Interesting...I am completely the other way, and as I got older, I cut my hair shorter and shorter until I was sporting a high and tight cut shaved high up the sides, but...my hair growth is completely spotty (looks like a moth has chewed on my hair)
I couldn’t get the high and tight to look good, and it started to look more and more like a mohawk and less like a high and tight. My wife started trying to help by using clippers to try to grade it, but I had a big oval spot (about two inches) on the side of my head where I injured my head and the hair doesn’t grow.
Finally, last month, I just said the Hell with it, and now shave my head completely, which I really like. LOL, some folks don’t know how to take it, but...in my view, it is just hair. I can grow it back.
It makes shaving a far more interesting task in the morning now. I shave in the shower, and completely cover my head and face with shaving cream, and it takes about 12 minutes for me to complete shaving. I had been doing it for about two weeks, and cut my head behind my left ear so badly it took about three weeks to heal. I learned a lesson there...you have to be deliberate
I enjoy shaving, because for years, I couldn’t shave. I have scars on my face from when I was in the Navy, and they made me shave every day, and I got those ingrown hairs which are really, really nasty. I took to using a depilatory paste that a lot of black guys used, but I hated that stuff because it smelled just god-awful, and you could burn your face with it. When I got out, I had two cases of it that I brought home with me and used it for a few years until I simply stopped trying to shave every day.
I hated having a beard, just didn’t feel good on me, so for about 25 years I had a continual three days growth before it became “fashionable”...:)
Back around 2005, the head of our department was a woman who had been a colonel in the US Army, and she stopped me in the hall and asked my why I didn’t shave.
I explained it to her, and she said simply: “Use antibacterial soap on your face.” That was it. I did wash my face before shaving, but...it didn’t help. Once I started using Dial liquid soap, I was able to shave every day after that, and wondered why nobody had ever told me that. (She was a physician)
I know some people hate it, but I love the way it feels every morning to be completely clean and fresh.
Now, I realize I am starting to get Scottish eyebrows and hair in my ears, damnit!
Ingrown hairs are a pain; I try to shave twice a week to deal with them (giving them time to come to the surface so they can be freed with a pin). I keep the “Don Johnson” look because you can get away with shaving the rest of your face less (it would be more obvious if I was clean-shaven). The hair on my head I keep shorter as I get older; so far haven’t dealt with balding yet.