Woman sues hair salon after suffering burns

Posted 06/06/2010

A woman is taking legal action against a hair salon after suffering chemical burns to her scalp which put her in hospital.

Stephanie Davies-Crowley, 37, went to La Belle Hair Studio in Hitchin to have a colour put on her hair days before she was due to be married last August, the London Evening Standard reports.

However, she claims that the hairdresser did not do a patch test to check whether she was allergic to the dye’s materials and mixed colouring chemicals with straightening ingredients, resulting in toxic shock.

Ms Davies-Crowley had to be taken to hospital for treatment and was forced to travel to her wedding from there. She also had to wear a wig to disguise the bald patches which occurred as a result of the chemical burns.

“At one point I went blind … They had to drain the fluid from my head and put me on morphine to kill the pain,” the victim said.

She is to seek personal injury compensation from the salon, which declined to comment on the incident.

The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers recently launched a campaign for hairdressers to be regulated after discovering more than 30 salon-related injury cases in the past 12 months in the East Midlands alone.