
We took a shower together. The main reason for this was for her to shampoo her short hair and get out whatever was left of the pretty large volume of styling products which had been necessary to keep her long hair in the style she liked, but which also had probably been a big reason I had some difficulty cutting her hair - and would surely have been a bigger problem in stage three. It was also nice to get myself clean though, and I always love showering with my girl. Often she washes my back, which is wonderful. She didn’t this time, but she did wash my hair - which is also soothing and an extremely pleasing service.
When I started, before I cuffed her, she saw I was serious and tried to leave the room. I held her back and fought with her even as I went for the cuffs. I’m not sure what had been said before it, but I said:
“Would you respect me at this point, if I didn’t do it?”
She basically said, “So you’re saying you pretty much have to do it, now?”
“Exactly,” I said. This isn’t to say I regret it, or didn’t choose to do it, but it was clearly necessary if I wanted things to be what I wanted them to be. I wanted to be her dom, her master and her owner. This was a nicely dramatic way of putting her back in her place, and me in mine. She understood very well what I was doing. And needed it. And wanted it. I wasn’t actually trying to back out of things - I was confirming why I was doing it, and why I wouldn’t back out. She thought I would back off, until I actually started cutting her hair - then she knew I was really going to do it.
When we were in the washroom after stage two, she complained, “It’s so short!”
I said something like, “So should I stop now?” thinking of the conversation when she was trying to escape, before I started cutting. I said, “Would that have the same effect?” and she just gave me a look, to which I replied: “Exactly.” This was pretty dramatic for her already, but I needed to go all the way.
One of the advantages of short hair is that it dries quickly. My girl towel dried her hair a bit after the shower, but even so, it was no problem at all. In the past, she had to air dry it (it didn’t respond well to a blow dryer), and it would take an hour just to get to a point where it was damp but wouldn’t drip all over the place. I have an electric razor which I haven’t used to shave my face in a long time. I keep it for the trimmer piece. This is what I used next.
She sat down in the bathroom, and I started buzzing off hair in upward strokes, trying to just let it fall to the floor. I wrapped a towel around her, trying to avoid too much hair falling on her shoulders and other skin and making her itchy. By the time I was working on the back of her head, she was getting impatient. Some parts, particularly around the ears, were tricky to trim. This stage took longer than I expected it would - truthfully, the entire process took a very long time. The hair coming off in this stage was much darker than the hair I cut in the first stage in particular, I would guess it was her natural hair colour - one I had never seen on her (except in a few spots peeking through, I guess). There was hair all over the floor, all over her seat, all over the towel… and only a very thin covering of short hair on her head. She looked just about bald.
I let her shower again, to shampoo out any little trimmed hairs and generally prepare her head a bit more. I cleaned up the hair that was left over. It was time to actually shave her.
She rubbed the shaving gel over her head as I found my trusty Mach 3 razor, and put on a fresh blade. The water from the tap took frustratingly long to get up to the temperature I wanted, as she sat waiting and ready and wanting things to be done already. Myself, I wasn’t nearly as impatient - the process was time-consuming, but I was enjoying seeing my work take shape, seeing the progress to a huge change in her look. A look I was creating, a look she was mostly taking because I wanted it.
I started shaving her head, and the hair started disappearing with each stroke. Some strokes were very short, and there were bits left behind. I knew there was going to have to be touch-up work, but that was okay. She was still impatient, of course, understandably. But her head was getting bared. Completely. The second time lathering up and shaving her head was quicker - mostly just quick strokes catching left over patches. The process was complete. My girl was bald. And beautiful. And fantastic.
And all mine.