Chemo is finished, my hair is growing - should I shave my head to thicken my hair? Is there ...

I shaved mine twice before letting it grow, only because it was growing uneven 😊 xx

I went to my barber shop and got him to use the number 1 trimmer,  as my hair was growing at different rates ,it is now a very flattering pixie , which I can easily manage with a bit of gel .

  So for me getting the bum fluff trimmed off after chemo worked.

  Good luck with whatever you do,

   

OMG just got my new wig. It's beautiful (I'm a collector). Wowee  only cost $33 from Hivision. Quick delivery, only 2 weeks.. The top of it is so natural you can't tell its a wig.  A lot of otherwise nice wigs are spoilt by the hairline at the front  or horrible partings that give the game away. 

@Zoffiel. Being more of a cat person I never thought about looking like a poodle but yes  a very apt description. I've just started teasing mine and getting a bit of a Guy Sebastian 'fro' going on. It's getting a lot of compliments. With all the weird and wonderful short haircuts these days  makes growing hair back from chemo blend in real good. Anything that doesn't define what we've been through and makes us able to be as normal as possible is a good thing.. Our hair is our crowning glory and the hair loss is shattering to our psyche.. As it grows back,  so we are restored. 

I shaved mine a few times to get rid of the fluffy regrowth before I let it grow out 

Being bald actually suits me and I've done this twice, so I'm kind of used to it. I hate the bumfluff. It's great to see some activity on your noggin, but that weirdo poodle hair was more of an insult than having none at all. It was a constant reminder of treatment which I didn't want to deal with. Heaps of people have really short hair for non cancer reasons, I decided I'd rather pretend to be one of them.
I kept mine buzzed at a #4 for nearly 18 months and am only now starting to grow it to a  non-statement length, It's  really thick and looks like normal hair, even though it is, and always has been, unruly

The amount of hair being the thickness, plus texture, being fine  medium or coarse, is already decided before you're born. Once your hair is out of your head  it's dead. If your hair is fine and all one length and it's given a blunt cut it will feel thicker. Think of the end of a shaving brush. It doesn't mean you were given more hair. Every hair grows at a different rate,  hence  when you're ready for a haircut it will feel bitty due to the irregularity.. A trend  of long haired haircuts have thinned out the ends so that they look more wispy. That's if you're lucky to be blessed with naturally medium to thick hair. After losing your hair it will grow back at irregular rates. Personally I had the cold cap on my long hair. It shed a fair bit and the the temples and crown were more severe  When it got to not being fit for public viewing I clippered it off with an attachment that made it about one and a half inches all over.. That was 9 months ago  As it grew I kept cutting off the odd wispy bits. I've had one mild haircut.. I now have a decent growth of curly wurley hair.. Growing it to my shoulders.
If you have a lot of wispy just level it so it's tidy, as the rest of it grows..  If it's growing through trouble free, let it grow enough to be able to have a style cut into it eventually.. As it's growing, if you muss some hair shaper into it and give it a bit of a messy any way but which, on top, it will look like it's meant to be short  If you don't like the colour  have a change. Nows the time.. A new hairdo is better than any pill  

Most hairdressers recommend frequent trims, not shaving. Helps give your hair done shape/style while not starting from scratch! 

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Seems a shame to shave it just when it is starting back again ..... maybe do as @Sister suggests .... tidy it up with a No 1 - who knows - it may even come back curly!  Hubby's did!

I'm no hairdresser but to the best of my knowledge, it will only give the illusion of thickness due to the hair being one length.  However, I did go back to a No. 1 to get rid of that awful white fluffy first regrowth.