I’ve never been high maintenance which turned out to be a good thing when battling cancer. Looks are the last thing I cared about as I underwent treatment and lost my hair and gained weight and was very pale.
My idea of doing my hair when it was long was to throw it up in a messy ponytail or bun. No styling involved, just a hair tie and quick brush.
Since I’m not used to styling my hair I’m lost at what to do now that I have hair again. It’s a mop, hot mess, chia like plant on top of my head. I am beyond grateful my hair is growing back nicely I’m just not sure what to do with it. So I’m just letting it continue to grow but the front is getting a bit out of control.
I’m at a similar stage as my two year old with her bangs. We are done cutting her bangs and letting them grow out but her hair does get in her way sometimes (or all the time since she never lets us put it up!) I’m kind of in the same boat. It can’t be cut yet because I need the hair to continue to grow out but it’s like it just grows and grows at the top of my head and I need the rest of the hair to sort of catch up to all that.
There’s also some more gray in my hair which I kind of want to color but I think color would look better once I get more hair. Another change to my hair when it came back is that it came in wavy not straight. All good, just different.
So I feel like I wake up each morning with a bed head that kind of stays that way and is super poofy at the top. I’m not complaining at all. I feel amused and surprised by my hair every day.
After losing it all, I am so grateful to have it coming back poofs, grays and curls. I am my own personal chia pet I can style and watch it grow. As I’ve leaned throughout this cancer journey you have to learn how to laugh and smile. And my hair is making me smile and laugh every day.
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