Creative Ideas for Growing Out Layers

I'm looking for some hairstyle suggestions.

I've been growing out layers. The back has finally reached BSL, but I still have all these short layers around my face. The shortest, most annoying ones (old bangs / fringe) are right about nose length. When I wear my hair down, they blend in on the sides and look okay (although not terribly attractive as they flop over my eyes). Sometimes I've been pulling my hair back and doing a french braid and using gel to hold them in place.   But the gel can only do so much and by mid-day I start looking messing.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

I always put a small side braid that includes the bangs (like start at the part on the side of your head and braid over your forehead and down the side).  Its hard to describe and I'm not sure I'm making sense.  If you click the link in my signature and go to my Hair Journey page, I'm wearing it that way in the Sept. '02 and the Dec. '02 pics, but there its done behind my bangs.  When I had nose length bangs I used to do the bangs area in the braid too.  Sometimes it takes some practice to get the bangs to not stick out, but doing the braid looser or tighter usually fixes that.

I'm also going through the same thing right now with my fringe. Today it
is being very defiant, a couple pieces are sticking straight out. I almost
never clip it back...because I haven't seen my forehead in 2 years and so
it's a little....stark. "Yikes!!" I say as I yank the bobby pins out. So alas,
they hang in my face. They are only at eye ball level, so it's very annoying.