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    Great, these are fabulous tips!!! Thank you!!

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    Mellie your hair is my inspiration! I would love to have your color in the picture. Do you have listed somewhere how you got that color? And what your original color is? I have medium brown hair and have never henna/indiogoed, but I'm growing very tired of the increasing grays in my hair.

    I recently got stupid and tried semi-permanent hair color and had an allergic reaction that has now turned into, of all things, chicken pox (long story).... and for now, I've concluded that chemicals are evil and will henna/indigo next time. Oh and yes, I did do a check first, the allergy showed up 5 days later. Too weird! But learned my lesson the hard way.

    In all my lurking and reading on TLHC I've never heard of such a reaction, so when I'm healed up and brave enough, I want to try the henna/indigo route. I'm hoping for your color!!!

    Oh and thanks for all the great questions and stuff you've put on the forums!

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    Oh my! So sorry to hear about your reaction!! I agree, chemicals are evil! :-)

    I use Rainbow Dark Brown henna. It's been working great to cover my grays!

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    Default Re: How to darken henna?

    I've only just seen this thread as well.

    Well, anybody else tried this for their head hair yet?

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    No, I haven't yet. I've gone back to using the Rainbow Dark Brown.

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    Default Re: How to darken henna?

    I love my rainbow dark brown (thanks mellie) and it totally blends but on the previously highlighted areas I get an AWESOME red cast, especially in the sun!

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    You're welcome! Glad you like it! I just re-did mine yesterday and it looks so nice and naturally dark chocolatey!! :-)

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    I have read and been reccomended to add some alma to my two step henna process in order to achieve darker results... I do a two step henna/indigo process for black and they said to add alma to the henna step (and some even reccomended adding a smaller amount to the indigo to) they said that this helps to keep the dye from fading as well as to make it darker... they also said that for a brown "hendigo" dye (i.e. all in one step) you could add alma to the whole mix for the same reasons. Alma makes cooler browns when added to a hendigo mix and also is acidic and therefore helps with dye release in the henna. I don't know why it helps indigo "stick" better... but it is reported to... I read about this on the hennaforhair forum by typing alma and indigo into the search bar in the bottom. I'm going to try adding alma to my two step process next time and see how it goes.

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    hrm.. I wonder if this would make a difference for me in the long run, I know one of my goals is to keep from going natural until after I am settled in a new job post graduation (so at least 2-3 years, probably 5).. but as I get whiter that means more red.. and too red takes
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    I tried amla but it didn't seem to help make the color darker. Here's some pics:

    Natural grays before:



    Rainbow Dark Brown:



    Hennaforhair.com Henna, Indigo and Amla:



    The color with amla (especially on the grays) still seemed more red/orange with amla than with the Rainbow Dark Brown.

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