Two part Bruce Willis first days

[rico]

A week ago tomorrow, I got a #2 buzz -- which left me with  some salt and pepper gray at the back of my head. My grown-out haircuts seem to have much less balding than that.  I'm about half bald, according to the very balding-concerned young barber, because I stopped using Minoxidil and went to straight Propecia. Who knew? The "no hair on vertex" issue as mentioned on the minoxidil label.  I started with minoxdil so long ago it was a custom-compounded item --  blood pressure medicine dissolved in alcohol.

Then I decided either to buy a clipper and go sly myself or go to a barber. I went to a barber, wanting the best possible result. I have never used hair clippers in my life.

Well, one of my kids hated the first look, but the rest of the family liked it -- the older kid calling it distinguished.  I'm at an age and career point where I do not want "distinguished." It equals too damn old.  

The response to the new full shaved look from my family is close to horror-movie shrieking -- like an audience watching the shower scene  in Psycho.  The kid who didn't like it is beside herself. The SO says how much better the gray patch was!

The gray patch to me looks like an older man fell asleep in the barber chair while the barber kept cutting  mindlessly and is not the look I'm going for.  

Will they ever get used to it?

P.S. I've got my Headblade all ready for the next step.

[ozzie]

Welcome to the forum, Rico! You have definitely made the right decision. The family will get used to it quickly enough. Now put that Headblade to work. 

 

[Tyler]

Rico, give the 30 day rule a shot.  Shave completely for 30 days to give you and your family time to adjust.

[Mikekoz13]

Welcome to the Forum Rico!

They will all get used to it. My son cried when I shaved my head a couple of years back. Now if he starts acting up I tell him I'm going to grow my horseshoe of hair back....... to which he screams, "No Dad! Don't do it!"........

[D.A.L.U.I.]

Welcome.  You'll find acceptance and compliments outside the "family circle" much more common, in my experience at least.  But while you're at the thirty day thing--really important--you must also reorient yourself vis a vis your sly style--it's for you first and foremost. 
That "grey patch" and the balding really  show on a short buzz if you, as I did, wait too long to buzz.  I wish I'd done this in my late forties to early fifties, rather than early 60's.  I have so many really bad pictures of a hairline that gives me, as someone here once said, a five or six head with a really rank combover rather than a forehead. 
It will all calm down, keep it sly, stay happy.  They will get used to it--they are having a problem recognizing that time and hairline wait for no man.