Best hair cut/style for 2b shoulder length?

[icallitbliss]

Which is better? Blunt/one length or layered? I'd imagine layers would cause problems on such a short length, as well as being 2b.

[Vrindi]

Layers will make it difficult to pull up and out of your face. But if you wear it down a lot, it can add some nice shape. It's a personal preference thing. I think that length is difficult no matter what the cut, but that was my personal experience with shoulder-length hair. I preferred it blunt. I could get it out of the way when it was annoying me.

[MiaBeth]

I vote for blunt -- I had layers at this length, and it's very annoying to do buns or braids with all the small chunks sticking out. Now that it's all one length, buns look smoother.

[lunalocks]

I have 2b hair and go with blunt. My ends are thin enough without having to purposely cut in layers.

[Sarahlabyrinth]

I would go for blunt myself, it makes the hair look thicker, and also it is easier to put it up if you want to.

[icallitbliss]

How do they cut wavy hair that way? Wet or dry?

[WilfredAllen]

I would say blunt if you plan of growing longer than that - layers have not been good to me lol!

[Sarahlabyrinth]

I think most hairdressers would cut it wet.

[joflakes]

Blunt for me! I'm around the same texture. They just cut it wet.

[Firefox7275]

There are plenty of curly specialist stylists in the US, there is a searchable list with reviews on NaturallyCurly. Also loads of photos of curly cuts on the Curly Girl book Facebook page if you have no idea what I am banging on about. Many curly stylists would cut dry and would long layer BUT the layers would not be uniform but pay attention to your curlier and straighter parts. Any decent stylist should pay attention to you wanting to be able to achieve certain up dos.

So if you have a straighter underlayer that hangs down that should be shortened accordingly, you don't then want a short canopy that bounces into proper curls. Next time I have mine professionally cut I will be having a style that is angled shorter at the back than the front to take account of the difference in curl pattern, I've had one length and it never sits right when worn wavy/ curly whatever I tell the stylist because she cuts me wet as a straighty (cheap as chips tho). That will still be easy to put up too.

[jacqueline101]

If you want your curls to be more curly layers if you want ease of styling blunt is better. Most places cut wet.

[Charybdis]

How thick is your hair? 2b hair which is iii thickness can, under certain circumstances, pouf into a pyramid shape with a blunt cut. I ask because my hair is also 2b, and I could never consider a blunt cut at shoulder because it would look like I was wearing a triangular bush on my head. So, I think thickness is key information here. :)

[lapushka]

I get that 2b hair on blunt shoulder length can look a little bit triangle headed. But it's all about what you want. Do you want to be able to do updos? Layering is a pain for that! If you're trying to gain length, far beyond shoulder, I'd not get layers.

[BlazingHeart]

With my wave-pattern, I do best if there is a very slight layering to the bottom - shortest layers maybe an inch, inch and a half shorter than the longest layers. The way the waves hit just at or just above my shoulders mean that this helps the hair lay nicely and curl under just a bit (or flip out nicely, if I'm in the mood for that). It gives me the most options that look GOOD. And that little bit of layering is slight enough that it doesn't make much impact on growing out.

YMMV, though, as this has to do with where the waves in the front of my hair are - I am the straightest there, and this just makes them behave nicely.

~Blaze