AWAKE.........

Morning all! 

, sorry you’re back in hotel NHS, but really hope you’re soon on a normal ward. That all sounds similar to daughters transplant room for a month but even more so! However she was allowed visitors as long as we were well and washed and wore aprons! 
Will be thinking of you on Monday Galligirl and hoping all is well.

Northerner I appreciated that ‘second wave’ photo, how stupid are those covidiots? And yes, it will just make it take longer till we are all released properly!
seaspirit44, thinking of you....totally understand your anger.

Hugs xxx

Hiya Fruit Loops,

Thought you may like to start the weekend with a laugh   

Hope this works first time I've tried attaching a twitter vid.

G n' J

Ok I promise not to watch the news it only makes me mad  

Have a good day everyone 

Margaret x

Morning !  Lovely lie in till 10.30 then shower abd cup of tea on patio!

Think today is the day !  My roots looking a bit too Onbious now as last visited hairdresser day before lockdown !  I'm a bit tempted to see how grey I'll go though !

Hi Carol

When I was diagnosed my daughter said it was about time I stopped colouring my hair.    You know how it is, was blonde as a child then it started getting darker, so highlights then after a while it was all over colour.

When I needed chemo I thought ok will do this, it took a while, but I did regularly go to hairdresser to have it cut, and in the end it was worth it.  The funny thing is I'm a nice silvery blonde colour now, a colour I would have paid good money for about 20 years ago.  Best is it does save me a lot of money and no roots to have touched up.  My cousin, who is a hairdresser, thought it was a good professional colour job.  

It was difficult, and I felt very drab for a while but I'm glad I persevered and it is quite fashionable to be grey at the moment.  

I was lucky I was able to go to the hairdresser every four to six weeks which I know helped having it cut into a short bob and the blond ends got less and less.  Unfortunately you don't have this option at the moment and I do sympathise with you as our hair is so important to us, especially when we've been through chemo.

I think there is a spray on root cover available now, but no idea if it works.

VickiLynne

Hi  I bet it's gorgeous.  My issue is my natural colour is very dark brown and my eyebrows still almost black apart from odd grey one.  I have my brows waxed and she suggested dying to get rid of odd grey.  She put dark brown on and it stood out so she had to mix black.  My hair I've been lightning for about 5 years as I have it coloured every 5 weeks normally.  The front is quite white but the back isn't !  I tried going much lighter before Xmas with highlights but it didn't suit my colouring and my eyebrows looked fake.  I have the riot spray which I've been using for past week but it makes hair feel awful.  I might go for it after next may as it's my daughters wedding.  I found site  that add grey hair to my face.  Do you use purple shampoo ?  My daughter goes white blonde and it takes away the yellow tones.  They sell in lush it's expensive for big bottle but lasts ages.  

This site https://www.redken.com/haircolor/haircolor-change-app-for-virtual-makeover

Hi Carol. (Grogg)

My colours is similar to that in your pic, although I have quite thin hair. I'm lucky that I've gone a silvery grey, but I suppose that's because I was originally blonde.  I noticed as my dad got older - his hair was auburn when he was young  (although I never remember him being that colour, I only remember him having blonde hair) - his hair changed to a lovely silvery blonde, and I think that I'm lucky to have gone that way too.  My eyebrows have always been very fair and are quite fine, so I that's not a problem for me.  Although my eyelashes are very fair and since chemo are short and fine.  I did try having them dyed but it  didn't make that much difference so it now layers of mascara.

When my hair was eventually grey all over, and I thought it looked ok, my husband said "Well it's much more suitable for a woman your age". I almost hit him and I must admit he made me feel much older and I was very tempted to go back to being blonde.  I'm fine with it now but as its so thin I've bought a short blonde bob wig - but I've not, as yet, had the courage to wear it.  One day maybe.

There's just something about being blonde, no matter how old you are, you really want to stay a blond.   AND I am quite old now - although I don't feel it.   I think of my grandmas -they looked old ladies when they were 50 - My cousin and I often laugh about this. from when we were tiny our memories of grandma was an elderly lady sat in her chair with her legs on a stool and her handbag by her side and owe betide us if we bumped her legs or touched her handbag.

Take care,

Lynne

My hair began to go grey when I was in my early 30s, (I blamed the kids!) and so I dyed it at home (Wella!) but when I was around 50 my then hairdresser told me the roots showed it was a good silver colour, why didn't I grow it out? We spent some months with growing it longer, she low lighted it to prevent those harsh lines, then when it was long enough, cut it very short to the slivery colour i now am (well its now much whiter). I went into work the following Monday and shocked the nursing staff as they asked me why I'd gone grey overnight! I was working in a small Day Hospital at the time! So my hair is now growing of course, as everyones is, and when I began Letrozole it thinned and then grew back wavier/curlier than ever, so now I have a silvery white curly mop! 

Hugs xxx

I’ll just leave this here 

Margaret 

Hi  I had auburn hair and never coloured my hair always been happy with it (also lazy) The grey /silver ( gun metal )  came thru in streaks and looked like highlights  which could look blonde at times . At diagnosis ( age 70 ) I had it cut to pixie so very def was grey but still with some darker areas 

Then of course chemo ..no hair !! Started to grow back just before lockdown .

Its coming back same colour but with more curl . 

Really like your photo Grogg at least I'm not worried by lack of hairdresser yet 

Margaret x