Darkening hair with coffee?

[-simply Venus-]

I'm thinking about doing this, but first I was wondering if it actually works! Does anyone have any pictures? That would be super awesome! ^.^

[countryhopper]

I haven't used it consistently or long enough to know if it will deposit color, but I would guess that it does. If tea can be used to color, why not coffee??

At any rate, I have used it with good results as an acidic rinse.

[Merlin]

Lucrezia Borgia is supposed to have lightened hers (she was blonde already) with Camomile Tea - if we're doing hair colouring with beverages

[dfotw]

I tried it a couple of times, but a) non consistently, and b) my hair is so dark already that it's hard to tell the difference.

But I think it can work, if only temporarily (it washes off). I'd love to hear if anyone's tried it!

[frizzinator]

The color sticks when it is used in combination with neutral henna (which I think is the same thing as cassia). The color washes out over time. It's really considered a tint more so than a color, because even though it deposits the tint on all the hair, it can only be seen on the hair that is a lighter color than the coffee.

It might require 3 or 4 applications before you will notice a color change in your hair, because the color is cumulitive. Even though it eventually washes out, the color can be maintained if it is done at least once every couple of months.

You just make an exceptionally strong brew, and use it instead of the water component to mix with the dry neutral henna.

The neutral henna is a dried plant ground into a fiberous powder. When you add the liquid, it makes mud, which is then painted on the hair, and left on for at least 30 minutes, preferably under a heat cap.

The application will be very messy in the beginning, but with time I was able to figure out how to minimize the mess. I did it years ago, and I used chamomile tea instead of coffee. I quit after 2 years due to it making my hair dry.

There should be several weeks between applications because henna makes the hair dry. The color doesn't show on hair that is darker than the coffee (or chamomile tea for light haired folks). It is a great way to make white hairs blend-in with darker hairs, so that the white hairs are not noticeable.

[klcqtee]

I made a brew of black tea, coffee, sumac leaves, and potato water. It made my hair incredibly shiny, but any change in colour was negligible. On top of being shiny, my hair was also somewhat plastic-y feeling, just to warn you.

[Sissy]

I've used instant coffee in a treatment before with conditioner, molasses, and castor oil. The results were slightly darker but nothing great for me. The instant coffee left a smell in my hair. I still have most of the tiny bottle left of the coffee powder and would like to try it again sometime.

[zift]

I've only applied it once to my hair and I mixed it with conditioner and left it on for about two hours. After I only rinsed. I smelled coffee for a day and my hair felt dry so I had to wash and condition the next day and started looking for other solutions to darken hair like henndigo:)

[auburn]

I tried on my natural colour (dark blonde), and it doesn't work. And I rinsed with coffee every day for 3 months and a half. Absolutely no result.


BUT you can darken your hair a bit (gives it a dark brown shade) with walnut leafs tea. This really works, and makes your hair shine more, too. Read this in a phytotherapy book written by the famous Maria Treben (an austrian lady)

[JenniferNoel]

I wouldn't recommend it; it's not very strong color wise and any change in color will probably take many applications. I'd just go with henndigo. I don't mind the coffee smell at all though. I like to save my coffee for drinking. :)

[Elenna]

I have brown and gray hair.

I tried a coffee mask a couple of years ago to cover my gray. It was a mixture of instant coffee, molasses, etc. I left it on for hours. And there was no noticeable brown deposit.