You should get your hair cut if you damn well want to, and in any style you damn well want to. I have a rule, myself: for every man that says "Oh nooooo, don't cut your hair!" when I'm completely sick of long hair, that's another half inch off. You can imagine what this does in the suspects crowd. Once I ended up with the Boy Cut - check it out. (This was actually a bad hair day. It usually looked really good and was really easy, as long as I got a haircut every month.) I've also had great luck with a chin-length bob when the mood struck.
Naturally, I am far too lazy to get a haircut every month, and that's how I end up with hair past my tits, like now. When I do get it cut, I go to a place on Newbury which does a flabberghastingly good job (even if my directive is to keep the length), but costs in the $50 range.
Yours is a bit straighter than mine, so I'm not sure whether a similar cut would do for you what is does for me. I have it tapered in front by adding some layers around the face (shortest layer just above chin length), and then the back is rounded (not chopped straight across which I think looks awful) and the lower 3-4 inches are layered also. This gives me a lot of body with my natural wave, and gives me the option to fluff it out or turn it under, into a really elegant style, if I want to blowdry it using a big round brush.
Overall, I'd think a rounder face like yours would do well with shoulder-length (not chin) or longer, in general. This also keeps it long enough to ponytail in the heat. Shaping is always a good thing, though.
Now this is a comment I can get into :-) Kriss comes through with the goods, as usual.
It's not at all that I'm sick of it long... but I'm starting to think it's getting just a tad overgrown, and though I have a pretty good idea of what to adjust, I was curious for aesthetic feedback.
I usually end up at McHaircuts GreatCuts all the time, but once every few years I spring for someone truly competent, and that's about where I'm getting to with this discussion. I'd love to know where you take yours.
Of course she should cut it if and how she wants to - but she asked for opinions.
For longish straight hair, a straight-across cut is very attractive (to me, anyway). For curly hair, that wouldn't work at all.
You definitely want to be either long enough to ponytail, or short enough not to need to. The middle ground is damned annoying, and I'm very glad I'm mostly through it. (It's one reason I'm not cutting it - I don't want to go through it again next time I want it long.)
Though, come to think of it, you never do ponytail it except when you're working with power tools, so I guess either your hair is calmer than mine or you aren't bothered by it.
Sing it, sister! Though I count women as well as men.
I cut down a piece at a time, just to see what it'd be like. My mixed blessing of super-thick hair that refuses to just hang down and therefore continues to point outward until it's a few inches long has led to my most recent super-short cut. I often wish I had hair that was just straight and (relatively) fine, since it works at basically at pretty much any length.
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Date: Friday, July 25th, 2003 12:52 pm (UTC)Naturally, I am far too lazy to get a haircut every month, and that's how I end up with hair past my tits, like now. When I do get it cut, I go to a place on Newbury which does a flabberghastingly good job (even if my directive is to keep the length), but costs in the $50 range.
Yours is a bit straighter than mine, so I'm not sure whether a similar cut would do for you what is does for me. I have it tapered in front by adding some layers around the face (shortest layer just above chin length), and then the back is rounded (not chopped straight across which I think looks awful) and the lower 3-4 inches are layered also. This gives me a lot of body with my natural wave, and gives me the option to fluff it out or turn it under, into a really elegant style, if I want to blowdry it using a big round brush.
Overall, I'd think a rounder face like yours would do well with shoulder-length (not chin) or longer, in general. This also keeps it long enough to ponytail in the heat. Shaping is always a good thing, though.
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Date: Friday, July 25th, 2003 01:24 pm (UTC)It's not at all that I'm sick of it long... but I'm starting to think it's getting just a tad overgrown, and though I have a pretty good idea of what to adjust, I was curious for aesthetic feedback.
I usually end up at
McHaircutsGreatCuts all the time, but once every few years I spring for someone truly competent, and that's about where I'm getting to with this discussion. I'd love to know where you take yours.no subject
Date: Friday, July 25th, 2003 01:36 pm (UTC)For longish straight hair, a straight-across cut is very attractive (to me, anyway). For curly hair, that wouldn't work at all.
You definitely want to be either long enough to ponytail, or short enough not to need to. The middle ground is damned annoying, and I'm very glad I'm mostly through it. (It's one reason I'm not cutting it - I don't want to go through it again next time I want it long.)
Though, come to think of it, you never do ponytail it except when you're working with power tools, so I guess either your hair is calmer than mine or you aren't bothered by it.
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Date: Friday, July 25th, 2003 11:05 pm (UTC)I cut down a piece at a time, just to see what it'd be like. My mixed blessing of super-thick hair that refuses to just hang down and therefore continues to point outward until it's a few inches long has led to my most recent super-short cut. I often wish I had hair that was just straight and (relatively) fine, since it works at basically at pretty much any length.
To C: Hey, play. It'll grow back. :)