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Jancie~ I tried doing sections because that is what I had to do in the past and so far it's not working
I tell my hairdresser every time that I see her that I have her perfect weekday client's hairdo. She has a bunch of old ladies that come in to get their hair set and I looked like I had mine set Everytime she tells me it's gonna take time.....I hate that answer...lol...0 -
I used to have frizzy, curly hair before chemo. I used a John Freida Frizz-Ease product called Weather Proofing Style Sealant Creme before blow-drying.
I bought in the drug store with all the other hair care products - nothing fancy and reasonably priced.
Here's a link to it: http://www.johnfrieda.ca/en/20_282.asp
It really helped to smooth and straighten my hair with just a vented 1/2 round brush.
My hair is only just starting to grow and too short to go topless but if it comes back curly I know what to do because that's what I'm used to.
If it comes in straight (looks straight now) I'll be at a loss and may come you ladies for advice!
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Oh, I know what you are talking about!! I use the roller brush and brush down as I am drying my hair. Gosh, I don't know how to describe it. You can put your hair around the roller brush and then just leave the brush in place and dry it - that I don't do because that gives you the old ladies look! I angle the roller brush down as I am drying from the roots to the end so I am getting lift in my hair but also straightness. The other thing my hairdresser told me was to use a larger roller brush than the length of your hair so while I could use a very small thin one that would be perfect to put curls in my hair - I am using a medium size instead - my hair does not go all the way around the brush. I lift my hair up from the roots with the brush and then pull the brush down as I go. CCBaby would be better at explaining this method!
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I completly understand all of yu guys I have been out of chemo 18 months and 10 months out of hercepten and its been HELL on earth but last weekend I tried to set my hair with the plastic rollers they used in the 70's and oh my goodness I looked like I escaped from the nursing home just the hair not the face I have nursing home hair very little on top more than I have had in 18 months and my hair dresser and my friends say Its going to take time GIVE IT TIME I guess what else can we do and to try and buy the Noxin on EBay you have to be by your computer every minute to bid on the product so good luck and fast hair growing to all of you ...
Maura
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Oh yes I forgot to tell you my ex husband told me to stop coming my hair downwards I look like Donald Trump I said if I come it any other way it looks allot worst like the gerber baby and yes that is one reason he is my EX.....
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thanks for the info Jancie
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Enjoylife - laughed about your Donald Trump statement! Good thing he is your ex or he would definately be in the dog house for saying that to you!
I found out as I got older (50 next month) that my hair started receding on the sides so that is one reason I always wore bangs and also to cover up the wrinkles on my forehead
Always made me look younger than I actually am. I am with you - I comb my hair whichever way I want to in order to cover up those receding hairline issues - my bangs are only 1/2 way down my forehead right now - seems like the bangs take the longest time to grow since most of the hair around my head is so much longer.
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Jancie...You explained it just perfectly! Is your hair long enough to use a flat iron on it? It will give you the lift and straightness you want.
I guess I am actually lucky that my hair has grown back in straight as it was before.
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I have always had very hard to manage hair. Not curly, but frizzy and very thick. Just too much hair to blow dry. Didn't have the patients to use a curling iron or flat iron. Once I got the curl in, however, it would stay for days. My hair is not oily at all, in fact it was very dry, so there was no need to wash it every night, so in some ways it was easy.
Saying all that, it is true that we all want what we don't have. If you have straight hair, then you want curly, thin hair, you want thick air, you know what I mean? Now, I don't care, I just want hair. My Med Onc looked at it today and she was very pleased with my hair growth. I think it is coming back thick and I have no bald spots. Most of it will be gray but there will be come color. I am 60, so I don't care about the gray. It might make me look older, but I don't like to color it, it is too hard to keep.
Well, I have my port out tomorrow and start my boosts. Only 7 more rads to go.
