Lashes and brows

Lashes and brows -- ugh! My last chemo was December 3, 2014, and my lashes still have not recovered! I have the fakes, but I'm not very skillful at applying them. So, I go without most days. The brows -- they're back but a bit patchy. I still draw them in every morning.

Mine didn't start to go until several cycles after my hair... (2 weeks after first cycle for the hair). So it wasn't until about the end of 6 cycles that my brows got thin and finally fell out!

Luckily, I had scarves and hats that I could pull down, and my wig had bangs/fringe. And I used a brow pencil for a while.

But right after chemo my eyebrows and lashes started to slowing grow in! (I was worried that I'd have t figure out how to draw my eyebrows in without any guide at all--but that didn't happen... a few hairs stayed in until the new ones started growing in).

I've always had short, thin lashes, so I always wore eye-liner and almost didn't notice when they fell out. Only problem was when one would fall into my eye!

Latisse only works while you use it. You have to keep using it forever to keep those hairs growing... and it can darken your skin in that area, and darken you actual eyes! I used to use it regularly because it started out as a glaucoma treatment. It did grow out my lashes, but my lashes were still too thin to really make a difference without gobbing on tons of mascara and I hate using mascara... I didn't miss using the stuff after they switched me to another eye-drop!

I still have some bottles around, but I know that everything will just fall out and stop growing again if I run out, so I don't even bother. I'll just stick to eye-liner, as it has more effect.

I'm doing a year of Herceptin. Some people say that can slow down hair growth. Maybe. Not sure how fast everything should be growing!

One month after last infusion, my eyebrows are still shedding. I had caterpillars before chemo, so I have enough left that if I fill them in people don't really notice. Lashes are still hanging on, but I think I have lost some of the longer ones because now they look short and stubby. Thank goodness for eye liner and brow pencil, although I suck at the brow pencil. Most days I end up looking perpetually surprised.

Head hair is growing back in and leg hairs are back, and chin hairs too. Also have some random black hairs growing on my cheeks, what the heck is that about?

Pubic hair also coming back. No armpit hair yet, that can stay gone as far as I am concerned.

I wash and scrub my head everyday as if I had hair, and also rub some coconut oil on there for good measure.

I have been reluctant to try Latisse because I definitely don't want brown circles around my eyes, not sure if it is true or not that it can cause browning around eyes. Taking biotin supplements just in case they work

I just had Taxol #5 this past week, after 4 rounds of AC. My last 2 brow hairs fell out this weekend. Boo. Last time after TC, only about half of my brow hairs grew back. I am hoping at least enough grow back for me to fill in with a pencil because right now it takes at least 3 tries for me to draw happy brows and not angry brows. I am terrible at drawing!

My eyebrows and eyelashes thinned towards the end of chemo. I lost most of my bottom lashes. I'm almost 10 months pfc. The lashes are slowly returning and the brows have filled in some, but the growth has been nothing compared to the growth of my leg hair! Dang, if my eyelashes could only be as full and long as the hair on my legs that would be great, lol!

Ladies - I've lost maybe 1/2 of them after AC and 2 rounds of taxol - brow powder is working well for me, I think it's more forgiving than harsh lines of a pencil?

Hello. I wanted to recommend a web site....billiondollarbrows.com. I used their universal brow pencil and the "brow buddy" when my eyebrows fell out. I didn't believe that the pencil was universal, but it was.....and it stayed on all day, The brow buddy helps you know where to start/end.....easy peasy. Sadly, 2 years PFC, my eyebrows are still thin and I still use this product. Love it! I was never able to figure out how to handle losing my eyelashes. Fortunately, I wear glasses and they didn't all fall out at once, so I was able to disguise somewhat.

MsP

I used Lumigan (Latisse) for glaucoma for years (one drop in each eye at night). I was told it could darken the skin around my eyes and could actually darken your eye-color and your whites. It could be permanent. I have really dark brown eyes and not a lot of white showing (Asian!), and I normally wear brown eyeshadow on my lids--and to stave off glaucoma, I thought the risk was reasonable. If I had light-colored eyes and fair skin, I'd have worried, but, again, better than glaucoma. My sister tried Latisse for a while. I personally thought she was crazy to do something like that just for thicker lashes! And she's got the same dark eyes that I do, so no big deal there.

I've never had long, thick lashes, so I guess I've never missed them that much! The Lumigan made the peach-fuzz around my eyes grow longer and darker, as well as my eyelashes. I actually started plucking facial hair that I'd never had a problem with before. I did get some darkening around my eyes. It never got too dark, though. Because Lumigan started to be worth more as a lash-growing drug, I actually got switched OFF it! Now I'm on something that doesn't grow lashes, for my glaucoma! Geesh! Weird how pharmaceuticals work! But I'm glad I don't have to worry about having my lids darken more! Or the whites of my eyes, or my irises getting even darker than they are...

My puny, thin lashes and eyebrows are growing back slowly. They are about a 1/6" maybe longer, two months out from TCHP.

I'm lucky that my last eyebrow hairs fell out after the other hairs started to grow back in, so I always had a bit of a guide to use for the eyebrow pencil! Whew! Yeah--it's NOT easy drawing in brows (and I'm an artist). I'm also lucky that I wear my hair with bangs covering some of that...

Chemo really helped get rid of my age spots! I think it got rid of a lot of the Latisse darkening, too (although it's still faintly there). I still have little moles... weird how that worked! I have to say that my skin is like baby-smooth! Although, it's also getting a bit crepe-y since I lost weight (and sub-cutaneous fat), and there's a bit of sagging. Ah, well! Can't really win! But I had some serious sun-damage and brown spots from all those years before sun-block, and they are mostly gone, and I'm happy about that.