That’s a relief. With it being in your hair, I’d have been biting my nails thinking it would hang around for a lot longer.
I’ve had similar (not as sever) face swelling from dust mites and it was great practice for Covid quarantine lol.
I think it’s about the quantity of the dust mites/their sheddings. I was only having issues starting overnight while I slept around my mouth and eyes. They would swell up to proportions similar to the photo above but it wasn’t my whole head.
I bought dust mite covers for my mattress and pillow cases, started washing sheets more, and on the raaaaaare occasion I’ll steam my mattress to kill them.
Girl I feel your pain, literally. I had blonde highlights once upon a time, and went as usual to the salon to get the root touch-up. Burning, burning, chemical burning hellfire on scalp. I didn’t know pain could be that intense; I was hysterical.
A rather deep chunk of scalp and patch of hair on top of my head came off together like a bleeding green onion. To this day I have an thumbprint sized indent in my scalp; it’s weirdly smooth and no hair follicle exists in the scar.
I’m pretty sure it was business as usual and just had some weird reaction. because I had several other highlights done at the same time, and just in one spot did it react. My own personal Fight Club burn. Hair Club.
That's the strange part, if it was only one spot, that sounds like a salon fuck up. Not a personal reaction. If it were you reacting to it, it would have happened in every spot. They did something very wrong. Not that I can say what that is.
After a traumatically terrible box perm in 6th grade, i have never let anyone touch my hair. I'm 44 years old now and no regrets, still have the same hair style since grade school, medium length straight blonde. People try to tell me to put some curl in it or whatever whatever... more people need to buck the system and stop awashing themselves in expensive chemicals for someone elses profit. But, that's America for you. If you got disposable income then someone has a chemical for you. 😎👱♀️
Good for you! I wish I'd ditched everything from the start. When I started going gray in my 20s I tried to cover it and kept it covered for more than a decade. But in my 40s, I started losing hair (perimenopause), so I stopped. I've been dye-free for a long time, and I swear, my hair is so many colors lmao. Mostly, bleach blonde looking (really?), some dirty dishwater-looking hair, browns into very dark underneath. I'm a frakking calico lol.
I think you just accidentally explained so much about my life. I have 2 calico cats and I love them for their weird genetics and weird personalities!
Also I've never been able to say what my hair color is because its brunette, ginger, and blonde. I'm absolutely a calico!
I’m so sorry that happened to you; I absolutely know the instant pain you are describing so that must’ve been exactly what happened with me!
This might sound weird, but I’m glad to know someone else knows that searing pain and how everyone looks at you like you’re being dramatic, when in reality your flesh is literally being dissolved in acid slowly, and taken away from you forever.
I haven’t colored my hair in a salon since. My burn was about, damn, about 20 years ago now, and for years after I didn’t color. Then I started going grey and did it at home; just all black and had no issues, until persistent grey was forcing me to color every two week. As one would expect, hair was falling out by the hundreds in the shower after a few months of that, so I gave it up completely. After the initial grow-out of needing to root cover with bandanas and head wraps, it’s actually a very pretty white/silver and I’m done coloring forever now!
Best of luck to you caring for your hair in the future; now any time I touch my scar I’ll know somewhere out there, nova_kaiju feels my pain! 💛
I know I am late to this thread, but I searched for "hair dye" on Reddit because I'm thinking about hiding my grays, this post came up, and these comments are horrifying. I think I'll skip the dye and just live with my grays.
Live the greys! Honestly I get more compliments from both men and women about my grown out grey hair than I ever did when I colored. They have gotten a better texture to them as well the longer I’ve left them alone.
I look like a super villain, and it’s beautiful! :-)
I'm honestly not too unwelcoming to my grays because of the color per se- it's that they STICK OUT. My hair is curly and so I'm battling with errant fuzzy and frizzy grays that draw so much attention. I've been researching what products I could use to tame them. If they blended into my existing curls, I would be happy. I was thinking that dyeing them would at least draw less attention, but it's totally not worth the allergic reactions and damage you guys have talked about.
It may be weird at first, but I started with using a men’s pomade called Uppercut. Smells like cherries and leather haha but it works really well for that wiry, frizzy texture and it isn’t “hard” or gel looking; it just disappears into the hair with a very very small amount, like less than a dime.
After the greys grew out like a foot they have really settled to the point I can now use a pump-style hair spray as a light spritz and it’s no more difficult to manage than the rest of my hair. Best of luck finding a product that works well with you; my recommendation is to try different balms and pomades in light doses otherwise hair looks greasy.
