I’ve shaved my head a few times when I was younger, and for a couple of years kept the bottom half shaved while the top half grew.
I have thick hair that grows fast. And I hate the feeling of hair on my skin.
Considering that I pay someone close to $200 nowadays to cut (and color and/or style) my hair, I think I’d have to ask for about $800-$1000. Although I suppose if the mood really struck me, I’d do it just for the hell of it.
Female, 36.
I could be convinced for $1000. I’m sure I would look pretty bad without hair, but I look good with short hair and my hair grows fast. Mr.stretch would miss it, though.
female, 40, elbow length wavy red hair
Move to DC and I’ll break out the clippers. 
I did it for free (actually for charity) for the St. Baldrick’s Organization , a group that collects money to help kids with cancer. People donate money to sponsor you and you get shaved at the event. This past St. Patrick’s Day, our town did it with the police and fire departments and local scout troops along with individuals joining in. Some local barbers and hairstylists volunteered their time and equipment, the local skating rink gave the place, local restaurants donated food and local companies donated door prizes. I collected $500 and was shaved bald. It had been 20 years since I had been shaved for the Army and it felt great to be doing it for a terrific cause.
If the $$ was going to charity I’d do it for about $100.
If the $$ was going to me I wouldn’t bother. I suppose I could give the $$ to charity, but I could just do that anyway and keep my hair…
Well it would depend if I get to wear a wig. If not, I wouldn’t shave my head for less than $100,000 so better bribe some of the others on this board that will do it a hell of a lot cheaper. If I get to wear a wig, probably $50,000.
Female/40
I dunno. Ten bucks?
Both of those sound fairly permanent. How about I visit DC and you break out the bobby pins?
My hair is chin length and I’d shave it in a heartbeat and wear one of those chemo turbans if only somebody in my town would do one of those shave-your-head for charity events.
I’ve been having my hair dyed honey brown with blonde highlights for years now, and it’s expensive, $200 per month. My real hair is coming in at the roots a pretty shade of silver. My mother had lovely silvery hair that was much admired and I’d love to show the world my true color but I’d have to put up with brown ends and silver roots for months while the dye grows out and the real color grows in. Not wanting to be piebald, I trudge to the hairdresser every month and waste three hours and a big bucks.
I’d go for pretty damned cheap. Hell, if the mood strikes I might even pay someone else to do it for me (although I’ve got my own set of clippers).
I used to keep half my head shaved, with corn rows/braids on top. I just chopped off 14" a few weeks ago. For the most part, my hair grows fairly quickly. I think most people put far too much thought/effort/value in their hair and how it looks. I don’t understand spending hundreds of dollars at a salon. I think the most I’ve ever spent to have someone else work on my hair was around $30.
Female, 26
Where the heck did you get cornrows or braids done for under $30? Or are you actually dexterous enough to do them yourself?
I would do it myself, or have my friends help me do it. Also, I used to re-braid my friend’s hair every month. He kept his shoulder-length blond hair in braids for most of the year we were in school together, and bore a striking resemblance to that guy from Korn.
Well, I’m not hurting for money, so it’d have to be a lot. It would help if it were for charity, since I’d have to explain it to everyone at work. I’d say somewhere over $10,000 if it were just for the hell of it, or possibly for free if it were somehow going to make a lot of money for a worthwhile charity.
I’m 40, female, and my hair is past my shoulders.
But I would have let them shave it off if I’d had to when I joined the Army.
Oh, also, if I ever shave my head I may get a tattoo just so I can have a secret hidden tattoo that nobody will ever see again.
I mean I would get a tattoo on my head and then let the hair grow over it.
I’d do it for a couple, three hundred. Shaving off my beard would take another zero at the end of the previous number.
How much of a beard are we talking about here, Frank?
I’d do it for a thousand. I don’t have any particular attachment to my hair, but I want a thousand bucks. I may negotiate however.
Deal – and I’ll lower my asking price to the cost of a beer. 
If the hair wasn’t going to go to Locks of Love? (I have contemplated donating my hair, and when I do decide to cut my hair if I ever do I will donate it.) Hmmm… Probably ten thousand for each year that I’ve been growing my hair out, minimum. That’d be one hundred thousand dollars at this point in time. If some jerk took scissors to my ponytail, I’d probably add more to that figure in the form of punitive damages. I cannot find a cite online about the case where a woman had been growing her hair for a decade and some drunken asshat in a bar thought it would be funny to lop off her ponytail, but I remember she won a lot of money, both for pain and suffering and punitive damages.
Ah, yes. 34, female. blush