Maybe you could treat yourself to a couple of professional cuts a year for shaping purposes, and do the trimming in between? Cutting short hair (for me) has been a whole different ballgame than trimming long hair. When my hair is short, it seems that there's not only less room for error (with long hair, you've got some slack, so if you make a wacky sort of chop, you can even it off, and still have a lot of hair left), but that it is less forgiving of errors. Where your hair is straight and fine, that's going to hold even more true. A stylist might be able to find a style that works with your whorls, and you'd just have to follow his/her lines when you were trimming.
When I was in high school, two friends (one male, one female) used to ask me to cut their hair. I was decent at it for someone with no training, and trimmed my own, frequently. But every once in a while, I would have to go get a "real" haircut, to reshape it. After a while, I told my friends-faux clients the same thing.
I think I am going to go short, too. I just don't keep at my hair when it is long, and it's not pretty. I'm facing this fact. I have gone through this more frequently than you have, though--ever since my mother had my waist long hair cut into a pixie (that I hated with a passion) when I was six. *shaky fist*
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Date: 2005-01-06 01:14 pm (UTC)When I was in high school, two friends (one male, one female) used to ask me to cut their hair. I was decent at it for someone with no training, and trimmed my own, frequently. But every once in a while, I would have to go get a "real" haircut, to reshape it. After a while, I told my friends-faux clients the same thing.
I think I am going to go short, too. I just don't keep at my hair when it is long, and it's not pretty. I'm facing this fact. I have gone through this more frequently than you have, though--ever since my mother had my waist long hair cut into a pixie (that I hated with a passion) when I was six. *shaky fist*