Thanks ladies---
I'm a bit torn. I think the cut she did give me is technically executed fairly well (although it may have been overlayered in some places and a bit underlayered in the very front).
However, I don't think it is a very good cut ON ME. We'd talked about keeping it two inches longer than my collar bones and adding some face framing layers and layers through the bottom so it would flip up a bit at it hit my chest and shoulders. This woman cut my hair like that for several years maybe two years ago. She has an excellent memory and we discussed it thoroughly.
I ended up with a fairly short very layered shag. It is cut "right"if she was cutting a shag, but I didn't want a shag and it isn't flattering on me. I find it she cut too much of the front of my hair the length of my jawline which makes it look very short, the back is shorter than the sides (almost like a wedge?). The layers around my face are sparse and it looks heavy, while the back has so many layers the longest part looks and feels very thin (and I have issues with thinness to begin with between past hairloss my hair is just beginning to recover from and because it is very fine).
Honestly, I feel like it is pointing out the thinness of my hair since you can see through the bottom layers but I'm not sure I'd want to cut them off into a jawlength bob, and adding more layering my only make the thinness worse. I have a square face and a strong jaw and it isn't very flattering.
She knows I don't blow dry unless I have a pixie, but it looks choppy and conservative at the same time. I always go edgy or very natural.
Overall, I'm dissapointed because it doesn't look like me at all, and it isn't doing my for my face or my hair.
I'm still upset because I can't pull it back since I workout at least 3x a week, am out in the wind and cold in CO a lot, and sometimes have to have my hair back at work. This was something we talked a lot about! Does anyone have any recommendations for headbands? I don't have much hair to begin with and that plus my head shape makes them almost impossible to keep on. Thin, thick, silicone grippy, they pop/slide off. Bobby pins and snap barettes don't stay in either.
I would like to say that it was because of the wigs for kids thing, but she cut off close to 14" of hair and only got about 10 of it into the ponytail. You only have to have 6 to donate. My hair is baby fine, which they tend to use for young kids, so length isn't that important.
I'm also not one to freak out about haircuts or the length thing- this is the second time in just over a year (like two months over) that I have cut hair that was down below my brastrap (about 13" the first time).
I have a job interview at the end of the month (yay!). Before the long straight hair was a little co-ed, but now I'm looking a little bit like my aunt that teaches sunday school and wears a lot of floral jumpers.
