Help, I'm Dying Here! Haircut ideas needed
 

Ladies,

I am dying from the heat! I have very thick, coarse hair, and it's keeping the heat in. You can see various pictures of my hair here: http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/members...elf-portraits/

I am very tempted to just take the clippers and shave it all off, but my SO does not like that idea one bit, and I don't think my employers would care for it either. Please stop me and make some suggestions of hairstyles that will allow me to cool off! I know that if I go shorter than my current length I will likely have to go super-short because otherwise my hair turns into a poof-ball. Keeping that in mind, does anyone have any ideas as to what I should do?

Thanks in advance!

I too have thick dark hair. Every summer I used to consider shaving it off. I don't have the coarse issues to deal with, but I can still sympathize.

Throwing together some pictures here... many of them look a lot like one another, slightly different styling...not sure if any of these would necessarily look right for you, but they are short...
http://www.eayoyo.com/wp-content/plu...irstyles-5.jpg
http://www.celebrity-hair-styles-mag...-photos-09.jpg
http://z.about.com/d/beauty/1/0/_/j/audreytautou.JPG
http://xd2.xanga.com/e1385720383a023...z106488458.jpg
http://img2.timeinc.net/instyle/imag...ry_240X320.jpg
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/showbiz...0a31af8234.jpg
http://z.about.com/d/beauty/1/5/d/j/natalie.JPG
http://z.about.com/d/beauty/1/H/k/H/short8.JPG
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_30PRmkOl4r.../s400/s128.jpg
http://www.hairstylesrx.com/halle-berry-short-hair.jpg

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a few more...
http://www.thehairtrader.com/itemima...3_3_821433.JPG
http://www.soliahairstyling.beauty-h...air-styles.JPG
http://besthaircutstyles.com/wp-cont..._hairstyle.jpg

so...if you want me to remove this, tell me! Only trying to help...I took one of the pics you pointed to, and gave you a haircut and colour:

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/members...-snowyhair.jpg

based on Keira Knightley, and a little Victoria Beckham.

I think you'd look cute! Hope it helps.

LT, you are way too creative!

Wow, LT. You really did some work there!

I went and got it cut earlier this afternoon; it was just too hot to sit around and wait for advice to roll in.

You can see the picture here: http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/tilted-...ml#post2677890

It looks great, Snowy!