Can I Dye My Hair During My Monthly Cycles?

Answered by Ustadh Salman Younas

Question: Assalam aleykum

Can I dye my hair during my monthly cycles?

Answer: assalamu alaykum

Menstruation is a natural process experienced by women. Apart from particular forms of sexual intimacy, namely intercourse and touching the region between navel and knee directly, a woman experiencing menstruation is not prohibited from going about with daily life as normal.

As dyeing the hair is considered permissible for women, it would be permitted for a woman to dye her hair whether menstruating or not. Menstruation, in other words, has no effect on this base ruling of permissibility.

[Ustadh] Salman Younas

Checked and approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

Ustadh Salman Younas graduated from Stony Brook University with a degree in Political Science and Religious Studies. After studying the Islamic sciences online and with local scholars in New York, Ustadh Salman moved to Amman. There he studies Islamic law, legal methodology, belief, hadith methodology, logic, Arabic, and tafsir.