A wannabe Brazilian model says a sizzling Midtown salon with scores of celebrity patrons gave her the worst hair day ever.
Myrella Ikeda, a Brazilian citizen who lives in Maryland, is suing J. Sisters for nearly $3 million, claiming the favorite of dreamboats like Naomi Campbell, Vanessa Williams and Cameron Diaz turned her into a 'monster' in 2011 by treating her hair with products that burned her scalp and made her hair fall out.
'Ikeda arrived at the salon with anticipating that in a few hours she would have spectacular hair that would help launch a modeling career,' says her personal injury lawsuit, filed in Manhattan Federal Court. 'But eight hours later, she left the salon with physical and emotional trauma: her scalp and hair were burned, her modeling plans were in ruins, and she could not show herself publicly.'
J. Sisters didn't immediately comment Tuesday.
The lawsuit, filed Monday, says Ikeda visited J. Sisters on W. 57th St. at the invitation of a Brazilian reporter working on a magazine article about the salon. Ikeda was supposed to be a model for an article showing a step-by-step transformation from plain to glam.
'Ikeda went into J. Sisters normal, smiling, happy, with beautiful hair, thinking that she would leave beautiful, with a fantastic appearance to be featured in a magazine,' the lawsuit says.
But she claims the appointment was a total disaster that sent her into a spiral of depression.
Eight hours after arriving at J. Sisters, Ikeda was 'terrorized, with her hair in her hands.'
'She was leaving ugly, horrible, a monster, with a terrible appearance and a scary face, crying, desperate, feeling physically and psychologically destroyed, with her hair in her hands, her scalp burned, stinging and itching, and part of it numb,' the lawsuit says.
It names J. Sisters, co-owner Jonice Padhilha and hairdresser Antonio Luis Rosa as defendants.
The lawsuit says Padilha later phoned Ikeda to apologize and to tell her that Rosa had been on drugs when he allegedly ruined her hair. Because of the incident, the lawsuit says, Ikeda then 'lost motivation for everything.'
'She had always been a normal person, healthy and happy,' it claims. 'Suddenly, she was depressed and unhappy, with no motivation to do anything. She had no will to groom herself. To groom herself for what? She could not eat, she was crying all the time ... Ikeda was ugly and nothing was going to change that, much less her self-esteem.'
Ikeda's hair grew back thinner, uneven and less lustrous than before, the lawsuit alleges.
'She could no longer think of a career in cinema, television or photography. She had to give up work, study and opportunities, all her life became completely disorganized,' the lawsuit claims. 'Time passed, and Ikeda lost more than two critical years of her life, with no way to bring it back.
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