Q. How long after facelift is it safe to color hair, should hairdresser put anything on scar before color?
A. My recommendations are to color your hair 2 weeks prior facelift incisions and any time after 6 weeks along as everything is healed. Of course this leaves 99% of your hair not along the incision line, so use a ointment such as aquaphor or vaseline over the incision during the post-op coloring.
The hair coloring chemicals are significantly damaging to the open incision and hair root. You may cause inflammation and hair loss if coloring too soon.
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