Here's my story ... I'm 21, soon to be 22 in a couple weeks, and graduating from college next week.
I had a nice head of hair in high school and low and behold freshman year of college start to show signs of thinning ... Fast forward a couple years it is getting progressively worse and I'm becoming self conscious as hell ... Losing your hair really messes with your confidence.
I know hair loss is this is inevitable as the men in my family are all balding or bald and I'm not going to turn into a combover guy when I get to that age!
Anyways, I've been wearing my hair at the length where it touches my ears for the past 5 years or so. My hair is very thin as well, to the point when I'm walking to class and its windy, my hair is flowing all over the place and I'm sure I look awkward and/or frustrated at the same time!
For the past couple years I've just been putting the situation off which I know I will need to deal with ... For the past couple years many people have continuously told me I should shave my head, but I've been too much of a pu*** to pull the trigger.
I say all that to say, I think the time has come ... I start a full time job a couple weeks after I graduate and don't want to start off as the guy with the noticeablely long awkward looking bad hair ...
I can't even imagine what it will look like, but I think once I graduate I'm going to go ahead and buzz my head ... My current status is driving me nuts. I would almost call it obsessive how bad it has become over the last year ... I will sit in the back of class otherwise I feel people will judge me by my hair ... I've stopped working out on a consistent basis b/c my hair being long and thin looks awkward as hell when running lol (well perhaps some is I've got a bit lazy too ha).
So here is my plan. Graduate, move into my apartment, shave my head, get my *** back in the gym and get after it with the 3 weeks I have before I start my full time job and keep it short moving forward. I'm not out of shape, but not where I was in the past or would like to be ( currently 6'1 195 pounds, would like to drop some of the bad/beer weight, eat better, and be a lean 185).
There it is... I always have kept this sh*t to myself and just wanted to throw this out there as I'm sure some have been through this themselves.
Also, regarding timing, I think this is a prime time to try this as I will have a couple weeks before I start my job and worse case scenario I hate it, I'll have at least some of it back during this time.
Also, another thing I'm nervous as hell about is what people I know will think after I get the buzz as there is no guarantee it will look good. This whole process is pretty dang intimidating!
I look forward to hearing your comments and feedback, and don't hold anything back, I'm ready to hear some genuine thoughts here.
Thanks,
JD
I had a nice head of hair in high school and low and behold freshman year of college start to show signs of thinning ... Fast forward a couple years it is getting progressively worse and I'm becoming self conscious as hell ... Losing your hair really messes with your confidence.
I know hair loss is this is inevitable as the men in my family are all balding or bald and I'm not going to turn into a combover guy when I get to that age!
Anyways, I've been wearing my hair at the length where it touches my ears for the past 5 years or so. My hair is very thin as well, to the point when I'm walking to class and its windy, my hair is flowing all over the place and I'm sure I look awkward and/or frustrated at the same time!
For the past couple years I've just been putting the situation off which I know I will need to deal with ... For the past couple years many people have continuously told me I should shave my head, but I've been too much of a pu*** to pull the trigger.
I say all that to say, I think the time has come ... I start a full time job a couple weeks after I graduate and don't want to start off as the guy with the noticeablely long awkward looking bad hair ...
I can't even imagine what it will look like, but I think once I graduate I'm going to go ahead and buzz my head ... My current status is driving me nuts. I would almost call it obsessive how bad it has become over the last year ... I will sit in the back of class otherwise I feel people will judge me by my hair ... I've stopped working out on a consistent basis b/c my hair being long and thin looks awkward as hell when running lol (well perhaps some is I've got a bit lazy too ha).
So here is my plan. Graduate, move into my apartment, shave my head, get my *** back in the gym and get after it with the 3 weeks I have before I start my full time job and keep it short moving forward. I'm not out of shape, but not where I was in the past or would like to be ( currently 6'1 195 pounds, would like to drop some of the bad/beer weight, eat better, and be a lean 185).
There it is... I always have kept this sh*t to myself and just wanted to throw this out there as I'm sure some have been through this themselves.
Also, regarding timing, I think this is a prime time to try this as I will have a couple weeks before I start my job and worse case scenario I hate it, I'll have at least some of it back during this time.
Also, another thing I'm nervous as hell about is what people I know will think after I get the buzz as there is no guarantee it will look good. This whole process is pretty dang intimidating!
I look forward to hearing your comments and feedback, and don't hold anything back, I'm ready to hear some genuine thoughts here.
Thanks,
JD
