About

Purpose

This site exists to share information about head-shaving. I want it useful and accurate.

Sources

Most of it is my own experience and reading. A review that is not marked as someone else’s is from my use of the product.

When I write about something I have not lived, I say so and I point at further reading when I can.

Motivation

This is a personal site I run because I like sharing things that interest me. When I started, there were not many honest head-shaving pages.

Views here are mine unless a contributor is named.

Full disclosure

I have not been paid to promote a product. I have received samples over the years. Samples can color a person’s mood; I would rather say that than pretend otherwise.

Older versions of this site carried ads. This rebuild does not carry marketplace ads or marketplace storefront links.

Site design

I like simple pages and readable type. If that feels dull, you are not the first to say so.

Site history

The first version lived on a corner of my personal site on Blue Sky Freenet around 1996: how to shave your head and a few answers. I do not know how many people saw it. I got the occasional email. The site even earned about fifteen seconds on CTV National News after Jonathan Gravenor talked to me for an hour about bald-by-choice. Blue Sky Freenet folded not long after.

I renamed the project “Head-Shaver’s Information and FAQ” and moved it to Geocities, then got tired of pop-ups. In March 2002 HeadShaver.org got its own domain. Yahoo listed it. Traffic grew. The advice is still the same idea: tell people how to do this without theater.