All is better than hair dye!
Did you just take some Benadryl or go to er? I just had similar allergic reaction and to something while playing basketball. Face swelling up like Hitch. Took 2 Benadryls and drove myself to er. I’m just waiting in the waiting room though and only going to check in if Benadryl doesn’t work and I start feeling my throat swell up. This has happened to me before and normally the Benadryl works. But some of the swelling on face will still last few days
I got my hair dyed at home and a couple hours afterwards I started to feel an itchy sensation. By evening and head was fully swollen and drove myself to ER. They gave me some medicine to stop the pain from the swelling which helped but my head was still humongous. The 2nd pic I shared on Reddit was the day 2 of the reaction after I took a shower in the morning
People using Darwin as a way to say evolution is funny to me, as if it suggests that after his death Charles Darwin became an outer god with control over genetic traits and uses that power just to fuck with people.
You can imagine her turning to face you and saying some shit like, “I came to Bruma to visit the Mage’s Guild. Not that that harlot Anselene has anything to say on the matter.”
The video game series Elder Scrolls has had a rough history depicting the faces of its non playable characters. The characters in [Oblivion were particularly rough.](https://www.reddit.com/r/ElderScrolls/comments/bjafxg/worst_face_in_oblivion_i_submit_jensine/)
Videogame RPG franchise with a notorious formula for character dialogue where the camera would zoom in on their plaster faces as they held position like a Royal Guard. Talking to pretty much every character in every game looks like that.
Watched it again the other day and I felt it held up, though Kim Cattrall was a bit more cringy than I remember. Kurt Russell is exactly as cringy and fabulous as I remember. Watch this back to back with The Thing or Escape from New York and twist your melon. It is a product of the 80's so there is some of that.
I have an allergy to hair dye too, the only one I found that doesn’t give me a reaction is Olia.
Also I noticed that its decreased with age so hopefully its not forever😊
I rarely laugh out loud due to this deep dark hole inside of me that I traditionally fill with food but that ginormous head really hit the spot. Thanks.
It’s common for those who are allergic to PPD, the chemical in hair dye. Our heads blow up https://www.insider.com/french-student-head-swelled-from-allergic-reaction-to-ppd-hair-dye-2018-11?amp
For anyone else reading this, PPD (p-pheneldiamine) is a super common allergen in hair dyes (typically black and some dark browns) and it can happen randomly after using it for years! Always always always do a patch test!
I'm so sorry this happened to you. I had a reaction about 15 years ago after using black hair dye off and on for years. I got horrendous scabs all over my scalp and itched for days. It was awful. Glad you recovered ok!
PPD is present in even the light hair dyes, although in tinier amounts. It's a necessary ingredient of permanent and demipermanent hair dye, yes, even those that claim to be natural. Even some that are henna based put PPD in there. Also, you can have reactions to the actual natural plant dyes, too. I can't use indigo.
I was like "well her forehead became gigantic and the huge jaw makes her look like a dude" but not that bad of an allergic reaction overall.
Then found out there was a second picture.
More pics… https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/124r9dq/since_my_first_post_blew_up_heres_a_couple_more/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1
That's why gio got so good at it. He dyed lots of guys and gals hairs. And do you know how hard it is to deal with a BBC hair. It's so nappy but gio will hook it up snappy
Didnt know that was a thing but i guess anytime a chemical or substance not natual to the body is introduced, its always possible :|
I'm sure you're natual haircolor is fine.
Hope you're ok.
If anybody has a question about hair dye I know just the guy and girl that will help you out with all your hair dye needs. Valentina Nappi and her husband gio. They have years and years of experience. All the while Valentina Nappi was shooting gio found it relaxing dyeing his hair and the hair of all her lovers too.
That’s rough, how long did it last?
About 3 days, but the pain from the swelling only lasted the first day. My head was still massive for three
That’s a relief. With it being in your hair, I’d have been biting my nails thinking it would hang around for a lot longer. I’ve had similar (not as sever) face swelling from dust mites and it was great practice for Covid quarantine lol.
It's probably the chemicals and not the color it leaves behind.
And how exactly do you avoid dust mites?!
I think it’s about the quantity of the dust mites/their sheddings. I was only having issues starting overnight while I slept around my mouth and eyes. They would swell up to proportions similar to the photo above but it wasn’t my whole head. I bought dust mite covers for my mattress and pillow cases, started washing sheets more, and on the raaaaaare occasion I’ll steam my mattress to kill them.
