Call for hair dye warnings after teen’s bad reaction
Charlotte Higgins’s eyes were so puffed up that she could barely see and her neck was covered in a rash after using hair dye.
Charlotte, 13, from Whitchurch, Bristol, is taking steroids to bring down the swelling, which started just two days after she used Clairol’s Perfect 10.
She decided to dye her hair darker brown last Tuesday. She had used Clairol hair dye before and carried out the patch test 48 hours before, as instructed on the packaging, and had no reaction. But two days later her eyes began to puff up.
Sally Henderson, spokeswoman for Clairol, said: “We would urge Charlotte and her family to contact the consumer relations hotline number, which is printed on the packaging.
“Information can then be passed on to a medical team, who will contact a dermatologist to find out what caused this reaction.”
