Does anyone know more about subjunctive?

Question

I told the stylist I wanted my hair cut short
I told the stylist I wanted my hair to be cut short
I told the stylist I wanted that my hair be cut short

What is your opinions about the sentences above?

As far as I know, when you want change it to the subjunctive, you leave out to be, but you said other things (in another question of mine)!

In addition, I almost know the rules of English subjunctive. However, considering what Wikipedia says below, I think we should leave out to be and the apostrophes,

Notice that the subjunctive is not generally used after verbs such as hope and expect, or after verbs that use a different syntax, such as want (it is not usual to say **I want that he wash up*; the typical syntax is I want him to wash up).

Source: Wikipedia

Answer 1

The three statements about the hair are all perfectly fine, but the first two versions are definitely preferable and much more natural; no standard English speaker would utter the third.

As for the 'to be', it's optional. You would drop it to lower the word count or save yourself half a second.

I would say the second, just because I parse it in that manner in my head. The first may be more natural to you. It's... a matter of opinion.

Answer 2

All three are correct, but the third one that uses the subjunctive is a wee bit archaic in Modern English. I don't know whether I would go so far as to say that no English speaker would utter it as stated above because I have uttered it before, but it's been done for stylistic purposes and not because that's how I speak on a daily basis. If you said all three of those, no one would have trouble understanding you; however, the third one might get looks unless you should be like me and like to play around with language as most people know I'm saying it humorously or histrionically.