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Original poster

To be annoyed that it's impossible to get a same day hair colour with a new hairdresser now

63 replies

ChristmasGutPunch · 20/04/2024 20:10

Because they've all become so strict with the patch test?

I just want a spontaneous colour tomorrow but I know no one will do it without 48 hours for the patch.

Miss the good old days.

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sleepyscientist · 20/04/2024 21:02

I also don't want a patch of dye on my skin! I go to hairdresser to avoid the dye patches or I could just order dye off the internet. We really need a waiver culture in the UK.

Confrontayshunme · 20/04/2024 21:00

I had the same hairdresser and dye/highlights for over a decade. I had a patch test post covid in 2020 and definitely reacted differently. Not a massive rash, but it was unpleasant. In the end, we waited a few days and I took antihistamines and it was fine. But they do them for a reason.

WhatFlavourIsIt · 20/04/2024 21:00

I've never been to a hairdresser and had a patch test.

GreyTonkinese · 20/04/2024 20:58

I have had my hair professionally dyed for forty odd years and never had a patch test! Not in the UK though.

Beezknees · 20/04/2024 20:55

Pre covid? Really? In all my life I've never been to a hairdresser that didn't make you do a patch test first.

Bluevelvetsofa · 20/04/2024 20:46

It’s not really difficult to plan ahead , get a patch test and then make the appointment afterwards, surely.

I don’t blame anyone for not wanting to risk their livelihood.

TheCraicDealer · 20/04/2024 20:28

They’re only covering themselves and I can’t blame them. If you have a reaction to a dye then the salon doesn’t have a leg to stand on if you make a claim and they didn’t insist on a patch test prior to your first colour treatment with them (or one after a long break). Most salons would have let you away with it but post-Covid there were reports of increased sensitivities, even in people who had been colouring their hair for years. You might get lucky and find one that doesn’t insist on it but they’ve either been lucky not have had a claim/complaint or they just don’t care that it’s best practice and protects them and the customer. Reactions really, really aren’t nice, we’re talking swelling, hair loss, hives, burning sensations and more.

Interestingly you don’t need to do a patch test for bleach which I only learned recently.

CornishPorsche · 20/04/2024 20:27

What absolute bollocks. No competent hairdresser should be colouring hair without a patch test unless they like to be personally sued and liable for any allergic reactions, hair reactions or the like.

If you like to live on the edge, just buy a box dye.

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ChristmasGutPunch · 20/04/2024 20:15

To be honest at 40 odd I'm pretty sure it's superfluous and having to wait definitely makes life like 0.5% more annoying.

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ChristmasGutPunch · 20/04/2024 20:14

Pre COVID you definitely could but my hairdresser tells me everyone is much stricter since then (an Irish hairdresser wrote an article about how COVID can increase allergic reactions and they all clamped down).
Stupid roots.

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LizzieSiddal · 20/04/2024 20:12

It’s been that way for years. Anyone hairdresser not doing the patch test is not worth going to.

Pheasantsmate · 20/04/2024 20:11

Think you should be able to sign a waiver and have it done at your own risk

EggChair · 20/04/2024 20:11

I think that’s been the case for years, though?

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