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  • YaYa5
    YaYa5 Posts: 532
    edited February 2012
    elizabeth, your hair really does look like a hairdo.  it's as cute as can be!!
  • Joanne58
    Joanne58 Posts: 317
    edited February 2012

    Elizabeth--lovely, shiny hair! 

    ksmatthews--I've been meaning to tell you that your hair looks wonderful, too!

    This motivates me to try, once again, to learn how to hold that dang blow dryer and use more product in my hair.

  • Carrol2
    Carrol2 Posts: 1,477
    edited February 2012

    mariel mine is curly like yours when I get out of the shower too. Good job on the straightening. Do you ever just where it curly. I blow mine out evey day.

    elizabeth you look great your hair is growing fast.

  • shelley2011
    shelley2011 Posts: 31
    edited February 2012

    Hey, ladies!  Was thinking this morning.....I plant a vegetable garden every spring, and use Miracle Gro on it.  It works really well! Think it would work on my head???   LOL

  • mccrimmon324
    mccrimmon324 Posts: 794
    edited February 2012

    LOL Shelley.

    Guess what I did yesterday!!!  I parted my hair!  I couldn't believe it! 

  • LuvRVing
    LuvRVing Posts: 2,409
    edited February 2012

    Woohoo Heather!  Isn't it funny how we track these milestones!!!

    I'm right with you - a part and demi-bangs!  The back is quite a bit longer and getting very curly, and I had it trimmed three weeks ago.

    Let's see...I'm about 18 weeks PFC.  Can't wait to get to Florida in early March.  I am sure that sunshine makes it grow faster  Laughing

  • mccrimmon324
    mccrimmon324 Posts: 794
    edited February 2012

    Michelle, your hair looks amazing!!  I don't know, I live in Florida and I don't think the sunshine is doing anything for my hair  :)

  • LuvRVing
    LuvRVing Posts: 2,409
    edited February 2012

    Wishful thinking, maybe!!!  Thanks Heather!

  • Ossa
    Ossa Posts: 685
    edited February 2012

    Elizabeth/ Luvrving You both look great.

    Heather Yay for parting your hair.

    I woke up with bedhead today.. Never knew you could get bedhead with hair this shortWink

  • Elizabeth1889
    Elizabeth1889 Posts: 509
    edited February 2012

    Heather, Congratulations on being able to part your hair.  I remember how excited I was the first time I could do that.

  • YaYa5
    YaYa5 Posts: 532
    edited February 2012

    heather, congrats on parting your hair!  i never in my life thought i'd be excited about hair-parting!

    michelle, probably not to you, but to me it seems like your hair is growing fast.  i remember when you had no hair and look at you today!  i love the curls in the back.  you look great. 

  • mizmarie
    mizmarie Posts: 137
    edited February 2012

    LuvRVing - your hair looks awesome!!  I hope I have that much 10 weeks from now.  Smile

  • marial
    marial Posts: 98
    edited February 2012

    Caroll2 - I do sometimes wear it curly, but not as often anymore..Now that it is a bit longer it seems pretty poofy on the top even as short as it still is..When I do occassionally wear it curly, my husband usually makes a comment like, "i like it better straight"..lol..I only straighten the front and leave the back curly though.. I had such thick heavy hair before chemo I could just wake up and it looked perfect..Now I wake up and I look like I was in a windstorm with a bottle of hairspray.. But as I always say, if I am able to complain about my hair, its a good day..Originally I was buying products to keep it curly..and now I look for things to make it straight..It is amazing how much products you seem to need the shorter your hair is!

  • marial
    marial Posts: 98
    edited February 2012

    Wow LuvRVing..your hair looks great !  And so much for 18 weeks!  I remember in the beginning I kept saying, I just want  some bangs and to be able to make a part!

  • shore1
    shore1 Posts: 591
    edited February 2012

    Im seriously considering buzzing off the white fuzz on my head that's been growing in since mid taxol. While I hate the thought of buzzing, its not healthy hair. Has anyone done this and found it helped normal hair to grow quicker? Or will the white fuzz just grow back after buzz? I just finished taxol on Wednesday and will keep getting herceptin.

  • LuvRVing
    LuvRVing Posts: 2,409
    edited February 2012

    Thanks, ladies!  I think it grows slowly until I look back at the pictures from four weeks ago, and then I realize it's really growing pretty quickly.  I've also had to recolor it every four weeks because I can really see the new growth, which is rather grey.  It's nice to go out now and see ladies with hair that is "purposely" shorter than mine  Wink

    Heather - my hair stylist says it's the prenatal vitamins...lol.  I just think I've got really good hair genes.

    YaYa - those curls are something!  I used to complain because my hair was "sort of" curly in spots, wishing it were either straight or all curly.  Hmmm...watch out what you wish for!  I'm pretty sure I will have ringlets when it's long enough!

    Shore1 - you might end up with more white fuzz for a few weeks after finishing Taxol.  I think others have shaved off the fuzz...I just colored the fuzz.  I didn't want to sacrifice anything once it started sprouting.

  • shore1
    shore1 Posts: 591
    edited February 2012

    Thanks luvrving - your hair looks so great. Its inspiring to see your pictures, but I have no patience. I need to stop inspecting my head every day!

  • mccrimmon324
    mccrimmon324 Posts: 794
    edited February 2012

    shore, I colored the fuzz too.  And I obsessed in front of the mirror.  I have the best friends in the world, they were kind enough never to tell me to stop texting them my bald head daily asking if it looks like it's growing yet. 

    Don't worry about inspecting your head.  It will fill in soon enough, you'll see!

  • MamaV
    MamaV Posts: 373
    edited February 2012

  • MamaV
    MamaV Posts: 373
    edited February 2012

    I did it!  Wooo hooo!  I was trying something far more complicated than the copy and paste.  Oh ... check out the part!!!!  6 1/2 months PFC!

  • LuvRVing
    LuvRVing Posts: 2,409
    edited February 2012

    Woohoo MamaV!!!  You look very chic!!! And yes, isn't it easy to do the copy and paste?

  • YaYa5
    YaYa5 Posts: 532
    edited February 2012
    it's getting long, mamaV!!  i love it.
  • cdairth
    cdairth Posts: 63
    edited February 2012

    Wow MamaV, a part!!! Love the dark colour. Very striking "do."

  • Elizabeth1889
    Elizabeth1889 Posts: 509
    edited February 2012

    MamaV, You look wonderful!

  • specialk
    specialk Posts: 9,299
    edited February 2012

    shore - I took off the white fuzzy hair that looked like dust on my head.  What came in after that was darker, and it actually looked like I had more hair afterward.

  • mccrimmon324
    mccrimmon324 Posts: 794
    edited February 2012

    Looks great MamaV!!!!! 

  • momine
    momine Posts: 2,845
    edited February 2012

    Not ready to be aired, but thought I would post my progress as of 8 weeks PFC:

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  • mccrimmon324
    mccrimmon324 Posts: 794
    edited February 2012

    Momine, I really think you've got more hair than I did at eight weeks!  looks good.

  • auntienance
    auntienance Posts: 4,043
    edited February 2012

    Wow momine, you have a lot more than I have at 9 Weeks. I'm jealous!

  • momine
    momine Posts: 2,845
    edited February 2012

    Auntie, the back looks more filled in than the front, but at least it is enough at this point that my head doesn't freeze at night, which is nice. It also looks as if it is not completely grey, which is a bit of a relief. I was not grey before, but thought that between stress and chemopause, that it might come in grey. I don't really mind grey, but wasn't ready for the change just now.