I wear my hair short and have a good skull for short. I could probably wear it shaved. I’m sure I could when I was younger - at 40 my jaw sags a little too much to be classically pretty.
My sister just got diagosed on Thursday with breast cancer. I think she’ll still be beautiful without hair. We put way too much of our self worth into our goddamn hair.
(If it weren’t for the damned real job I’d shave mine off when she starts chemo).
I don’t think I could pull it off. I’m short and have small features. I’d probably look like a newborn. I don’t think Britney looks too bad. But I have to wonder what’s going on inside her head to make her alter the outside so drastically. Maybe it’s a symbolic move toward turning her chaotic life around.
I’m bald right now from being on chemo. I really don’t look good bald. My head is ok shaped but the white head and tan face looks weird. Also, my jaw line is too square and the baldness makes that even more pronounced. I have been having fun with different scarves though.
Hope everything turns out well.
I am tall and fat but I keep my hair pretty short. I just got it cut and it’s .5-1 inches around the back and sides and 1-1.5 inches on top. I would love to go all the way and get a buzz cut but I’m not sure about the state of my head. It wouldn’t be crazy different from how it is, but I still think it would be a bad idea. I’m not attractive now so I guess I would continue to be not attractive.
I kept my head shaved for about a year, when I was 18-19 years old. It probably would have looked better were I waifish, but whatever. I got several compliments on it.
I don’t know that I’d look so good these days. My head’s not lumpy, but my body sure is. Sometimes, especially on humid 100 degree days in the middle of summer, I consider revving up the clippers, but then I remember how nice it is to have hair in the winter. Snow tickles!
Here’s a not-very-good picture of me ‘bald’.
(Wait till she loses hers – in case she doesn’t. My sister didn’t. Yay!)
You look good!
I wear my hair short, so I’m thinking I probably wouldn’t scare small children if I shaved it all … but that said, I’d probably frighten me! Whenever I get my hair cut, I feel the need to run and put on tons of mascara and lipstick, to balance it all. I’d probably buy false eyelashes and go all Mimi with the eyeshadow, and we know THAT’s not a good look! 
I had opened up this thread last night and asked my fiance about whether I’d look good bald. Well, he did a wee bit of photoshopping, and it was decided that, though I currently resemble a chubby Sinead O’Connor, I would probably not be shaving my head any time soon. Maybe a pixie cut when I am thinner, but for now I’ll stick with my semi-long hair, as it does not draw as much attention to my lack of thinness as a very short haircut would.
Barring illness that results in me losing my hair, it’s** never ** going to happen. My hair is about bottom of the shoulder-blades length, and it took me three looooooong years to grow it out from a pixie-type cut. My hair doesn’t grow quickly, and actually this is as long as it will grow. The latter is okay, because I like it. Not going to cut it off, and hope that I never have to find out what I look like without it.
In this as in so many things, it would totally depend on the eye of the beholder, wouldn’t it?
Also, long hair on women is very much a tag of sexuality and acceptable femininity. I would be interested to see how responses to this question correlate with sexual preference.
I am tall, “big-boned” and with great thick wavy brown hair. (And a huge head. I can’t wear one-size-fits-all hats.) I shaved it off a few years ago. I LOVED it - the look, the feel (the only reason I grew it back was the maintenance - I had become accustomed to twice-yearly haircuts, it was very difficult to switch to twice-monthly). I thought I was quite hot, as did most of my friends. (No coincidence, since one reason I was inspired to do it was because a lot of them had chopped all their hair off and looked great too.)
It didn’t take me long to realize that I had suddenly become attractive to a whole new demographic of people. I didn’t notice a change one way or the other in men finding me attractive, but I suddenly had women coming out of the woodwork to hit on me. My overnight transition into “a big dyke” (in the words of one of them) opened up a world I had never previously imagined.
It almost made me want to switch teams. And you know, now that I’m single again …
To be honest, I’ve never seen a woman who was purposely bald and thought it looked good. Not Sinead, not Demi, not Sigourney Weaver, not Natalie Portman…at best women look good despite shaving their heads, not because it in any way improves matters. So by default my guess would be no, I would not look good bald.
I am vaguely planning on shaving my head at some future point in time to raise money for cancer research. I’m pretty sure it’ll look bad, but it will grow out quickly and I like how I look with short hair, so it’ll only be a month or two of badness.
Plus, it’ll be interesting.
Unless you’re very fair-haired, it’s only a few days. My hair is thick and dark brown and within a week I had a velvety down on my skull. A month later, it looked like a badly-done crew cut.
