Ash, your hair will look lovely whatever the length - curly hair has that advantage! I bet the hairstylist will be able to get the knots out. When I was a kid, I had long, fine, straight (read that snarles at the drop of a hat) hair that I wasn't very patient good brushing as often as I should. It would get "rat's nests" that were pretty spectacular. But my friend Caroline, who wanted to be a hairdresser when she grew up, would delight in untabgling them. We'd sit and chat while she worked, and before tooooo long had passed, one could comb through my hair again!

And she DID become a hairstylist, but last I knew she lived in Maine - a little far away for you!