COLOR MURDER

The Door

The Balcony


The Book Shelves


Deadly Concoction

These were the crime scenes earlier yesterday in my room. Blood splattered everywhere from the book shelves, to the door, to the balcony..etc.

This is what happened when you tried to save some dough by doing hair coloring on your own.

Hair colorant is a dangerous thing. We have heard so much from a lot of people:-

“You should only color your hair maximum twice a year and no more than that. It’s cancerous.”

“Hair colorant is toxic.”

“You shouldn’t eat/drink while having colorant on your hair.”

“Don’t stand next to food if you are coloring your hair”

And after this splattering incident,

“Never ever attempt coloring your hair without goggles.”

My colleague complained that I looked dull in my raven black hair and suggested that I should color it to make my face look livelier.

Since my hair stylist went missing in action – he had commercially set up his own hair salon in Gombak and no more doing house calls for free, I decided to color my hair myself.

I was advised by WY to put an egg yolk in the hair colorant to reduce the damage of the colorant on my hair. She has been coloring her hair herself for years.

I mixed the egg in the container with the cream developer, and the hair color. Shook it for 30 seconds as prescribed. The bottle felt somewhat hot.

“Something is not right!”, I thought to myself.

The moment I snipped the tip of the bottle cap, it spurted like a volcano vomiting its lava – the “lava” was all over the wall, the floor, my books, the door, etc and in less than 5 seconds, the damage was substantial. I quickly applied pressure on the hole with my thumb and ran frantically to the bathroom.

In the sink, the ingredient kept on gurgling with emission of a foul smelling gas. Ammonia free my foot.

I was panicky for a moment.

Ironically, since my hands were filled with the colorant, I automatically applied them on my hair. DUH! I didn’t even think if the mixing would be poisonous. Heck. All hair colorant are poisonous!

I thanked God*I didn’t exactly position the tip of the mixer at my eyes while cutting it.. or else, I would end up in the hospital instead of blogging about this.

Well, there is price to pay if you flunk your A levels’chemistry.

So, any chemist out there could explain this phenomenon?

It is an egg yolk mixed with Revlon Color Silk. The ingredients are just far toooooooo long to be stated here.

Next time, if I ever want to color my hair, I swear I would leave it to the professionals.

* That is why I went to church later yesterday with Ed. Also.. I misplaced my glasses and resorted to driving to church in the night with my sun glasses on. Could this get any worse?