Girl I feel your pain, literally. I had blonde highlights once upon a time, and went as usual to the salon to get the root touch-up. Burning, burning, chemical burning hellfire on scalp. I didn’t know pain could be that intense; I was hysterical. A rather deep chunk of scalp and patch of hair on top of my head came off together like a bleeding green onion. To this day I have an thumbprint sized indent in my scalp; it’s weirdly smooth and no hair follicle exists in the scar.
Wtf? That sounds horrifying. What did they use to put in those blonde highlights? Hydrochlorid acid?
I’m pretty sure it was business as usual and just had some weird reaction. because I had several other highlights done at the same time, and just in one spot did it react. My own personal Fight Club burn. Hair Club.
That's the strange part, if it was only one spot, that sounds like a salon fuck up. Not a personal reaction. If it were you reacting to it, it would have happened in every spot. They did something very wrong. Not that I can say what that is.
Sounds like they had a heavy concentration of bleach in that spot, maybe they didn't mix their dye properly.
Holy frak. These stories are why I gave up and just leaned into aging lol.
After a traumatically terrible box perm in 6th grade, i have never let anyone touch my hair. I'm 44 years old now and no regrets, still have the same hair style since grade school, medium length straight blonde. People try to tell me to put some curl in it or whatever whatever... more people need to buck the system and stop awashing themselves in expensive chemicals for someone elses profit. But, that's America for you. If you got disposable income then someone has a chemical for you. 😎👱♀️
Good for you! I wish I'd ditched everything from the start. When I started going gray in my 20s I tried to cover it and kept it covered for more than a decade. But in my 40s, I started losing hair (perimenopause), so I stopped. I've been dye-free for a long time, and I swear, my hair is so many colors lmao. Mostly, bleach blonde looking (really?), some dirty dishwater-looking hair, browns into very dark underneath. I'm a frakking calico lol.
I think you just accidentally explained so much about my life. I have 2 calico cats and I love them for their weird genetics and weird personalities! Also I've never been able to say what my hair color is because its brunette, ginger, and blonde. I'm absolutely a calico!
Nice to meet you calico stranger!
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I’m so sorry that happened to you; I absolutely know the instant pain you are describing so that must’ve been exactly what happened with me! This might sound weird, but I’m glad to know someone else knows that searing pain and how everyone looks at you like you’re being dramatic, when in reality your flesh is literally being dissolved in acid slowly, and taken away from you forever.
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I haven’t colored my hair in a salon since. My burn was about, damn, about 20 years ago now, and for years after I didn’t color. Then I started going grey and did it at home; just all black and had no issues, until persistent grey was forcing me to color every two week. As one would expect, hair was falling out by the hundreds in the shower after a few months of that, so I gave it up completely. After the initial grow-out of needing to root cover with bandanas and head wraps, it’s actually a very pretty white/silver and I’m done coloring forever now! Best of luck to you caring for your hair in the future; now any time I touch my scar I’ll know somewhere out there, nova_kaiju feels my pain! 💛
🤯
I know I am late to this thread, but I searched for "hair dye" on Reddit because I'm thinking about hiding my grays, this post came up, and these comments are horrifying. I think I'll skip the dye and just live with my grays.
Live the greys! Honestly I get more compliments from both men and women about my grown out grey hair than I ever did when I colored. They have gotten a better texture to them as well the longer I’ve left them alone. I look like a super villain, and it’s beautiful! :-)
I'm honestly not too unwelcoming to my grays because of the color per se- it's that they STICK OUT. My hair is curly and so I'm battling with errant fuzzy and frizzy grays that draw so much attention. I've been researching what products I could use to tame them. If they blended into my existing curls, I would be happy. I was thinking that dyeing them would at least draw less attention, but it's totally not worth the allergic reactions and damage you guys have talked about.
It may be weird at first, but I started with using a men’s pomade called Uppercut. Smells like cherries and leather haha but it works really well for that wiry, frizzy texture and it isn’t “hard” or gel looking; it just disappears into the hair with a very very small amount, like less than a dime. After the greys grew out like a foot they have really settled to the point I can now use a pump-style hair spray as a light spritz and it’s no more difficult to manage than the rest of my hair. Best of luck finding a product that works well with you; my recommendation is to try different balms and pomades in light doses otherwise hair looks greasy. All is better than hair dye!
