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It was quite a horrifying expericance, possibly because it was my friend's hair that I ruined and not my own. We'd been shopping and browsed through Superdrug, not really looking for anything in particular when we stumbled across the hair dye. Minutes later we were sat on the floor of the shop comparing colours and prices, recommendations, and how easy to use they were. It was summer, and we'd both decided that a lighter colour was what we would go for. I just wanted to give mine a little summer boost, you know the sort of sun bleached colour it goes after summer, only I wanted it before I hit the beach. She however wanted something drastic; platinum blonde with little blue added bits. It sounded a good idea, and would look amazing if we did it right. Caught up in the feeling of spontaneity we rushed home, using her house because we decided her parents would be less harsh if we made a mess. We followed all of the instructions meticulously carefully. It wasn't the first time we'd dyed hair, but neither of us were particularly confident. I still don't really know where we went wrong, maybe we left it on too long, or possibly it was just too strong for her hair but however it happened, an hour later I was being rushed out of the house by her furious parents as she sat up stairs crying. They would even let me see what had gone wrong. That was the worst part; I imagined a million worst case scenarios whilst her parents tried to sort her hair out. It was only afterwards that I found what happened between the time that she went up to wash the dye out of her hair, and came to see me the next day with it turned a bright red colour.

The dye had been too strong apparently and had removed all of the pigment from her hair. She was taken to a hair specialist who had to add pigment back in (I still don't really know what that means). The hair dresser had said that it was only the thickness of her hair that had prevented it all falling out. She then had to have her hair dyed purple because that was the only colour her hair would take without turning green, and then have it dyed a brown colour over that which had turned it a deep red. Apparently it had cost loads, but she didn't want to tell me. She said that she bore me no hard feelings, and her parents didn't blame me either, but she was forbidden from ever dyeing her hair at home again. Which I completely understood; however if the time ever comes when I want to dye my hair again, I can't say that I wouldn't use a home dye kit, I think I'd just spend more time thinking it over and checking what was in the product before I used it, to save me the horror of what happened to her.

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