From potato to curly fries: Hair re-growth after chemo

As regular readers will know, I was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma in December of 2013, and subsequently, shaved my hair off (video here).

When I was all baldy and potato looking, I naturally enough Googled how long re-growth generally takes after chemotherapy -and yes, obviously, everyone is different, but being human I absolutely love general guidelines. And the internet did not disappoint. Even better was hair stories with photo montages! Who doesn't love a montage? (*Que the montage song from Team America being stuck in your head for the rest of the day*).

Life is peachy

I went and dids my hair!

...I wanted a light colour for ages but wanted to wait until some grew back after the chemo. I would have loved mint, but I neither have the patience or the willing to bleach my hair that much -Such a colour would require a hella lot of effort and toners. Most platinum blondes will tell you the nuisance of trying to only bleach roots while not over bleaching the already bleached rest of your hair! (well, home dyers like myself anywho!). It's time consuming and awkward to do yourself.

So the only pastel-ish option, if I didn't want to use pure bleach and toners (I.E. products to rid the yellow/ orange tinge of blonde) is peach/ pinky/ orangey... I'm guna say it's variation on peach. To start I used a normal blonde box dye, Nice 'n' Easy brand I think it was, then followed it up by mixing Stargazer's dawn and baby pink.

Couple tips when using Stargazer and