Henna over bleached/blonde hair?

[CrystalStar]

Hiya everyone, lately I've been sick of my bleach damaged hair which I'm desperately trying to grow out, and I used Lush henna over it, and turns out I supposedly suit being a redhead :p

However, this colour is temporary and being honest isn't the colour I want, on me I don't want orange, I kinda wanna go for a proper red look :) However, I'm kinda scared if I put my BAQ henna on my bleached hair I'm gonna go crazy orange and there'll be nothing I can do to repair it..

Is there anyone with experience hennaing over bleached or blonde and have managed to make it red, not orange? :p

Thank you so much for your time :D

[rach]

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"two" full applications worth to get this red (first app was sightly to orange, second turned it red for me)
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after
hair feels much nicer too :D

[Fencai]

check out my pics. I did henna over platinum bleach blonde.
It made such a difference!!!! Helped to heal the damage.
(although my BFF and photographer both keep trying to get me back to blonde!)

also, when you first do a BAQ henna, it will look bright orange until it oxidizes.. so just give it about a week to settle down

[CrystalStar]

Thank you both very much :)

However it makes me wonder, when my natural hair colour grows through am I gonna have a two-toned effect on my natural hair as opposed to my bleached hair?

[Jeni]

Yes you are, but how much depends on how much darker your natural color is compared to your dyed color.

When I joined LHC I had light ash blond hair (dye) and started to grow it out. I now have about 8-9" of virgin growth (medium blond), all but 2-3" is strawberry blond from cassia/henna. There is a definite difference between the dyed hair and virgin hair where I used cassia/henna . One of the big reasons I have stopped using henna is I hated how it looks on my virgin hair (it also wasn't sticking well).

Be very very sure you want red hair, henna doesn't go away. I will be growing out the red for a long long time. It does make my hair feel nice but in the end I am a blond at heart and cassia is almost as nice (to me) as henna.

As to hennaing over bleach blond hair, yes it can be done. I never did straight henna on my hair but I did do a few test with it. On my dyed hair (you can see the color in my album) it turned a red/orange after 1 application. If you want to stay light/more copper by adding cassia there is more risk of going orange, so strand test your mix. Also like others have said the first few days after henna can be rather scary, mine was always quite orange for 3 days.

Oh and remember henna always kind of flairs orange in the sun

[CrystalStar]

God, you wouldn't believe how much I regret bleaching my hair! :p

I'm hoping to achieve a burgandy-reddish tone by going over the bleached parts multiple times, I ordered 1kg of henna and I'm praying it'll be enough :)

Reckon if I get enough layers on it could possibly work? I hate to give up hope lol :D

[wintersun99]

I wonder... would you be able to prepare for the eventual two-toned color you will get when your natural color begins to grow in, by trying to do henna saturation now? I mean, if you were to apply enough full-strength henna applications (and this may be many and you might need to do 1 with a mix of henna'indigo) to be fairly close to your natural hair color "level" by the time the roots start to grow in?

Just thinking out loud.

[CrystalStar]

Ooo funny ya say that Winter, that's exactly what I was considering doing :p I was thinking if I start with a Henndigo base and build up 3 or 4 layers of straight henna then hopefully I might be able to avoid the two-toned look :)

[wintersun99]

Oh, good. I think that's the way I would do it, too. I think the henna'indigo base layer should help to avoid the flaming orange you might get over a bleach blond color. Have fun. Take lotsa pictures. :D

[CrystalStar]

I already have my picture of my bleach blonde hair before using lush henna, and a picture of me with PLATINUM (shock :p) hair, before I started using Cassia and it turned a more golden hue.

I'll try and take a picture after every phase, I gotta get some pictures up here eventually!

Thank you loads for the advice everyone who posted, my henna got lost in the mail though and is being re-sent now, kind of lucky so I didn't rush into it :)

[Barefootgirl]

Is it crazy talk to even consider getting bleached blonde highlights on top of henna-ed hair? My natural color (but I am aging fast, lol:eyebrows: ) is dark strawberry blonde. I am considering perking it up with henna, but truly love my blonde highlights - which I know I cannot achieve with henna.

Crazy thoughts? thanks!

[Kome]

I henna'd my hair over VERY damaged hair. It'd been bleached at least 8 times within' 8 months. It was orange at first, but after a few applications it has gotten a lot darker and a nice, rich, burgandy color. You can henna twice a week to get the color you want. I henna'd once a week until I got the color I wanted. :)

[Isilme]

You just have to prepare to be happy with whatever happens because henna is unpredictable and VERY VERY PERMANENT! Like growing out permanent.
However I think more applications would be a good idea if you want a daker red, but it will always flare orange in sunlight no matter how dark you go.
Read the henna article by Nightshade
http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/vbjournal.php?do=article&articleid=7
http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/vbjournal.php?do=article&articleid=2