Hairy dye-job salon 'scalping'
Talk about wanting to curl up and dye.
A young schoolteacher went to a swanky Gramercy hair salon to get blond highlights. By the time she left, parts of her scalp were bald and smoking, a lawsuit contends.
"As soon as the dye was on, I felt like my head was burning," Noreen Gillespie, 30, said of her horrific 2007 hair appointment at Insitu salon on Irving Place. "I went over to the sink and smoke was coming out of my head."
Her lawyer, Charles Arnold, suspects that Insitu colorist Leann McDermott mixed the chemicals in the dye in the wrong proportions -- producing a scalp-blistering concoction.
Then Noreen Gillespie's burned scalp in 2007 and now after four plastic surgeries
"For weeks, my skin was peeling off like rinds of an orange," said Gillespie, who teaches English at IS 220 in Brooklyn.
McDermott, who did not return calls for comment, said in a deposition she was so traumatized that she stopped coloring hair for almost two years.
Gillespie was forced to undergo four plastic surgeries, according to her suit filed last week in Manhattan Supreme Court.
The lawsuit names McDermott and salon owners Paula Casano and Kristen Traina, who did not return calls for comment.
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