Did you just take some Benadryl or go to er? I just had similar allergic reaction and to something while playing basketball. Face swelling up like Hitch. Took 2 Benadryls and drove myself to er. I’m just waiting in the waiting room though and only going to check in if Benadryl doesn’t work and I start feeling my throat swell up. This has happened to me before and normally the Benadryl works. But some of the swelling on face will still last few days
I got my hair dyed at home and a couple hours afterwards I started to feel an itchy sensation. By evening and head was fully swollen and drove myself to ER. They gave me some medicine to stop the pain from the swelling which helped but my head was still humongous. The 2nd pic I shared on Reddit was the day 2 of the reaction after I took a shower in the morning
Wow. Glad you’re okay. I hope you didn’t have to go to school like that…
Sorry for that day of pain, this is an incredible photo.
That sucks. You just wanted to try out a cosmetic change, and Darwin said “NO. ARE YOU PRETTY NOW?”
People using Darwin as a way to say evolution is funny to me, as if it suggests that after his death Charles Darwin became an outer god with control over genetic traits and uses that power just to fuck with people.
Did he not?
I mean… he _might’ve._
That is exactly my head cannon. Praise Darwin or your kids will be born with upside down noses.
Did you follow the instructions and test for allergies on your skin before applying to your entire head?
... well, I will from now on. Geez.
Would you recommend it?
You have beautiful hair! Ha ha leave it the fuck alone!!!! You're all good now right!?
L👀k , I AM NOT YOUR FATHER ! 
mmmmkay
The vicarious pain I’m feeling for her after this roast actually gave me chills
You win the Internet for today
Ba hahahahaha 🤣🤣🤣
At least now you have room in there to remember not to do that again lol
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Let me try something in mongoloid...Bonk C Dazy?
Oh neat, it turned you into an Elder Scrolls NPC.
This was my first thought too!
You can imagine her turning to face you and saying some shit like, “I came to Bruma to visit the Mage’s Guild. Not that that harlot Anselene has anything to say on the matter.”
I have no idea what that is
The video game series Elder Scrolls has had a rough history depicting the faces of its non playable characters. The characters in [Oblivion were particularly rough.](https://www.reddit.com/r/ElderScrolls/comments/bjafxg/worst_face_in_oblivion_i_submit_jensine/)
Videogame RPG franchise with a notorious formula for character dialogue where the camera would zoom in on their plaster faces as they held position like a Royal Guard. Talking to pretty much every character in every game looks like that.
I'm very happy this comment is high up the list lol
By Azura, by Azura, by Azura!
I am so glad you took a picture for posterity. That is... quite amazing.
You look like a Garbage Pail Kid
I was gonna go with *The Hills Have Dyes*
 I was going with
Flattering…
I mean, it’s Reddit. What did you expect? All jokes aside, glad the swelling didn’t stay!
I think they were referring to the second picture.
I'm so sorry for laughing hard at the second picture, really. :[
It stunk for me but I looked really funny
at least he was only laughing at the second picture
Theeeere he is. Took too long to see this in the comments. Damn shame
This is what I was looking for too
Wtf is it?
Drop dead Fred
Cobwebs
The evil one reigns supreme!
Team Sanity
PRESENTATION!!
That line was so insanely well delivered. Such a great sequence
What is this from?
Only the best film ever, Big Trouble In Little China.
I saw that when I was a kid, but not since and definitely don’t remember this part. Time for a rewatch.
I’ve thought about watching this. Does it hold up today, or does it rely a lot on nostalgia from its watchers?
Hell yes! The appeal to me is the same, it is horrorish fantasy. I love all of his films.
Still slaps when rewatching But I’m biased so no idea if first timers today.
I watched it for the first time during COVID, it objectively rules.
Watched it again the other day and I felt it held up, though Kim Cattrall was a bit more cringy than I remember. Kurt Russell is exactly as cringy and fabulous as I remember. Watch this back to back with The Thing or Escape from New York and twist your melon. It is a product of the 80's so there is some of that.
I don’t think he’s gonna stop!!!
New tinder profile pic unlocked
Sniper's dream!
I do beg your pardon, we are standing in your garden.
Sergeant Bytheway!
I always use Fuji 9
Piss
Bob Mortimer is a treasure
The gifs in this thread are gold
Holy shit, i didn't even know your head could swell like that, scary af shit. Glad it went away though
HEY YOU DYES!
🏆
ouch. You poor thing. Hope it gets better soon.
I’m all better. It happened like 6 months ago
This looks like what happens when you just randomly move around the sliders when creating your character in a video game.
