Frances Warren disappeared in May last year, after getting increasingly worried that her hair had turned a shade of yellow or ginger.
An inquest heard how Frances - who had previously sought help for anxiety issues - continuously texted her hairdresser Kelly Hill over the weekend, demanding for her hair ‘to be fixed’.
'Kelly stated that overnight she had received about 50 text messages from Frances wanting her to look at her hair, so Kelly went round to see her,' Det Con Sue Pesticcio informed the court.
'In the month’s leading up to her suicide, Frances had sought help from her GP for anxiety issues'
Speaking at the inquest, Kelly said:
'I was not doing hair that day as it was a Sunday but she seemed so desperate to get it sorted out so I said I would come around.
'When I finished her hair she wanted me to take photos of it in every room so that she could see what it was like in different light. She was in my house for around three hours before she left.
'About two hours later she returned and said it was still yellow underneath and I offered to put more highlights in.
'Later that evening she called my phone and said she wanted more highlights as her hair was still yellow.
'I told her I couldn't put anymore in but offered to put a toner on her hair to see if it would help.'
Miss Hill said that prior to the final appointment on May 29 Miss Warren had 'continuously called' and she resorted to leaving her phone in the car while at appointments.
'She just wanted something done to get rid of the yellow and said she wanted to go dark instead. I told her I could put a toner on, which she could wash out if she didn't like the colour.
'I did warn her that it would look black to her because she was already so white from the bleach. Once I finished her hair she looked in the mirror and said she hated it.
'She started to shake and appeared very stressed and freaked out by the look. I assured her it was not permanent and it would wash out.
'She then asked me to bleach her hair but I said I couldn't.
'All of a sudden her mood changed and she became very calm'
'All of a sudden her mood changed and she became very calm and told me she just needed to go for a drive.
In the month’s leading up to her suicide, Frances had sought help from her GP for anxiety issues.
The 26-year-old’s depression had reportedly been triggered off after she and her boyfriend moved back to their parents to save up for six months of travelling.
GP Mark Thompson referred her to Lift, a psychotherapy and counselling organisation, and she was not deemed a suicide risk.
However, immediately after the appointment with her hairdresser, she disappeared telling her hairdresser she needed to ‘go for a drive’- leaving her purse and handbag behind.
Two days later on May 31 last year police found her body 80 miles away in dense woodland in Sedgley, West Midlands.
A post mortem examination found Miss Warren had died from hanging and the inquest yesterday recorded a verdict of suicide.