HI all
I have recently finished chemo, and have noticed the first signs of my hair coming back.
The thing is it looks like it is coming back GREY!!!
I have always coloured my hair myself with the nice n easy range.
I was wondering if anyone had any ideas which colourings would be most natural for me to use, although I won’t need it yet, thought I would ask the question to be prepared.
Take care
Angie
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Hello Angie
There’s a thread about this a bit further on and I’m copying my message from there.
I finished chemo 3 months ago and my hair is still very short. It also came back white and grey so I coloured it a couple of weeks ago. I used a product I saw recommended for delicate hair. It was a Daniel Field or Fielding Water Colour - cannot remember the name exactly - and I bought it in Sainsbury’s. It contains no ammonia or peroxide and is a powder which you mix with water.
I did a strand test and left it for 48 hours before doing my whole head. The result was a bit darker than I wanted so I washed it in baby shampoo a couple of times to take some of the colour out and now my hair is a nice palish blonde colour. It’s still too short for me to feel confident enough to go out without a hat in public but now that it’s blonde I feel able to go bareheaded with family and close friends now.
Good luck
Anthi
Hi Angie
Like you, I always coloured my hair at home. I waited 6 months before using a permanent colour and everything has been fine. I use Loreal Excellence and I did a strand test first to make sure that there was no reaction. I tried peroxide and ammonia free colourings but I had so much grey that I didn’t get good coverage.
Margaret
Hi Angie
I like Margaret use the Loreal Excellence range, but for my first time I went to the Hairdressers and they did it for me ( after 3 months) , they did a test on the skin and I went back a couple of days later. I had no problems with either colour. I now have the problem of frizzy hair as I use straighteners all the time as my hair came back really wavy/curly. I have frazzled the ends and keep having to have it cut so it doesn’t look like its growing very fast. Does anyone have any tips that could get me through the growing it back to a normal length without having to use straighteners. I have used serum and straightening heat defence spray but my hair still burns!!!
Clares
When my hair first grew back in it was really frizzy. This was really fine hair and more like baby fuzz but this broke off after about 3 months and now my hair is quite thick and wavy and easily manageable. Just wondering how long it is since your hair grew back.
Margaret
Hi Margaret
My hair started to grow back in Feb so 6-months ago, like I said keep having to have it cut as it so difficult to manage, I said I would never moan about a bad hair day again after it all fell out, well now I moan about it all the time, I know this is very vain of me because there are some poor ladies out there whose hair has not grown back at all and I do feel desperately sorry for them but I am sooooooooo fed up with this damn BC taking over everything from what you can and cant wear in regards to necklines, especially in this hot spell we are having to my hair not being the same as it was before and last but not least the extra stone I am carry since taking tamoxifen!!! (sorry moan over just having a bad few days) I am normally such a positive up beat person but the last few days I on a real downer!! Roll on reconstruction at least then I’ll be able to well a bikini again instead of the hideous roll neck swimsuit!!!
Take Care
Clare (S)
Hi Clare
I also said I would never moan about my hair again but we are only human. I moan about mine all the time because it is so short and seems to take ages to grow but at least it is better than the scarves and wigs. So glad you are getting hot weather, up here in Scotland, it has been teeming down and the temperatures have dropped. When are you due to have your reconstruction?
Margaret
Hi there
My hair came back quite grey as well. I waited 4 months then went to my hairdresser who had got in the most sensational vibrant plum/violet semi perm colour for me…I’ve had this done 3 times now (every 9 weeks)! I love it! Just wish my fringe was a bit longer 
Hi Maggie
Due to have reconstruction Oct/Nov, I’m having DIEP so at least the tummy will shrink! I thought it was going to be next Jan but spoke to Consultants Secretary last week and she said waiting list down to 10 weeks. I have recently started a new job after leaving my previous one of 20 years so am a little bit concerned about taking so much time off again. I now work for the NHS Primary Care Trust at their HQ, my previous job was a PA for two A&E Consultants, but decided I’d seen enough of the inside of a hospital to last me a life time so now work as receptionist part time 5 minutes walk from my front door. Are you or have you had a recon, its such a pain this new revised site as you cant see profiles of each other.
Hope the sun start shinning soon in Scotland.
Clare
I finished chemo in January this year and coloured my hair in May. I use Herbatint which you can buy through a lot of health food shops. It is a lot more “natural” than a lot of the other so called natural products which are still very heavily loaded with chemicals.
Geraldine