How vain are you?

Kayb, saw my PCP today about low WBC.  She said that mine is only slightly low but if it gets too low (<2), we will need to try to jump start it with Nupogen/Neulasta and then look further for what might be causing it,  if that doesn't help.  She agreed to let me handle this with my Onc....so all I know is that mine isn't scary low at this point, so I have decided to stop fretting.   Let me know how your check up goes.

MsP 

Save a horse and ride a cowboy! 

very sharp! i wish mine would settle down, too, bozo hair. even if i don't wash it for several days, then it looks like a roof!

Selena, you are very pretty and will look great in that cut! 

MsP

Selena - LOVE the cut and the color!!!! 

I must have a hundred pics on my cell phone and iPad that I collected while trying to decide what style I wanted next.

I always had naturally curly hair, and the humidity really did a number on it. I went to Hawaii and in every picture I had a giant Afro. The longer I let it grow, the straighter it got.

I had long hair til I was 50. I loved putting it up in a ponytail or French braid. Then I had a shoulder reconstruction, and couldn't raise my arm. Off went my hair! Unfortunately, it was SO curly and SO short, I looked like I had a 1950's poodle cut. 

That grew out, and I tried a classic bob. Well, naturally curly hair means that you have to beat the crap out of it and straighten it every day to look smooth. What fun THAT was! 

So I finally decided to go short, and as much as my stylist tried, it always looked like old lady hair. (I still color it medium brown.) Then a few years ago I decided to try to rock the Kris Jenner look (Kim Kardashian's mom) with a new stylist and it looks pretty good, even if I do skip all the troweled-on makeup. It's short - but shorter in the back, and longer in the front, and I can scrunch the back if I want.

I say GO FOR IT!!!!

Selena...I feel the same way. "love the undamaged texture of my post-chemo hair (virgin hair!) and would like to maintain it." 

I never liked my pre-cancer hair texture and style/color and constantly "stylist hopped"  looking for the holy grail.  When I faced chemo and hair loss, I wasn't that upset about losing my lousy hair.   The initial texture of my post chemo hair was really weird,  and my color was "skunk-like"  But after several trims and shape ups, I am loving my post chemo hair!   My hair color is dark blond with a little red and gray mixed in and a couple of interesting white spots that get me noticed.   I have a pixie cut that I love....a little longer than Ellen DeGeneres who I think rocks the preppy look better than just about anyone. 

Barbe....I always thought my head was too small and my ears too big for a short cut, but I was wrong.  (At least that's what I am told.)  LOL 

It definitely takes guts to get a pixie.....or chemo! 

MsP

Okay then, it must be my VERY broad shoulders that make my head look too small! I actually wear a larger hat size than my DH?!?! But my shoulders are so broad that when I wore a police dress uniform (the jacket) I had to get one custom made as it is so fitted and my shoulders just didn't fit any of the ready made jackets (they are buttoned up and have to fit exactly). My own blazers I normally have to buy a size or two larger than I need so my shoulders don't pull. Here is a shot of DH and I on my birthday 3 years ago this month. I had him cut my hair and it was just about an inch when we first did it. I am totally flat in this pic and don't care a whit. Do you get an idea of my shoulders though? And my hair is SO straight!!! I actually have a PERM in it right now!!!!!!! and it's about chin length.

Hi Barbe, I think you look fabulous with the short hair! I know we have to wear what we feel comfortable with, but you do really rock that look! Just saying...

The flat chest thing amazes me, with how it just isn't that noticeable. I find myself looking at chests a lot these days!

I went to a lunch yesterday for the big BC group in my area, which has been meeting for almost 20 years and does a lot of fundraising. They have a large membership. There were so many women there who were completely flat, but it was hard to tell if they had a BMX or were just naturally flat chested. There was so much confidence in that room, I spoke to a couple of them and one had actually had implants removed recently and loves the freedom, another had a tight white tank with Audrey Hepburn 7/8th pants, ballet flats and a black waterfall cardigan, short pixie haircut and she looked amazing! She would have been in her 60'sand not a small woman! 

It all comes down to what you feel is right for you and how you feel when you're out there!

Hahah MsP, posting at the same time! With the same thoughts!

Aw, thanks ladies. I really did need an opinion from someone who doesn't depend on me for hugs....!

I, too, will often find myself amazed by someone's cleavage....or the fit of a sweater or top...sigh. But, I am REALLY comfortable with my flat chest and have no shame.

Thanks Caryn, I cut the front (I used to be a hairstylist in my youth) and let him cut the back....my Dad used to say that I had more guts than Dick Tracy but I stopped saying that as no one knows any more who Dick was!

I am in AWE at how much better most women I know look with SHORT hair, than with longer, even chin length hair.  The shorter hair calls attention to the face, seems to REDUCE the appearance, of , ah, dare we call them jowls? really the short hair seems to OPEN the face, makes it brighter, lighter, more radiant, you see the FACE, the center of the face/smile especially.

Last time Alyson came over she brought "big girl panties" and had all the BCO sisters she met sign then. Sounded like a lot of fun. Wish I could come and meet everyone!

Um, IDK.  I only saw pics, and they were BIG!