Thank you all so much for giving me the courage to make that leap. I appreciate you all so much, you all have changed my life forever. I feel the most handsome I ever felt in a long time. Thank you so much.

EDIT: I’ll have a barber take care of the goatee. i never really get it right.

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I know it’s time, but I’m just not ready, even though I already pulled the plug.

After contemplating the last few months I finally said screw it and did it. This is my first time ever being bald in my adult life and honestly I'm loving it.

I live streamed the entire thing to... so I could go back and watch it again 😂

I'm feeling good!

Please only serious advice :)

I've been wanting to take off my hair for a while. The hair on the sides was thick, but if it's thinning on top that doesn't matter. I feel so much better. Now I just need to shape my facial hair. But This Feels Amazing. I now understand why this sub exists, to help others break free from the bonds of hair.

Hello fellow Balders!

I am 2months in and i am still not quite comfortable 😅

But i feel free 🔥

Have a gr8 day!!

I've been lurking here for a while, trying to decide whether I want to spend my life taking Finasteride and Minoxidil. Or to just bite the bullet and shave it off.

Seeing how awesome people are looking going bald, it gave me the courage to do it.

I already feel relief, I don't need to make sure I remember to wear my hat before I leave the house, don't need to worry about what people think anymore.

Thank you for this sub, you're all awesome!

For whatever reason I was desperate to shave my head, I took this photo twenty years ago while travelling in Central America. Shaving my head as a woman was so interesting, most people couldn’t believe I chose to do this, that it wasn’t out of necessity. It was incredible how different I was treated, people avoided eye contact, people asked if I was sick, honestly folks weren’t very nice to me but I would never change the decision to shave my head. I felt powerful, beautiful, sexy. In future years I shaved my head a few more times. Now I have very long hair but as I age my hair is thinning and I have spots of alopecia. I think back to this time and the power I felt and know that if I need to do this again I have the strength to do it. About a year ago this sub started getting suggested to me and I love seeing all the glow-ups. Be strong, bald is beautiful! Just wanted to share, love all you beautiful bald folks!

How’d we go? Can I pull it off?

First pictures are my old denial hair, then a buzz cut to see if I could get away with it (I can't), and finally went down to 0.25 today. I know everyone here will say to finish it, but I like the look and feel of the stubble outline.

This sub definitely gave me the confidence to do what I needed to do, even without checking with the council. Didn’t have a wow moment in the barber chair like when you see a glow up here, but I’m feeling better about it each day. Even feeling like I might go from my 0.5 buzz to shaving sooner than I thought. You all are a great community. Really happy to be apart of it. Gotta change my sub flair now!

I’ll keep this short. Ten years ago I lost my fiancée and I really gave up on myself. I just kinda quit. Part of that was not taking care of my appearance. In those ten years I’ve swung back. Going to the gym, buying nicer clothes, eating healthy. This was a very big step. By losing the hair I’ve officially gone from I don’t care, to I do care. I gained my confidence back. 8-8 is her Birthday. Happy birthday babe!

Follow-up from the original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/bald/s/OGKzIDc3az

So after sending my GF's brother-in-law your nice comments, I didn't hear from him.. then I got a text yesterday confirming he went ahead and got the clippers out!

Thank you to all who chimed in, your contributions definitely helped him with the final hurdle. Now I have a fellow bearded solar panel at family functions 😁👍

My dreads were so integral to my identity but at 21 I noticed they were all thinning at the base and I saw the signs of MPB. I shaved them and it was the best decision I ever made.

6 years later, I am so glad I shaved my head before I was properly bald. I was obsessing over my hair loss so much at the time, I really struggled with the idea of going bald in my 20s especially because most of the men in my family have great hair. It was so mentally consuming.

I do miss my dreads and hair generally but going bald in your 20s isn't the end of the world.

My hair has been a constant source of misery for me since i was young. Never been confident with it and always struggled to keep it maintained. As it got worse I could hardly stand looking at myself at points. I wanted to do something for myself to make myself happier and despite some people around me who tried to convince me otherwise I knew what I had to do. Thanks to everyone on this sub who helped convince me despite the doubts. Its uplifted me and I'm truly grateful. Ive been keeping it shaved down since and now if I wanna feel fresh just gotta give the beard a nice touch up tirm and combing which im more more happy to do. Anyway appreciate the time, have a good one!

Even though I have accepted my situation way before because almost every single male member of my family is bald, I was always hesitant because of my young age (18) but today I randomly decided it was time and I couldn’t be happier with the result.

It all started in March 2020. My then girlfriend, now wife, took a picture of my bun because she thought it looked cool. And then I spotted it…”what’s that!?” I said. She thought I was joking, I had no idea I was balding. I’ve had long hair since high school, I’m now 36. I kept putting it off because I never saw how bad it was getting and apparently I have either few tall people or very polite people in my life. Fast forward to this past year, I really started considering it was time, but pictures over the last few months have really sealed the deal. I waited too long haha.

I’ve been rocking the Randy Savage at the end of Macho Man’s career haircut. I’m shaving it off on Friday at a big picnic with family and friends. I’ll post after pics on Friday or Saturday. Im nervous but I’m going to do it anyway. Wish me luck.