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saralmom

ladym and allison - you both look beautiful!  OMG I can't wait to have bangs as long as yours ladym!

thegood5

my MIL got eyebrows tattoo'd and loves them...they look great

Teklya

WOW, what a couple of beauties!  You look amazing!

Teklya

Carrol2

Lago your right the nurses work very hard in the onc centers and I found them very compassionate.

ladym your hair looks great. I cannot wait until mine is that long. Looks like it is growing fast now.

hopeful I am at 6 months also and looks like m growth is about the same as yours. Is that your natural color? 

rachel5738

The hair pictures look great.

hopeful--I am 6 months post chemo (wow how time flies) and my hair is quite a bit shorter than yours. My hair took forever to start sprouting and then it started growing. Love the look of your hair. Obviously you have had it cut in the meantime as it has style! I haven't cut mine yet--and it looks like it!

lago

ladym & hopeful34 you both look fantastic and "normal" No chemo do's for yous.

Hopeful I am reposting/resizing for you. You can remove your images from you post.

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Hopeful34 pictures:

sandymess

Wow, ladym and hopeful, you both look fantastic! I can't wait till mine is long enough for some style. The wait is so frustrating, but your pics give me hope.

I finally did it. Went commando. On my head, that is! I went to the hospital for the BRCA test, then out to lunch and the bookstore, then to a zumba class with my daughter. At first, I kept looking for people's reactions to my very short do. But as I got more comfortable, I didn't even pay attention. Oh, and I had to wear the LE sleeve for the zumba class--what a fashion statement! Thanks to marjie and thegood5. You guys were right, it is so freeing!

marjie

Lovely hair pics ladies! I want bangs!!!

Sandymess - Wow...you took an amazing first step!!  No matter what anyone says, it really IS a big deal.  Yay for you !

thegood5

congrats sandy!  I've been going topless too...feels good!

ReadingMama

So what did others do about the "peach fuzz" on the face?  Leave it, shave it, wax it? I heard others say it went away eventually?  I'm afraid to shave it as I'm afraid it will grow back darker or longer...

 Sandymess, congrats. 

Does anyone else see ladies with very short hair and automatically wonder if they have bc also? I find myself doing this alot...

marjie

ReadingMama - I wonder that all the time, lol! You can often tell though because styled really short hair just plain looks better than chemo styled short hair IMO

I am leaving the peach fuzz on my face - I really can't see it unless I'm at the right angle in the sunlight and lately sunlight has been pretty hard to come by in this neck of the woods.  If it gets bad, I may wax it but I'm hoping not to have to bother.

lago

I'm not shaving it because I too am afraid it will grow back thicker.

Yes I do think if their hair is "too short" that they may be "one of us" too. Granted no one seems to think that about me. I tend to think more when I see someone wearing a scarf

Carrol2

It's funny I used to think women with "too short Hair" were either, gay, in the military, or just trying to be fashion forward. Now I can add one more thing to ponder about.

lago

Carrol don't laugh but one of my lesbian friends told me about this book:

Carrol2

Ok totally laughing here sorry lago. But that girl looks familiar ???

SKD

deebee: my wig lady said to use nioxin (just the shampoo and conditioner) throughout Chemo because it has that "minty" fresh tingle on the scalp so it helped with ithe itchy scalp issue. She said it cleans the scalp really well too. I have used the shampoo and conditioner a month before, during and now after Chemo. My hair is growing back nicely. You can buy it at most salons but I don't think drug stores sell it. I bought mine from a hair salon in Canada called Chatters. It's pretty expensive ($70 for 2 one litre bottles) but it has last me exactly a year so I guess it's worth it? I would recommend it, i believe it helps! My husband has started thinning with his hair too so he uses it as well!

lago

Yeah Carrol when I worked at Milton Bradly in the early 90's one of my engineers used to call me Mona because he thought I looked like her. I have bigger eyes and higher eyebrows ;-)

carberry

OK since you brought it up....I went out topless last night (boat party) and could not wear a wig in this heat, so wore a baseball cap.  None of my friends have seen me topless since chemo, and two of my dear gay friends of the male species said it looks like I have joined their team!  They seem to think I will get "hit on" a lot this summer.  NOT the look I am going for!

