Hello everyoneThankyou to all the lovely people who provide such valuable information and personal insights/observations re breast cancer. Your words of wisdom published on this online network provided such comfort to me during 2020 when I was undergoing active treatment. I am now on Femara and hope it does its job. This is a very minor issue really in the scheme of things but I have about 1 inch (in the old money!) of head hair regrowth which looks incredibly unsightly (and there seems to be a lot more grey!... Oh well!) and I was thinking of using a vegetable dye to brighten to a blonde!! Has anyone had any experience with doing this?...I finished chemo in June and Google says to wait about 6-12 months to put colour in however I read vegetable dyes might be safe! Otherwise I will just wear my wig which has been my 'friend' during this year. It's very hot though in the Summer and I am heading North from South East Queensland to a more tropical climate so would love to have the wig off for a while. Any thoughts anyone? I hope you all are having a Super week-end xx warm wishes....

Thank you so much for your responses..... Your comments and helpful tips have boosted me up ...the coloured hair mousse might work hey! I'll give it a go. Thank you Mazbeth and also for the book recommendation..... I have been using my wig all year and together with some 'warpaint' I can face the world! LOL! Thanks Anj_j2020 for the link.... you ladies rockl!!It is really 'funny' about hair isn't it?...Although academically we are told and prepare for the hair loss...when it actually happens you still need to go through the stages of managing the emotional impact before regrowth and renewal starts..It becomes another feeling and issue altogether, separate from the physical toll of chemo and radiation etc...For some its big and for others it is just part of the process...we are all such individuals in this space...Have a lovely Sunday xxxx

About the hair thing... When it first grew back, I clipped the white fuzz off as it looked so dreadful. Then I let my hair grow. It grew back unevenly, lots more grey, and much finer and thinner (probably thanks to the Letrozole). I coloured it but was never particularly happy with the way the colour held. Early this year, after the bushfires and before Covid, I thought, "enough". So, I've been letting the grey take over and because of Covid and so many other women doing the same, no-one has thought it strange. About 3 weeks ago, I had it cut quite short - a bit of a statement about taking me back. There's still a little colour left on the ends of my fringe as it is an asymmetric cut but mostly it's grey. I have been blown away by the compliments I have had on the cut, and believe it or not, the "colour" I have had done! Embrace your grey, I say! (When you're ready to, that is.)

The new grey is to be embraced but it doesn’t always stay - I went from brown with a bit of grey prior to chemo, to chalk white afterwards, then grey. Gradually a light brown developed and I ended up, for a few years anyway, with less grey and more colour than I had before the whole performance! Never boring.

It is amazing how many women really suit the new grey.I was white haired at 20 years of age and my hairdresser says he will give me $50 to go to another hairdresser if I want it coloured.PS I am well past 20 now !!!!

Thank you so much gumnut for your kind offer. and best wishes ..I recall I have one of those skin-coloured caps and in the haze of this year forgot I threw it in the cupboard for retrieval at a later date to be used....You have just provided the incentive to dig it out as that is what I will need in the hot weather... Thank you so much for your help and advice. Sorry you had to go through the colouring drama.... I have read we should leave dyeing our hair for 12 months but I felt impatient....will have to tough it out now until it is ready....l tend to think every person on this network has a real understanding of 'toughing it out' means and having to learn it (in my case!) while also maintaining patience in their journeys through the quagmire...Glad June1952 you have such success with your grey hair.. so fortunate...it is quite glamorous I feel...warm regards xxx

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