No one in their sane mind would notice the difference on a stranger between 1 norwood. If you think girl attention has changed even in the slightest because of going from NW1 to NW2 then your fueling the the fact half of this forum is mentally ill.
Eeeehhh It really depends on the NW2. If you had the low, "square" hairline to begin with, Norwood 2 makes a V shape. If not, NW2 looks a lot more severe.
I always think of the singer from The 69 Eyes when people bring this up.
Here he was not ten years ago, a fullhead.
Here he is now
Oof.
The front part of his hairline is still in the same position as it was before, and he's probably only lost an inch or two on the temples. Still it makes him look closer to NW3 on someone who had a lower natural hairline.
When I was a teenager/early 20s not so long ago, I remember women going nuts for this guy. Even without the facial aging (which isn't tons worse than before) the hit to his hairline undeniably makes him look a lot worse and I guarantee he'd be written off by many more women than he's used to. He looks like an "old man" now.
Someone like Jaime Lannister? Not so much, because he has a lower hairline naturally.
Jyrki 69 is only 2 years older than Nicolaj. 10 years ago, Jyrki looked 10 years younger than Nicolaj did.
Now look at them.