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Hair today...
I got my first post-chemo haircut yesterday (as opposed to the No. 1 I gave myself). I hadn't seen my lovely hairdresser since before this shit began. I didn't want to tell her what was going on over the phone as she has lost too many close family members over the last couple of years to various cancers. But she knew as soon as she saw me yesterday that I had had chemo. There still wasn't enough hair for her to do a lot but now it looks like I've got a short cut rather than being pulled through a hedge backwards. And she was so nice - even though it took her the better part of an hour, she refused payment.
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- Wow!
- @Kiwi Angel , hi chemo buddy, mine is soooo curly. I had my second hair cut earlier this week. It's the strangest thing, but I love the fact I can wash and wear . It still grows faster on the top and is thicker and wirey. Yet it is fine and dandelionesque (new word) above my ears and at the nape of my neck.
- I’m getting my hair cut again tomorrow and I’m gonna make her cut it really short pixie - she didn’t cut it short enough last time. Words I never though I would utter!!
- @kezmusc That is a funny look fo sho!
- Hi @LIttleBlueWren,
I never had a problem with blonde after Paclitaxel. No one ever suggested I would,
@kmakm ,
It still comes back curly even with the cold cap. I liked to call this my chinese chicken look. He he. - I'm booked for my first cut and colour next Thursday (19 weeks post chemo) and I am soooo excited. I hope I come out looking as if my hairstyle is a choice rather than regrowth. I might be able to start circulating with people I have kept in the dark about this.
Just a note though, my hairdresser said that with Paclitaxel, blonde dye can throw a green tinge so I am going brown (naturally brown anyway) and will wait a few more months for the blonde pixie cut that I promised myself.
I spend way too much time on pinterest looking at short haircuts. I have always been long-haired but love the short hair now. - Thanks ladies but c'est la vie. :*
- :( Bummer @kmakm ... Keith’s ‘looked” wirey, but was as soft as baby’s hair.
I kept rubbing it too! - Oh K, next time we catch up I will stroke your head for you. After all, everyone who sees us thinks we are a couple anyway. 😘
- :(
