Doing your hair at home. It always
sounds like a good idea. Do some highlights. Maybe a little trim.
Next thing you know you're leaving the house wearing a hat because
you fucked yourself up. This 19 year old from Paris named Estelle
decided to dye her hair at home and ended up looking like what she
describes as a “light bulb head.” I prefer Garbage Pail Kid.
You'll see. By the way, these are those kinda things that do not
happen often or have these extreme results but folks like to panic so
everyone is gonna be racing to their hair dyes to see if they contain
anything that can turn you into the Toxic Avenger. She started with a
patch test and left it on for half an hour. All seemed well so she
put it all over her head even though the box says to wait 48 hours.
That seems weird. Do you just walk around with this one colored spot
or something? Either way, she could feel that something just ain't
right like a Keith Sweat lyric (if you got that joke marry me) and
took some pills and anti-itch shit and immediately rushed to the
hospital.
Kidding. She went to bed.
When she
woke up her whole head was fucked. The chemical that got her is known
as PPD (paraphenylenediamine) that can cause some reactions in folks.
Like her. She rolled that shit hand of the dice and turned into Large
Marge. “I could not breathe. I had a lightbulb head. Before
arriving at the hospital, you just don't know how long it will take
for you to suffocate, if you have the time to get to the hospital or
not.” Personally, I would not have even been able to go to sleep
with my head feeling like shit. I have lived with Black women who had
the shittiest nights' sleep because of their perm, braids, or new
weave. Not from pain so much as not wanting to mess it up.
“I pretty much laugh at myself
because of the incredible shape of my head” she said after not
dying. Some reports say that side effects like redness, blistering,
and itching can happen. As well as renal and respiratory failure.
Fuck that. Estelle added that she wants more hair dye companies to be
more explanatory with side effects. “ I want the companies who sell
these products to make their warning more clear and more visible.”
How?! I'm sure there are warnings. Almost anything you come in
contact can kill you somehow. I was at Home Depot the other day. That
entire place is a death trap to me because of that goddamn Equalizer movie. You ever look at a rake? I mean really look at a rake?
I think the closest situation I've had
to an allergic reaction was that Magic Shave shit. I tried the powder
over ten years ago and it made me smell like my face was permed so I
never used it again. Years later I tried out the lotion version. Face
I got the sensitive skin type because my skin is sensitive as fuck.
It smelled like my face had a perm a few days ago but was not as bad
as the powder. But...the shit felt like my face was on fire. I wiped
it off and rinsed my face and had to go to work. I didn't even need
to use the shit because I shave once a week and my facial hair grows
slower than my dick in church. I went to work with my face all shiny
and bruised looking and making sure no one saw me all night. I got
home after work and put ice on my face and Neosporin and just let my
skin heal. It was horrible. What I didn't do was go to sleep. If I
ever woke up with my face looking like a pancake I would not take a
single picture. I'd gasp, shit a little, and then put some ice on it.
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