A 20-year-old woman suffered chemical burns from an unsuccessful attempt to bleach her own hair.
Annaliese Fox is a fruit shop worker, she said that she tried the DIY at her NSW Central Coast home to save about $200 was the ‘worst mistake of her life’.
‘I’ve lost half my hair and I don’t know how much of it will grow back or how bad the scars will be,’ she told Daily Mail Australia. It’s the most traumatic thing I’ve ever been through.’
Annaliese wrapped her hair in cling wrap after applying the $10.99 powder bleach and headed out to buy some hair dye at Coles. She started feeling intense burning on her scalp and neck within an hour.
‘Your head is meant to burn a bit with bleach on it but it was like my head was on fire,’ she recalled. I started freaking out and ran to the bathroom [at Coles] and ripped the cling wrap off and my head literally had steam coming from it.’
‘It was so hot I couldn’t get the hair tie out to try to wash the bleach out and the tap was so low I only managed to get some out.’
She headed to her home and took a cold shower but it was too late. Later the same night, she visited a local hospital and photos of her head were sent to the Severe Burn Unit at Royal North Shore Hospital.
Annaliese warned other women to not bleach their own hair and instead visit a professional to do it. Plastic surgeons at the Sydney medical center are figuring out how to treat the third-degree chemical burns which may need skin grafts to heal.
‘It was such a stupid decision and you definitely shouldn’t do it, it’s not worth it at all and you could severely damage your hair,’ she said.
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