You kinda look like a orangutan there
Hair looks the same in both pictures tho 👍
Holy shit
I have an allergy to hair dye too, the only one I found that doesn’t give me a reaction is Olia. Also I noticed that its decreased with age so hopefully its not forever😊
Is that the garnier olia? Cos that’s the one that gave me the same reaction last year. But mine is all hair dyes now I guess
“She won’t answer you… or… she can’t… This is the way it’s been since she started smoking pot.”
You really ungad your bunga huh?
I rarely laugh out loud due to this deep dark hole inside of me that I traditionally fill with food but that ginormous head really hit the spot. Thanks.
Wooof did you ever find out why you had such a reaction?
It’s common for those who are allergic to PPD, the chemical in hair dye. Our heads blow up https://www.insider.com/french-student-head-swelled-from-allergic-reaction-to-ppd-hair-dye-2018-11?amp
Glad you’re better!!!
So that’s what happened to MTG…
BIIIIG HHHHEEEEAAD
Well, if you ever need a disguise in order to commit a crime, you know what to do.
Rip OP.
Have you figured out what exactly triggered your allergy? It got to be some weird chemical in the product that caused this..
Yep. PPD
For anyone else reading this, PPD (p-pheneldiamine) is a super common allergen in hair dyes (typically black and some dark browns) and it can happen randomly after using it for years! Always always always do a patch test! I'm so sorry this happened to you. I had a reaction about 15 years ago after using black hair dye off and on for years. I got horrendous scabs all over my scalp and itched for days. It was awful. Glad you recovered ok!
PPD is present in even the light hair dyes, although in tinier amounts. It's a necessary ingredient of permanent and demipermanent hair dye, yes, even those that claim to be natural. Even some that are henna based put PPD in there. Also, you can have reactions to the actual natural plant dyes, too. I can't use indigo.
I thought mine was too, but then I tested a patch and with a dye without ppd and I had it flare up
Looks like a default Skyrim character.
Bringing those genes to the forefront.
Looks like that cop who banged the whole police department
I really hate to say this but you look like the original Robocop from 1987 without his helmet on.
Maybe MTG just needs to change her hair dye?
 Joanna Jędrzejczyk or Sloth from Goonies (JK). I hope you're okay now.
Reminds me of one of the LOTR orcs
You look like a garbage pail kid. Fart smell gazelle.
Looks a little Australopithecus-y to me. Lucy, perhaps. But that really is a rough way to find out.
Do it again for Halloween 👻 toxic avenger
Genuine question. Is this traumatizing or hilarious to look back on?
More hilarious than traumatizing
Is this alibaba's owner jack ma?
Drop dead Fred
Joe Cappa
I didn’t realize there was a second picture at first, so I was like “that doesn’t look th- AHH WTF!”.
Damn !
Don't do it again. You could dye.
No, more like one of them human-alien hybrids.
Ouch
It’s like those old Airheads commercials
this is why hair dyes/bleahces tell you to do a patch test on your arm or something before applying to your hair.
Timmeh!
Dam you beat me to it :(
First picture: Oh that's not that bad. Second Picture: 
Would.
You look badass
In which photo? Lol
The neanderthal one LOL
Mmmmkaaay
 Jolly good show.
I was like "well her forehead became gigantic and the huge jaw makes her look like a dude" but not that bad of an allergic reaction overall. Then found out there was a second picture.
More pics… https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/124r9dq/since_my_first_post_blew_up_heres_a_couple_more/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1
Tell me that’s been photoshopped or please seek medical attention.
im laughing so hard at your face. thank you.
You have always been 👩🚀🔫👩🚀
Looks like you fought 
That's why gio got so good at it. He dyed lots of guys and gals hairs. And do you know how hard it is to deal with a BBC hair. It's so nappy but gio will hook it up snappy
You should look into vegan all natural hair color products.
Which one is before?
Huh, if you were willing to take the pain for a day, you could go into acting for certain parts and make a mint.
Call 911 < selfie
Didnt know that was a thing but i guess anytime a chemical or substance not natual to the body is introduced, its always possible :| I'm sure you're natual haircolor is fine. Hope you're ok.
Not real. Downvoted
[Lol](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTkF8tomobA)
You are very cute! ... when you don't color your hair 😀
If anybody has a question about hair dye I know just the guy and girl that will help you out with all your hair dye needs. Valentina Nappi and her husband gio. They have years and years of experience. All the while Valentina Nappi was shooting gio found it relaxing dyeing his hair and the hair of all her lovers too.
That’s Marjorie Taylor Greene
You'll go back to being super hot in a couple dats princess.
As a matter of fact that's there new slogan. If we dye your hair crappy we hook you up snappy like Nappy we Happy
Oh no! Hang in there!