the history of my hair.

 ok, so... my hair was long my whole life. (and by long i mean about shoulder length or longer).here i am with justin (pre-marriage): long brown hair (looks shorter cause it was curly)

  

it stayed pretty much the same once we got married, plain brown, and just below the shoulder:

a few months later, i added some fun streaks and my plain brown hair was a bit more purple-y (and i loved it):

 this is where it gets a little sketchy. i'm not entirely sure of the order of the next couple looks. but i am pretty sure that once i was tired of my long hair, i cut it to just around my neckline i guess. and back to plain brown:

 i suppose that once the color faded from the previous cut, it turned a bit of a warmer brown/dark blonde color, but with the same length.

 somewhere along the line, i went back to my blonder roots. adding a little length.

 and at some point i went to what you would call, a SUPER short look. at least for me:

 i loved that hair cut. i loved the ease of doing my hair in the morning. i liked that it made me feel young (or perhaps old, since i was younger at the time... either way, i liked the way i felt). after a while, it grew out and i thought i would be growing it out for good:

 but it was in one of the awkward lengths of hair and i guess i needed it shorter and cleaned up a bit:

 almost to the end! a while back i had a red-brown dark hair color with a sharp, short look. it was pretty killer. someone once asked me if i was wearing a wig. it was sick. loved it. here it is, just grown out a tad:

 which brings me to present-day alyssa. sporting a much lighter brown color (though in the family pictures it looks much more red). with an above-the-shoulder cut. it is driving me crazy to be honest. if my hair really was the color it looks like it is in this photo, i wouldn't hate it so much. but in real life it is much more dull, much more plain. i feel like this 'do i have going on could be on someone much older than me. it is plain, it is boring. it is 'safe'. the three adjectives that i feel like do not describe me at all.

so i have a dilemma. do i:

a). keep on growing it out..............

or...

b). cut it super short again!

as you can see in the history of my hair, i haven't yet made it past this stage it is in now, more or less. as of late i had decided to grow it out. 

that was a while ago because you can see how far i've come.

part of me wants to have it as long as i did as a newlywed. 

i haven't had it that long since 2008... 3-4 years ago. 

the other part of me misses the super short look i had going on the last year or two.

looking through these old photos, the ones i feel i look the best in were during my really short phase.

so please help me. which do you like better on me?