. Shaving my head down to the stubble (clippers on lowest setting, no attachments) just makes me feel less shitty about the whole thing.

― Tantrum (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

... but you still feel shitty nonetheless

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Muuuuucccch better:

http://www.essierun.org/img/redtail.gif

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Poor Johnny. Never mind pet, just tell the girls to feel your fuzz.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i am 'between haircuts' at the moment.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

meaning i am in the netherworld between shaved head and proper haircut. it's not a fun place to be, sometimes people give me change.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

... but you still feel shitty nonetheless

-- Dadaismus (dadaismu...), March 23rd, 2005.

Meh.

"Shitty" is something of an overstatement. Let's put this in perspective:

Before I started shaving my head, I was obsessed with the fact that my hair was thinning. First I had the short-messy-Ceasar haircut, which I was constantly getting trimmed, and then I went for the short-messy-bleached-Eminem look, which was equally high-maintenance. I always carried styling wax, and my girlfriend, who likes her own hair to be short and low-maintenance, was exasperated at how much "hair gunk" I was going through.

In short, I was having an early midlife about the whole thing. I don't miss those days at all.

Now, my hair care regiment takes ten minutes out of my week. There are days when I miss having enough to grow into a fashionable 'do, but that's one out of a hundred. (Oddly enough, today is one of 'em, as it's chilly outside and I forgot to wear a hat on the way to work.) The rest of the time, who cares? Vanity will eat your brain if you let it.

― Tantrum (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm surprised to discover that this thread is about HEAD hair.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

we had that other thread long ago.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Right, I hope this posting works
ihttp://www.shutterfly.com/view/picture_dt.jsp?state=67b0de21bbf2cf0fa487&idx=0

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 24 March 2005 08:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh sod it, you'll see me tonight anyway.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 24 March 2005 08:33 (twenty-one years ago)

:-(

I wanted to see the picture.

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 24 March 2005 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I fucking dread the day that I am bald enough that I have to have a shaved head, I mean really on that day my life is over.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 24 March 2005 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

...

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 24 March 2005 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm balding and my life is far from over, in fact I'm enjoying it. Discovering you're losing your hair is traumatic without a doubt, but you do eventually make peace with yourself and your appearance. I think it took me a couple of years. Now I think about it only now and then. It really is not the end of the world and it's certainly not the end of women finding you attractive. In my experience women like confident men, and the issue of how bald you are is only relevant in how comfortable with it you are.

― stenton jones, Thursday, 24 March 2005 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

In my experience women like confident men, and the issue of how bald you are is only relevant in how comfortable with it you are.

OTFM. My girlfriend actually prefers me bald. She's seen the pics of when I was younger & more hirsute, (and "prettier", for lack of a better word) and her verdict is "Yeah, you were cute and all, but I would've found you a little femme. Now your looks are more like your personality."

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 25 March 2005 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

This just gives you the perfect opportunity to make everyone sick of you by repeatedly shrugging in an exagerated manner and saying in a jokey voice, "Oh well. Hair today. Gone tomorrow."

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 25 March 2005 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Until I shaved, I thought I was an average-looking human being. Only then did I discover that my skull is so dented and malformed that I look like a Kuyper Belt object.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 25 March 2005 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

difference between guard 2 and guard 1 is pretty big :O

― I think ur a probotector (cozen), Saturday, 30 January 2010 19:59 (sixteen years ago)

lol

― brews before HOOS (s1ocki), Saturday, 30 January 2010 20:07 (sixteen years ago)

two months pass...

just had a bad haircut and am tempted to shave it all off. : (

― fuck in rainbows, ☔ (dyao), Sunday, 11 April 2010 01:49 (sixteen years ago)

"a number two all over" is not a phrase i would associate with hair

― Nhex, Sunday, 11 April 2010 01:57 (sixteen years ago)

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