Comments on: If You Dont Test Your Hair Dye Now, You May Hate Yourself Later

By: rose

rose — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:14:46 +0000

That is not true ! I have been coloring my hair for years with no reaction UNTIL I got tattoos. Hair color boxes now even state that if you have tattoos you have a higher chance of an adverse reaction.

By: tina

tina — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:33:36 +0000

i’ve never had an allergic reaction to hair dye until i got my whole right arm tattooed. i had 6 tats before i decided to do my sleeve and i still had no problems with dying my hair. well things have changed and now i dread even thinking about dying my hair!!! i’m 31 and i’ve dyed my hair a numerous of colors since i was a teenager but the past 4yrs hasnt been so great ;(
i used black hair dye at least once a month but then i started getting rashes on my ears,neck,and hairline everytime i’d dye my hair! i tried using ammonia free and organic but still the same outcome,along with an itchy scalp and dandruff!!! i quit using black dye thinking that was the problem,so i used other colors and unfortunately it’s the same thing!!! ughhh,i just give up!!!

By: Holly

Holly — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 23:10:54 +0000

Something finally makes a little sense..
I have been dying my hair black since I was 14, at that time I had one tattoo. The past few years I have been switching between black, bleaching, red..etc and I now have a lot more tattoos(almost 20)..and I have been having reactions to my hair dye that I’ve never had before. I dyed my hair black in the late spring of this year with the same dye I had always used, and I had a horrible allergic reaction. I went to the ER twice…my head and face was so swollen I couldn’t see, and scabs were forming all over my head, oozing down my face. It was simply terrible.
I waited a while..and dyed my hair last night with natural hair dye, no ammonia or any other harsh chemicals; and though it was nowhere near as bad as before, my head has been super itchy and I have a rash/bumps on my arm where dye was splashed and on the back of my neck as well..
mysterious, but glad I’m not the only one!

By: Danielle

Danielle — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:19:58 +0000

I started dying my hair black at the age of 13. I’m 25 now and I’ve dyed my hair on and off for 12 years and suddenly developed an allergic reaction to it just last year. I never did the allergy tests because I was in complete denial that being allergic to hairdye was even possible but I nearly went into anaphylactic shock. I would suggest you take your allergy test and do it behind the ear, not the arm. I am proof that it is possible to develop an allergic reaction to hair dye at any time even though you’ve been dying your hair most of your life.

By: Heather

Heather — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 14:16:33 +0000

I just had a reaction to my hair dye. I’ve used dyes for the past two years and never had a problem. My husband and I just got married and decided to get tattoos together. When we got back from our honeymoon I decided to dye my hair. My tattoo was still new and the second I got out of the shower, my tattoo started to swell and break out in hives. I didn’t get any of the dye mixture or the water run off from my hair in the shower onto the tattoo but it still started to react. Its been a few days and now I have hives on my arm too and I can’t sleep at night because my leg hurts so bad. ALWAYS DO THE TEST!!!