Can permanent hair dye cause hair loss? Google suggests the jury's out

[RumTruffles]

Hi,

I have an appointment this week to have another balayage. I already had one about 8 weeks ago, but it's a bit too warm and so I'm hoping this will help cool it down a bit.

My natural hair colour is dark brown. Not the darkest brown, but not far off. I have a scattering of greys and whereas it's not a lot, they really stand out against my natural hair colour, so along side my balayage, I had my roots done, but it tingled quite a lot. Quite itchy too. My hairdresser said it can happen and is normal to an extent.

After my hair was washed though, I ran my fingers through it and two BIG handfuls came out. Again, my hairdresser said it was normal and said it was just shedding and had nothing to do with the hair dye.

Obviously my greys are now sprouting back and so wanted to get them covered, but after doing some research, I have found some similar stories about permanent dark hair dye and hair loss, but no concrete evidence to support it.

I really don't want to embrace the grey and I know that a semi will do nothing, but I also don't want to go bald, so wwyd?

I'm going to a different hairdresser and apparently they use Wella, whereas I think my last hairdresser used Loreal. I don't know if that makes any difference

I have lost a lot of my hair over the past 5 - 10 years and would say I have about 60% of it now. It's never come out all at once like this before though.

Should I just get the balayage?

TIA

You could be becoming allergic to ingredients in the darker hair dye

Urgh I hope not

I shed a lot during the warmer months, think it's a throw back to when we all roamed around naked

@WINDOLENE, I am used to shedding more at certain times of the year, although I haven't noticed a real pattern, but it was the sheer amount that came out all at once, that freaked me out. Two massive clumps!

I've been researching more natural hair dyes, but they don't seem to exist. Henna has reddish undertones, which really don't suit me, plus apparently it's not particularly good at covering grey, which is the main objective!

Wondering whether I should use the cover up powders, like Wow and the like, for a while and just give my hair a longer break.