When your hair colour appointment doesn’t work with your medical spa appointment

Are you getting your hair coloured the same week you’re getting chemical peel treatment?

You might think that you lucked out in getting both appointments in the same week, but once you read this post you’ll be speed-dialling someone on your beauty glam team to switch your appointments around.

Cosmetic dermatologists and plastic surgeons recommend that skin care rejuvenation treatments like microdermabrasions and chemical peels (basically, anything that will affect the upper layers of skin) should not be performed within five to ten days of any hair colouring treatment, perms, relaxers or soft curls (for darker-skin beauties).

So why can’t you book these types of cosmetic treatments so close to your chemical hair treatments?
It’s because your risk of redness or even burns to the sensitive new skin increase exponentially!

If you are getting a number of beauty-enhancing treatments in preparation for a major event or just because you want to look as young as you feel, you’ll have to time them all in order to avoid catastrophic results.

It might mean you might not get it all done on the same day or in the same week, but it will also mean that you’ll be playing it safe and you won’t irritate skin that has been in contact with hair colour a few days after getting a microdermabrasion treatment.

Photo: Courtesy Katie Tegtmeyer