Woman Decides To Dye Hair at Home—Not Prepared for Disastrous Consequence

DIY hair dye is always a risk, as many will recall times they attempted to take their hair into their own hands only to be left feeling as though the result is lacking something.

It’s not just your hair that’s at risk when coloring at home, as the dye can stain a lot more than just your skin, often proving impossible to get off towels, and finding its way onto surfaces around you, despite your best efforts to keep things clean.

Someone who knows this stress all too well is 26-year-old Serena Eddy, who had a nightmare when using a bright, semi-permanent dye to color her hair at home.

The dance teacher from Utah, who dyes her own hair “every three weeks,” had chosen a bold purple shade to spruce up her hair. Selecting a semi-permanent color which she believed would have “no reason for it to stain any more than usual,” but soon realized her mistake.

Sharing what happened in a viral video, which gained over 1.5 million views and 76,000 likes since being posted on May 16, she showed her purple-stained hands to the camera, stating that the dye “will not come off anything.”

It’s not just her hands, as her sink fell victim to the dye too, having become clogged and with purple stains on the basin.

Speaking to Newsweek, Eddy said that, “I had never used semi-permanent hair dye before, but I have been dyeing my own hair since I was 14.

“I have never experienced staining like this! Apparently semi-permanent hair dye stains much worse than regular hair dye!”

While she was able to clear the sink with some dish soap and elbow grease, the stains on her skin were a bit tougher to tackle, as she said, “my hands and face, neck and ears were a disaster.

“The purple stayed on my hands and face, neck and ears for almost three days before I went ahead and did a bleach water soak. I even tried washing my hands and face with whitening tooth paste like everyone told me on TikTok! It doesn’t work, by the way.”

Despite the dye disaster, Eddy has picked up the product for round two since sharing the video, as she told Newsweek, “I have already used the hair dye again, but this time I was much more careful in application, although I still didn’t wear gloves.

“I still have to put some concealer on my parting for a few days as it stained my scalp pretty well, but I didn’t want to waste the hair dye.”