How 'edgy' a pixie cut can I get away with?

[PacificDogwod]

Honest opinions, please, suitable for RL

I am 50.
Have mid-brown (hennaed) hair.
Some wave/frizz
I live and work in semi-rural suburbia.

I have finally come off the fence made an appointment to have my mid-back length hair cut to a pixie - the change in length does not particularly phase me, I've done it several times in my lifetime. It's only hair

Here's my question: I quite fancy something really very short sides and back (maybe a gentle bit of undercut?) with a longer top. Am quite happy to be a bit edgy but not ludicrously so. I wear no make-up day to day, I have no facial piercings and no tattoos and work in a job in which I really don't want to scare the horses. Or the neighbours.
So all the many lovely mohican pixies I have wasted hours and hours on looked at online are really not an option.

So, am I having some kind of hair related mid-life crisis? Am I nuts?
Should i just embrace my inner Deirdre and settle for Middle-Aged Hair??

Help!

No disrespect to Deirdre but I really do not like this look

In that photo Deirdre is clearly thinking 'my snazzy haircut brings all the boys to the yard'.

Howard Wolowitz is NOT my style icon!

Claire Underwood/Robin Wright started me off thinking about short hair again

And I like this one, but maybe a bit long?

Yes, Deirdre the siren

I am not going to mess with my colour.
The whole henna lark suits me just now, my hair is in great condition and I love the shade.

I should have mentioned that I wear glasses, rimless ones.
Lost weight in the last year, no double chin here

This is now!

Ooh, that looks great, Tondelaya!
Whatever you were trying to achieve, I think you got it

Very nice Tondelaya. Much more Jed than Howard.

I think a pixie is very short. More like this

I think short hair suits most faces.

Bit of work in the morning though.

Go for it ✂️

thanks :D ...my hair is so fine and straight, there's really nothing to be done with it. She just went a it crazy with the snippage!

In your last post I like the robin wright one, but not the floofier one...won't that be a lot of blow drying and malarkey.

Coco, yes, don't disagree, but then I got sucked in to the wonderful world of the Long Pixie. And the Mohican Pixie. And the Wavy Pixie.
Never mind those you find when you google 'pixie for the older woman'

I had a really short hair cut 6 years ago and got bored of it very quickly. Hm.

Lovely Tondelaya, is that your natural colour?

Have you not bloody done it yet you ditherer?

I cut my own hair. Its amazing what you can do with a clipper and pair of scissors

Actually since you started pondering Pdog I reckon I've had 3 pixie cuts in that time.

I alway to for a disconnected undercut though as I find it much more versatile and my hair sits better.

yes coco, in all it's mousey greying glory, I renounced the peroxide about four years ago in the hope it would go dramatically silver, I'm still waiting. It does lighten in the sun quite dramatically though so the highlighty bits are left from last summer.

Its a lovely colour!

I grow my colour out sometimes, its pure white at the front and sides getting darker towards the back.
Then I go back to the bleach

Ditherer is my middle name
At least I have insight in to my condition.

"Disconnected undercut' - it almost sounds like you know what you are talking about, HD?

The usual dithering was worse as I initially decided I'll keep it long as it is for our holidays (easy to put up, ponytail/plait for the pool, I know what I'm doing with it AND all the hairdressers I rated at the shop I go to had left - without consulting with me first ). But then I thought sod it, I'm doing it, It's only hair!!

What an odd question, Apples

Pacific - your hair sounds similar to mine and we are a similar age. The models in your first link seem to have quite straight hair and are much younger than us. I suspect that amount of randon straggly bits would only serve to provide a bit of a Denise Welch look. The second ones are lovely though (but my hair is too thick for them.

My hair does 80s best. After my lovely old stylist left to become a plumber, I've had to build my relationship with my second favourite (I tried a different one and she made me cry because she cut all my thick wavy hair off and made me look like a geriatric spud). He has a thing for longer bits which I have to push very hard against, so these are the pictures I now take with me. I love the 80s vibe of the first one, though the model is probably the age I was in the 80s. My hair is wavier, like the second one, too, though not blond - formerly dark like the first, but now heavily salted and sparkly.

And my hair does the mad professor thing some days, but that's me all over, anyhow, so it doesn't bother me. Pre-wedge (it's been much shorter than I have it now) a bad hair day was more like gran had too much sherry, last night.

Stick, those are both lovely, but I think I need more 'mess' IYSWIM.

Coco, I've just twigged: you actually use clippers on yourself? I've gazed in amazement at the usual MN DIY haircut, but clippers, really? I can imagine an all over No 4 or whatever, but does not need shaping or summat?

I think I'd lose an ear if I tried that. Never mind what it might look like….

I definitely have more mess, some days!

In contrast to what bendybus says about more work, there's some mornings I look in the mirror, think "perfect" and refuse to put a brush anywhere near it! The mornings I decide I ought to brush it, it ends up taking until lunchtime to put it right again.

One of my kids has inherited my hair texture. It only gets brushed when I sit on them (not much now, as they're bigger than me) and they get loads of compliments about it.

This is a great product, btw
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002RS6KV6/ref=sr_ph_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1466028582&sr=1&keywords=tigi+curl

Mines a bit like Coco's, slightly longer on top. And exactly what was said earlier, disconnected. Which sounds very technical, but is just 'not blended' really! Mine is a teeny bit more subtle than I wanted, but she knows for next time.

Would you mind talking me through how you cut your hair Coco? Have been thinking of having a go.