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  • christine47
    christine47 Member Posts: 846
    edited March 2011

    what great hair!  I am bald and look everyday at hair posts, your color is beautiful.

  • Carrol2
    Carrol2 Member Posts: 1,477
    edited March 2011

    Chan your hair looks great I can't wait until mine is that long. I love your color is that natural?

  • MarieK
    MarieK Member Posts: 467
    edited March 2011

    I thought I would post a progression of my hair growth photos for those of you that are just starting to "grow" through this.

    The first photo is me completely bald after my second chemo treatment in Oct 2009.  From that point on I wore a wig but I noticed that my hair started growing just a few weeks after my chemo ended in Jan 2010.  Everyone laughed at me but I could feel the wind catching my hair when I walked around topless!

    I started going wigless in April - just 3 months PFC!

    Most of the photos are date stamped but there are some gaps when I didn't take any photos.  During this time I was also getting regular trims and "shape ups" so I'm sure that my hair could have been longer and shaggier if I had just let it grow.  I just couldn't stand the longer bits at my neck and around my ears!

    You can see that at the start of the summer my hair growth really took off and got longer and thicker.  That would have been 5 months PFC.

    I hope this helps....Happy hair growing to you!

    Marie

  • joan888
    joan888 Member Posts: 711
    edited March 2011

    MarieK... thanks so much for posting your progression photos.  I love looking at everyone photos.  I am 7 months PFC and I think my hair is growing alot slower than most, but at least it is growing.  Yes, I love feeling the wind blowing through it... feels so strange.  I have had it trimmed once and am debating getting another little trim this week the day before my exchange surgery.  The back grows much faster and is pretty curly.  Just waves across the top.

    29 weeks-3.24.11

  • Chan_go_foill
    Chan_go_foill Member Posts: 27
    edited March 2011

    Love seeing the progression photos!

    @Carrol2: It used to be my natural color, but now I have to color it to get it this way. It's about 50/50 dark blonde and grey with no color. Very salt and pepper looking.

    The shade I used here is Wella Color Charm #811 with a #20 developer. Both are available at most beauty supply stores. I did have some trouble getting rid of the brown color I had in when it was really short. I had to use a lightening bleach, then a #30 developer. Now I can used a gentler developer to get this shade. I also use Wella Color #711 and #911.

  • Chan_go_foill
    Chan_go_foill Member Posts: 27
    edited March 2011

    Here's a photo with the brown color when my hair was growing out.

    Super Short Hair

  • StacyA
    StacyA Member Posts: 26
    edited March 2011

    Wow all the photos are great! It really helps to see the stages everyone is goinng through and sharing. 

    Thanks to all who have posted pics!

    Stacy  

  • lago
    lago Member Posts: 11,653
    edited March 2011

    MarieK I can't decide which picture you look cuter. The first with little hair or the last with all the hair.

    Chan_go_foill  look great.

    Joan I'm not ignoring you.  You hair looks great but I got to see it in person.

    I'm going to try and post photos today. I have taken photos but they are just not coming out right. I think I'll have to get the tripod out. I'm still a bit thin on top so no topless yet.

  • Fighter_34
    Fighter_34 Member Posts: 496
    edited March 2011

    Marie: you look beautiful!!!

    Awwwwwh, I have more hair this week excited about that!Smile 

    Although its only been SEVEN weeks since chemo ended I am patient though.

  • goldie0827
    goldie0827 Member Posts: 6,835
    edited March 2011

    LOVE IT. All you ladies posting your hair pictures. And you all look so amazing. Isn't it great to get your hair back.

    Joan, all I see in your picture are those beautiful blue eyes. Marie, your bottom photo almost looks like mother and daughter. You look great in both pictures, but you look 20 years younger with the darker hair.

    I have a photo progression of my hair as well. I think it is for two years or so. I haven't added to it. My avatar is current.

    http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii319/goldie0827/hair/Allofme5.jpg I'll just post the link, cuz its to big to post the photo!

  • nicholewilliams
    nicholewilliams Member Posts: 15
    edited March 2011

    MarieK joan888 Chan_go_foill. You all look awesome with your  beautiful hairs....

    Very thanks to all of you for sharing and motivating us...!! Keep posting :)

    Nichole

  • joan888
    joan888 Member Posts: 711
    edited March 2011

    goldie... thanks for the photo progression.  You certainly had the curls!  My eyes do seem bigger than my hair these days, LOL.

  • lago
    lago Member Posts: 11,653
    edited March 2011

    Ha Joan tell me about it. I was accused on another thread of looking like the Mods. You do have amazing blue eyes though.

    http://legacyentries.weheartit.netdna-cdn.com/20090528125419.jpg

  • joan888
    joan888 Member Posts: 711
    edited March 2011

    Thanks, Lago.  My RadONC always had to comment on my eyes.  At least they took his focus a little higher!  Just wait til everyone sees Lago's eyes!

  • tracie23
    tracie23 Member Posts: 214
    edited March 2011

    Marie, Your hair is great !!!! You look beautiful !!!

  • Chan_go_foill
    Chan_go_foill Member Posts: 27
    edited March 2011

    Goldie, is your hair still curly? I saw on the final photos that you were using a flat iron. Personally I really like curl, so I'm hoping I will get to keep mine. Thanks for posting the progression photos!

  • Chan_go_foill
    Chan_go_foill Member Posts: 27
    edited March 2011

    Found an old photo of me at a priate festival, the first day I "came out" without a wig. This was last June, with two months of growth, dyed black to help it look a little more dense. I figured I was in good company among pirates, although I kinda look like the "cabin boy"!Me with no hair!

