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Annie, I would ask about the dye... your chemo doesn't fit into the same *chemo category* as most other chemos, so it may be that you will be able to use the more gentle colourants... although I imagine permanent ones are out. I have to keep away for two years after my last treatment... so next February I could maybe look at doing it again. My hair is very thick and strong, and a real mix of silver/white and black, plus *chemo kink* so the *wash and go* types don't touch it anyway. I have made the decision to go au natural, lol... I am just grateful it all came back, although I actually didn't really mind being bald.

I'll look yours up, and if I see anything, I'll pm you, ok?

Love

Daff xxxx

Hi Liz, well that's a thought about Dan doing it for me :)
but it won't be with this one again lol, it really is too dark for me...the only good thing is I am relieved I didn't go for the darker shade in the first place lol

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Hi Rose,

if you have used the herba wotsit ten mins one the colour will fade and wash out gently, I use the Ash blonde one and it comes out strawberry blonde to start with as I have a lot of red in my hair originally - was dark brown with lots of auburn highlights which were natural, my son has inherited the same colour lucky boy but more of it lol It fades down so the roots don't show so much till I do it again - usually a couple of months or so.

I use a bit of hair conditioner on cotton wool to get stains off my skin, after colouring, but I always put mine on from a bowl using a tinting brush instead of using the applicators so it's easier to do.

Why not teach your son to do the job for you Rose, my lad used to help me do mine years ago so he understands a bit more about it and could help his girlfriend at the time, do hers.
Amanda, the vit d I am taking is really helping my hair, there is so much new growth now so my wide parting is now much more normal.
I was reading somewhere about colouring hair after chemo, will try and find the article later and add it here.



Lizx

Thank you for all the suggestions ladies, I have managed to get most of it off my face, using baby wipes,face cleanse and scrubbing!

Not using that one again, it said 'golden brown' on the box.. a shade which usually comes out close to my normal hair colour but covers the grey ( 40 mins max) this one (10 minutes )has gone very very dark, any darker and it would be black :( ....it did cover the grey though should anyone wish to try it lol

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Milk.... try dabbing it with milk.... good luck, lolol!!!!!

Love

Daff xxxxx

Does make you think Florence :((

try using johnson baby wipes, they are brilliant for just about every stain you want rid of. goodness knows what goes in them considering what they were intended for though!!

Found this....

http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/4586

If you put some perfume onto some cotton wool and give it a bit of a rub, it will remove it. Dont ask me how .... but it works! Susan

HI

You can buy special dye removing tissues from Superdrug. They are about 99p.

Good luck

Jane

I used to always dye my hair a burgandy colour then decided that black looked great so I had that for a while. Have left my hair its natural colour for a while now, which is brown. I would love to dye my hair again except with the chemo pills I take I am scared my hair will all fall out.

Annie
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I go to the local college to have my hair done (during term time). Very cheap, done by a student under the supervision of a tutor. It tends to take a long time, as everything has to be checked.

I have been delighted with the results. Even when I treated myself to pink, purple and blue streaks for my 60th birthday. (for less than ten pounds).

I have also had marvelous pedicures and massages.

Well worth trying.

Tess

P.S. My hair is mainly white

Good for you Shelia.......I hope you like the natural colour : )

Many years ago , my friends attempted to streak my hair purple . Now , my hair is very fine and they got carried away pulling it through the cap with lttle holes in , firstly to bleach it into streaks , ready for the purple colour . The end result , much to my horror , was a head of bleached hair ( the Purple colour being a wash in and wash out far to quickly thing ! ) . I looked like a clapped out rock star in no time at all .....LOL

That's when I discovered that short hair suits me best : ))

I'm finally letting mine 'go grey', lol! Had a colour analysis recently and I'm 'winter' so grey should look OK. Actually it looks more salt & pepper. Was told to avoid red/copper, and as even semi-permanents lighten and tend to go reddish, have decided to see what the natural colour looks like!

If I go like my mum I'll be well pleased Amanda, she had very fine hair and it went into beautiful streaks that you'd have paid a fortune to get put in lol

Pink sounds good lol, I always rather fancied purple but never had the courage to do it :)

Rose ... I'm lucky I suppose , as I'm going " salt and pepper " , just like my Mum and Nan before me . I used to love colouring my hair ( mostly Henna ) when I was a youngster but I couldn't be dealing with all that mess these days .....lol
My daughters ( well two of them ) have pink hair at the moment !! and they come here to dye it ! .....Grrrrr ......lol

Cat I had it done when I was down in London last year as a treat, and it was wonderful lol, just to sit there and have Sebastien playing with my hair lol...wonderful hands ;)

Amanda , it is mostly still brown but the sides are white-ish rather than grey...in a few years when more of it matches the sides I will leave it as it is :)

I usually do that when I dye my hair. I still managed to get some on my jaw line though. I also managed to get it on the bathroom wall lol

Rose, I love to have my hair done at the hairdressers but I can't afford it either. It was costing me about £63 for colour, cut and blow dry and that was with a student discount of 10%