Graduating high school senior: Little Saigon salon burned my hair off

By R. Scott Moxley, OC Weekly

In anticipation of her 2012 high school graduation ceremony, Kellie Nguyen visited a Garden Grove salon with plans to style and color beautiful hair that reached her thigh.

Inside of the Fancy Hair Salon. Photo from Yelp.

But Nguyen says her trip to the Fancy Hair Salon was a horrific, man-made disaster that left her in pain at the emergency room and, sadly, without most of her hair.

That assertion is contained in an ongoing fraud, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligence lawsuit the young woman filed in Orange County Superior Court against the Brookhurst Street salon in Little Saigon.

When she arrived at the salon, Nguyen says she told her stylist, called “John Doe” in the legal action, that she was “scared” of “harsh chemicals,” and the man then applied the product to her hair, left her unattended for three hours and found her squirming in agony, according to the lawsuit.

When Doe washed Nguyen’s hair “clumps” allegedly fell out and the burning pain intensified.

Her hair made “popping” sounds and she developed intense scalp itching and a migraine headache.

Read the full story by R. Scott Moxley from OC Weekly.