Re: How easy is it to get PPD to make "black henna" ?
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Posted by Anne on June 27, 2000 at 13:56:49:
In Reply to: How easy is it to get PPD to make "black henna" ? posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on June 27, 2000 at 12:30:12:
Hej Catherine, What about products like Manic Panic or Punky Colour? I remember reading something in a bodyart newsgroup about someone who wanted to paint a design on himself for a race and was looking for a semi- permanent dye that wouldn't run once he started to sweat. Someone else suggest Manic Panic/Punky Colour/other coloured temporary hair dye. And in another newsgroup, goth fashion I think, there was some talk a year ago or so of using the Manic Panic/Punky Colour to paint designs on ones skin. (This group also had a little henna thread going back then; haven't seen much of it recently.) I tried to streak my hair with black Manic Panic when I was younger, but the dye wouldn't take to my hair. I finally threw out the container a few months ago, otherwise I'd check that out. --Anne : I thought I'd find out how easy it is to purchase PPD, how available it is .... like that. Here's what I found out: : In the US nearly every "Black" hair dye has ppd in one form or another. There were at least 5 different forms listed on various boxes. Every grocery grocery and drug store has boxes of black hair dye with ppd. The most concentrated form is Bigen black hair dye, and that's at Sally Beauty supply. : : Can anyone buy a box of straight Bigen ppd black dye? Yup. No license is required. No permit is required. There is no age limit. The health warnings on the package are minimal. : Any 14 year old with $5.19 can go get enough Bigen ppd black dye to do "black henna" to cause a stunning amount of wreckage to their own and other's heath. No questions would ever be asked about the intended use. The cashier would have little or no clue that PPD is a transdermal toxin, and would have no idea the person might indend to put it straight on the skin. The teenager would only know that she'd heard "black henna" looked groovy, and that she could make money doing it.
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