Juannelle
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Wow Jancie -- I hope I get to start seeng 1/2" per month! That might mean my hair could be like an inch long a month from now! Gilly and I are on the same growth schedule... literally... so let's see... 7 months PFC (I can deal with "darling" hair
will be June! My exchange and lift/reduction are May 18... so I'm thinking June is gonna be my month!Lilah
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WOW! Juanelle you are almost done rads - how exciting is that!!
I hear you on the gray hair - I'm not kidding myself mine will be mostly gray too.
A few years ago I toyed with the idea of going natural but everyone talked me out of it. "Looking too old before my time" comments convinced me not to do it and the idea of having to grow it out gray was just to much for me.
Now it will grow in gray so it might not be so bad? I guess gray hair is better than no hair!
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Marie -- I think grey hair is especially sexy when it's short... so I say: give it a chance
My sister in law's mom has really short hair (she looks like a pixie!) and it's all a gorgeous silver.Lilah
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ccbaby I really like your hair style - it looks good on you! I don't know what your hair looked like before but this do your sporting in your profile pic is really HIP!
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I hope this works. I am so excited my hairdresser was able to get my blonde back
I am so excited to be a blonde again...Can you tell by my grin ??? My hairdresser 
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Marie....Thanks so much, but I used to have long, blonde hair before and haven't had it this short since I was 3 years old! lol I plan on growing it out to at least my shoulders.
Jamie...You look great!!!
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Jaimieh - LOVE THE HAIR! Why? Because dangit we would like like twins other than my face is a little bit rounder due to chemo weight but I am sporting pretty much the same style, length, curl, and color that you are!!!
My roots are a little bit darker as I have been frosting my hair versus an all over bleach out the yucky mousey brown/gray that came out after chemo. So I am back to being a blonde again!
When I do my hair nice on Sunday I will have my dh take a picture. I didn't do anything with it tonight as I have a colonoscopy in the morning and I really couldn't care what I look like tomorrow.
I don't want to change my avatar picture until after the Vegas get together in October. I don't want the women to be able to recognize me from last year!! At that time I had at the most 1/4" of hair and had just finished radiation.
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ccbaby - I do like your short hairstyle- you do pull it off so well. However, I am like you, I want to grow my hair back to at least my shoulders since it was half way down my back before chemo. I look fine in short hair - I just prefer longer hair and I like to wear ponytails most of the time.
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Jaimie.....MY MY....I don't think you can SPARKLE any more! Look at you! I don't think your hair looks too bad at all. But I know what you mean about it being hard to style, and hoping that people aren't looking at your hair and thinking to themselves "what was she thinking" [doing her hair like that] The color turned out great, looks totally natural on you. What about something sassy and a little spiky, like this. I think this would look really cute on you. I also know, that styles are easier to suggest, than to actually do! Thanks for the photo up date.
CC, your hair looks really cute too.
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I think I could pull this curly style off, if I wanted to keep my hair short and could relax my curls. But I am trying to grow it out. If the curls become too unmanageable, I may go with something like this. I just got my hair cut and highlighted. A lot lighter than my normal hair, which I had never colored prior to BC.
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Jaimieh - you look wonderful!
Hope everyone has a good weekend!
Hugs to all, Judy xoxox
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Jancie~ I am highlighted
It was finally long enough to get thru the sexy cap. My hairdresser told me to get a straightener and I did last night. I tried a little bit and I looked like a frizz with straight hair. It was standing straight up and of course I was just smiling all over myself because it is blonde again. I never have any idea what products to use...
My hairdresser had to cut some to even up the spots. Apparently in some places I am about 2 1/2 inches and other random places I was about 4". She was more upset about cutting it than I was. I just asked her to do her best making it look like I was trying for this look
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If I get that curly style will I look like Meg Ryan??? Just wondering....
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If I could look like Meg, I would wear my hair like that too, but I don't think I have to worry about that.
