First thing first, KM: I have the same kind of hair that you do--add in multiple cowlicks and waves. I went to very, very short, a few years ago, and then slowly have gotten longer, to where, now it's just above the jawbone, and the bangs are about 1/2 inch from being grown out to the length of the rest.

I can tuck it behind my ears, I can scrunch it as it dries to let the waves out, I can let it dry and finger comb it to almost straight, or blow it dry and then flat iron it to silky straight.

To see an earlier version, from last October, click on the link below my sig.

BUT. Don't look at "women over 60 hairdos". Look at "short 'dos for thick hair".

Because, just as the clothing industry seems uninterested in designing clothes specifically for women our age, so does the beauty industry, in hairstyles.