Hair Hair Hair - Another question

kjiberty

JP-the hair is not two inches all over--ust the tall whispy gray ones!  The rest is about 3/4 inch thick.  

Kim: Don't know if it's helping, but I take biotin and use Bosley Shampo and conditioner. 

onvacation

Karen is your scalp covered?  I am taking bioten and using bioten shampoo.  At least it is growing I guess, just impatient!

kjiberty

Kim:  My scalp is covered, but unfortunately, I have a few eyebrows left.  They vacated my face just this weekend.  Ugh!

juli0212

My hair has grown back since 2007, and it's still-ever-changing.  I had straight hair before chemo (like most of you) and it grew back in soft and curly (and yes, grey, lol....COLORRRRR!!  HEY, I'm still young~~~53 years old!)....the hair changed in texture 1/2 dozen times since, I needed a perm at one point 2 years ago, and it's STILL curly.  Just wash and scrunch (and COLORRRRR~!).   Years later hair can still keep changing.  Amazing.

All you ladies look quite wonderful~!       ~juli

Kelloggs

WaveWhisper - I have the faux-hawk too.  I have learned to embrace it and hope that it won't last forever.  I dyed mine also, it was coming in with a huge patch of grey on top...kind of skunk-like!  I felt better so you do whatever makes YOU feel good...the hell with what others say.  I also had alot of people tell me to leave the grey but I am only 45 so it had to go!

AEM47

Boy what a difference 4 weeks makes - here's 13.5 weeks vs. 17.5 weeks.  It seems to have really taken off and I actually got it cut in between

EmmaC

It has occured to me that the character, Samantha,  in Sex and the City did not get chemo curl!

I feel like I did in 1989 when I got a really bad perm.

Nkb

Aem- I can't see your pics.

schatzi14

Nkb...thanks for saying that! I was afraid it was just me.

JoanQuilts

I would love to see AEM's pictures.  I am at about 13 weeks and am hoping for a lot of growth in the next month!  I am setting myself a goal of going topless with a short chic, non "this woman just had chemo" kind of look by mid-October.  Is this realistic?

ksmatthews

I am so happy I have finally got the chemo curl to calm down and can use my flat iron to straighten it.  My hair is almost back to pre chemo days!  It will happen ladies just be patient!

Wilsie2

No chemo curl, just straight white sparcely populated skull, 8 weeks out.  I am happy to announce that my eyebrows came back, over night, practically!

ang7894

I am 16 weeks out of chemo and I just dyed my hair  maybe to soon but I don't care to much gray then what I had before I lost it and at a young 44 I just went for it. It looks great and I am also going to start going topless maybe to soon for this too but I can't take stuff on my head any longer going for it tomorrow.

onvacation

you go Angie!

AEM47

ok lets try again..13.5 weeks vs, 17.5 weeks, with a haircut in between...what a difference 4 weeks makes

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Dianefightslikeagirl

Aem you look great! I can't wait to get to that point! I can't recall what you said, did you color it? And what kind of dye did you use?

jpmomof3

Way to go Angie!

AEM47

Yes I did color it - I used Loreal temp color 4G - I started with 4AR and I left it in there the first time for about 30- minutes to cover the gray.  It's only a 10 minute color job normally.  Now I just touch the sides up with a little brush when the gray shows thru and touch up any time it starts to fade.  The natural color is coming in alittle lighter..maybe a chestnut brown.  Little by little, I'll let the normal color come thru, by just going down the color scale, but while it's this short, the darker I think looks better.  In the sun it has some red highlites.   

Dianefightslikeagirl

Color is very pretty!

Ossa

looking good aem

Nkb

Beautiful. Can't wait to see ours all grow in.

lisa2012

I am only 9 weeks PFC so I guess it makes sense that I only have about a quarter inch max all over, dar with so white, lotta fuzz and longer stubble stuff. It sort of covers my scalp, but looks kind of bad to me. The few times pre BC that I used level 2 hair dye ( Loreal,Natural Instinct, etc) it irritated by scalp a fair amount so I'm not sure what to do.Sigh.

Momine

AEM, hair looking good, but your eyes! They are just beautiful and probably stand out more with the short hair.

bcbarbie10

Im still in chemo but my hair didnt really fall off with AC. So, between taxotere 1 and 2, i dared dye my half inch fuzz hoping to start growing it back. Hah!

ang7894

         Thank you everyone .  AEM, WOW you look great .  I am on herceptin till march 2013 so my hair growth is slowing it down a bit but at least I am getting hair back :}

Myleftboob

AEM

Your rate of hair growth is amazing!!  We were done TX around the same time (April 20th for me) and its astounding! You look fab!

KCB

Hi All! I'm 6 weeks PFC today, and here is that funny fuzz all over my head... Darker around my ears so it looks alot like I'm still bald on top...I'm taking such comfort an inspiration from your pictures and updates!! Thankyou!

AEM: did you never lose your brows, or have they grown back that well?

Have a great hairy day. Ladies.

AEM47

KCB - lost EVERYTHING..lol !!!  eyebrows and lashes were definitely the hardest cause my eyelashes were only about 3/4 of the way in on the 13.5 week picture.  I used to have to cut the corners they were so long normally.  They are back all the way on the 17.5 week one..the brows were in probably around 8 weeks.  I did bump up the Biotin to 5000 mcg 2xs a day - it's water soluable so I figured it couldn't hurt.  I really think it took off tremendously after that little trim up that I had...as hard as that was

Kelloggs

AEM - you look fabulous! 

auntienance

Aem, you look fantastic!