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