It looks really great, Julie! I love it. It definitely has more volume and shape, and I can tell the color is a bit lighter, which really suits you. Can we get a picture of the back and side as well? Will you wear it curly all the time, or straighten it now and then?

Love! It has more volume and the color is great!

Gorgeous! I completely agree with everything Ana said and am hoping for more photos too!

Fantastic! KILLER colour. Let us know how you're able to manage the new style.

Thanks for your comments, here are the back and side views

http://s575.photobucket.com/al.....C02375.jpg

http://s575.photobucket.com/al.....C02376.jpg

I'm planning on wearing my hair curly the majority of the time, it requires hardly any styling, the stylist added a curling cream and scrunched the hair a little whilst drying and that was it!

I think it may be quite liberating for me to work with my hairs texture instead of against it for once.

Julie, you look great. I love the style! And it's really fantastic that you can style it yourself.

Love it! The color is gorgeous too!

Lovely you!:)

Love your new haircut!

yay for a great new haircut! It looks easy to style too!

I love it, all angles look great. The color is beautiful too. Is it a little more strawberry in color?

It looks fantastic!

Looks fantastic and sounds so easy to style you're onto a winner x

Ooh sexy hair! I love how effortlessly chic it looks. And it's very much your style!

Looks great! The curls look fantastic! We had a great thread awhile back (started by Ele) on curly hair care/maintenance.

I adore it! It's so playful and chic!

Julie I missed this the other day, but I LOVE your new cut. We have very similar hair (in texture and length), and this is the direction I'm going in for my next cut (which will only be in a week or two, when I go home to Canada for Thanksgiving). Right now my hair is between chin and shoulder length and straight across the back, but I'm thinking that inverting it slightly might look good, because I'm loving it on you!

The thread that shana mentioned is this one, which I started a while ago about caring for curly hair. Not sure if it will be helpful for you, but there are lots of tips and product recs in there.

(OT but very funny, you look so much like my sister and certain members of my family- every time you post a pic I do a double-take!)

Thank you so much I have bounce in my step as well as my hair after reading your kind comments. Thank you Ele for posting the link, I can't bear waste so I will finish the products I have and then give this method a shot. How very funny that I look like your sister!

San, I had a few pale gold highlights added but as my hair has some red overtones it always looks slightly red in some lights. It's very strange because until I turned 18 my hair was a very fair ash blond with no red at all.

Julie, I am late, but I just wanted to tell you that I LOVE it! So pretty.