While many people out there
dye their hair at home, making it a fairly regular practice to keep the style they desire, there are some dangers that not everyone knows about. With any product there is the potential for people to have
allergic reactions, but applying something to long hair can cause a bigger problem if you're body has an adverse reaction to it.
This is something that Lauren Woods unfortunately had to go through recently when she was trying to dye her hair black. She tried a 24-hour strand test of the Nice 'n' Easy No Ammonia Hair Dye, without having any problems.
But when she committed to the product she had a horrible reaction, with her body began to swell up all over to the point that she couldn't even open her eyes.
She was rushed to the hospital, where it took days for the swelling to go down. She has recovered now, and hopes that by sharing her experience she can warn others of the dangers.
Lauren posted images of what she looked like and the story that went with it on Facebook, and the post has since gone viral, with over 5,000 comments and 10,000 shares.
In the Facebook post, she wrote:
"This is one thing that I thought would never happen to me, but anyone who dyes their hair please make sure you do patch tests and strand tests!
"I did do a patch test my self and nothing came up after 24 hours so I dyed my hair on Thursday evening and everything was fine until I was about to get into the shower on Saturday morning and noticed how swollen my forehead had got as well as how burnt my scalp is."
"I phoned my mum in absolute hysterics she rushed over I then went to the hospital for them to tell me not to wash my hair. hours pasted [sic] and the swelling had moved to my eyes, again went to the hospital with my boyfriend to be given steroids and allergy tablets and to be told the swelling will go down in the next few hours.
"Went home went to bed then woke up Sunday morning unable to open my eyes, so I went to the walk in centre to which she told me I had to go straight to a&e and I’ve been here ever since.
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"The pictures are of me on Friday, then Sunday afternoon on a drip, My face now and the hair dye I used. Dying my hair is definitely not worth the Amount of pain I’ve been in. I don’t want anyone to have to go through what I’ve had to go through these last few days so please can you share and raise awareness that this isn’t just something you see in the papers!"
While it's unlikely you will have to go through something as bad as Lauren went through, it's always worth keeping in mind the potential dangers of using any product like this.
