Hair Hair Hair - Another question

Resting

Wow - I had a lot of catching up to do, but it was lots of fun. I love looking at everyone's pictures.

Since I last wrote I have had my hair trimmed all over and cut in back. I say cut because it was out of control - as it grew longer it tended to curl under and flip up at the same time and in different places. LOL It was not cute!

Anyway, I also had a semi perm color put on and loved it - it toned the grey to a more blonde color and the darker grey hair was more brown and shiny. But alas - this color is not permanent. So what do I do now? I understand permanent color does not have the same effect on the grey so it will look more uniform in color rather than with natural high-lits and low-lits.

Any ideas MBJ or anyone else?

mammabear29

Thank you for sharing your photos. I finished my last treatment Dec. 6, 2010. You already have more hair than I do. I had been looking for pictures to see how other women's hair grew back in. I haven't found many so I am very happy to have found yours.

joan888

I just got my first haircut in a year.  Geesh.... made me realize how much money I'd been saving.  My hair stylist nearly started crying when I surprised her this afternoon.  Told her that I hoped she wasn't crying because my hair was such a mess!  I got treated to a wonderful scalp massage and shampoo.  It was good to get things evened out.  She doesn't want me to color it for a couple more months as she thought I might end up liking the new color whatever it is.  Maybe...  

mammabear29

I love your idea of posting photos of your hair growth. I have been thinking about doing the same. I have looked for photos of others hair regrowth but couldn't find any so thought it would be nice to do it. I can't be the only one wanting to see what progress to expect.

I am about 12 weeks out from my last treatment and am still very thin on top but the sides are beginning to thicken. The thickening is working from above my ears and going up. My eye brows are coming back in for the 3rd time and my lashes are coming in SLOWLY too.

Pinkprincess

When can we color post chemo? What about putting my acrylic nails back on? Is there a time frame for these things or just after the last treatment?

nikola

My onc said 6 months for hair color and 12 months for highlights.

MBJ

Girls, you all look so great with your new short hair!!!!  Wahooo!!!!

KIMBERLY09

Hi Fish!  I was reading your question about hair and thought I would share my experience with hair loss.  I had my chemo in October and I was waiting anxiously for the first sign of hair loss.  I had my first chemo and nothing happened.  Then I had my second round and about 2wks after I started losing my hair.  I wish they would of told me just how you lose it and it really is nothing like how the movies portray it at all!!! I had horrible MATS like someone stuck gum in my hair in random areas. I could not brush through them, if I tried to the whole flippin chunk would come out!!  Oh yeah not fun to wash or to brush or comb through. I finally got the nerve up to shave it off because it was too painful to style and emotionally I had enough. I actually had my brother buzz it off and he thoroughly enjoyed it I must say and we laughed and cried together. It brought us closer and gave some much needed humor to the situation for us all. I was completely bald at the coldest time of the year in Wisconsin.  You really do lose alot of body heat from your head!  lol  I know I struggled some days looking at myself bald, but I was also aware that it was a reminder to me that it was only temporary and it would grow back. I now have a full head of  curls  and (I used to have thin straight hair before) don't know really how to style them yet.  I have had one haircut since the regrowing phase last September just to even out the few hairs I had.  I was extremely sensitive about my hair issues more so than losing both breasts! crazy I know.  It is temporary and worth losing to ensure your beating this CRAPPY disease.  hang in there sis!!!

Pinkprincess

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_s5M_onbUsU/TWgf9yMPtwI/AAAAAAAAAHU/g5l0ujtqIC4/s1600/180118_187864991243994_100000614842453_509372_5427548_n.jpg 

Pinkprincess

Pinkprincess

Post chemo haircut....I will need some clip on hair pieces but how ROCKIN is that ? She is my stylist!

tnbcRuth

Kimberly- I HAD MY FIRST HAIRCUT TODAY  and I was trying to explain to the stylist how my hair came out and you described it exactly.  I couldn't find the words, but yes, it was matted!  and came out when I tried to brush it!  and I gave up and had my son shave it!  That was a crazy day, wasn't it??  I was just numb.

Anyway, I was worried about the stylist knowing what to do with this strange hair I have, and she did an awesome job!  She gave it a 'pixie' cut...kind of tapered it down towards the ears and tapered it in the back, so it doesn't look like a...??  bush?  but like a real hairstyle.  There is nothing around the hairline that I can really use to 'do' anything, so it will have to be on its own until it gets longer.  She said I am going to go thru many stages as the hair grows and she can do an appropriate haircut for each stage.  Yeah!!!  Finally someone who knows what they're doing, because I CERTAINLY DON'T !  There is hope of looking like a normal person again, even if its not anything like I used to look like.....

MBJ

tnbcRuth:  At your stage of hair growth, even with a good cut, all I could do was use my Marc Anthony Straight and finger style it.  Any attempts at blow drying it or using a hot iron were unsuccessful until it was 3 inches long.  So happy you now have some hair you can work with!

