Anyone gone from long to really short hair?

[SteadyEddie]

And did you regret it?

I am bored of my hair. Its a pain and I hate it. Its thick and wavy and it gets wavier as it gets longer.

Am thinking of a short pixie crop but dont know if the change will be too drastic?

pardon my eyebrows in the short haired picture as I had just had them tinted and they look very dark! Hair looks a bit manic too

Because I am a lazy sod and a scruff I do find that long hair is actually less of a fannyaround - you just put it in a ponytail and forget about it. Mind you, I have taken to cutting my (currently short) hair myself. Just lean over the bin with scissors and chop till it looks roughly all right.

(Disclaimer - I am now nearly 50 with fairly rough skin so, you know, other people don't particularly care what I look like, either.)

I have done this many times: age 8, age 15, age 17, age 24! I am 28 now and have long hair again (I did have it cut in between, starting growing it again at 25 took me almost 3years to get back to nipple length, incl the first year from crop to bob looking terrible).

It is a faff to grow out I will warn you. If you get a bob it's not that hard to transition but any shorter than chin length and you have to go through a horrid in between stage where it tends to look awful no matter how the hairdresser might try to mitigate it. And that part took about a year for me. I think maybe it was quicker when I was younger.

I love having a pixie crop but tend to get bored of it after a while which makes me reticent to do it again as the growing out takes so long. Also I felt I had to wear more make up and more feminine clothes to compensate for the androgynous hair and I'm very much a jeans and t shirt girl.

I know I prefer having a crop or long hair rather than a bob bc I run, cycle and do yoga, for exercise with long hair you can put it up and short hair is fine too but a bob is the most frustrating thing hot and messy!

After my wedding and when I'm done having kids I might cut it off again - putting on 3 stone with a "pixie" cut is quite unforgiving

i've gone from long to short and back again many times. 18months ago i had it all chopped off, cropped at the back with a long fringe, then grew it again, it's currently below my shoulders, and no doubt i'll have it chopped off again sometime soon as i get fed up of it when its long.

my hair grows fast though, so its never scared me having it chopped off.