Dying Your Hair

Sorry girls for all the questions lately - I am newly pregnant so I am a quiver of excitement!!!!

I normally dye my hair - foils actually... and so I'm at a great loss as to what to do since I know it's something you're not meant to do when you are pregnant. My natural hair colour is dark, and I have been putting blonde highlights with lowlights foils in for years and years so it will look DREADFUL if I just leave it.

What CAN you do? If I leave the regrowth for quite some time (esp after my 12 weeks mark) and then get them to dye it to match my natural regrowth colour will it be safe since it won't be dying it close to my scalp? Or is it just all unsafe being around or near or the risk of the chemicals touching my skin?? I don't want to do anything that's really risky. But don't want to look like a horrible pregnant hideous thing.

I just coloured my hair last night some of you might frown at me for this but I asked my doctor when I first got preg and he said it's actually not dangerous at all. I do mine just a solid coulour so I make sure I'm in a really well vetilated room...I trust my doc he is wonderful he said it's not on long enough to be absorbed into the body

I got foils with my last pregnancy and daniel is fine :)

My hair grew super slow during my pregnancy and I didn't need touch ups until near the end, I had foils done just before my baby shower. My hairdresser was really careful not to let the dye touch my scalp. The only thing I found was that I was sitting there for so long, I got really tired (almost dropping off to sleep) and I was STARVING so maybe take a snack or two with ya

I have foils also. I had an app when 8wks pg and it was awful, really fumey and I felt really sick (and having a stupid hairdresser did not help) I have changed hairdressers and found a really careful, preggy aware girl she was super careful not to get any near my scalp and didn't use tint or toner.
I am trying to leave it as long as possible, 8-9wks I would have normally been going every 6wks. Just make sure your hairdresser realises how important it is to you that they are very careful my first one just thought I was a pain in the ass!

Thanks girls, I really appreciate it! My doctor was vague today, and I really want to do everything right. The hairdresser I spoke to today didn't seem to realise it was the chemicals I was worried about... a lot of unknowledgeable hairdressers out there by the sounds of things. So really important you get someone who knows about these things I think.
But she did suggest either semi-permanent or foils. So I will go and talk to them again after my 12 weeks :) Thank you!

Hi, I got my dyed - I didn't know I was pregnant and bubs is fine. Mid way thru I had it done again but only the foils not really the regrowth as such (sorry this sounds vague) my hairdresser was pregnant too and said she wouldn't do anything but foils. How many of our mum's dyed there hair when pregnant with us and we are all fine?? I think sometimes with the pregnancy (or just after) the colours can be a little different as well. Like the others say just ask, ask ask.

I was wondering the same thing, so its good to see how everyone still pretty much has, and been all good.

I havent actually dyed my hair for ages, Used to do the at home jobs... I was put off by a 60 minutes story bout an 16 year old girl (first time dying her hair) and without doing a test patch (which I must admit never used to do) and she had brought a bad batch which resulted in most of head being burnt, really badly eaten into, and half the side of her face..
the image shocked me that much that I haven't brought any since!!!!

But I would go to a hairdresser, niiiiiiice head massage mmmmmmm