I guess it's been about a year since I started shaving my head, and over that time I've developed a routine of sorts. I go outside, shave, shake the loose hairs from my head, and then call Hot Wife out to "touch it up." There are invariably little nooks and crannies that I miss.

I use setting 11 on my shaver, which leaves my hair looking like this:

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We're going out with some friends tonight and since it has been about three weeks since I'd shaved my head, I followed my normal routine this afternoon. After I finished my part -- pretty well, I thought -- I asked Hot Wife to come out and work her magic. She took the guard off of the top of the shaver (RED FLAG!) to sweep it clean of little hair bits inside. Then she strode back and told me to put my head down. (RED FLAG!)

"Oh," she said. "You missed a big spot back here, Danny."

With that, she clicked the shaver on and drug the razored edge from left to right across the back of my head. It made an odd sound, sort of like a lawnmower when it runs over a sprinkler head, but I wasn't entirely convinced that something had gone wrong until Hot Wife said, and I quote, "OHMYGODDANNYWHATDIDIDOOOO!"

"I don't know. You tell me."

She didn't really have to. I knew the second I saw large tufts of hair falling to the ground around me that she'd forgotten to put the guard back onto the shaver. As a result, she had carved a straight line of baldness into my hair.

She felt horrible, but she couldn't stop laughing. Me? Not so much.

After some hemming and hawing, I told her we might as well finish the job. But she couldn't do it. She felt too bad. And she was laughing too hard. So I took the shaver and made myself look like an alien with really bushy eyebrows.

Like so:

I thought about wearing a hat for the next two weeks. I thought about getting a wig or some extensions. I thought about going into hiding. But then I remembered that thing tonight. With our friends. Whom I know are going to get quite a belly ache from laughing at this predicament.

Oh well. I can dish it out, and now it's time to find out if I can take it.

Comments

Laughing here & delurking to say it looks good on ya! Brings out your eyes.... I wouldn't know what to do if I ever saw my hubby with hair. He's been shaving his head since before we met. Looks good on him, too! G.

I think you look very handsome and urbane with this, honestly. And you have very pretty eyes, also. Keep it like that!

I think you look very handsome and urbane with this, honestly. And you have very pretty eyes, also. Keep it like that!

I think you look very handsome and urbane with this, honestly. And you have very pretty eyes, also. Keep it like that!

I think you look very handsome and urbane with this, honestly. And you have very pretty eyes, also. Keep it like that!

It's not that bad. Try to get some sun on your dome so the color difference isn't so obvious. You'll be fine!

So, Lydia seems to feel strongly about it....
I think it's rather cute, you big eyed bald alien!!

So, Lydia seems to feel strongly about it....
I think it's rather cute, you big eyed bald alien!!

OMG I did the SAME thing to my hubby, only I didn't put the attachment on correctly, so it flew up and over his head! My husband was already in a fowl mood- but I just lost it. I was dying of laughter. Now- He likes his head shaved!

Lydia likes it, and Tammy wants us to know that...twice. Just kidding ladies! (Oh, you KNOW I'm sure to be cursed and this will post 12 times.) I like your baldness. It looks good. I would've done that to my husband on purpose! Good job HW!

Aliens V anyone? Thanks for the RSS back!

aaaahhhh....you look a bit like my uncle Vern from when I was a kid.
I think it looks great...it's all in the shape of the skull if you can pull it off or not. You have good skull lines...

All I can say is it's a good thing you don't have any weird birthmarks on your head. And it's not like your hair was that long to begin with. By tomorrow or the next day, all should be back to normal! ;)

My boys did a similar job on themselves once but they took more than just one swipe before Daddy found out and had to finish the job. They were delighted with themselves. Daddy was contrite - he was napping on duty at the time of the incident. I'm with Hot Wife...when I got home, I couldn't stop laughing.

Hey, it looks good. You look like Ed Kowalczyk from Live. Among my wife and her friends, he's like Buddha.

you look a little like my friend keith lobue. only he has a tattoo on the back of his head that says something like - US Patent #983094359

the first thing I thought when I saw that photo was just like every one else. You have very pretty eyes.

Have fun with the ribbing...

Rawr!

We accidentaly did the same thing to our son with his first haircut. Poor thing looked like he had been in chemo. He doesn't have a well shaped head for that look.

You have a great head for no hair (god, that sounded rather dirty now that I re-read it)

I felt so bad but it was the best laugh I've had in a long time.

Sorry to say that I would probably react the same way as Hot Wife if I had done that to my boyfriend-even though you feel bad you can't let a good laugh go to waste.

