My mother encouraged me when I told her! She actually said,"So, you're gonna shave like a man now, huh?" and then she directed me towards her next door neighbor who was an 80 year old barber.
What can I say? My mother is of the world war II generation (the Japanese side) she learned to use a Naginata around age 12 in case her and her schoolmates had to protect the shores of Japan from the roundeyed hordes! Tough stock, she is!!