Regarding hair, my experience with carboplatin/paclitaxel was that it started falling out at the 2 week mark and was not presentable by about 4 weeks. I got it cut pretty short before starting chemo, but it still made a real mess (mostly while I was washing or combing it, but also hair all over the place.). I'd suggest leaving it until it starts falling out and then taking the clippers to it. As short as possible. That's what I did on second go round.