Three men share their journey with hair loss and the freedom of shaving it all off | CNN

Daniel Halas startled himself the first time he caught his reflection after shaving his head. Halas was walking to the bathroom late at night in his home in Bavaria, Germany, when the mirror reflected an unfamiliar image: smooth scalp, no thinning patches to angle around, no careful styling. For a moment, he didn’t recognize himself. Then he felt something he hadn’t felt in years. For much of his late 20s, Halas had watched his hair gradually thin out. He had grown up noticing hair loss among family members and friends, so he always knew it was a possibility. Still, when it began happening to him — at a time when he was exercising frequently and paying close attention to his appearance — it was frustrating. “If you have normal hair growth, you have a lot of choice which hairstyle you wear,” he said. “With thinning hair there are hardly any options and very few that look good.” The narrowing of those options became a daily reminder that something was changing, and that he had little control over it. In Porto, Portugal, Alejandro Morales Gonzalez remembers exactly when his anxiety about hair began. He was 21, a devoted guitarist with hair that fell several inches past