BellaOnline Forums Beauty and Self Hair Women - Would you shave your head?

And why?

Or why wouldn't you?

(possible reasons - husband/boyfriends , too cold, funny shaped head, I love to spend hours on my hair, etc)

What an interesting question! I wouldn't shave my head down to absolute "cue-ball" type baldness. I mean even Natalie Portman, as pretty as she is, didn't look that good when she did it for the movie V For Vendetta. But in the past I have gotten my hair cut to kind of a buzz-cutt at 1/4-inch. I loved it because my head felt so light, and I didn't even have to comb my hair anymore! (Not much to comb).

However, I got a lot of disapproval and pressure to conform from complete strangers. Guys, always older white conservative males, would make a point of calling me "Sir"!

Other people seemed to want to "type" me into some subgroup that would explain the shortness of the haircut: they mistook me for a lesbian or even a Buddhist nun!

I've heard that you should have perfect skin if you're going to risk a haircut this short because it throws merciless attention upon your face. So that's what's holding me back right now. But I would get the buzz cut again, and probably will in the future.

How unkind! People do love to put others in categories.

Well, I've already been there (obviously, LOL!)

Of course mine wasn't a choice at the time, but I actually kind of liked it. But people always made the assumption I was going throeugh chemo - so I got lots of comments on what type of cancer I had.

I have been thinking aout doing it again when it gets hot...but I'm having so much fun playing with color right now, and I can't do that with no hair!

I will note that when I was bald I wouldn't go anywhere without my makeup & jewelry on. i just didn't like the way I looked bare-faced, but thought it was kind of elegant when I dressed up.

I don't think I would ever be brave enough to shave my head or even go to a clipper cut. Maybe it's my years as a hairdresser and concentrating on how hair affects the appearance of the face.

I have often thought I would like a really short cut - like Sharon Stone had. Then I would have to go blond too.

My hair has been short but I never cut it that short because of my very uneven curl pattern. I can't be sure how it will react.

And my husband would not care for a really short cut. My hair changes a lot, which is hard enough on him. (He doesn't like change. It always takes him two weeks to get used to it. ) I like to keep him happy on the easy things because there is always something big that will come along...

I did the head shave thing in 2004. I LOVED it and am considering it again for this summer. My hair grows fast. It was mid back up to a few weeks ago when I went to a sadist hair dresser.

I loved it because it was light and airy. When it started to grow back it dried so fast. I could wash it super quickly if I needed to freshen up. My husband didn't seem to mind. I know he likes long her hair but he didn't dis approve. He actually, had to help me cause I couldn't reach all the back to smooth it out.

It wasn't Vin Diesel short but it was much shorter than the Sharon Stone due you mentioned.

I have a cowlick at the back of my head (as well as at the front) so hairdresser have always discouraged going shorter than a 4 inches because it would be hard to manage but I really didn't have a problem with it growing in. I gobbed the goo to it when I need to and it was fine.

Never (even if i would be an actress and given millions more for it). If I ever start losing my hair I will keep it that way but also hide it. I would cut it very short (so short that it would almost be shaved) but I would never go that extra step.

I would, I have and have thought about doing it again. I did it to cut off all the colored and overprocessed straw I called hair. It came back in very soft and pretty.