Article: Hair dye kit left me burnt and blistered.(News)

Byline: Jaya Narain

WITH her face covered in horrific burns and painful blisters, she looks like the victim of a terrible fire.

But Zoe Vernon, 22, suffered these agonising injuries when she used a popular home hair dye kit.

She had to be taken to hospital by ambulance after suffering a severe allergic reaction to the [pounds sterling]3.29 hair dye from Boots.

Doctors put the call centre worker on an intravenous drip in a burns unit and told her they were the worst burns they had seen from a hair dye.

Miss Vernon spent three days in hospital recovering from her ordeal and still has blurred vision in one eye.

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