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I finished Chemo in mid March. Four Months ago and I just now have pixie hair. I would say that hair takes about two months to grow back to where you have more than peach fuzz on you head. I am also on Herceptin and though the hair on my head is really growing slow or so it seems. The hair on my legs and other places really grows fast. I guess the hair on my head is perception because people tell me wow your hair is growing fast.



I did not mind losing my hair as much as the loss of my eyelashes. I kept most of my eyelashesthrough my 6 rounds of taxol and when I was done and I thought the hair loss was over, the eyelashes all came out. I discovered falseeyelashes. They were great. I had really long eyelashesso thefalse ones I found looked like my own. 2 months out of chemo I had short eyelashes and enough really short hair to almost go out in public without a bandanna.



I used salon perfect number 53 false eyelashes. I bought them at Wal-Mart for $2.80. A starter kit with glue is only $4.00 and the glue is plenty for lots of applications. One set of lashes will last about a week to 10 days if you do not get them wet. Water makes them droop. I tried Revlon and other more expense brands but they are too thick and long to look and feel natural. If you normally use eyeliner, but that on first and then you have a guide to line up the lash. But the glue on one lash and then place it on eye and then you can position it in place. The instructions say to wait 30 seconds for the glue to get tacky, but then you can not push it around and most of the times you can not get it exactly right on the first try. The glue will get tacky while you are positioning it. Believe me after three days of application you will be an expert. Most people had to look twice when I told them the lashes were not mine. It was easier to put on eyelashes then to put on mascara. Do not apply mascara to the false eyelashes