Carrol2

carberry I am feeling the same way. I felt a lot better with the TEs though when i was flat it was way worse. Also I try not to wear a baseball cap, I either wear nothing or a headband or more fem hat. I just got a straw fedora but it is kind of masculine yet trendy so gonna try that. I did go to a part at Easter and the hostess thought it was funny that the Lesbian couple wanted to know if I was gay and when she said no they lost interest in me. So maybe being more interesting is good?

Kaseymomto2boys

ladym & hopful34 you both look great.

Bucky- I used Head and Shoulders once my hair fell out and still do. I had cystic acne as a teen and in my early 20's that I took Accutane for and chemo seemed to be the one thing that gave me the best complexion I have had in YEARS!! At about 5 weeks PFC I started breaking out again, no cystic acne though.

lago

Kaseymomto2boys. I was on accutane 3 times over the course of 10 years before my acne finally cleared up. First time I was 28. I tell people I had really bad acne at one time and they don't believe me. Never did get any with chemo and now that I don't get my period (thanks to chemo) anymore I don't get my monthly zit.

Carrol2

My skin has been different too. I kpet hearing about dry skin during chemo but mine was always too oily. But one week it's dry the next oily. SOme days I am using proactive and some days moisturizer.

hdangelbaby

the one and wonderful thing chemo did give me is a clear complexion!!

i struggled with acne since i was a teenager (hence the main use for  the birth control pills)

now i go out everywhere without makeup, and i feel good about it! lol!

( i still maintain a one certain  birth control i was on sped up my cancer... i swear....)

hopeful34

Thanks everyone for the nice comments. 

Lago- Thanks for resizing my photos.  Unfortunately, it doesn't just show the hair on my head, but my nice beard I got going on too.  I have thought about waxing it, but I am scared it will come back with a vengence.  Oh well, I am grateful to have hair at all I guess.

Carrol- Thanks, but I didn't dye my hair.  I was worried since I am 35 that it may come back gray, but fortunately it didn't.  I actually just took the clippers and put a 1" blade on them and cut my hair over my ears and in the back.  I will go get it cut professionally in the next month or so.

Kasey- I too use head and shoulders.  I read on Livestrong.com that the zinc in it is good for hair growth and it is also good while you are going through chemo to prevent rashes on your head.

I was having trouble with my skin being dry for a while too.  I was using moisturizer like crazy and now I have this giant zit on my head.  My husband keeps laughing at it.  Not to toot my own horn, but I have always had good skin and lately, I look like my 15 year old son.  I seem to be going through puberty and menopause simultaneously.  Between the tissue expanders growing and my zits it's like being a teen again.  Now if I could get my aching body to feel the same way I'd be in heaven.

lago

Yes hopeful I felt this whole process was a "do over" but starting more at puberty with both the TE's and all the hair (pits, leg and pubic) gone.

NormaJean65

Lago......

I see you post on several different lists/broads.  I thought somewhere I had seen pics of your re-growth of hair.  I really wanted to compare it to my own since I am about a month ahead of you in the completion of the combos, but still have 3 more triple Herceptins after 6/2/11.  My hair in growing (?) incredibly SLOW.  Are you on any of the aromatase inhibitors?  Going to the onco on the 2nd of June & intend to address this concern.

Thanks & Happy for you. 

lago

NormaJean you have PM

hdangelbaby

I am somehow ending up with dandruff on my 1/2" on hair.

how in the hell.....

always had an oily scalp. this adds insult to injury!!! plus i look like i have salt and pepper hair anyways!!!!

can't wait till it's long enough to do something with, then i'm dying it a nice color!

christine47

Hi to all my hair girls,

I am at the coast and there is no way to wear a wig, brought some scarfs but have decieded to go with just baseball caps.  It is obvious I have no hair and I feel totally liberated.  It is amazing how nice everyone seems, either I am feeling really good, or sympathy for the cancer girl.  Our bathroom has one of those large magnifing mirrors (which I usually avoid), and I can see hair follicles, little dark spots, so I should sprout any day now!  Hope everyone has a nice long weekend.

lago

Yes christine that's how it starts. Excited for you!

BTW I am finding that people in my building are talking more with me now that I have hair in the elevator. Some of the women felt very uncomfortable with me when I was wearing my scarves. They didn't know what to say. (Hello would have been nice ) It's funny now I get "Love the short hair on you." Too funny. I guess now it looks like I'm "going to live"