I'm Jojogingerhead, a 31 year old artist & musician based in Brighton (UK) satirically documenting the highs and lows of my secondary triple negative breast cancer diagnosis. Trying to see the light in a dark and scary situation without using the words fight, battle, journey or survivor.
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- Wig gain and hair loss
Ginger is back
Yesterday I had my first haircut and colour in nearly a year after cutting it short, then shaving it, then having chemo all through the summer of 2014 and then it finally growing back […]
Bald (not drunk) in public
Okay I lied about not being drunk in public. I did it, I finally went out in public wig-less and headgear-less for the first time since shaving my head in June 2014 (before chemo started). […]
My ginger frakey fringey (fake fringe)
Still unable to find a ginger wig anywhere near my hair colour before the shave, I thought I would have a go at making some fake fringes to wear under my headscarf’s. I bought […]
Ginger hair spiders nest
At least the spiders are making good use of my hair loss, just found this dangling off a spiders web at my mums house.
Goodbye left ginger sideburn
Bye bye ginger left sideburn I think Brookwood Cemetery is a very fitting resting place for my hair that started to fall out this lunchtime on our picnic (and don’t ask why we were […]
The kindness of others
Now this ginger wig is more like it! I’m incredibly touched at the kindness of others by this amazing mystery wig landing on my doorstep earlier. I was feeling pretty miserable watching our neighbours […]
A wig called Brenda
After trying on a variety of wigs in the wig shop, I soon discovered that they all made me look like a librarian called Brenda and none of them came in a shade anywhere close […]