Chemo Cut my Hair Too! is the name of my image at left. It came from my "Chemo Journal Drawings" done during Chemotherapy and Radiation. Knowing my hair would soon fall out I decided to subvert the process and slew it myself. I'd read too many stories of women waking up to a hair-pillow-cover. It was easy to pull it out once Taxol had snipped the hairs at their roots. It could have been a comic show for the results! *Try to resist following suit. I forgot to douse my follicles in toner and ended up with breakouts all over my scalp. Now that's something worth covering.
Vist your care center's chemotherapy beauty center. I felt transformed by the lovely Irene who provided scarves and hats and showed me how to use them. If that is not an option, many organizations provide scarves, and hats. Find several below.
When chemo cuts your hair cover it up using these tricks and resources.....and.....See my Chemo Journal Drawings images on gift items.
See my Whip Cancer Store here
Professional Scarf Wrapping Tips
Anchoring your beautiful scarf to the baldness on top
Since my baldness began in Summer I first wore a tiny scarf under an old sunhat. It didn't fool anyone -being long before I first entered the world of the Internet. Funny me! Several times during a walk I'd need to remove my hat and adjust my scarf to get up out of my eyes. Today it's easy to find special gripper headbands - SEE "Scarf Gripper Headband" site under the Scarf & Turbans heading below. Slip on a headband and securely tie on a scarf or turban.
- Choose a lightweight cotton underscarf, a small square tied at the base of your neck. Cotton tends to stay put, creating an opportunity for expression of power over something in your life, at a time when you might feel a weenie bit powerless "Stay Put!"
- Try using a stretch headband over your late hairline, and pin your scarf to that
- Avoid those lovely silk scarves because they tend to retain head heat and you've got enough things to be hotheaded about already!
- Experiment with a lightweight undercap from Amy's Presence at:
http://www.amyspresence.com/
Look for the soft cotton snug caps. A lovely rayon scarf ties or pins beautifully to one of these comfortable undercaps - If you simply must have silk, and you lost the poster putty, try to use it as a loose overscarf. Maybe choose a thin shimmer of silk to tie around a chic cap so you get the glam without the sweat
- If a lace cap and an overscarf still don't feel like the cake's been frosted, then pop on one of a variety of these great hats!
Wrap it On!
Learn to Wrap on a Scarf and To Tie a Turban Artfully
- Wrap a Scarf How-to's
- Create a Head Wrap Using a Scarf. Looking for an alternative hair accessory? Tame your mane by creating a head wrap out of your favorite scarf. It's a chic alternative to the baseball hat, and oh-so-incognito when worn with your favorite shades.
- Scarf Tying
- Pictures of creative solutions to covering a chemo head, with helpful tips
- Motions Scarf Wrapping Techniques
- Beautiful and classy sister wraps
- Tie Turban Head Wraps
- Cotton Clothing and costuming for men, women, and children.
- Free Guide How To Tie a Tiechel
- Simple Method for Tying the Tiechel into a Gorgeous Wrapped Bun
- kangaUSA - How To Tie A Head Scarf
- Picture directions show you how to tie on a large square scarf so it gives the look and feel of long hair
- Anyiams Creation: Headwrapping Step-by-Step
- Picture directions of how to tie on a scarf with an African flair
- How to Tie a Head Scarf-Crafters Journey
- Clear picture instructions of several wrapping/tying styles. Easy to understand. Click entries from list for varieties
- Tying a Scarf
- Try the "Kelly" wrap alone or over an undercap or tiny scarf. Learn how to tie a scarf in many different ways.
- How to Tie a Scarf by Belle von der Goltz
- Try the Babushka style. Belle's secrets for wearing scarves in new and exciting ways with illustrations and instructions.
Crushable Full Brimmed Chemo Hat
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Wonderful Headcover with these Great Summer Hats
Pop a Sun Hat on to Cover Your Head and Dress It up with a Gorgeous Scarf
Each time I went out walking or on errands, during breast cancer treatment, and subsequently, I wore a sunhat or rainhat on top of a lightweight and soft scarf - or I might wear a soft undercap under the hat. After getting breast cancer I became much more conscious of the need to prevent skin cancer, so I would wear a brimmed hat to keep the sun and the glare off my face.
