Hey, everybody!
I have a henna troubleshooting question for y'all. I did a full-head henna back in August 2013, then used Nightshade's sun-in lightening method to achieve the coppery color I was going for. It worked perfectly, and since then I have been doing roots-only applications of 65% cassia 35% henna.
Over the past few months, my husband and I both noticed that my hair was going less red and more brownish. I decided to do a full gloss with what was left of my stash to try to brighten things up. So today I did the gloss, and left it on for 2 hours. The color is definitely brighter, but I think it also went too dark. Here's the story in photos for you to work with (two posts, because there are a lot of them.)
Here's the color I started with:
You can see that it isn't very coppery, more a golden brownish tone. I could still see the orange flair in direct sun, but I wasn't happy with indoors at all.
Here are the results of the henna gloss, in a variety of lighting:
Outdoors, direct sun
Outdoors, shade
Indoors, fluorescent lighting
Indoors, indirect sunlight
Indoors, indirect sunlight facing the other way
Indoors natural light
Indoors sunlight
outdoor, direct sunlight. This is actually a beautiful color, but a shade off of what I'm after.
Outdoors, direct sun from further overhead.
continued in my next post.....
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