Hi everyone!
I will try to make it short, to tell you my hair journey so you can understand my problem now...
For 6 years I have been using henna successfully, I had at this time very beautiful and healthy hair, hip length, auburn color..
Then one day I was fed up with the color, so, I decided to bleach it after knowing the risk and reading a lot on the subject (but you know, there is always a small part of you which think that disaster won't happen to you, yeah, it only happens to others... lol) So i bleached once, I was carrot, I bleach 2 times, I was carrot and yellow, I used a color box of ash blonde right after but it didn't come out even, so I bleached again (I think I bleached at least 4 times ) I know it's crazy....
Well, as you might guess, I ended cutting like 15 inches because of the damage and the uglyness of the color. LOL Then I dyed in light brown for a while, then I made a tie and dye, then I made highlight (my hair was very resistant though when I think about all the treatments I did.. ) But it was always unsatisfying to me, I constantly thought it was too yellow, too brassy, too light, too dark... I don't know why I got this hair obsession, it was crazy...
Well, maybe I just tried to fulfill some deeper unhappiness feeling in my heart .. you know, some do shopping, some smoke, some drink, I bleached my hair...
After that, my hair was so damaged that I started to get elastic hair, and that's when I really started to get conscious that if I didn't stop I would end bald.
I cut the damage as much as I could take it, I did like a short bob myself, which wasn't that bad after all. But the lengths were still very fried... So I thought, "let's return to henna... " I had nothing to loose.
Between the beginning of the story and that point, 1 year and a half passed.
So, I bought a box of pure henna mehandi, which turned orangy red, it didn't bother me but beause my lengths are damaged, the color on them was lighter.
The day after I did an other henna on the whole head, my hair felt less damaged and in better condition but the color was still not what I wanted.. Cf picture
Well, one week after I bought a box of Reshma toffee henna (I read good reviews on it, so I thought a caramel toffee color would be very nice) I checked carefully the ingredients first, no indigo, no chemical...
I did it..left it for 3 hours, And.. BIGGEST mistake ever, my hair was BLACK with dark kaki hues (the smiley on the left is what I wanted to do to the indian grocery store's owner at this time... LOL... because I really think it was a packaging mistake, eventhough it was sealed with plastic wrap, there is no other explanation for that, because the ingredient did not say indigo at all!!! and the expiration date was ok)
This is the pic after:
So right after I try to use vit C for hours, baking soda, cheap shampoo, lemon, coconut oil and olive oil soaking overnight etc etc... In 3 days it was way lighter, like a medium brown BUT with kaki hues.. SIGH
Like this:
My hair was very dry and I wanted to do a henna (pure afshan ) to cancel the red..
I left it over night and I didn't get any red hue... Only a little on the roots, which was now very different from the lengths.
The day after I did an other one, a nupur henna, I left it 5 hours, I got slight red hue but still some kaki through the red
The following night I did an other pure henna (reshma natural henna) and I felt it was better after that.
Now, my hair condition is good (I feel my hair is soft, silky, I love that) but as you can see on the pics, it's uneven.. I wanted to try color oops but honestly I tired of experimenting everything on my hair and being disappointed.. I don't want the green strike being worse... What's your advice? Here is the final picture:
THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR READING ME
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