Thinking of cutting my hair short - UPDATE with picture

Have you looked on Pinterest for ideas on styles? I would look there and then search YouTube to find videos of people with your hair type to see how they style it.

I cut my hair in a pixie a couple of months ago and I love it! It’s so easy to care for and feels more youthful on me than the mom bob I was wearing before. I spent a lot of time on Pinterest looking at photos of people with similar face shapes and hair textures as mine, and had a couple of good pictures to take to my stylist when I went in.

Short hair is trickier to cut than the usual longer styles - make sure you are comfortable that your stylist will spend the time to get your cut just right.

   

That is such a GREAT idea !!!!!!!       The different angles and seeing how the hair actually MOVES would make it much easier for the stylist to know whether it would work with a specific type of hair.

I liked short hair for a minute and then regretted it. I wish I had tried a wig or something first. That said, many people love their hair short. 

I have had my hair super short for many years. Prior to that it was to my waist and then to my shoulders. I will never, ever go back to longer hair. Even though I have to flat-iron my hair, it seriously only takes me 10 minutes from wet hair to completion. It is SUPER fast to do! In fact, my daughter was in the bathroom the other day when I was doing my hair. She wanted to talk but that sometimes is hard to do with a blow dryer going so I asked her to hold on. I finished in 2 minutes with the blow dryer. She said "That's it?" I said "Yep, doesn't take long to blow dry this hair do." I have gotten my hair do down to a science. Really once you get used to it, it doesn't take any time at all. Take photos in to your stylist and see which one she thinks would work best for your hair type. I just screen shot photos from Pinterest and show my stylist when I want a bit of a change. Have fun!

I cut my shoulder length hair in July and I love it! I have strange wavy/curly hair. I have worn it short in the past but it wasn't as curly and I used to use a curling iron to style it. Gosh, now that I think about it, that was a loooong time ago! I wanted my sides a little longer than they came out, but it's growing and I love it!

When my hair was long, it took so much more care. Now I can let it dry naturally and it has some curl or I can blow dry and straighten the sides in less than 10 minutes. My cut is similar to RedSquirrel. My dd was in cosmetology school and I used to let her die my hair ashy blonde so it would blend with the grey better as I grow it out. My ends were fried and I needed a change. Now the blonde ends look more natural (I was a brunette) and the gray is growing in nicely. I'm one of the rare people who want to grow out my gray.

I say give it a try! It's only hair and it'll grow back!

I stretch it out to five weeks. That’s about how long I can go without touching up my roots, and it’s easier if I can do both at the same time.

I went super short and then funky.

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I get the shaved part cut every other week at the barber shop for $10. I am growing out the longer part for now. Right now, I am thinking about having it all bleached so I can do whatever color I want.

I'd be sure to talk to a stylist who knows your hair and you really trust before doing this. Hair does grow, but a really bad haircut sucks. Get their opinion on how your hair will be short and how much styling it will require. For me, short hair was WAY more work than longer hair is. I have fine, wavy/curly hair and it absolutely MUST be styled every day if it is short. The idea "wash and wear" is a total no-go for my hair when short - it will look awful. With longer hair, I can let it air-dry and with some salt spray and a good hair oil, the curl looks good and it's zero effort. And when I want to style it, of course I can. But I don't want to have to heat style my hair every day and that's what my hair needed when short.

FWIW, my stylist warned me about requiring daily styling and I was sure I'd be fine with it. The cut itself was good, but I underestimated how much I'd dislike styling every day, and how crappy I'd be at it lol

I love short hair. I have naturally curly hair but when it's super short it's straight but has great body. I can blowdry my hair and maybe use a straightener on a few pieces. Run a bit of pomade through and a squirt of hairspray. Done in 3-5 mins! I had short hair for the last 15 years. Shaved on one side, or both, super short all over, long on one side. So fun to change it up all the time. You have to be realistic about your hair, how fine it is, how much you really have. So when you are looking at photos and say I want that a good hairdresser will say yes but you realize your hair is too xxx for that.

Last time I was seriously considering cutting my bra strap length hair, I put it in a pony tail and chopped it off with a pair of Fiskars scissors. I have no regrets (it's just above my shoulders), but I'm a shit or get off the pot kind of girl. I only pause if it's life changing, and hair is far from life changing, as long as it will grow back. Have some fun!

That looks great! Doesn't it feel good? And it's so easy and quick to care for. Enjoy! For me "once going short, always will be short."