HAIR-RAISING

Model’s $5M suit: Stylist scarred me with hasty cut

IT WAS A haircut that a model says left her scarred for life.

A celebrity hairstylist cut a model’s neck with a pair scissors during a dangerously fast haircut — an incident that left her with a visible scar, she claims in a new $5 million lawsuit.

Martino Cartier (inset, far right) was cutting Michelle Kalinkina’s (near right) hair during a public demonstration at the Jacob Javits Convention Center on March 7 at around 4:10 p.m. when the incident took place, she says.

Cartier “had a duty to perform the haircut demonstration in a safe, careful, and prudent manner so as to avoid any harm to (Kalinkina),” the suit says.

But during the beauty show demo — while “Martino Cartier was cutting (Kalinkina’s) hair within the Javits Center, (Cartier) cut (Kalinkina’s) neck with scissors, and as a result, (Kalinkina) was caused to sustain scarring to her neck area,” the suit charges.

Cartier was “careless, negligent and reckless while in the course of cutting (Kalinkina’s) hair,” the suit, filed Wednesday in Manhattan Federal Court, added. Cartier cut Kalinkina’s hair “at too fast a pace that can be considered safe” and failed “to show proper care while utilizing a sharp and dangerous instrument.” By “failing to consider Kalinkina’s saftey” and “failing to pay proper attention while cutting . . . hair,” Cartier harmed the blond beauty, the suit claims. The 23-year-old model says she suffered “serious injuries” — a cut on the neck — as a result of the incident. NEW YORKERS can make nonperish able donations at 200 firehouses across the city, and at other locatio including NYPD precincts, Good Wil Stores and Apple Bank branches. Organizers said needed items include canned fruit and vegetables, peanut butter, macaroni and chees and hot and cold cereal. Donations can be made through Jan. 13. Daily News readers can donate directly at www.cityharvest.org/ dailynews. Every $1 donated helps City Harvest rescue fo pounds of goo food – which means that ev $100 donated will feed over people.

Court documents did not provide additional details on the injury or the length of the cut.

The 5-foot-10 blond, who’s been modeling since 2011, also endured “pain, shock and mental anguish,” the suit says.

“These injuries and their effects will be permanent,” court papers say.

Kalinkina could not be reached for comment Wednesday.

A man at Cartier’s Sewell, N.J., salon — who identified himself only as Jason — said, “Right now, he has no comment.”

Cartier also owns a salon in Chery Hill, N.J.