Sure - here's a few things I tried after removing the line:
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No line, closely resembles original hairstyle; this one doesn't quite look right to me...
No line, hair and ear moved so that the hair is gathered behind the ear:
actually, you're right - I'll do that...the only problem is that the thread won't auto-update on the list if I simply edit (I believe - I might be wrong on this though). The first post in the series of posts about this image is updated with the latest picture now