Hair: To Bang Or Not To Bang

wearing Avenle sweater & still using this dye to color my hair; it's just 4 weeks faded 

I'm quite sad that just as my hair is starting to feel long again my ends are also beginning to look completely wrecked. I'm going to try some at-home deep conditioning treatments to prevent a chop as long as possible, but I think a trim might be inevitable--it has been over a year since I had my hair cut and winter is cruel! First on the chopping block are my bangs. I've been letting them grow out and styling them swept to the side, but now I'm debating cutting them again. I pretty much always go back to having a fringe, but this time maybe it's different...
What do you think: go back to bangs or keep letting it grow?