I chop it off with scissors, too, but am normally a bit more restrained than today, when about four inches came off in a fit of madness. The more I take off, the harder it is to make it anything remotely approximating even. Not that Pellinor noticed when he came home from LARPingg. When I pointed it out, he said, "It's not very even at the back." "So fix it!" I ordered him, handing him the scissors. Now it's hair by committee, which is probably worse.