Office worker Frances Warren desperately bombarded her hairdresser with 50 texts, pleading for her to help after blonde locks had turned "yellow" or "ginger".
The 26-year-old finally got an appointment with her hairdresser at her home in Thornbury, South Gloucestershire, but went missing soon after, leaving her purse and handbag behind.
Two days later on May 31 last year, she was found dead 80 miles away in dense woodland in Sedgley, West Midlands.
Miss Warren had earlier visited a doctor after growing upset following a recent move into her parents' house while she and boyfriend Sam Cotton saved money to go travelling.
And in the two months before her death, she had grown increasingly anxious about the colour of her hair.
GP Mark Thompson had referred her to Lift, a psychotherapy and counselling organisation, just two weeks before she went missing, having been diagnosed with depression and anxiety issues without a suicide risk.
In a written statement to the inquest at Avon Coroner's Court, her boyfriend said: "Throughout the two months leading up to her death she had problems with her hair.
"She changed her colour four or five times and had had it recoloured since March but was uncontrollably upset and wouldn’t listen when I said it was OK.
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