A MAN was left with a head the size of the cartoon character Megamind after using hair dye. Shocking photos show how Ryan Briggs's entire head and face swelled up so much that his girlfriend felt unable to even look at him. The 27-year-old went to his mum's house earlier last month and found she'd bought him some black hair dye to cover her new grey hairs.
While there, he decided to apply the formula over his scalp without doing a patch test . Although he felt a burning sensation, the gas installer assumed this was normal and went to sleep. When he woke, Ryan noticed a scaly rash had developed around his hairline.
While at work Ryan was horrified to see his face expand throughout the day. "I didn't look like myself at all. It was horrible.
It was massive. I looked like Megamind, it was bad," he recalls. After being sent home from work by colleagues, Ryan went to the hospital but was advised to return the next day if his condition worsened.
This left his girlfriend so distressed she “couldn't even look at him.” Most read in Health The following day, Ryan’s face had swollen to the point where he couldn’t see out of one eye . "I thought I'd wake up and it'd be gone, but I woke up and it was totally different," he explained.
"When I looked in the mirror that morning I didn't know what to think. "I rang 111 and got an ambulance to come and get me as I obviously couldn't drive as I couldn't see." After he arrived at the hospital, doctors diagnosed him with an allergic react.