Colouring regrowth of hair after chemo
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Daer @patdug
Like you, when my hair grew out it was more grey than I thought it would be - so half dark hair and half grey, which was fine except when I started to grow it out a little. I then didn't like it as much as I thought - I had planned to leave it grey but as it got longer it wasn't a great colour and I wanted to look 'well' and not old. So about 6 or 7 months after it started growing back I spoke to my hairdresser and got an organic colour put in which was a disaster. The colour really took to this lovely soft new hair and was very very dark, so they tried to strip this out. The next colour that I tried went a funny red and now I am just getting some foils put in. I've decided if it all gets too hard with the growing out and colour then I will just cut it super short and leave it like that :)
When speaking to a hairdresser friend since then, she said that they should have used a non permanent dye initially on the new hair. I guess any chemicals that may have remained in my hair may have also affected the colour?
Also when I bought my wigs, the shop that I went to sold me a little skin coloured cap that is cotton and that you can either put in the fridge or freezer and put under your wig for summer? Perhaps you can try something like this? If you can't find one, I am happy to send you mine as I didn't ever use it while I was wearing the wigs so its brand new.
Anyway all the best with whatever you do <3
Like you, when my hair grew out it was more grey than I thought it would be - so half dark hair and half grey, which was fine except when I started to grow it out a little. I then didn't like it as much as I thought - I had planned to leave it grey but as it got longer it wasn't a great colour and I wanted to look 'well' and not old. So about 6 or 7 months after it started growing back I spoke to my hairdresser and got an organic colour put in which was a disaster. The colour really took to this lovely soft new hair and was very very dark, so they tried to strip this out. The next colour that I tried went a funny red and now I am just getting some foils put in. I've decided if it all gets too hard with the growing out and colour then I will just cut it super short and leave it like that :)
When speaking to a hairdresser friend since then, she said that they should have used a non permanent dye initially on the new hair. I guess any chemicals that may have remained in my hair may have also affected the colour?
Also when I bought my wigs, the shop that I went to sold me a little skin coloured cap that is cotton and that you can either put in the fridge or freezer and put under your wig for summer? Perhaps you can try something like this? If you can't find one, I am happy to send you mine as I didn't ever use it while I was wearing the wigs so its brand new.
Anyway all the best with whatever you do <3