To Change or Not to Change- What'da Ya Think?

It's not unusual for me to find a rogue grey hair in my head once in a while. I'll pull it out and be on my merry way, waiting 6 more months before another one that decides to try taking up residence again. But today was different. I found 4 rogue hairs. One after the other. Black patch, white hair, black patch, white hair, black, white, black, white. You get the idea. So I didn't pull it this time. I decided I'd get even. (Even though you can't see the grey thanks to the flash, I swear they're in this very spot.)


With some of my birthday money (thanks Granma!) I hopped right out to the store and picked myself up a box of this:

And I asked Jeremy if he'd help me put a halt on those pesky greys. Here's the before (please excuse the rotten appearance of my hair as it had been in a pony tail all day):

The during:


And the after:

What'cha think? Not much difference, I'm aware. Thank you Captain Obvious. My hair is dark brown to begin with but I added a touch of "gold" which in turn with my natural red high lights is a pretty, oh, I don't know- goldish/red tented, but mostly a dark brown with a hint of red when the light shines on it. And most importantly- no grey to be found.

Make sense? No? Eh, that's okay. Its a terrible explanation.

Anyway, so then I've been thinking, I still have a nice bit of birthday money from my mom (thanks Mommy!) and wanted to spend it on a good hair cut. Not like Fantastic Sam's offers for $14.99 but go to one of those good, costly, salons that you can bring in some random celebrity picture and they make your hair look so fucking fabulous you could kiss your hairdresser.

The problem is, I can't decide if I want to lop my hair off or keep it long. So tell me what you think. Here's today:

I was either torn with doing something like this:

Long layers, framing the face, easy to style and manage. Same thing I've had most of my life just a little more umph to it. You know, kinda like it's done me quite well for this long why change it too much.

Or, I have the urge to lop it all off and be done with the longness with something like this:

Cute, fresh, sassy and completely different from anything I've ever had. With this, I'm afraid once I chop it that short I'm going to hate it and cry and do the whole dramatic dropping to the knees, hands to the heavens, tears streaming down, screams of "Why? Why God, why did I do this?"

What do you think- subtle and long, dramatic and short or leave it alone I'm already one sexy bitch and why mess up a good thing? Be honest. Even brutal if you think I look terrible and could, without a doubt, use some professional help because, hey, what are friends (and relative strangers) for?