Hairenough, thanks for your encouragement.

This was last summer in the UK and the stylist is one of the two main stylists who regularly attends meetings (as well as the other US company's summits - and he has the same opinion of pieces from either) to do cut-ins. He was also one of the two most recommended British stylist on this forum.

My sides are good, but I don't want to keep it short (like few mm) because it looks too rough to me. I would go for permanent 1-2 cm sides.

Your story is certainly giving me hope (life and hair type similarities). Using concealer limits my life, and gets less and less unnoticeable, but I did not want to go for something the stylist so clearly dis-advised me on, against his own business interest.

Amstat - you call, you lose.