Hair

I haven't had chemo, am waiting for radiotherapy-but was at the hairdressers last week and she said that sometimes after cancer treatments, hair colours don't always take.  

I get a wella semi permanent colour, and it is pretty gentle, free of amonia and lots of the nasty  chemicals ( altho no dye is completely natural) 

Hi Sparkle, I cant really remember when I first dyed my hair after chemo.  It was a bout an inch long and I used the colour from Holland and Barratt.

Lee x

Ah that’s interesting thank you. 

Daughter was probably a year after hair first started growing back. She was keen to do it earlier but hairdresser said hair wasn't yet ready. I suppose it was about 3 or 4 inches long (it's very thick but slow growing) when hairdresser said it was fine. Daughter had it done in the salon, her hairdresser researched and found a suitable post-chemo brand. Very pleased with result. 

I lost about 40% of my hair (I cold capped)and various people said to wait 6 months - I have funny bits of regrowth under the hair i kept. I'm booked in in a couple of weeks and can not wait!!! X

Hi, I colored my hair twice during cold capping using Daniel fFields  water based colour which is safe. You have to keep it on for longer but the results were good.

You can find Daniel Field on line and have a free video consultation with them.

This is good to know thank you. 

I am nearly at the end of treatment I have been cold capping and managed to keep nearly all my hair. I am a mousy colour naturally but have been dyeing blonde for over 25 years. My roots are now approx. 3 inches long and I found that my dyed hair is breaking where my roots have grown to which is odd. 

I was told 6 months before dyeing unless water or vegetable based dye so I have bought some lovely cheap wigs on tik tok and have been embracing them when I go somewhere nice. I would say though if you were to buy a wig this way make sure that you follow creators that wear them as I bought 1 that didnt and it was awful but it was only £10 so I'll use it for halloween xx

Good luck with everything x

Great to know.  I plan on ordering that when cold capping is done.  Anyone have 3c/4a hair and used it?

Hi

I like this post.

I finished chemo at the end of January this year and radiotherapy in March. and by the end of February it had started growing back. 

I had thick curly hair before I lost it all and dying it all the time.

It was by the specialist team that its advisable not to do anything whilst its growing but its practically grey (I'm 46) and I've been taking hair vitamin gummies from Superdrug. It feels like it grows in spurts but getting to the point that I run my fingers through it. 

I do get odd looks and then self conscious thoughts creep in. I may leave it until next January to see how long it grows and the condition.

I've found using Pantene and baby shampoo helps when washing hair every day due to hot sweats.