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By that night I began to feel a
little sore, and my head was itching slightly. But we all know that a
sign like that is common when you’ve just had a fresh relaxer. In the
morning, my face looked puffy, and promised myself an early night for
my sins, thinking no more of it. By that same afternoon at WORK,
above all places, the left-hand side of my face had swelled so bad
that my eye was closing over. My supervisor immediately told me to go
home and rest. I drove back feeling scared. What was happening to
me? Did I eat something at lunch that did not agree with me? Had I
burst a blood vessel? All sorts of questions were going through my
mind. My partner was visiting his parents abroad, and was coming back
tonight. He had been gone for two weeks and I had missed him like
mad, but my face was a mess and I did not want him to see me like
that. To describe it best to you, I looked like the female version of
the Elephant Woman! I needed help.
I called my Mother, who believed
that maybe I had had an adverse reaction to the chemicals in the dye.
The next point of call had to be the doctor’s. It all made sense. No
strand test was done. The salon had no experience of my hair, and I
had no experience of them. The doctor confirmed that I reacted badly
to the ingredients in the dye, and cases like these were being
reported more and more. I was prescribed pills to take to reduce the
swelling, but if I did not see any difference to admit myself to
hospital. This was serious business. The doctor reluctantly told me
after the event that the swelling could have killed me as my blood
vessels could have popped! I had come close to death, through
visiting a hair salon!!
Now I know
what to say, and what to ask for in the salon. If you don’t receive
the level of service you expect, go elsewhere. Looking back, I should
have waited another week .... what's another week when your extensions
have already been in for 6 months!
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