In my experience, (about 40 years of long hair) hairdressers are fucking clueless about long hair because they are trained to CUT hair, and therefore their impulse is, "Hair! Cut it off!" Then a long hair person comes in and says, "I just want a trim, please" and they go "Huh????? Hair! Cut it off!"

I agree it's much less stress getting a haircut when your hair is short! (Except when you're married to a long-hair-loving person, who, every time you get so much as a trim, goes, "Hmmph! Too short!" But that's a different issue ;-) )

Elaine xx