Hello, and welcome to the forum!

I had a pixie cut for a few years, and loved it. I took the same route as you, I grew it to an ear length bob first. I can understand why you’ve given up at chin in the past - when you’re not used to having so much hair getting in your face, but it’s not long enough to put up yet, it gets really annoying. I found chin to shoulder the hardest part, because I have a long face and neck and it felt like my hair was hovering in a weird place for ages. Once it got to shoulder though it was much easier.

Hang on in there, APL is a lovely length, it’s worth waiting for