OK. I'm going for a trim on Thursday (right before "someone special" comes to visit me...lol...) and suddenly I'm very indecisive.

My last few attempts at a blunt cut when my hair was short didn't look very nice. One reason that so far I've kept my layers and made no attempt to even them out. But some factors are different now. My hair is a little thicker (a result of being nice to it for once) and a little straighter (I moved to a dry climate last month),. Before it was so thin that it fell plastered against my head in a very limp, unattractive shape...except for the ends, that curled up in various directions because the Florida humidity was doing a number on my hair all the time. TACKY looking! The only way to give it a nice shape was to unpack the blowfryer and heat blast it into submission.

So I was pretty well convinced that I needed to keep up the layers until my hair was longer. Plus, there is the factor of splits because my hair breaks and splits so easily...if I just let the layers grow and grow until they catch up with the rest of my hair, how will I head off splits in those layers of hair?

But my hair is suddenly looking fuller and straighter and falling in a very nice shape, and I'm starting to wonder if it would be safe to start evening out the layers. I'm getting very eager for the layers to catch up with the rest of my hair so that I can do more to it.

SO, the decision I'm wondering about it whether I should have just the bottom layer trimmed, or all of it? I do have a stylist here that can neaten up my layers very nicely without hacking off several inches in the process, so I'm not worried about losing too much. I'm just unsure whether or not it's time to start evening out.

Bah. Indecisive me, and over something so silly.

Ella

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Quite True!  Layers, the bane of growing hair

I think that, seeing as how you're indecisive about it, you should just trim 1/2" off the bottom. Later you can trim off more if you are sure.

I'm of the 'dont cut at all' opinion.  My longest layer, in back, is mid neck; the shortest layer, on top, just reached the top of my ear.  Unless I start getting splits, I'm pretty determined that nothing sharp will touch my hair for at least one year, maybe two.  But that's just me.  It sounds as if you trust your stylist.  Why not ask her/his opinion?  That's IF you truly trust your stylist...and of course, let us know what you decide!