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Wow, Carrol!  You look awesome.  And I have to say, I like you better as a brunette! I'm about a month behind you and my hair is very similar.  Just a little shorter.  Thanks for posting along the way.  I've always been able to tell what my next steps were going to be when I saw your updates!  Anyway, you look great!

Kathy

Thanks for posting all the pictures Carol. It is really helpful. You had nice even growth. I have some "baldish" receding areas in the front. I hope they fill in.



I would post pictures but I think that kind of technical skill is beyond me.

Carrol2-  your hair looks fabulous, and I like the brunette on you.  It brings out your eyes

FLwarriror I am not sure what color my hair really was pre chemo because i hilighted it so much like from the time I was about 36 until 45 when I was diagnosed. I knew there was some grey just not sure how much. It seemed a little grey at first and got darker as it got longer and fuller. 

Carrol, I agress that you look great as a brunette and I to wasn't really sure what my haircolor really was. Was dark brown most of the time, but the son always bleached out my hair. Really light in the summer and almost red in the winter. Now it's coal black.

So my 1 1/4" hair is starting to stick up in the back and sides. Mild curl right now, but I don't know what to do with it. Starting to look like helmet head. How long from this stage til you can really do something with it?

Don't mean to be the fun-sucker, but I've been thinking about my hair for the last couple months.  It's been growing back since Mid-May and I had it trimmed and colored 3 weeks ago.

 My hair was my favorite thing  about me.  I loved my hair.  My hair defined me.  Now it is not mine and I am not me.  I hate it and can't even look in the miror.   I don't wash it for days at a time so it is less fuzzy.   People tell me it looks "cute" which makes me cringe.  

I keep most of it covered with a buff and I wear lots of garish eye makeup so people notice my garish eyes and not my ugly self.

 That's all.  My best wishes to all of you, from my heart.  Glad you are recovering.

The last few days my hair resembles the top of "Cyndi Lou Hoo".  Any suggestions as to what to use to tame it a little?

Carrol - LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your hair and color!  Brunette definitely suits you!  I think you look younger now! 

SofieKatz - I am in your fun sucker club.  I have 1 1/4 inch of hair - it looks fine, but like you said, it's not me.  I used to have amazing hair, but not anymore!  I am still wearing my wig b/c I just can't stand to look at it.  For now the wig keeps me warm anyway, so I hope by Spring I will have a decent look.  I even tried to take a picture to post and deleted every picture I took.  I just cried and couldn't stand them.

Sorry to be a downer too ...

Vicky

Do any of you guys pass by a mirror, get a glimpse of yourself and don't recognize the person looking back at you. I do and I hate it, thinking of removing all the mirrors til my hair grows back, Lol.

I to hate it when someone tells me the super short hair looks cute on me. Who the hell wants to be cute at 40?

Caorl, the blonce color is fun but I do think the brunnette is beatiful! Your style looks great!

I'm in the slow growing group. 5 weeks pfc and I barely have stubble!

I haven't visited this thread in months! I am a little over two years out from PFC. I was one of the slow growers. Before BC I had a chin length bob which I liked. My hair had body and swing etc. Like so many others, my hair came back grey and curly. Once I got used to it I had some fun with color and "punk" sassy looks. Then I decided it was time to get my bob back. After 6 months of growing it I gave up. My hair was nothing like my pre-chemo hair and did not look good; thin on top, lifeless. So a few weeks ago I went back to a super short spiky do and really really like it.

I'm am not trying to put a damper on those of trying to get your hair back to normal, but just to say, like everything else, perhaps there has to a new normal. Once I realised my hair was never going to be the old normal, I got to grips with the new normal and it's just fine.

I'm in the same situation I suppose. I'm not thrilled with the PFC hair either. The texture is weird and it's completely unmanageable. I'm about 6 months PFC and my hair isn't very long but is getting waves in it so I suppose it's going to curl. Like many have described, the front is taking its time growing so I have no bangs at all (although its deceiving because it seems to be curled up in a fuzzy mess). I have to wash my hair at night and sleep on it to flatten it and calm the frizz-nothing else works. If I wash it and go out (without sleeping on it) I look like a static ball. My best friend described my hair as being a little bit like a brillo pad (she's the only one who can be that honest with me and get away with it). So, I try to not look in the mirror much and keep hoping it will magically work itself out with more length! 

I'm the strange one. I turned 49+1 2 weeks PFC. You can call me cute any day. :P



But I'm the strange one who keeps buzzing their hair short after chemo

I have big, thick, curly hair down to my butt .........I am going to be devastated if/when I have to have chemo........my Mother was a beautician........so I grew up "all about hair".....people know be by my hair...I love my hair....:( My friend who has cut & colored my hair for the last 13 years has always refused to cut it short when I would go off on a crazy tangent wanting to "try something new" because she knew I would start balling the moment the hair fell to the floor........I am ever so grateful for that.......Now however...she promised to help me when the time comes...(bless her)....We are going to have a "hair day" cutting my hair into different styles and stuff...right before I start chemo....saving one long lock Today I even thought about maybe giving it to "Locks for Love" I would love to do that!!! You are all so amazing and inspiring.........I keep telling myself that it is only hair and that I will be thankful just to be alive

Thank you all for the compliments. For the record, when my hair began to grow back, I too hated the way that it looked. I felt ugly all the time!



Today I didn't blow dry it straight, but rather let it curl all over. I got a lot of compliments on that look too, so for now I'm really enjoying having a choice of straight or curly. I never thought I would ever say that in the first year PFC. It took that long before I startsd to like my hair again.



Try to be patient Ladies. I honestly do know how difficult that is. (((((((HUGS)))))))!