I had to have professional photos taken at work recently and was horrified at how utterly drab my hair actually looks. I have very thick mousy brown hair with a natural kink/wave. About once or twice a year I get it cut to just below my shoulders in kind of choppy layers with a long, sweeping side fringe and then let it grow out. It's currently almost halfway down my back and the fringe is non-existent. It never looks great even after a cut, but it looks horrendous at the moment.
I'd love a shorter cut, above shoulder length or shorter. Problem is, because it is so very thick (hairdressers always comment that it is probably the thickest hair they have even seen and it has been known for it to take up to 2 hours to blow dry in a salon when they try and dry it in silly little segments) the shorter it is, the more absolutely unruly it is, because there's nothing to weigh down the millions of strands. It also gets greasy quickly and needs daily washing, so I'm loathe to use much product - I use serum on the ends and always try to leave conditioner on for 5 minutes or so, and although it does look shiny, feel soft and largely do as it's told, I know from experience that's only because it's so long.
So anyway, what kind of haircut do the thick-haired ladies have? I have a round face with quite an expansive forehead, I'm 5ft 2in, quite pale and lardy 'curvy'. I'm still in my 20s just, I want to look modern and fresh, I don't want to go back to he hairdressers and get another 90s haircut.