KCMom:  What a cool looking hairstyle and stylist!

MBJ

I just read that Inositol helps with hair growth.  I took it for awhile but I'm getting some more!

x-raygirl

MBJ - ordered my Xenna 183 yesterday - can't wait to try it!  

KCMom ~ that's a smokin' style!   I'd love to sport that look! 

tracie23

Hello Ladies, I am new to this thread.... I just finished chemo and I wanted to find out when you started taking the Biotin and what kind did you buy and from where? Is there any shampoo that is better than the other? Thanks for the info.

MarieK

KCmomx3 - I only took off my acrylic nails during chemo (so I could see if there was any effect on my nails) but as soon as I was done (Jan 2010) I got them all put back on.

Carrol2

KCMOM i love your stylists hair! Are you going to grow your hair like that?

Pinkprincess

Thanks for the info girls....and YES I am going pixie to this until it grows out. I have always worn my hair short. These wigs are fun in longer styles but I am a short hair girl

lrr4993

tracie - I did not take biotin but have been taking a folic acid supplement.  All my mom friends told me their hair grew like weeds when they took folic acid while pregnant.  Mine is growing pretty well - I finished at the end of november and I have about 1 inch of very thick growth.  

Kimberly, I am cracking up at your story.  I had a huge matting problem on the day it finally really came out. It started really shedding on tuesday and I was hoping it would last through the weekend so I could use the weekend to get used to the wig.  By thursday it was really coming out and, as a result, I decided to let my very curly hair dry naturally instead of blowing it out for fear the brushing would pulling it all out.  It held on to friday but I had the feeling that a shampoo friday morning would be the end, so I just skipped the hair styling that morning. . . so curls again that day.  I kept feeling a weird feeling in the cowl neck of my sweater that day.  Mid afternoon I finally reached back there and there was a huge mat of hair resting in the cowl neck.  It was like half of my hair came out of my scalp, but got caught halfway down the hair that was left, forming this weird clump of hair along the bottom of the length of my hair.  Fortunately the sweater hid it.  I went home and shampooed and, no joke, almost my entire head of hair came out.  I had to cut out the matt - it was a disaster.  I cried for hours.  Possibly the worst moment of this entire experience. 

cc4npg

tracie23:  I've been taking biotin for years now, and my onc didn't tell me to stop it during chemo either.  I didn't take it religiously during chemo... skipped a bunch of days just because I didn't feel well, but I get mine from swansonvitamins.com.  They have a lot of coupons codes online and I never can beat their price.  I take 15 mg a day.

Marion

Hello KCmomx3,

I colored my hair 4 months after chemo ended.

The haircut you plan on having is great : contemporary and very edgy. I too wanted a hairstyle like that when my hair was short/growing back. But my hair grew back really curly and it was impossible to have such a haircut. Most short haircuts I liked required having straight hair. Is your hair growing back straight ?

Pinkprincess

Well so far but it looks a lot thicker than my hair was, it could have some wave not sure yet. How do you know about the curls? How long did it get when you knew curls or not?  Really...four months of this gray stuff? Wow...what if I use something natural like from and aveda salon? I can't wait 4 months, I plan on going wigless before summer.I have actually been out to pick my boy up from school without already. I have pretty full coverage it is just GRAY! 

in_cognito

KCMom - My last chemo was 9/27/10 and my hair is growing back curly.  It looked straight up until about 4 weeks ago.  That's when everyone said "It's growing back curly!"  And it is.  My hair was curly before, so I thought maybe I'd get the opposite this time around.  So I had about 4 months of growth to determine curls or not. 

Pinkprincess

WOW....I have had growth since finishing AC and moving on to Taxol. I am scared of the curls:) I did find another short hair cut for us from the girl off of Big Love...I am trying to post it.

Pinkprincess

Sorry so big....I don't at all know how to post these things:(

in_cognito

If you have a little bit of wave, you can always do Audrey Tautou's pixie.  I don't know how to do pics on here either, so you'd have to google her (Audrey Tautou pixie).  I'm loving her hair!!  But of course, she is beautiful as well. 

http://trendmill.com/editorials/805-audrey-tautou-to-play-coco-chanel-in-biopic

x-raygirl

KCMom - that's what I want - thanks!  I'm going to print it out:- )

Leslie1962

Just got my first haircut in about 18 months! Whew - what a feeling! It sure is nice to have some sort of style to it. As it grew in I just moved it in different directions - how funny it that !?! Now I feel a renewed energy, and it sure does look good, if I say so myself.

~ Leslie

Carrol2

Question for the panel here:

I have been using the 3 step nioxin now for about 8 weeks. I am 11 weeks PFC. At first it was very tingly and my head and any place the scalp treatment foam was left on left a little red and then faded. Now it does not seems to tingle any more or turn red. My hair seems to be growing in at a normal but slow pace. I have coverage all over but I can still see scalp through it.

Do you think I need something stronger now?