# Head shaving poll **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 10, 2004, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/head-shaving-poll/223868 "2004-01-10T21:15:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zap\_Rowsdower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3da27b/32.png) [@Zap\_Rowsdower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zap_Rowsdower)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2004, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/head-shaving-poll/223868/21 "2004-01-11T21:26:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jimmy Chitwood \* > \*\* > If I could be permitted to add a fourth question, inspired by **Phase** and **WW** ’s pictures: How many of the guys with shorn heads also sport a goatee or other form of facial hair? I do, and I notice that the men in the two pictures above do, as well. \*\* I have a goatee, too. ---
**Author:** ![cantara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@cantara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cantara)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/head-shaving-poll/223868/22 "2004-01-12T14:47:43Z")
I think that if I were to shave my head I would consider using [Headblade](http://www.headblade.com/default23.htm). I think my hairline is trying to tell me to start thinking about it… ---
**Author:** ![Winterwren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Winterwren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winterwren)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/head-shaving-poll/223868/23 "2004-01-12T15:15:03Z")
The partner-in-crime is now sporting a van Dyke. I have one friend who shaves his head who has just the goatee, and one with moustache and no chin fuzz. I think that a totally naked male head looks a little too neotenous for my tastes. ---
**Author:** ![Belrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/head-shaving-poll/223868/24 "2004-01-13T18:29:19Z")
I don’t shave my head completely smooth but I do use the “poodle trimmer” to shave my hair to about an eighth-inch (using the #1 guard). I do this monthly or so. It’s much easier than shaving every day or so. I also have a goatee. Yes, I’m going naturally bald. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/head-shaving-poll/223868/25 "2004-01-14T06:18:05Z")
> [@](#): > > How many of the guys with shorn heads also sport a goatee or other form of facial hair? I’ve noticed the trend myself - shaved head + goatee/VanDyke. I personally think it’s the best combination. It makes the guy look “dangerous” somehow. I went completely clean shaven for a couple of days, and I couldn’t grow the beard back fast enough. I think it’s because a completely hairless head on a man makes him look lizardlike. Or maybe like Gollum 😉 I think that wearing a beard with a shaved head also makes the statement, I’m bald because I want to be!" It also makes it clear that the baldness is desired, and is not the result of, say, chemotherapy. Mainly, though, it just screams, “Badass!” Or not. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/head-shaving-poll/223868/26 "2004-01-14T06:41:17Z")
And now, for the ultimate irony. Actually, two of them. My commanding officer considers a shaved head a “faddish” haircut, thus against the rules. In the military. :rolleyes: That’s one. When I went to get my smallpox shot, one of the risk factors is for psoriasis. Since it runs in my family I made it a point to bring an area of flaky skin on my head to their attention. Lo and behold, I have psoriasis, though only on my head thus far. So I can’t shave it anyway. I had planned on shaving my head, but due to those two circumstances I’ll never be able to. Then again, in a few years I may not have to, since I’m balding. Sucks to be me. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/head-shaving-poll/223868/27 "2004-01-14T15:37:27Z")
Someone else hit it right on the head: 1. In front of the mirror 2. Mach 3 **only!** 3. Cuz chicks dig it. Actually, I first shaved my head because I lost a bet with my students. They scored much higher on the California Standardized Tests than I thought they would. But it turns out that I am much less repulsive without hair than with. So…I keep it shaved. ---
**Author:** ![UselessGit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/74df32/32.png) [@UselessGit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UselessGit)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/head-shaving-poll/223868/28 "2004-01-14T16:23:04Z")
I used to shave my head but recently grew it back since it made me look like a criminal. This is a good thing, though, as now I can answer people who say “Hey you have hair! nice, dude!” with “Thanks, I grow it myself.” Can’t remember why I shaved it off to start with… The “chicks” did indeed “dig it”, but I think I was mostly just being the lazy bastard that I am. Oh, I used whatever razor I had (usually Mach3) and usually shaved in front of my bathroom mirror, I never needed a mirror to see the back of my head since you can feel around and get a better idea of where you need to shave better, anyway. I did sport a fancy beard for a few months, an Amish-style affair, but shaved it off since it made me look even more like a criminal. Luckily my head is an exquisite piece of cranial architecture so I looked OK without the beard… ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/head-shaving-poll/223868/29 "2004-01-14T16:44:36Z")
Sorry **Cantera -** Headblades suck. They rip my head to shreds. Mach3 is the only way to go. To answer Question #4 - Yes, I have a goatee. It fits with the whole “badass” image thing. 😃 But then, I haven’t shaved my upper lip in 31 years, and I had a full beard before I shaved my head, so it wasn’t that much of a change. ---
**Author:** ![UselessGit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/74df32/32.png) [@UselessGit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UselessGit)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/head-shaving-poll/223868/30 "2004-01-14T17:11:59Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > […]But then, I haven’t shaved my upper lip in 31 years[…] Wow! What do you do, tuck your 'tash into your shoes? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/head-shaving-poll/223868/31 "2004-01-14T18:31:14Z")
LOL!! Ok…to be a little clearer…I haven’t shaved my upper lip in 31 years. I HAVE trimmed the resultant 'tache regularly, so it isn’t quite the soup-strainer you had envisioned. 😛 Unlike Paul, I am **not** the Walrus! ---
**Author:** ![UselessGit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/74df32/32.png) [@UselessGit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UselessGit)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/head-shaving-poll/223868/32 "2004-01-14T21:40:47Z")
Aaaah, Trimming… of course. :smack: I bow my silly, foreign head in shame and slowly disassemble my shrine to the Titanic 'Tash and its holder, **Silenus**. ---
**Author:** ![ProjectOmega](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b487fb/32.png) [@ProjectOmega](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ProjectOmega)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/head-shaving-poll/223868/33 "2004-01-15T05:44:34Z")
1. Shower. Less mess with the shaving cream and stubble to clean up, plus the moisture makes for a closer, less bloody experience. 2. Mach3, of course. 3. Well, I’d like to say it’s because I like the look (which I really, really do), but it was mostly prompted by my hair loss starting at the tender age of 16. 4. I don’t grow out any facial hair. Makes me look aerodynamic, like I’m from the future or something. ---
**Author:** ![gleeb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f14d63/32.png) [@gleeb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gleeb)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/head-shaving-poll/223868/34 "2004-01-15T17:58:41Z")
Every three months for the past year I’ve shaved my head. Does that count? Anyway, I trim it with scissors, then use an electric trimmer to get to most of it off, finishing up with a cheap disposable razor in the shower. I shave it to keep it short enough that I don’t have to think about it, and yet don’t have to pay a barber. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/head-shaving-poll/223868.md?page=1)