Use a square or a long skinny scarf to color coordinate with your outfit, to tie onto your hat. It gives a lift to your spirit and brightens your day
Use a square or a long skinny scarf to color coordinate with your outfit, to tie onto your hat. It gives a lift to your spirit and brightens your day
Whip Cancer Items from a Breast Cancer Survivor Warrior
Leslie Sinclair's designs on gift items
Lesllie Sinclair placed designs from her Chemo Journal Drawings on CafePress items to make gifts for patients, caregivers, loved ones and survivors - anyone along the path to Warriorhood!
Tile Coaster
Building Bridges painting on ceramic tile. Images drawn during a public TV program on building bamboo bridges in China
Price: 5.89
Chic Caps, Totally Cool Turbans and Gorgeous Scarves
Find your style in cancer coverups. Modesty elegant and baseball-slamming team caps, tiny lace caps under gracious great rayon velvet wraps, and just the right look for every lady and gentleman who wears the badges of chemotherapy or just plain loves the feel of glorious scarves, caps and turbans.
- Always Beautiful
- Find beautiful headwraps, turbans, hats, scarves, bandanas, headwear for hair loss from cancer, chemotherapy, alopecia. Hand sewn in embroidered silk, cotton and synthetics all are reversible offering two in one alternatives
- Cotton Hats Turbans & Caps
- Hats, turbans and caps designed for women with hairloss due to cancer, chemotherapy, or alopecia. 100 percent cotton. Spring/Summer, Fall/Winter styles.
- B Coole Designs, Hats for Chemotherapy
- Cotton Clothing for men, women, and children. Sizes new born to 4x.
- Chemical free Headwear
- A business specialising in chemical free hair colour, chemo wear (headwraps, turbans etc), organic virgin coconut oil, chemical free cleanser and skin care
- Scarves for Cancer Patients
- Stunning head scarves designed for covering the head. Featuring square scarf designs from Italy. Caters to cancer, chemotherapy and alopecia patients. Wigs, Hats, Accessories
- Pink Hats & Caps
- Trendy hats and caps, Pink Crushed Velvet cancer caps and snoods made by people who wear them every day. Wedding Veil, children's caps
- Hair Loss Hats
- Exclusively Designed Hair Loss Hats and Cancer Caps for adults and children
- Glamorous Solutions to Hair Loss
- Headwear Etc provides cancer headwear to cancer patients experiencing hair loss.
- Adaptations, Inc.
- Adaptations, Inc. - Offering the most Stylish and Affordable hats turbans scarves wigs mastectomy bras breast prosthesis breast forms and skin care products available to post mastectomy and chemotherapy patients.
- Hand Loomed Scarves
- OK, maybe you won't wrap this around your head, but you'll surely want to wrap it around your shoulders or tie it on your hip. Decadent, translucent, fringed and trimmed in gold. Or see a gossamer wrap www.ziamoda.com/Santorini-Hand-Loomed-Sheer-Scarf_p_121-488
- Patti Duffy Handcrafted Originals
- Atist designed and created scarves for beauty and warmth. Wrap over an undercap.
- ChemoCare HeadWear
- ChemoCare HeadWear provides comfortable hats, scarves, swim caps, shampoo, baseball caps, mouth care, undershirts, post mastectomy exercise wear, slumber caps, jewelry to both children and adults experiencing hair loss due to chemotherapy, radiation, burns and alopecia
- Turbans & Scarves & Hats
- Choose from our large selection of turbans, scarfs, hats, sleepcaps, headwraps, petal hat, cloches, and other chemo head covers. Scarves, raffia hats
- Caps and Scarves online
- Buy Headscarves and Caps. Click Accessories/Caps for great selection.
