Jessica (42): “Of course I later told my husband what I had done, but at the time I didn’t feel like it. Also because I was too ashamed. He had to laugh heartily about it. At first I was relieved every time I looked in the mirror, although I didn’t think the color turned out quite right. If you paint it dark, you quickly get a helmet like that.”
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“In addition, my hair was quite damaged by all the paint, it broke off just looking at it. That burning sensation was thankfully over a day later. But a few days later, when I ran my fingertips over my scalp, I still felt some small scabs here and there. The skin was really burned off in some places, and not only that… I often wore my hair in a tight ponytail at the back of my neck and in backlight I saw all kinds of short hairs sticking up, no face. After much deliberation, I decided to rigorously have the scissors put in by a good hairdresser. I did use my savings for that.
New hair
When I told my story to that hairdresser, he was genuinely amazed at what the other hairdresser had done. He would have just put a dark rinse over it, he said. Less taxing on my hair and my wallet. Then he got to work on my long hair, which I was always so proud of. I thought it was terrifying, but the condition had deteriorated so much, it had to be. And hey, I could always grow it back. But already during the cutting I saw that it became very nice. I got a kind of long lock, the rest was cut in layers and everything was blow-dried straight and I got a few highlights. When he was done and I looked in the mirror, I immediately fell in love with my new hair. An outright hit, I’ve never received so many compliments.”