In my younger years I was a strawberry blond. As I started going gray, the gray was a platinum color. I wanted to keep it red, but when I got it highlighted I wanted her to do it platinum to match the gray. She explained to me that since my hair was red, the red could only be golden blond, that she would never be able to make it platinum. Only nature could do that. So I quit coloring it all and just went natural. I liked it very much, but my DH wants me to keep it red. Red is one color that does not look natural as you get older and I tried explaining that to him, but he doesn't get it. I have thought about getting it reversed highlighted and may have some red highlights put in when it gets long enough. That will be a while. It doesn't matter to me, I just want it easy to take care of, without spending every weekend at the hair dresser.
Jamie, you look great and I know it is a good feeling to have hair that you can style and color. Everyone here is jealous of you. But that is alright, maybe it is not jealous, just envy.
Juannelle
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marieK, maybe you could have yours reverse highlighted also. I never thought that I would have pretty platinum colored hair, I always thought it would be dirty gray and I would end up with blue rinse and be called "a little blue haired lady". But mine was fine, I loved the color, my DH just thought I needed more red. But I quit listening to him years ago. I have been told my wigs make me look 10 years younger, but keeping the hair colored is so hard to do when you are about 50% or more gray. The roots are always showing and I just hate that. I think my hair will be about the same % gray as before chemo. You can see the dark spots coming in and it is pretty even. Around the crown and the temples, it is all gray. It will just have to get longer to see what it will really look like.
My hair is coming in even all over my head with it longer on the sides and back than the top. I have very thick hair or had very thick hair and it looks like it is coming in just as thick. So I am hoping that it will not be long before it will cover my scalp and I will not have to wear a wig or scraf.
Juannelle
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I found some pics of very short hairstyles...
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Hi Ladies,
I thought I would jump in here to ask a few questions:
How long after chemo (DD - AC, T) will it take for eye lashes and eyebrows to come back (on average)?
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chinablue, I can't help you with that question, I didn't even lose mine until about 7 weeks PFC. So I am now waiting on mine to come back. I also understand that they will continue to fall out, grow back and fall out again for a while after tx. Like most of the journey, it is a very individual thing. I had TC x4.
christy, thanks for the link. Those are so cute. The problem with me is that my old hair would not come forward, so I would never be able to wear feathered bangs. But maybe my new hair will be softer and will feather. I can't wait to see how it will do. Your hair looks so good, I know you are excited about having hair, even if it is short.
Juannelle
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Juannelle, I have my hair colored with "highlights" and "lowlights" and use an "ash" blonde color for the highlights. So my hair has darker, lighter, and medium colors throughout. It more closely approximates the natural coloring most people have (we don't realize it, but our all of our hairs really aren't the same color).
Plus, the highlights and lowlights give my hair more "texture" so that my very fine, very limp straight hair doesn't look so blah.
Of course, all that will change once my loyal soldiers abandon me! I'm still only about 10 days out from my first chemo treatment, so . . . .
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michele, I guess at this point after we have all lost our hair and have been without it for months, then we are all anxious about what we will have when it returns or if it will return. I know I never thought about not getting it back, I was so devastated when I lost my hair, I can imagine what it would be like for it not to come back. Good luck to you on your treatment.
I know enjoyful is waiting and waiting and I certainly hope that she doesn't have to wait much longer until she has a full head of hair.
Juannelle
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Chinablue - my eyebrows and eyelashes fell out before my 5th FEC chemo tx (mid Dec). My eyebrows are slowly coming back in now and just yesterday I noticed that my eyelashes are really growing. I did notice that they were itchy (eyelids/eyelashes) for a bit before I actually saw growth. Right now they are about 1/2 cm and coming in thicker than before chemo. My first real sign that they were growing was when I applied my eyeliner (very easy to do without eyelashes).
Yesterday I went to Sephora looking for the Laura Geller eyebrow marker someone mentioned in an earlier post. They didn't have it but they did have the Anastasia marker in both light and dark. I chose the light and it works very well. Actually there is a whole display of Anastasia eyebrow products there! I was a bit nervous about it being somewhat "permanent" and making a mistake that I would have to live with BUT it does come off nicely with make up removal cloths (Neutrogena or Costco Kirkland brand).
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I hope this works. I am so excited my hairdresser was able to get my blonde back 