Blonde foil highlights still possible w Ibrance and Faslodex?

[Sugarbaker60]

Hair highlights w bleach? I was about to go brown all over for fear of keeping my hair blonde. Has anyone got advice about how to keep up the every six weeks root job it requires to maintain my blonde hair and part of my identity? Pls share your experience & help if you know answers.

[JEY1]

I used to do blond highlights before chemo. When my hair came back, it was dark! My hairdresser said usually “chemo hair” doesn’t do well with highlights, but she would try. Thankfully the highlights are there and I will get more this month. Ask your hairdresser? Good luck!

[Dragonfly2]

Well, it seems that I had the same question and went ahead to highlight my hair...I had it done mid January. My hair has continued to thin but I don’t think it’s because of the highlights. They do make hair look thicker and make me feel normal. It’s not the highlighting that makes hair fall out...it’s the meds. If I had to have thinning grey hair I think it would be very depressing for me right now...but who knows what’s in store? I plan to color and keep it short for as long as possible. Good luck!

[Thrifty51]

I have the hi-lights done about every two months and have since I was on Kisqali for 20 cycles and now on Xeloda since Nov. My hair has thinned on top but it is from the medicine not the hi-lights. I will continue with them as long as possible because they make me feel more like myself when I have them done.

[hopenowandtomorrow]

I have been getting highlights every 6-8 weeks since my diagnosis 4/2019. My hair thinning is from the IBrance but it has since stopped. Happy to stay blond!

[Andibo]

I do blond highlights every 12 weeks. My hair is thinning from the meds but I feel mentally much better with my hair back to my "normal" color.

[PJBinMI]

When I was first diagnosed with bc, bone mets from the get go, losing my hair was one of the first things I thought about! But with strongly estrogen receptor positive cancer cells, I've not been on any meds that have made my hair fall out. So I decided that as long as I have my hair, I'm going to have fun with it! I'm a long timer with mbc--17 years next month--and the woman who has done my hair all this time has members of her family with cancer, so she is extremely understanding and knows more about hair and cancer treatment than most. I've had blond highlights, all over blonde, different shades of red. She did finally convince me to try letting my now gray streaked hair grow out to it's "new normal" color, telling me that the amount of gray that I have in my light to medium brown hair would look really good, alot like highlights, and when I finally decided to give that a try, I discovered that she was right! So now at almost 75, I may stop dying my hair, but I just might color it again! Every October I think about removing the color and then dying it pink for BC Awareness Month, and I have added pinkish high lights once or twice. Have fun with your hair. Wear it like you want to!

[Split in reply to PJBinMI]

Congratulations on 17 years. Could you please describe briefly the history of your illness and medication you have been taking. Thank you.

[caw517]

17 years! That’s incredible! Congratulations!! Wondering what your diagnosis was and what your treatment has been all these years!!And congrats on having fun with your hair!!