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Don't know about elegant Iago!! i've never had hair so short - or so curly!!!
Nicky
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Nicky u r lovely, just as I pictured u.
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But your features are elegant. I wasn't looking at your hair. That's the thing about short hair. People start looking at your face and not your hair. If you have nice features wearing short hair is really easy.0 -
well then thank you very much for the lovely compliment!
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Hello Ladies, day 4 after after MX(right), so far pain is pretty managable with pain killer. On my 1st day after surgery my nurse keep on telling me to get up amd walk so I can have fast recovery. so i walked like 6 times on my first day. After I walked ,my nurse had me sat down on a chair for a while. I was glad she pushed me to do all that or else my lazy butt would just laying in bed.LOL Day 4 so far so good, crossed fingers with no infection. Pain still there but pain killer is my BFF right now. I guess MX is not as bad BMX. Having BMX i cant imagine must be so hard to get in n out the bed.
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NickyJ
So good to see your lovely face .Always pictured you with dark hair..
Camille too but I can't see it clearly .
PBrain...
You look great with short hair.
I am trying to upload the only pic I have with pixie .It is in my pictures on IPhone 4S but for some reason I cannot copy it here. I can email. twitter,FB but cannot copy. Anyone have a suggestion? I hate tech stuff.0 -
Soriya glad to hear youre healing well
lizA yay !!!! happy 1st yr of many NED
Pbrain love your hair , looks great
nickyj your new avatar you look lovely
Ashla cant wait to see you rock the pixie0 -
Pbrain! love your new avatar black & white photo! You are as cute as the proverbial bug! Hello,lago & everyone, just checking in, to see what you all are up to. Hope everyone is staying warm & hopeful, this fine holiday season. Even if i do not post here often, i think of youse guys, about every single day! Okay, so there! i am off to hermits, my other favourite ladies!0 -
Reading/lurking over here...
I did biotin for three months and it did not do a thing for me. But it's so cheap and easy I think it's definitely worth trying. I know other women who swear it makes their hair grow faster and thicker.
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here is my pixie pic... Obviously not the blonde!0 -
Ashla, you look really great and happy. I can only wish to have enough hair for a pixie, no hair for the Holidays for me
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Ashla u look wonderful all the way around,
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Ashla bet the pixie is super cute. I still have the almost male pattern baldness. So attractive....no boobs. Edward Scissorhands scars. Femara belly. Toe nails crumbling off AGAIN. Hmmmm.
And have done almost nothing for Christmas. Got more done last year when I was in the throws of chemo and my first MX.
Much love to all from Ms. Grumpy Pants.0 -
Great faces Ashla and Pbrain and hair to go with them!0 -
Ashla - your weight loss plan cracked me up! Gotta keep our senses of humor, right?
And I LOVE all the great hair styles! Ashla, Pbrain and Nicky - you ARE rocking those pixies!! My haircut scheduled for today got winter weathered out.
Hopefully I can reschedule soon - need to clean up / trim the edges. My hair has always been fine, and still is, but is growing in so densely!! Can't believe that much hair is capable of lying completely flat.
I'll post pics after my style!
Thanks for all the responses about fatigue. I think it's getting some better.
Stay warm everyone! Looking forward to our first snow day of the year (although you can't really play in freezing rain).0 -
Sounds like you were describing me Susan..feel your pain. I'm hoping my hair comes in better after herceptin is complete. Last one Dec. 26th! Hope the ALS don't contribute to this thin hair!0 -
Ashla, you look great! Love the photo.
Nicky
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Cute Ashla. You have my hair cut.0 -
thx all on the kind comments on the hair.
IMHO ... The loss of my hair was one the most traumatic, symbolic and enlightening experiences of this journey.
For those of you still in treatment .... despite your fears to the contrary .. It will come back. I lost mine late and it came back very, very slowly and completely different than my former hair. Not like I had gorgeous locks to begin with but I had a lifetime to learn my " style".
It has been 21 mos post final chemo and I have tried to grow it and style it. Have had many haircuts and start overs .
Alas... I have realized that it... Like me... Will never be the same. But ... Like all of us here ... I will find a new way of dealing with it and life after dx. And I plan to rock this pixie! Maybe blonde?0 -
Ashla I can relate. I am now 19 months PFC. I have had my hair colored and cut several times but my hair is now so thin,my hairdresser says the texture is like an overprocessed perm. I am going today to have all the fuzz cut off so I can start again to grow real hair lol. I still wear my wig when I go out. Frustrating to say the least...0 -
O Ashla finally u put into words what I was not able to. I really had awful hair, BUT I was used to how to handle it and I could make it look decent and sometimes really nice. Even now my hair is so different I don't know what to do, I keep it short but if it goes just a little over it's a mess and to short is another mess, and that's it--I don't know how to handle it. it's more straight and thin and I had curly and thick and after 60 yrs now I have new hair--I tease my GS that my hair is newer than his, I guess it is actually.
