A teenager who had a hole burned into her scalp by a hairdresser has spoken out after being told she had to pay the full bill for the work done.
Kyrie Martin, 18, decided to dye her hair blonde in February this year, ready for her graduation and prom celebrations.
The American went to a salon she'd been to before. She'd had her her hair dyed several times with no problems in the past four years, and was looking forward to a special fix before finishing school.
But when the hairdresser put the foils on her hair, the nursery worker said she felt a horrid burning feeling on her scalp.
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At this point, the teen said she rushed to the sink and the hairdresser hurriedly removed her foils to find her hair 'smoking', causing her to sob in agony.
Kyrie then claimed she had to pay $50 for a haircut before leaving. Her mum then pointed out that there was a long red line on her scalp, and Kyrie's head started to swell.
A trip to the hospital discovered that she'd suffered first degree chemical burns as bits of skin and hair fell off her head. Days later, medics removed a massive section of dead skin, leaving her with a bald patch that probably won't grow hair again.
The North Carolina-native said that she'd 'never experienced a bad dye job' before, and chose to come to this salon as she had cut her hair before, and had experience in the business with some good reviews to boot.
"She started lightening it with foils to bring it blonde. After about an hour, my entire head felt like it was on fire," the teen recalled, saying she'd 'never felt pain like that before'.
Kyrie went on: "I told her 'it feels really hot' and started to cry and told her it really hurt.
"She started rinsing it off and taking the foils off then I just saw her eyes go wide.
"She said 'I don't know what's happened but your hair is smoking'," which isn't what you want to hear in any situation.
While she didn't need to pay the colour fee, the hairdresser asked her to pay for the cut before the teen left with tears streaming down her face.
The patch of dead skin removed by medical professionals was about four centimetres across, as the then-high school student recalled: "The healing process was very long.
"The skin took a while to grow back. It took nearly two months just for the wound to close."
Apparently, even medical professionals didn't know if hair would grow back or not, though she said that six months on, it remains as a 'bald patch'.
"I may never have hair there again," she damningly stated.
Kyrie then had to go to prom and graduation with the patch, as the accident happened in the middle of her senior year.
"I was in so much physical and mental pain," she said.
"Everyone else was getting excited for college, and I was in and out of hospital."
The teen claimed that it 'definitely ruined' her final year in high school, with the pain she was dealing with.
She even said that the hairdresser hadn't reach out to her or her mum since the incident.
"If she had been that stressed, I do think she should've reached out. I left her salon in tears," she added.
Joshua Nair