Colouring hair

Hi

I was wondering, would you dye your hair (with a semi-permanent colour) within the first three months of pregnancy?

I'm booked into see my hairdresser next week and I'm in two minds.

Hair dresser here I wouldnt worry, if I can go through 9 months of colouring hair and OB's not worrying im sure you can get your hair coloured. Your choice though, but Id go for it.

Ha ha - good point kell! Hairdressers have babies too!

We breath it, we wash the bowls the product has been in, we wash your colour out, and if anyone is like me gloves or not it ends up on you. Granted its not on us in large amounts like it is you, but you add up all the colours we do in day and it would be the same if not more KWIM? but like ive said its a personal choice, and for the record to this day there is no proven documentation that suggests its bad for you.

yeah another hairdresser here and I used to always colour pregnant ladies hair. I havent personally ever coloured my hair while pregnant mainyl becuase my scalp and skin is very sensitive while pregnant.
You may notice your skin and hair might slightly change during pregnancy, but then again it may not.

I have been told your not allowed to colour your hair at all by some people, but Im not sure where they got that from as I never got told not to colour pregnant womens hair in my training.

My friend also worked in the salon till she was 8 motnhs pregs and never had any problems her boy is healthy as.

And yes no matter if your wearing gloves or not it gets all over hehe

Its funny as I was in the haridresser years ago and a pregnant woman came in and they refused to do it!

"Is it safe to colour or perm my hair during pregnancy?

Marie McDonald answers:
No one has enough information to promise with certainty that using chemical dyes during pregnancy is completely safe, so many pregnant women wait until after the first trimester. At the same time, no one has any human data to show these chemicals cause birth defects.

Over the years, people have conducted animal studies trying to shed light on this matter. Some, but not all, studies have shown a few of the chemical compounds in hair dyes to be teratogenic (causing birth defects). However, in many cases the animals were exposed to extremely high doses of these chemicals, doses in no way equivalent to the exposure of the woman who colours her hair every month or two.

Clearly, the chemicals in both permanent and semi-permanent hair dyes are not highly toxic. These chemicals have been around a long time, and no research shows they cause defects in newborns, so colouring your hair during pregnancy is probably safe. Plus, if you apply the dyes safely (using gloves in a well-ventilated room, and not leaving solutions on for excessive periods of time), you don't really absorb much of the chemicals into your system.

One alternative you might consider is highlighting, painting, or frosting your hair. You absorb hair colouring agents into your system through your skin (scalp), not through your hair shaft. So, any process - such as streaking - that puts less of the chemical in contact with your scalp reduces your exposure to the compounds in dyes.

Some experts recommend vegetable dyes as a good alternative to synthetic chemical agents during pregnancy. Many of these dyes also contain some of the same synthetic chemical compounds that the major cosmetic companies put in their permanent and semi-permanent dyes. Pure henna, which comes in a number of colours, is the exception. Henna is a semi-permanent vegetable dye considered to be very safe, though not everyone loves the hues it may impart!

It's important for women to feel good about themselves during pregnancy. Whether colouring your hair will make you feel good or cause you to worry needlessly for nine months is something to think about. If you do colour your own hair while expecting, wear gloves and work in a well-ventilated space to minimise your exposure to the harsh chemicals used in the colouring process."

Personally I wouldn't risk doing it in the first trimester but each to their own I guess!

Thanks so much for all the advise! I really do love this forum!!!

Its really hard to know if I'm being paranoid or not!!!

My hairdresser said she wouldnt color my hair until i was over 10 weeks pregnant as the hormones can cause the dye not to take correctly. I dyed my hair but i wouldnt bleach it or anything like that.

In our time such things as appearance are important because it makes a big impression on a variety of different people. This is the reason why I strongly recommended you to watch your hair very carefully and use different styles.

Oh my god, I'm so sorry! There's no feeling worse than feeling your hair starts falling off as a woman. You definitely need more supplements in your life.

Sorry for chiming in to this thread so late, but I used to dread taking showers all the time. Now I don't mind.

This is my story and some of my best advice which I hope is going to be of much help.

I'm a woman in her 50's and I didn't give much thought to my sprouting gray hairs and my hair loss in my 30's during my first pregnancy because they were virtually undetectable; however, as my patch turned into a streak, I began to question whether or not I should address them although it was the last thing I wanted to do...

Should I color them? Should I stick to natural hairstyles where they'd go unnoticed? I was really on the fence, yet I didn't feel particularly rushed to conceal my grays...

I'm glad there are finally solutions out there for doing something about it that actually work!

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It wasn't until we found it we were able to make our hair stop falling off as fast although it doesn't stop completely!

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Wishing you the best of luck in your journey, sis.


Hope my advice was of help to you <3

Amanda from Sweden