Thread: Thinking About Shaving My Head With a Straight for Movember, any tips?

Originally Posted by Einar

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I shave the top of my head...no full head shave. I started with a wedge....and now..what ever Iam shaving my face with ...goes right on top !!

To encourage you further. Being new at this, I have shaved with a straight razor only 5 times.

The last 2 times (Thursday and today) I decided to give it a try and shave my head with it. Granted, I have been clean shaved on the noggin for years but it went really well.

Some nicks were expected but it was really cool to close my eyes, and hear the blade cutting the hair on the back of my head while guessing the angle. I saw Jame's YouTube video last month.

I would however use some barber clippers to give you a super close crew cut before attempting the straight razor.

Good luck and give it a go.

Originally Posted by TheJoker

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Ta, that sounds very positive!

Originally Posted by TheJoker

Some nicks were expected but it was really cool to close my eyes, and hear the blade cutting the hair on the back of my head while guessing the angle.
Good luck and give it a go.

WTF! close your eyes and hear the hairs pop, screw that am lucky not to cut my face while I am looking let alone using the force to guide me,
Sounds positive Carl?

good luck with that wish you well LOL

I figured I'd hop in and provide some perspective. I picked up my first straight a little over a year ago. I had read up a ton and fallen in love with the concept of the straight experience. It's now a nightly ritual for me, put on some music, grab a bourbon and shave. The unique part for me, is the only thing I shave is my head... I've never had a straight touch my face. I come from the bald head with beard group and so my entire learning experience has been shaving my dome. It scared the ever living crap out of me when I first started, but now it's amazing. Start to finish, I'd say a WTG/XTG head shave takes me about 15min. Just be warned, that if you commit to Movember with a straight razor for your head.... you may never go back.

Originally Posted by cebley

I figured I'd hop in and provide some perspective. I picked up my first straight a little over a year ago. I had read up a ton and fallen in love with the concept of the straight experience. It's now a nightly ritual for me, put on some music, grab a bourbon and shave. The unique part for me, is the only thing I shave is my head... I've never had a straight touch my face. I come from the bald head with beard group and so my entire learning experience has been shaving my dome. It scared the ever living crap out of me when I first started, but now it's amazing. Start to finish, I'd say a WTG/XTG head shave takes me about 15min. Just be warned, that if you commit to Movember with a straight razor for your head.... you may never go back.

Oh well now you've got some EXPERIENCE! I think I WILL go back, though. It's not the actual act that's holding me back, it's the look. I look like I'm terminally ill without hair, I don't look scary or super fit with no hair like some guys do. Plus I have an army reunion in November and I don't want to look like a dickhead...So I'm still to-ing and fro-ing on it...

Yes a bald head is something to get use to, I had a a very hard receding hair line in my teens. then through my early twenty's it was apparent the whole top of my head was thinning. I started out with clippers, at 1" then kept going shorter, and shorter as my hair magically dissappeared. I was down to just the clipper itself, and still had a hard time deciding to shave my head, it just didn't feel right. So it is an adjustment (even if you barely have hair), I felt the same way you did but it's probably just you that's going to feel like you look like a dickhead, most likely you won't look like one, and no one else will think that either. After shaving my head for so many years, I can't imagine having hair, I think it would look silly.