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Ashla you look great , love the hair !0 -
the whole hair thing is a big issue for us all I think. For myself, I find this 'transition period' harder than when I had no hair! I wore a wig all the time and no one realized - not even my own mother! When I went to the hairdressers the first time to get it tidied up, I was still wearing my wig. I explained to the hairdresser that I was post chemo, and that it needed a trim. She looked at me strangely, saying "but your hair is great!" - she was looking at the wig......
Now that I'm out without the wig, I find myself having to explain to people why my hairstyle is so different, and a lot of people are copping on to the fact that I have cancer. Only last week i met the mother of one of my sons friends for the first time since last June. She started with "oh, you've changed your hairstyle!" To which I just smiled. But then she went on and on about " how strange that its so curly now, you always had straight hair" and "how brave you are to cut it so short!" She annoyed me so much that I ended up telling her that it was growing back after chemo. That shut her up!! We crossed paths again this weekend. She just about said hello....
I can't wait to have some length in my hair again and to take control of how I look.
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Nicky u r patient, the first sentence out of her mouth I would have said it. But wait if u'r saying it in French it all sounds so pretty.
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Lago ...
You look great in all the pics. Amazing how organized you were through it all with your diary and photos.
It feels like I stumbled through it all in a daze. Still a bit .. More than a bit ... dazed and confused.
Like I said the hair stuff ... My experience and reaction and that of others... Has been the most enlightening. I have learned a lot about myself and others as a result of it.0 -
cam illegal
Too right about it sounding so pretty in French! Lol!0 -
I love everyone's new pics! You all look so good. Yesterday was my 2 year cancerversary of my BMX and the Her2 tumor. My hair is really just a mess. Before tx it was hard to do anything with because it was fine and absolutely straight with no lift at all. I loved the curls that came after chemo but they are gone. My hair is almost back to straight with random waves that pop up anywhere they want. But if my hair grows longer it's straight again. If it's cut short it's some straight some sticking straight up. Very weird. I do have to shampoo every day again though. Which me wonder if the ARIMIDEX is working! Geeze! I suppose I'll try to find a good selfie. LOL its pretty cold here today, about 10 degrees, but we only got about 5 inches of snow. Yuck. Much love to all.0 -
I was one of the strange ones that the hair wasn't the worst thing… more worried about the eyebrows. Bought the Anastasia brow duo stuff 4 weeks before my BMX! Didn't deal with the wig thing till after chemo started. And I had really beautiful straight shiny hair (and still do but not while it was growing back).
I hated my wig (one of the photos you can see that). It looked like plastic doll hair and was too big. I knew no wig would ever match my hair. People would know. I cut it shorter (as you can see in the pictures) the day it started falling out. Wore scarves except for that one weekend of my nieces Bat Mitzvah.
I didn't want to deal with weird curl or in my case strange wave so I kept it short growing in… and it's so easy that I have not grown it back. But I have had short hair before, granted not as short as I wear it now.
But like Ashla says, I did look good. Why? Because ladies our beauty is not in our hair. It's our faces. If you notice I am smiling in every single photo. I don't look as good if I'm not smiling. Also my make up it put on properly. Granted very few of us can look good bald (I was not one of them) but I looked good even in a scarf because of the smile and properly applied make up. My suggestion to all of you who feel like they don't look good is get the to the cosmetic store/counter and have someone do a make over for you.0 -
Hello Lovely Ladies...so glad I am not alone, this thread helps me!!! I am without hair and sitting here wearing my wig. Many people don't know about my dx thanks to beauty tricks. But what I can tell you is that since my journey has begun, I have had at least 3 dreams (that I can remember) about my hair. I see myself with hair and then have a look of amazement in the mirror, I see myself with my old long hair and smile and then try to brush it but it starts to fall out....you get the picture. I am now just realizing what an emotional trauma this part of the journey has been for me. I am so proud of all of us for holding our heads up high (even when its impossible) and living each day the best we can. All of your pics with pixies is beautiful. Like you, I never thought I would "rock the pixie" but hopefully soon I can join you and wish to look half as good.Wish me luck on Thursday Dec 12, 13....just had my MO appointment this morning and Dec 12 is my last chemo infusion !!!! Now the crazy scheduling has begun for surgery, radiation/plastic consult, MUGA etc.
When can I start using Minoxodil or other hair growing shampoos?
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