I know what you mean - i did the exact same thing after I cropping my hair too. I liked it at first but actually found it more hard work in the end...i don't have particularly feminine features either so i felt it didn't look striking in the right way. In the end i just slowly grew it back because i couldn't stand the fuss. Other people weren't particularly vocal about it but i suspect they probably weren't keen either. Shorter hair is a lot more common these days but i find it's still not a style that's generally admired for some reason

I've had mid length hair for a while, i find it more 'now' and just add a spock fringe which is highly uncool but there we go...life's full of contradictions