The stylist used Pravana Pure Light Power Lightener. The stylist then told Rivera she could go home to pick up her daughter. After driving to her home, with the lightening product still in her hair, she began to feel a burning pain to her scalp. She immediately drove back to the salon and asked the hairstylist to wash out the lightening product. Even after her hair was washed, however, Ms. Rivera’s pain persisted.
Attorney Mo Aziz says the pain was so bad she Rivera had to go to the emergency room. "The next day she started swelling up. Her face started swelling and her neck started swelling. Extreme pain. When she went back in they admitted her and it went from there."
Aziz says a dermatologist told Rivera she may never regrow hair on her scalp again. He says Rivera's scalp is bandaged and and scarred and she cannot work for now. She was a scaffolding worker. "She's just got a long road of recovery ahead of her. She cannot lift anything heavy, it causes excruciating pain on her scalp. She's all bandaged up."
He says she will likely never re-grow hair where she was burned. He doesn't know how much they're suing for, but says it's over a million dollars.
"I think the issue is going to be, whether it a bad product or was it improperly applied by the salon technician or some combination of both. Let's say too much product was applied, it still shouldn't do what it did to the poor lady."
He doesn't yet know how much the suit seeks, but says it will be over a million dollars.