Amy you are truly a rare soul! Such a wonderful attitude! Anyway I am with Angie and I think this is going to grow on you (ha ha). Don't judge it for a week or two. I had too much taken off the back also recently, and I thought too much left in the front, but after 2 weeks it grew in and I am getting a lot of compliments.

From your post I wasn't expecting it to look this good

Amy dear. The haircut looks cute from front and sides. Just the back is what needs a little feminizing. I agree with Angie. In four weeks it will be perf.

I've had a rather nasty day, and I was, literally, just breathing and praying for resilience and grace. Then I read your post!

Your flexible spirit is a thing of beauty --- worth more than a $100 haircut! Yeah, the back is short, but the face framing is good, and your hair is bouncy and shiny. I second a little hair wax around the face!

Oh, and thanks for giving me a reason to smile at your fabness!

I think you're a good sport Amy - truly! And I honestly don't see a bad haircut, just a really cute, short cut which you will rock!

I've had some disasters myself, the most memorable of which was a very rash decision to cut my hair very short with a hairdresser I had never been to before just 2 days before my daughter was born. I look back at her new born pics and wonder what I was thinking. And the stylist should have known better than to make such a huge change on a 41 week pregnant woman!

Amy, what everyone has said! You look fine to me and I love my hair short in back - it looks like you have a high hairline anyway. You are amazing and I need some of whatever you're having that makes you so amiable!

I love your attitude, Amy, as well as your new 'do. While your new cut might not have been exactly what you'd wanted, I can certainly see you warming to it because it shows off your pretty features so well. Your decision to leave the young stylist (?) a tip was wonderful; not many people act with that much restraint and class when something doesn't turn out exactly as they had expected. You are pretty fabulous inside, as well as outside.

Lol, Ames, you have a heart of gold. A lesson for us all.

But the girl is lucky, because you've got what it takes to carry a cut this short. And you do. You look quite sassy

I think the front and sides look great. Popped collars or turtlenecks will hide the shorter-than-you-wanted back until it grows a little.
Bad haircuts? I've only had a few good ones in my life. My hair is apparently as challenging for professionals to cut and style as it is for me. (I cut my own hair during high school and college after too many failures.)
During one memorable hair appointment the new-to-me stylist fluffed my hair this way and that, lectured me on the impact of a conservative, dated style, pointed out my good features that were not being flattered, and, after several minutes of parting and brushing, grew silent and visibly tense. He finally exclaimed, "I can't do a thing with your hair! " I asked him to just trim the split ends and clean up the lines of my cut. Apparently he felt that he had accomplished the task a few minutes later, because he walked off. I waited in the chair a few minutes, decided he wasn't returning, took off the smock, cleaned the hair trimmings off my neck as well as I could, and went to the cashier to pay. She asked me if I wanted to book my next appointment with the stylist and I told her that he had shown no desire for me to return. I left the shop, which had a good reputation and charged higher prices than I was accustomed to paying, with my hair in the same "unflattering" "dated" basic bob that the stylist had derided half an hour before.

I wish I could come around and give you a hug!! You are such a sweetheart! I might have been boiling and stomping my feet! o_O I have a serious inferiority complex now! LOL!

I agree with Angie that in two weeks it should look much better! And yay for the opportunity to try new hats!

Oh no! You have such calm and grace. This story made my day.

Wow! That is an insane story, and I'm so impressed with how calm and cheerful you stayed! I love the roundness of the back of the cut, even if it is shorter than what you wanted. And at least the back of pixies always grows more quickly than the front! And I really like the fluttery bits around your ears.

Once when I was growing my hair out from a pixie to long, I'd finally gotten the shortest bits about mid-neck length. So I went in with a bunch of pics of blunt longer bobs so that the hairstylist would just trim up the old pixie layers and make it all one length. The bobs also had bangs, because I thought it would be fun to try bangs. Somehow, this stylist interpreted that to mean in addition to bangs I wanted all of these face framing layers, which looked hideous on my face and made my hair look flat and thin and stringy. The shortest layers hit at my cheekbones. I was inconsolable thinking about how long it would take to grow back; there was definitely a lot of sobbing. And that was not at a super cheap place! I've found hair cuts to be such a crap shoot, regardless of cost.

But nowadays, I repeat "I hate layers" over and over like a chant. lol

You get "Best Attitude of the Year" Award Amy! Seriously, it is truly admirable that you didn't get visibly upset when you were not given the cut you asked for. But like Angie, I actually really like it on you! I think it suits you and you have quite a beautiful neck so why not show it off!

Sorry Amy, but I don't think your description matches your pictures! I think this cut is cute, even if it wasn't what you were expecting :). Give it a couple of weeks, and you will be feeling it!

I want to be you when I grow up. Oh wait...I am 43 so I guess it is time to grow up. Seriously I want to treat people the way you treated that lady. That is the best holiday present EVER!

Maybe you need some of Angie's hair styling creams/gel and get it all sticky uppy (that is a word right). I think your hair cut (in the front - cant tell about the back) is really cute. Not what was planned but cute!

Amy, you really ARE amiable. What a trouper! And what a gift you gave that stylist with your attitude.

I'm also with Angie. Heck, my own hair is that short at the back -- and I like it! Once it grows in a little bit it will follow the shape of your head a bit more and I think you will actually enjoy it.

Well don you for such a great positive attitude. but you know what? It isn't all that bad. I like it! I think in a couple of weeks it will blend beautifully.