- Artisan Street One of a Kind Accessories
- Handcrafted Handpainted one-of-a-kind scarves and wraps for the Special Occasion
- Sewinjs Great chemotherapy Wraps
- Custom made wraps, hats, caps for chemotherapy, cancer, lupus, paintball, sports and bikers.
- Designer Scarves
- Upscale scarves, and wraps
- Gauzy Hand Decorated Batik Scarf
- TEN Helps fight human trafficking and sex trafficking by providing economic opportunity for survivors. We sell handicrafts made by survivors and help survivors and high risk girls set up new busineses.
- Cold Weather Velvet Scarf
- Velvet Scarf/Wrap - A Long Touch of Glamour
- Cotton Scarves
- Click Shyalas and Al Amira Hijab for cotton scarves
- Velvet scarves from Scarf Shop
- Rayon Velvet scarves from Scarf Shop make gorgeous fashion accessories when wrapped over an undercap or underscarf. Warm and delicious for Winter.
- Unique Scarf Cap Combo
- A no tie flair scarf accessory, perfect for any wardrobe, and a special gift that is truly appreciated. Elegant silk musical pattern, and easy wear polyester for easy care style. Turbans and more for cancer care
- The Whole Banana Bandana
- Bandana fabric and scarves, beaded belts, designer headwraps, cotton bandanas, caps, bags and belts wholesale from India
- Scarves, Caps, Turbans and Headbands
- Selling head covers such as , Turbans and Bandanas, accessory scarf, alopecia, Bandanas, cancer head scarf, cheap scarf, cheap scarves, chemo head patient scarf, chemo shampoo, chemo swim caps, turbans
- Hat&Hair Combination for Breast Cancer
- Contemporary hats with detachable hairpieces. HAT & HAIR is designed for women, teens and children suffering hair loss, or just for fun!
- Wallingford Center
- Scroll down and click on Yazdi and Yazdi II. (206) 547-6008. Although Yazdi does not have a web business, some women travel from as far as Oregon to shop at this Seattle boutique. Find gorgeous gorgeous scarves for outer wraps (to cover caps and underscarves). Hats are not selected for depth of crown, although many may work well. This is an outstanding shop, well worth a phone call and a visit
- Head Scarves, Bandanas, Chemotherapy Headwraps and More by Babushkah
- Babushkah Headscarves & Bandanas Wear Babushkahs all day, all night, all year long -- indoors and outdoors! Large selection. Light or Warm Weights. Chemotherapy/alopecia and How-to Tie Sections for Children and Adults
- Scarf Gripper Headband
- Scarf Gripper for Scarves and BangsNEW! We proudly introduce "The Scarf Gripper." Wear our scarf gripper headband underneath our scarves to keep them securely in place. Our gripper can also be used to secure our synthetic bangs
- Pre-Tied Bandannas
- Gorgeous colors. Cotton terry for absorbency. Pull-ons cover your whole head with ears exposed or covered.
- Patterns for Caps and Hats to Make
- Bev's Country Cottage patterns. Large selection of patterns for caps and hats to make as gifts for cancer patients. Also Josh Groban's "Beanie Brigade" project to make hats for children patients.
- Chemo Chicks Headwear
- One stop shopping and resources to empower women living with cancer and their loved ones with style, humor and dignity.
- Knit a Chinchilla Hat for that Special Chemo Gal
- Berroco hand-knitting yarns for elegant, swanky hats and scarves. Free patterns and shade cards. Free KnitBits E-Newsletter
- Sarong as Turban
- How to tie a sarong into a turban. Graciously beautiful
- One-of-a-Kind Hats
- Warm Caps for Cool Heads. If your bald pate needs warming up try the Black Button Lid. One of a kind hats by Nancy Rood - Made in the Mountains of Vermont!
- Cancer Awareness Scarf
- 100% Silk handcrafted Women's Cancers Awareness Scarf. The design of the Tulane Cancer Center scarf incorporates many of the architectural features found in the Hutchinson Memorial Building, currently home to the Tulane University School of Medicine
- 4Women Scarves
- Fashionable scarves for women with medical hair loss, all lined in soft cotton. 4Women.com makes beautiful scarves in silk, rayon batik, and other luxurious fabrics for dress, casual, exercise, and sports. *Try the Workout Scarves for unusally beautiful toppers
Teddy Bear gifts for comfort!
