As many of you know I have a serious love/hate relationship with the Google. Sometimes it brings me lots of joy and good information - but sometimes (most of the time) I get crap or, even worse, nada. Try googling "grow your hair out after chemo" and you'll encounter a wasteland of platitudes and depressing information. Not cool.
You will also find lots and lots and lots of sad text descriptions.... and no pictures. I get it, you should see the pleading texts I send asking people to take down unflattering pictures of me on fbook.
Who wants to preserve on the internet, for all eternity, and current boyfriends ex-girlfriends to stalk and find, a time when they feel not-so-good about how they look?
Who wants to document the agony of regrowth, of chemo curl and baby pixie fuzz and all that other stuff?
Well I do.
Because (and obviously this is probably easier to say looking back at pictures now that I have my long, flowing extensions) it was pretty cute. It was definitely nowhere near as bad as I thought it was going to be based on what I found online before I started all of this.
These photographs document my hair regrowth between when I shaved my head in December and, subsequently, started on a kind of chemo that doesn't make your hair fall out as much (on your head at least) and this July, when my hair was long enough for the aformentioned extensions.
Sadly, for those of you who are counting, that's a solid 7 months to get my hair to about 3 inches - which is way faster than the 1/4 inch per month you'll read about as the average. And yes, I used Rogaine, and took 2,000mgs of biotin everyday. And I'm sure all of those things, plus genetics and dumb luck helped (but in what proportion and was it worth the money? I don't know, and ask your doctor first if it's OK!!)
SO, without further ado.... Here are lots of awesome pictures of me regrowing my hair after chemo.
I will let the photos do what these words alone cannot.
Love you,
xoxoxo
Dena
P.S. Some tips and tricks if you haven't seen them yet, How to Grow Out a Bald Head, my detailed product regimen for hair regrowth, and of course my exceptionally popular Baldspiration and Growing it Out pinboards (which I stared at all day everyday)
You will also find lots and lots and lots of sad text descriptions.... and no pictures. I get it, you should see the pleading texts I send asking people to take down unflattering pictures of me on fbook.
Who wants to preserve on the internet, for all eternity, and current boyfriends ex-girlfriends to stalk and find, a time when they feel not-so-good about how they look?
Who wants to document the agony of regrowth, of chemo curl and baby pixie fuzz and all that other stuff?
Well I do.
Because (and obviously this is probably easier to say looking back at pictures now that I have my long, flowing extensions) it was pretty cute. It was definitely nowhere near as bad as I thought it was going to be based on what I found online before I started all of this.
These photographs document my hair regrowth between when I shaved my head in December and, subsequently, started on a kind of chemo that doesn't make your hair fall out as much (on your head at least) and this July, when my hair was long enough for the aformentioned extensions.
Sadly, for those of you who are counting, that's a solid 7 months to get my hair to about 3 inches - which is way faster than the 1/4 inch per month you'll read about as the average. And yes, I used Rogaine, and took 2,000mgs of biotin everyday. And I'm sure all of those things, plus genetics and dumb luck helped (but in what proportion and was it worth the money? I don't know, and ask your doctor first if it's OK!!)
SO, without further ado.... Here are lots of awesome pictures of me regrowing my hair after chemo.
I will let the photos do what these words alone cannot.
Love you,
xoxoxo
Dena
P.S. Some tips and tricks if you haven't seen them yet, How to Grow Out a Bald Head, my detailed product regimen for hair regrowth, and of course my exceptionally popular Baldspiration and Growing it Out pinboards (which I stared at all day everyday)
DECEMBER 10, 2013
SHINY BALD HEAD SHAVE
JANUARY 2, 2013 "Look! I have hair!!"
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| MARCH 1, 2013 |
MARCH 29, 2013
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Welcome back eyebrows & eyelashes!! Time to say goodbye to the blonde :)
JUNE 8, 2013
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| JUNE 29 |
JULY 2013 - HAIR EXTENSIONS
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More hair!!!!
I took my extensions out because we are finally going on that family trip to mexico that I had to cancel last year when I got sick... I am scared that the whale sharks I plan to swim with will filter in my fake hair
and I will drown (j/k sort of not really)
So you get more regrowth pictures!
August 26, 2013
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| STRAIGHTENED August 29, 2013 |
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| APRIL 2014 |
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| APRIL 2015 |
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| APRIL 2016 |
And yes, if you follow me on instagram you can see almost daily photos of my hair regrowing!
@denajulia
p.s. If you have cancer and you need a little help making ends meet, you should totally check out my new project Standbuy. It's OK to ask for help when you have cancer, I did! #cancersucks