oh so shallow.. but what the heck to do you do with your hair?

[shootingstar]

Like yours, my haircut looks simple, but when I moved I learned the hard way that it takes a lot of skill to cut. I'm on my sixth stylist now, and I've stuck with him despite a lot of problems just because I wanted a break from haircuts that left me in tears (really, I'm not one who cares a lot about my appearance, especially now that I'm not working, but five stylists in a row left me looking truly hideous).

Hope you find someone in the end, that is super-good, not just good. It's costly to try different stylists and to live with their mistakes for awhile/try to grow out one's hair for the next stylist.

You're right -- a simple-looking style is actually layers all over the head to give it abit of shape and (small) amount of volume. Alot of women I know with dead straight hair just live with the reality of flattish looking hair ...unless they get a perm or spiky/pixie cut. Which is what my cut was this past May. My entire ears were shown, it was that short. Having 1 hair colour and straight hair means that a cutting error where there is millimetre difference on left vs. right hand side of cut, becomes noticeable, even annoying over time.

At beginning, I do specify to hair stylist that it must be a cut that I can manage in less than 5 min., and will grow out still looking decent over 3-4 months (not 6 wks.) with bike helmet use. I bike to the hair salon..and bike slowly back with the helmet on. She knows all this and more so when I show up at the salon in cycling wear. This makes her not deviate too far because of cycling helmet reality. It still works...