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Oh internet, I am having a terrible time with life decisions and the making thereof! Which is naturally why I present to you a completely unrelated dilemma instead:

Which haircut should I get?

1.

(This strikes me as a nice length & my hair is fairly similarly stick-straight, except it's thick enough that it will probably look more like--

-- this.)

2.

(My hair is not going to look like this unless I waste money on a perm or waste time with a curling iron, so really it's a matter of bang style/length.)

3. Some non-bob-length thing that will have a similarly evening-out-of-current-layers effect and will grow out with less awkward stages?

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I go with 3, only because I'm going to rec a site:

http://www.beauty-box.jp/

I really like this site because it's

1) all presumably Japanese models, so you only see hair styles that are manageable with East Asian hair texture. Also, their facial structure much more closely resembles mine than the usual European models on English hair sites. :)
2) They divide it up into short, medium and long styles
3) Most of their styles, if you click the picture, offer a front shot, a side shot and a back shot

http://www.beauty-box.jp/style/medium/me1907/
http://www.beauty-box.jp/style/short/ri295/
http://www.beauty-box.jp/style/short/dim350/
http://www.beauty-box.jp/style/short/cir010/

Since cutting hair is three-dimensional sculpting, the cut on the sides and back affect the look on the front. I've found that my stylist was quite pleased when I brought in shots from beauty-box, because as it was put:

"Asking a stylist to cut hair based on a picture from the front is kind of like asking a building to construct a house using only a picture of the front side. You can't tell what it's supposed to look like from the other sides."

I've gotten much more successful haircuts - in terms of them turning out like the picture - once I started bringing in the multi-sided shots from beauty-box. :)

I heart you forever! I miss all the Asian hairstyle magazines from Taiwan, especially since like you say, it's good to know if something will work with E. Asian hair.

So glad that people are finding my links useful! :D

I hear ya about E. Asian hair. Straight E. Asian hair doesn't equal the straight European/Caucasian hair in how it behaves. It's always very frustrating when one runs into a stylist that assumes that one equals the other, and a delight when one finds someone who knows how to cut E. Asian hair. :)