  • tracie23
    tracie23 Member Posts: 214
    edited March 2011

    WOW Goldie!!! Great pics...

  • Pegs
    Pegs Member Posts: 32
    edited March 2011

    I finished chemo week before thanksgiving and i believe my hair started to come back in december i have about an inch on top.  the real kicker is it came back all gray.  i was blonde with some gray but you couldnt really see the gray unless you looked for it.  i wonder if it will change back to blonde or i am stuck with gray.  anyone?

    pegs

  • lago
    lago Member Posts: 11,653
    edited March 2011

    Well my hair had more gray and I swear the dark part is much darker than I remember. Anyway here is week 10 post chemo

    http://www.lauren3g.com/transfer/hair/Lagohair3.28.11.jpg

    and I just thought I would edit to add the photos from  6 weeks/3 days post chemo found here: linky  

    http://www.lauren3g.com/transfer/hair/lagohair05.jpg  http://www.lauren3g.com/transfer/hair/lagohair03.jpghttp://www.lauren3g.com/transfer/hair/lagohair02.jpghttp://www.lauren3g.com/transfer/hair/lagohair04.jpg

  • tracie23
    tracie23 Member Posts: 214
    edited March 2011

    Lego I love it... I wish mine would start filling in..

  • tracie23
    tracie23 Member Posts: 214
    edited March 2011
    I mean lago not lego sorry Foot in mouth
  • saralmom
    saralmom Member Posts: 216
    edited March 2011

    LOVE all of your photo spreads!

    I have officially been wig-free for 10 days - and I swear my hair is growing by the day now.  And I have been told by several people that they love my new "haircut."  Today someone told me it looks like Halle Berry (as if!)!!   

  • christine47
    christine47 Member Posts: 846
    edited March 2011

    Fabulous, looks like you ready to go topless??  The hair obsessed, current chemo chicks are so glad you ladies ahead of us are posting!!

  • goldie0827
    goldie0827 Member Posts: 6,835
    edited March 2011

    Lago, yes my hair is still curly. Not quite the ringlets, all tho some of it is. The length weighs it down some, but it's frizzy. My top, that I keep shorter, is not as curly. So I am wondering if in the next year or so, I will have my "old" hair back. I have to use product if I wear it curly, and will try and post a pic of me with the curls. But we own our own business, and it's our busy season, so not sure when I will be able to get to it. Wearing it curly is def. easier! But I promise, I will try!

    Thanks to all for your posts. I check in here ALL the time..........mostly to see if anyones has posted photos! LOL. Take care everyone!

  • MarieK
    MarieK Member Posts: 467
    edited March 2011

    It's great to see everyone's hair growth photos!  One thing I do notice is the eyes - when there isn't any hair to detract from the face the eyes sure do stand out!

    There are so many BEAUTIFUL eyes on this group!!

    When I look back at some of my pre-BC phtos I can't believe I wore my hair long and dyed it that colour (dark blonde).  I think I will be keeping my hair short and colouring it a dark brunette - at least for now.

    Thanks for all the kind comments and hair support - I feel so much better since I decided to go ahead and "darken" my hair. I was beginning to feel old and tired and it really hit home for me when I looked at my Hawaii vacation photos.  I looked like my husband's mother and the kids' grandmother!

    The only drawback to changing hair colour is finding something to wear!!! 

    I had a nice little repetoire of outfits to wear with my gray hair and it was so quick to get up and go in the mornings.

    I went from dark blonde (pre-BC) to a dark brunette wig then when my hair grew in gray I wore it that way for almost a year.  Each time I changed my hair colour I had to sort through my closet to find something to wear that suited my hair colour.  Now I have to do that again - not to mention the different sizes!  Unfortunately when I was brunette before (wig during chemo) I was heavier so those clothes are a bit big!

  • dawn31337
    dawn31337 Member Posts: 93
    edited March 2011

    Goldie, I always had curly hair, and maybe when mine grows back it will be less so.  They make much better products these days.  The Sedu flatirons are the bomb, and CHI and Garnier shampoos/conditioners in the sleek and smooth formulas are good.  Matrix is also really good, but I hated the fragrance.  I'm not sure how the ultra hot flatirons are on chemo hair though, make sure you use a product for heat or you may have damage.  For when you want curly hair, try Curls Rock in a turquoise bottle - helps with the frizz.   It's been so long since I've done my hair it's funny telling anyone these tips!

  • dawn31337
    dawn31337 Member Posts: 93
    edited March 2011

    Marie, my eyes are jade green.  I am the luckiest woman alive.  Sadly, I have perhaps 1/16" of lashes and no brows.  I've gotten good at drawing them on, but if you are active in any way they seem to disappear.  The cheap waxy eyebrow pencils seem to work better than the 'dry' Lancome kind with a brush.  I can't wait to really show off my eyes.

  • MarieK
    MarieK Member Posts: 467
    edited March 2011

    I use the Anastasia Eyebrow pen from Sephora.  I love it! 

    I started using it when I had no eyebrows and now I use it to darken my eyebrows to better match my hair. 

    It is like a pen/marker and I can feather it on, blend it and it doesn't run off in the rain (I'm in British Columbia and it rains a lot here).

    Here's a link to a video review and a demo on how to apply it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esl37oD3TR0

  • IowaSue45
    IowaSue45 Member Posts: 422
    edited March 2011

    14 wks

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