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A 32-year-old female came to the emergency room complaining of sudden dizziness, right numbness, bilateral vision loss reported as "turning upside down then a complete loss of sight", and headache. Upon presentation, she denied any recent trauma but stated that she had visited the beauty salon twenty-four hours before getting her hair done. She was initiated on a heparin drip and admitted to the neurocritical care unit. After 48 hours, she was discharged with an uneventful hospital stay and transitioned to enoxaparin therapy with a plan to bridge with warfarin. The initial MRI of the brain demonstrated an acute left cerebellar infarct in the left posterior inferior cerebellar artery. Further head CT confirmed a left vertebral artery dissection as the suspected cause of the stroke [1].