Hair Color?

Question

What is the medical opinion on coloring your hair while pregnant?

Before getting pregnant, I would have my hair done every four weeks. I make it lighter -- so it is a pretty harsh process of lifting color.

I figured since I am pregnant now I will avoid the harsh process -- and just put color over my gray hair. (Apparantly, laying color over your hair - rather lifting color - is a gentler process.

If I wait til after the first trimester, will it be ok to do the gentler process?

Answer 1

I dyed my hair while I was pregnant, but I know that usually it is not recommended. When I did it, I made sure I was in a very well ventilated area, with the windows open. It is really the fumes that are unsafe. But if I were you, I would ask your doctor to be on the safe side. This isn't a time to be taking risks.

Answer 2

in the experience that your color is fading out that quickly, you're in all possibility making use of a semi everlasting color or demi everlasting color. you are able to try what's declared as everlasting color, which wont fade yet will strengthen out which comprise your hair, so each and every 4-8 weeks youd only ought to get a retouch. I reccommend going to a salon and having it achieved expert extremely than procuring shop offered color. additionally, i might turn removed from thoroughly black, as quickly because it everlasting black its very confusing to get the different color, which comprise brown. desire this helps!

Answer 3

Yes. As long as you wait until after the first trimester.
The reason for caution before then is that the harsh chemicals can make you feel ill because of the heightened sense of smell.
Just make sure that you do it in a well ventilated area.
Good luck with your pregnancy.

Answer 4

hey im a hairdresser and if you are having hilights in foil or meche you can carry on cause its not supposed to touch your scalp anyway so ur just lightening up dead hair but all over colours darker ones with a much lower peroxide than highlift colours are better but they do say not to do it too much in 1st and last trimester!perhaps have a few hilights and darker colour inbetween i hoped i helped you good luck xx and also dont worry about the fumes too much if that was the case i wouldnt be allowed to work there while pregnant xxx

Answer 5

Can You Color Your Hair While You’re Pregnant?
By Meagan Francis

You’re three months pregnant, and you haven’t been to the salon since you saw the double pink line. You have two-inch dark roots and you are desperate to freshen up your look. But is it safe to color your hair while pregnant?

Research seems to point to yes. According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, hair dyes are probably safe to use during pregnancy because very little of the dye is absorbed through the skin. However, experts disagree on what processes and types of color can safely be used during pregnancy.


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“The use of hair dyes in pregnancy has not been studied very conclusively,” says Dick Leavitt, Director of Science Information for the March of Dimes. “The original suspicions surrounding hair dye originated in the late 1970s when a particular form of testing showed that hair dye contained mutagenic (mutation-causing) ingredients.”

Since hair dye ingredients are absorbed into the skin, this discovery raised concerns that dyes could harm a developing fetus. However, says Leavitt, “Hair dye has not been proven unsafe, and what studies have been done tend to relieve the original concern.”

Play it safe
Though there has been no definite proof that using hair dye during pregnancy causes any harm to the fetus, many health care professionals still prefer to play it safe — especially during the first trimester, when the most rapid and vital development is taking place. “A lot of people in obstetric practice still recommend that pregnant patients not use permanent hair dyes in the first three months of pregnancy,” says Leavitt. “It’s more a philosophical position than one based on hard science.”

Besides the fact that hair dye ingredients are absorbed through the skin, there is a concern among some health care professionals and hairstylists that breathing fumes during the process could be harmful to the growing baby. According to Leavitt, the scientific concerns surrounding hair dye have never centered primarily or even strongly on the fumes produced. However, pregnant women are usually advised to avoid chemical fumes, and permanent hair dyes contain ammonia — a particularly powerful substance.

“I don’t use colors with ammonia on pregnant women,” says Rene Spagnolo, co-owner of the DeFranco Spagnolo Salon/Spa in Great Neck, New York, who also recommends that pregnant women avoid perms. “For me, they are a no-no. The solution goes on the scalp and touches the skin, and the fumes are really bad to breathe. Straightening and relaxing products do the same thing.”

What colors are safe?
For pregnant women wanting to refresh their color, Spagnolo recommends semi-permanent dyes or a highlighting process. “Highlights are okay,” says Spagnolo. “The woman isn’t exposed to the fumes because the dye is inside closed foil, and it doesn’t get absorbed into the skin. As long as the dye doesn’t touch the scalp, I think it’s ok.”

Many women are not concerned by the theoretical risk of hair dye, while others prefer to avoid it “just in case.” Since the jury is still out on all-over permanent color, whether or not to use it is a personal decision — but if you do decide to dye your hair, some simple guidelines can help make it safer.

• If you dye your own hair, wear gloves and avoid rubbing the dye into your scalp.
• Dye your hair outside, near an open window or in a well-ventilated room to avoid fume exposure.
• Consider waiting until after the first trimester. The fetus is most sensitive to chemical exposure during the first three months of development, when most of the baby’s organs are forming and cells are dividing rapidly.
• Try highlighting, a process where dye is applied to individual hair strands that are either pulled through a plastic cap or wrapped in foil. Since the dye does not rest on the scalp, absorption into the skin is reduced or eliminated.
• Vegetable dyes such as henna and other nonpermanent or semi-permanent hair colors are generally considered to be safe during pregnancy.

Answer 6

This is a very serious thing. You need to talk to a doctor, not trust people on here. If I were you, why risk it? It's just your hair, I think you can go another few months with grey hair

Answer 7

wait till after first trimester, I refused to do it with my son, but then I found out it was okay, then I did it with my daughter. Britney spears keeps changing her haircolor and her kids came out okay..I think...

Answer 8

its fine to do anything to your hair when your pregnant at any time... it can make you sick tho so u might want to wear a little mask thingie that they use when your getting your nails done and have fan by you.

Answer 9

as long as you go to a hair dresser you should be ok