Should I shave my head?

What the check actually weighs

Four things decide this question in real life, and the quiz asks about nothing else: how advanced the loss is, how fast it's moving, how much daily effort is going into concealment, and whether years of daily treatment is something you'd genuinely sustain. Beard growth and past buzz experience tune the verdict at the margins, because they change how a shaved head lands.

One promise about the logic: it never tells advanced loss to "keep and treat". Past a certain point no medication rebuilds a bare top, and a quiz that flatters instead of informs is an advert. If your answers say the top is mostly gone, you'll get the two options that are real - and if you're not sure how far along you actually are, the stage tool measures it rather than asking you to guess.

If you'd rather decide without a quiz

The self-service version is a fortnight of experiments, not an evening of mirrors: buzz to a grade 1 and live with it two weeks. Improvement you can feel: done - stay there or go shorter. Still auditing the pattern through the stubble: take the zero-guard weekend; a month later you have your answer either way and all your hair back if it's no. The buzz-vs-bald comparison covers what each option wins on, and the four factors tell you what actually predicts a good shaved-head look - none of them require an app.

FAQ

The shave question, asked directly

How do I know when it's time to shave my head?

The practical threshold: when concealment has become a daily job, or when thinning is past what a buzz cut evens out. Position on the scale matters (from roughly Norwood 5 the shave usually beats every haircut), but so do trajectory, your appetite for years of treatment, and whether you've ever actually seen yourself short - which is what this check weighs.

Will I regret shaving my head?

The regret rate among men who were already well into pattern loss is strikingly low - the common report is wishing they'd done it sooner, mostly because the daily monitoring simply ends. The reversible rehearsal exists precisely for the doubt: a grade-1 buzz shows you 90% of the answer and grows back in weeks.

Should I shave my head or treat my hair loss?

They're answers to different stages. Early loss with a keep-it preference is treatment's home ground - that's where holding hair works. Advanced loss is the shave's (or a transplant's) - no medication rebuilds a bare top, and this quiz will never pretend otherwise. The honest first step is knowing which stage you're actually at.