My hair is usually always shoulder-length or past on me, unless my mom cuts it, and then it's way, WAY too short... Usually I wear my hair down. (I think hair covering one of my eyes would look cool, but my mom hates it, and probably wouldn't let me anyway...) I haven't worn it up in... Uh.. A LONG, LONG time.
BTW, my hair is brown. So brown that when it's wet, it looks black (and I think my hair looks awesome black..). I used to have blond highlights, but they faded as my hair grew out, thank goodness. I absolutely hated them..