Lady, I don't try to make my hair do this
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I went to a salon in town who is giving "free" haircuts as long as you donate to Susan G. Komen. I wanted a consultation, to see if they thought they could do anything with the out of control flip in the back of my hair. I told her my hair was wild and out of control because it is chemo hair, and it is all new hair that's growing in. This is what she said.....
"Umm....flips aren't really in style anymore. You might want to consider not doing that anymore.You also might want to consider using some product in your hair, and using a blowdryer.
You have a lot of really uneven layers-if I were you, I'd clean those layers up!"
OMG. How dense can a stylist be?!?!? I kept saying, "It's CHEMO hair, I was BALD and this is NEW. These layers are uneven because that is the way my hair is growing back in!!!!
Oh, I should use PRODUCT?!?! I never considered that. Maybe I will use the 44 different styling products that take up all my bathroom storage space. What a neat idea.
Oh, a HAIRDRYER?!?! Again, neat idea. Wait a second, I sit and dry my hair endlessly to try to remove the flip. Should I do it more?
GRRR!!!!
Love and prayers, Deb -
Not the shiniest product on the shelf now, is she?
Sheesh...
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LMAO... I hope you ran away and didn't let her touch your hair.
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Deb,
Thanks for the smiles this morning
...I know this isn't a funny thing to have happen as the hairloss/regrowth issue is a huge emotional/mental downer, but the way you describe it was hilarious!!!!I DEFINATELY WOULD NOT use that hairdresser!!!! Maybe she has colored her hair a little too much ?????????
Maybe try calling a different salon and explain the situation and try to get with a hairdresser that at least has some intelligence!!!!
Jule
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LOL...too funny...sorry to laugh on your account.
Hey, just think its a win win situation...."Put ditsy hair dresser out, for FREE haircuts and THAT way she gets to "practice" as one can't complain too much after all it's FREE AND for an awesome cause...
LOL...I'd keep the "flip"...you should have told her you paid good money for that !!!!! LOL
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Deb, as my dad would say, "she got into the gene pool when the lifeguard wasn't looking.
Last year, I had a hairstylist ask me why I had cut my hair so short! Hello? Did you miss the part about chemo? New hair? Thankfully, my hair is grown out now and I have a bob of sorts ... longer in the front and shorter in the back.
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Yeah, you should tell her it's the most expensive hair cut you have ever had!
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LMAO!
I stupidly thought that since this was a salon that was donating to breast cancer, that they would understand this crap. OMG-she was so lame!!!!
Madalyn-I have actually had a bunch of cuts now, since chemo ended May of 06. I feel like I've had too many cuts, and if I could do it over again, I'd have shaved off the new growth right away and let it grow in all even.
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You have GOT to be kidding!!!!!
...and at a event to sponsor a breast cancer organization no less!
definately a few fries short of a happy meal. Get a clue!
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LOL....posted at the same time as you I think!
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I'm four years out and my hair is just now back to pre-diagnosis texture. I didn't get the crazy, soft, pretty chemo curls. I got the 'oh my gosh -- she's had one perm to many and her hair looks like straw' hair. Nobody had a clue what to do. Until right before Christmas, I wore my hair pulled back in a pony tail. Products just won't work. I'm convinced that there is residual chemo chemicals in the hair shaft that won't allow products to work.
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Too bad there isn't a product on your shelf called "idiot away"...coulda sprayed it on the jeeeeeeeeeeeeenyus!
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OMG! ROFLMBO @ 'idiot away' product!!!!
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Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge...
she merely gargled.
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LMAO again!!!!! I need one of those icons that show rotflmao!!!
You guys are cracking me UP!!!!!!!!!!!
Ditzy former SIL residing in Indiana gargling the fountain of knowledge.........oh, that's funny!
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This is funny but, I didn't have chemo so what's my excuse for hair that won't cooperate? One of the ladies in my local support group went to the stylist with a 'fake' ponytail on. When he was brushing her hair, her pony tail came off in his hand and he tried to act like nothing was wrong and put the pony tail back. He thought that he pulled her hair out by the roots. We still laugh about this with the stylist.
My mom had chemo in 2002 and her hair is stick straight and looks like a pile of straw - just like always hope's hair, nothing she does works. She has tried perms once or twice but they will not hold the curl.
Sheila
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ROTFLMAO!!! These stories are just TOO FUNNY!!
Thanks, I needed a laugh today!Harley
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HA! The "fake" ponytail reminded me of Jason Castro's story on American Idol-he was on a date, and went to tie back his dreads, and one of them came out in his hand. HA HA!
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That's what I don't get about what Jason said. So are his dreads fake??
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I wondered about it too....are dreads just so snarled that they just fall of?!?!
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Just saw this (hope posting it works!)
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My grandfather said that people like her were "a half bubble off plum" or "a brick shy of a load" ... the hispanics say "she is missing the taco on her combo plate"
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I LOVE it!!!!!! All the analogies, as well as the cartoon. Cracking me up!!!
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When she hears the weatherman say, "Chilly outside", she gets her bowl .... and I bet it takes her 2 hours to watch 60 minutes!
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ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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You ladies are cracking me up, too! Where do you come up with all of this!
Deb..I hope you get a solution to your flip problem and may flipping be our biggest problem!!!
I had baby-type curls after chemo that I loved but they lasted about 6 months. My hair is straighter now than it was before chemo and I don't dye it anymore so it is just about pure white..I have premature gray/white hair like my grandmother had (thanks grandma!..you gave it to my 19 year old son too..he'll be totally gray/silver in another few years like I was).
When my friends told me I looked freaky, that's when I started trimming my hair. After 6 months, it was straight..I keep it short. My hairdresser had told me to shave off the first hairs that grew back but there was NO WAY I was going to do that. And I didn't. Just trimmed it all the time and eventually it evened out. Yours will, too.
My dad told me my hair was too short when I saw him after it had started growing out and I had curls (I live overseas and only saw my parents after I was done with treatments) and I just glared at him. I mean..did I have a choice here????
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It's nice to know that I am not the only one who experiences hassles about my hair. When I was bald during the first part of my chemo, I actually had a guy walk past me a couple of times before he asked if I was growing my hair out. Now that my hair is filling in, even my friends comment that I need to do something. Up until the whole chemo thing, my hair was straight, as straight could be. Now I have more curl than truly, I know what to do with! I love the comment," Lady I don't try to make my hair do this." The hair style that I leave home with in the morning, is never the same as the one that I come home with! I am just plain happy to have hair again.
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Those of us who finished chemo agree 'I am just plain happy to have hair again'!
I had curls and then that little flip....and now that I am back to my usual straight as can be I really miss that flip. When my hair was growing out I went through three hairstylists and finally found a wonderful one - she called my style bedhead and we worked with it - layers, tussling and very little product....somehow with a name for it, it was very stylish! -
Whoops - I can "hear" you talk as I read your words, and you crack me up!
I think there is a "stupid things people have said" thread somewhere, but your hairdresser experience reminded me of an acquaintance who was asking me about going to Dana Farber in Boston. I told her there was a parking garage at Dana Farber for patients and their families, and that patients got a discount on the parking fee. Her response? "Lucky!" (in what can only be described as a Napolean Dynamite tone.) Um, yes, that was my plan - to save $4 on parking.
As a friend of mine would say, "brain donor"
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brain donor! ROFL! I was told the same thing when I once said the oncology patients have a special parking garage at the hospital so that we can go directly into the Cancer Center and we get discounts for parking. I mean...really. I was comparing it another hospital close to me where patients have to fight for parking.
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