Designed by a breast cancer survivor
Women Write About Life and Breast Cancer
Back When I Had Breast Cancer............
Family death, separations, divorce, job hunt, financial crash, and breast cancer too. Sometimes I was just grateful to have too many distractions to focus on a single one so I tended to bounce from one to another - leveraging just so much stress to one thing, in passing.
Breast cancer - with me heedless to my high risk category - sat atop my worry hat like a bouncing tassle. Early onset menses, no childbearing,........and the third sign escapes me right now.........those three had earned me the HR designation, but it had run off me like Spring rain off a metal roof. I simply hadn't paid attention. It was only my second mammogram - and I had had my yearly provider exam within the month.
But intuition caught me by the throat when the "need for additional study" letter arrived, and I rushed off to take care of some of those other items on the list, still glowing like neon. The one bright and positive event I scheduled was the date for my "Shaddah", my conversion to Islam - two weeks (it turned out) before the pending surgery. From the conviction in my heart that I had found my spiritual home in Islam I claimed the strength I would need to face an uncertain future.
The next mammogram showed a mass with irregular borders and the radiologist rushed me into the Ultrasound Room - where her suspicions were confirmed, but I wasn't told. In the evening my Primary Provider called me with a question: "why hadn't I told her about the lump?" I didn't know about any lump until that phone call when she told me where it was...............and I folded my elbow and placed my index finger at the spot she described: "about 1 inch at 1 o'clock"!
No one else, no family members and no friends, knew about the likelihood of my having breast cancer. A chronically healthy woman, I truly believed I would be the exception to the 3-Strikes = High Risk rule. My Nurse Practitioner had called to schedule a "first-thing Monday morning" appointment to discuss surgery and the ensuing year as a breast cancer patient.
Breast cancer - with me heedless to my high risk category - sat atop my worry hat like a bouncing tassle. Early onset menses, no childbearing,........and the third sign escapes me right now.........those three had earned me the HR designation, but it had run off me like Spring rain off a metal roof. I simply hadn't paid attention. It was only my second mammogram - and I had had my yearly provider exam within the month.
But intuition caught me by the throat when the "need for additional study" letter arrived, and I rushed off to take care of some of those other items on the list, still glowing like neon. The one bright and positive event I scheduled was the date for my "Shaddah", my conversion to Islam - two weeks (it turned out) before the pending surgery. From the conviction in my heart that I had found my spiritual home in Islam I claimed the strength I would need to face an uncertain future.
The next mammogram showed a mass with irregular borders and the radiologist rushed me into the Ultrasound Room - where her suspicions were confirmed, but I wasn't told. In the evening my Primary Provider called me with a question: "why hadn't I told her about the lump?" I didn't know about any lump until that phone call when she told me where it was...............and I folded my elbow and placed my index finger at the spot she described: "about 1 inch at 1 o'clock"!
No one else, no family members and no friends, knew about the likelihood of my having breast cancer. A chronically healthy woman, I truly believed I would be the exception to the 3-Strikes = High Risk rule. My Nurse Practitioner had called to schedule a "first-thing Monday morning" appointment to discuss surgery and the ensuing year as a breast cancer patient.
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ronyrost
Thanks for Scarf Wrapping tips, was really useful. Posted June 26, 2008 |
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julieashcroft
It is very nice lens here, Scarves Hats are looking so nice and it is very comfortable to wearing. Thanks you for this valuable and nostalgic information. Posted May 06, 2008 |
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Roving_Band
It's great to be in the "Let's Kick Breast Cancer's Butt!" group with you! Posted February 25, 2008 |
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LeaYekutiel
Wonderful lens! Posted December 21, 2007 |
Working Gringa
Check out HatsbyJayne.com . Jayne is a nurse who designs beautiful outrageous hats on the side, and hats for ladies with cancer are her specialty.
Posted June 11, 2007
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