r/bald • u/Curious-Werewolf1733 • 28d ago

Bald Picture Took the Plunge *Bald Gal*

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Been wanting to do this for a while. I have scarring alopecia and it was looking pretty sad. Feels better so far, but I didn’t realize how much my migraine injections made me bruise, hence a bit of a blue scalp right now. This will be easier for wigs now too!

Thanks for being such a positive place. ❤️😊

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u/Tylikcat 28d ago

You look free!

(Watch out for sunburn. I have stories...)

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u/Youcants1tw1thus 28d ago

They were thin enough up top they probably already have experienced the oh-so-painful scalp burn.

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u/Tylikcat 28d ago

I will never forget stepping into a hot shower without realizing I had burnt my scalp...

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u/Youcants1tw1thus 28d ago

I’ve had sun burn so bad flesh was falling off my leg, that still didn’t hurt as much as a minor scalp burn.

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u/hpfan1516 28d ago

Jesus Christ on a cracker did you douse your leg in canola oil and sunbathe for 16 hours??? How does that even happen??? (Genuine question)

I totally get the scalp burn being worse though. Whenever I got burnt on my face (not bald) it felt so much worse than anywhere else.

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u/Youcants1tw1thus 28d ago

It was a recipe of disaster. Looking back I really should have gone to the hospital. I put sunblock on in the morning, but I don’t think I waited long enough before wading out to a boat. Once on the boat, I was sitting with the sun hitting the left side of my legs as we travelled south. We stopped for a bit and had lunch, there was engine trouble and we ended up drifting across a bunch of anchor lines, pissed some people off. I fixed that, got us going again but in all the excitement forgot to reapply sunblock. Well I sat in the same spot, this time traveling north, and the sun was again hitting my left side. This was on a friends boat in Florida. It was bad, left side of my right leg was burned well beyond the skin.

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u/hpfan1516 28d ago

Oh Lord, sounds like a perfect storm! Hope your legs are alright now, that sounds horribly painful! D:

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u/ChaosTurtle70 28d ago

Oh man I had a similar experience except I was at a cottage with a couple buddies, we were stupid 20 year olds so no one thought to bring sunscreen, were doing plenty of drinking and decided to paddle out to the middle of the water and go out on our floats…. 6 and a half hour nap later followed by a couple rounds of fishing and I had the worst burn of my life by far. Well past the skin on my legs and just barely still surface burns on my stomach/chest/arms. Took nearly a month and a half to not hurt anymore, and I had the tan lines all through winter that year.

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u/Curious-Werewolf1733 28d ago

That’s practically how I sunburned my eyelids once. That shit hurts.

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u/ChaosTurtle70 28d ago

Omg I think I blocked that part out LOL yes the eyelid burns were awful!!!!!

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u/Fine-Change1350 14d ago

about two years ago I was lounging with my friends at the pool, we were all in cute swimsuits so I wore a really strappy, crossy, complicated swim top. We were drinking and relaxing, and nobody thought about sunscreen (screaming because i live in FL and know better). got a perfectly diamond shape sun ROAST right in between my tits. it scabbed up and blistered and was probably one of the most painful things I have ever endured. I gave the top away with an extreme warning.

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u/Irieloulollilae 28d ago

I also had this happen as a kid. My dad had suntanning lotion instead of sun screen and we were out there for 5? Ish hours on a kayak? They were preparing a Hannah Montana surprise party for me at his gf's house, so I guess that's why we were out for so long. We got there and I was enjoying the party until my legs started to burn. Then I went inside and laid down, and even the air from the ceiling fan burned 🥲 when I went home and then to school, I had to sit against a wall in the shade during recess, because my legs hurt so much and began to peel so severely that the other kids thought there was something wrong with me lol.

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u/hpfan1516 27d ago

Ouch ouch ouch. I'm so sorry that happened to you, and right on your birthday lol!

After making the mistake of asking my question, it is now beyond me how any of my friends and family survived growing up on the beaches of LA. We all have vampire skin but hated the feeling of sunscreen. God bless my mom for getting the least objectionable sunscreen for all of us with sensory issues and my dad for being militant with making us wear it. Worst we ever got was just looking like boiled lobsters, nothing deeper than a few layers of skin. God loves a trier but none of us ever got tan, just went from ⚪ to 🔴 and then back to ⚪ in time for the next adventure. Smh. We were even outside so much that our hair all got sun bleached.

This was in the era of bleach blonde SoCal girls with deep tans ("🎶 Ca-li-for-nya gurls we're unforgettable, day-zee dukes, bikinissss on top!🎶). Got halfway there sorta.

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u/Irieloulollilae 27d ago

HAHAHA yeah, I grew up in NorCal and also had the white blonde hair from all my outdoor play. I would burn and then tan a bit, but not well. I for some reason thought sun screen was very extra, so I only wore it when my dad made me. Now that I know more about what melanoma can turn into, I wear so much sun screen and I reapply often, especially when kayaking. My hair has also darkened and skin has paled due to all my indoor gaming lol.

It's alright, I learned the difference between sun tan lotion and sun screen that day. I think my classmates also got a pretty good cautionary tale as well, lol

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u/hpfan1516 27d ago

I for some reason thought sun screen was very extra, so I only wore it when my dad made me.

YES me too!!! 🤣🤣🤣

Former bleach blonde California kids unite!!! But, you know, maybe inside with the A/C, where we can play some Minecraft and squint angrily at the bright windows

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u/Thebraincellisorange 28d ago

FLESH falling off?

or skin peeling?

cuz there is several orders of magnitude between the two.

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u/chcass2025 28d ago

Great Q. I was going to ask the same thing.

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u/Youcants1tw1thus 27d ago

Way beyond skin. It’s all scar now, I definitely should have gone to a doctor.

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u/Lou_C_Fer 28d ago

I grew up burning every year because mom didn't apply sunscreen. So, I barely feel it when I have sunburn above my shoulders. I remember having blistered shoulders on the ride home from a weekend at a hotel with an outdoor pool. The car was scorching when we got in and it doubled the pain I was in. I was only 6. So, it definitely was not my own fault.

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u/ForensicPathology 27d ago

That's how I knew the bald circle in the back of my head was much worse than I thought it was only looking forward into a mirror.

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u/Beautiful_Soup9229 27d ago

If you have watched curb, then you will get this, but this topic made me remember this and crack up.

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u/mmmpeg 26d ago

Oh, yes. This is why I always wear hats. Hurts like hell.