A young Australian woman developed a severe allergic reaction to eyebrow and eyelash tint. She almost lost her sight.
Tylah wanted to have a beautiful look. Beautifully drawn eyebrows, of a perfect shade, with long, very black eyelashes. At 16, this Australian teenager almost lost her sight after a session of coloring her eyelashes and eyebrows, and a raging allergic reaction.
The facts are related by the Mirror. The young girl, who also wants to become a beautician but risks being chilled by the adventure, bought a kit for making permanent colorings of eyebrows and eyelashes, the “1000 Hour’s Eyelash and Brow Dye kit”.
Redness, pus …
In the diary, she says she applied a small amount of dye to her eyebrows and those lashes, before feeling severe pain. Ten minutes after the pose, the redness appeared, then, after half an hour, her eyeballs began to swell. Pus was dripping from his eyes and blisters were forming on his eyebrows. Tylah was rushed to hospital.
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“I had the impression that I had been thrown in my eyes with sand and that I could not remove it, that razor blades had cut my eyebrows,” she says. Nothing like it, in reality, but a particularly violent allergy to paraphenylenediamine, a black dye used in the composition of permanent hair dyes.
An allergenic compound
The young girl explained that she had not taken the precaution of applying a small amount of product on her skin in order to verify the absence of an allergic reaction. She had used the product for her hair before, but the compositions of paraphenylenediamine for eyelashes and eyebrows are different, she was told.
“I will never reuse dye on me again,” added Tynah, to whom doctors explained that she was on the verge of permanent blindness. If she was ever exposed to paraphenylenediamine again, the allergic reaction would be all the worse.
In 2011, the Mirror recalls, a 17-year-old girl had gone blind as a result of an allergy to this substance, under similar conditions. According to the newspaper, which quotes an allergist, about 75% of American women use permanent dyes (hair, eyelashes or eyebrows), which greatly increases the risk of allergy. At this price, a stroke of pencil and mascara will do the trick …
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