Too funny, I just shaved my son's head. I thought I could do it, I was wrong. He is three and he cried for 45 mins and then got himself a hat before we went to pick up his sister. When she got in the van he asked her if she wanted to see his naked head! This all just happened 2 days ago. I feel terrible, and like Trishfreak said, he looks like he has had chemo.

My husband asked what I used and I told him I used his clippers, he told me that was the wrong thing to use. When I asked him what I should have used, he said a barber. Funny guy that husband!

BTW you have a nice naked head!

Also...I love the pic of you and your daughter, it's so cute!

THIS is why I absolutely have refused every single time my ex boyfriend asked me to shave his neck area... I KNEW I would do something like this.

However, i will agree that you look good wtih a shaved head. You have good bone structure and beautiful eyes. You can pull it off. Nobody will know you didn't do it on purpose unless you tell them.

~jessica

You are not alone. My missus did the exact same thing to me about 6 years ago. Now I just let it grow until I can pay a tradesman to do the job right.

benj says we need a new q-tip. that one lost its fuzz...

Damn you! I know that your subject line is from a song, and now I'm going crazy because I can't remember what song. Aaaaaaah! Help me, help me, help me!

BTW, my boyfriend does the total head shave every few weeks, so I'm quite partial to the look myself. :)

Okay, never mind. Right after I posted, I went, "Duh! Oingo Boingo! Dead Man's Party!" I feel much better now.

I don't think it looks bad at all.

Phil Stacey from American Idol last season..it could be worse.
You have a nice head...eyebrows not so much.

A little off topic, but I had to look up priapism when you changed your masthead. The very next day, I heard it in one of those commercials for some drug used to treat EDD. I guess they always said it, but I never heard it.

Freaky.

Fat lotta good it will do you now but you should have told your friends that you just got the part on "Prison Break" and filming starts tomorrow.

Travis has the same routing, only one time the electric thingy broke 1/2 way through the job. He ended up shaving it down to nothing with a razor. Did I mention we had been argueing so he had gone out to give himself a haircut? Karma.

I did this to my friend once in high school. I don't have any brothers and therefore had no experience with a shaver, and when my boyfriend told me to go "trim" his friend's sideburns, well....I trimmed them alright. Trimmed 'em real good....he forgave me. Eventually. :) Looks great though! :)

mr. clean has nuthin' on you, tiger.

dude.. you MUST put up warning labels for these things!!! I was on a work call and after shooting coffee out my nose because I was trying desperately not to laugh,( not at the picture but at the story it self.. ) I finally snorted ON THE CALL and had to hang up.

Actually I think you look very handsome with it short like that. Something about the eyes..

Happy Hair Growing.

I DID THE EXACT SAME THING TO MY HUSBAND SEVERAL YEARS AGO!!!!!!!!!!

He called into work sick for the first 2 days because you cannot wear a hat to work at a hospital.......

Eventually, he learned to like it, and started wearing his hair fairly buzzed during the summer months.

He hasn't let me cut his hair since....that was almost 8 years ago.

You look great!

DGM even though you look pretty HAWT... i must admit, I laughed out loud! But only because I could picture Hot Wife laughing, that would be me. I'M LAUGHING NOW- Oy!
Greatness!!

Kilroy was here!

I'm sorry, I couldn't help it that last picture just inspired me.

That's it! I knew you looked just like someone I'd seen. It's that Amercian Idol guy!

I did sometime similar to Benny a few years ago. You poor, poor bastard.

I did sometime similar to Benny a few years ago. You poor, poor bastard.

I did sometime similar to Benny a few years ago. You poor, poor bastard.

Next time you should have Hot Wife cut "Dad Gone MAd" into your hair, hehe

Were y'all drunk at the time? Every spring my brother says to me "it's time for the haircut". It always happens when I'm drunk and thus a "whoops". Then he ends up looking like you.

You're so lucky you can laugh about this- I honestly think my husband would consider that grounds for divorce. :)

Gay men agree: HOT.

Enjoy your site so much . .but only get to visit every now and again. With the new look, why aren't the links to previous posts working?

I think it looks just fine, but you got quite the laugh out of me with the story of how it happened!

I sort of did the same thing to my boyfriend. I would always clean up the back of his neck and around his ears. Well one time he went and got a haircut and he realized that one side of his head (by the ears) the hair was longer then the other side so he wanted me to clip that side, so I took the shaver and was doing really well when all of a sudden ZIIIPPPPP I shaved a perfect LINE right above his ear, he had a bald line on one side of his head, oh I couldn't stop laughing he wasn't laughing one bit, it was hysterical.

BTW I like the shaved head.