This Teenager Almost Went Blind From Simply Dyeing Her Eyebrows

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One day she was curious about using a particular dye on her eyebrows — something she’d done before — and had no clue that she was about to make what could have been a fatal mistake.

Just thirty minutes after applying 1000 Hour’s Eyelash and Brow Dye kit, the beauty student noticed her eyebrows beginning to itch and burn.

#2 "I woke up almost blind because of the reaction, my eyes had blown up like huge balloons, I was crying and screaming," Tylah said.

“It was like having beach sand thrown in your eyeballs and not being able to get it out, then a stinging like razor blades on my eyebrows,” she added.

#3 Tylah had no idea she was allergic to a chemical called paraphenylenediamine (PPD), which hadn’t been present in previous dyes she’d used.

She didn’t do a patch test, and now the student has been left with chemical burns on her eyeballs and been warned that if she touches hair dye again in it could “kill her.”

#4 "I was hospitalized and was terrified, doctors said I had a very unusual but severe allergic reaction and could have gone permanently blind,"

Despite being prescribed antihistamines, the horrified teen noticed blisters forming in her brows and her lashes started to fall out.

Gina Taro, a PPD allergy specialist, said: “Reactions can be as small as redness around the edges of your face to itching of the eyes, all the way to chemical burns, blisters and your whole scalp feeling like it’s melting off. Some people can even suffer anaphylactic shock.”

#5 Tylah, who was simply trying to make her lashes and brows look darker, has recovered and now wants to warn others of her mistake.

“No one really does the patch test in my family, so I thought I would be okay and hadn’t suffered any reactions when dying my hair in the past, but those dyes didn’t have PPD in them,” she said.

#6 "I'm on a lot of medications to heal this and would never wish this pain on anyone, so please do a patch test," she said.

“I was really scared by what happened… once you get one reaction from PPD it gets worse and worse each time,” she added. “If it happens again it could either kill me or leave me permanently blinded.”

As scary as that sounds, it also serves as a great reminder — always do a patch test, or even better, go to a qualified professional.