Yeah, yeah, so it’s been awhile since my last post. Sue me.
Okay, so I have taken the plunge and now took the reverse approach to fighting male pattern baldness by doing a complete 180 and shaving every last hair instead of trying to rescue the last few stragglers clinging to the sides of my head. If you have a full head of hair, have no plan to shave your head, or still refuse to accept that it’s your shiny head in the mirror, then you can stop reading here.
If you’re still reading then let me tell you this; if you want to take the plunge and use a buffer instead of a comb, then make one last trip to the barber. Tell him (or her) to take it all off down to the skin and have at it. All your worries are now over. And what do you do from that point on? Why, you use an electric shaver, of course!
Now, to clarify, the reason I told you to make that last trip to the barber is because an electric shaver will NOT take your long hair down to the skin effectively. You would most likely destroy the shaver. Another option would be to use your own hair clipper (buzzer), but unless you have one already it does not make much sense to spend $40-$100 for a one shot deal. So let the barber do it and then maintain your cranial smoothness with an electric shaver.
Which one? Thats the question now, isnt it? Topping the list in our test is, once again, the Braun Pulsonic series 7-70 or Panasonic Lamdash models, and the runner-up was the Remington MS680 model. The reason these shavers seemed to do better in tests than other models is solely based upon the fact that they have nice wide heads to cover a lot of surface area at once. This is not to day that they will shave your face better than others (see previous posts for all that info) as these tests for only for bald head shaving.
Now there are many that would say that shaving ones head with a blade is preferable to an electric shaver in that the shave will last longer. To be perfectly honest with you, I did not find that to be the case after testing both ways. When I was done shaving with the electric, I found my head to be just as smooth to the touch as when I shaved with the blade, and I also did not have any risk of cutting my head with the electric razor. Overall, shaving the cranium as well as the face with my Braun Pulsonic was a decent experience. It took no longer than shaving with a blade (and, to be fair, was no shorter on time either) and seems to be an every other day affair for myself, so while there is no longer any hairstyling involved, don’t think that your daily expenditure of time on your head is going to change all that much.
Oh, and lesson learned? Yeah, wear sunblock all over your head.