I had a "I feel like cutting my hair today" meltdown once, and asked my roommate (who claimed to have experience cutting hair) to do it for me. She was supposed to cut off about 2 inches. All of a sudden I heard a sharp gasp, and my repeated and increasingly frantic "Heather, what did you do!?"s were met with responses like "Nothing!" and "I can fix it!" Lo and behold, she had cut off about a 6 inch lock of hair right towards the front, so I ended up having to trim the rest of it to make it even. Turned out it actually looked kind of cute.
Glad to hear yours turned out okay! Can't wait to see it.