Hiya, went to the barber today, and while I feel it's a big improvement already and I am satisfied with it, I do feel like it's not exactly what I was looking for. But that left me wondering if I can even accomplish what I want, or if my head shape and hair texture are working against me here.
Provided some images, the first one is how my hair was the day before the haircut. I had a mullet before, which I then cut short, which then grew out to this.
Second was right after my haircut.
Third is an AI generated image, which edited the first image with the prompt of giving me a burst fade. Wanted to see how it looked like. This is what I asked for initially. (It also gave me a little facelift, but I didn't ask for that, it just did it itself).
Forth is me after the haircut but from the front. You can see the sides are poking out a bit, my hair always does this when it's short. I have very thick hair where I don't want to have that, and very thinning hair on the front, which is why I style it messy like this, only thing that works anymore.
Then I added some inspiration pics after that which I also showed my barber.
Now I'm wondering, could I even pull off this sort of style? Or is the back of my head too narrow, like maybe I don't have enough space behind my ear for a full high burst fade like this? Could it be because my hair on the sides is too thick and the fade wouldn't work well if it was that small?
Again, I'm satisfied with how it was cut, but I liked the slightly more "edgy" vibe a high fade like that creates. I feel like my barber didn't actually give me a burst fade, but just a regular modern mullet shape fade. Any opinions?