Someone talk me out of getting bangs

Lately I can’t get the idea of getting bangs out of my mind. It seems that recently every celebrity who is “updating their look” is adding bangs. And I want them! Yesterday I went to ULTA and tried on some Jessica Simpson clip in bangs (the color matched my hair perfectly). But no, I will not spend $26 on clip in bangs.

They looked like this:

I’d really like them to turn out like these:

But I know I will wind up looking like this:

Or worst of all, this:

And I’ve made my share of hair mistakes. Just this past September I went brunette:

 Not. Good. At. All.

This proves that I cannot trust my own judgement on the hair front.

Someone talk me out of it!

Please!