Red wine rinse.

[Newniepg]

Ok, so I know that alcohol is drying for hair...but I have a bottle of red wine sitting on my table that my husband dislikes (I can't abide the taste of alcohol anyway) and I already have plenty for cooking. :alcoholic:

If I boiled the alcohol content out of the wine, would there be any benefit to putting it on my hair? I'm all up for weird experiments :crazyq: but i'd like to know if there is a good reason NOT to do this one!

I have very dark brown hair that has coppery tones to it in the sunlight, I am wondering if a red wine rinse would bring out the different colours in my hair, a bit like vinegar does.

So please give me your opinions or dire warnings of doom. :scared:

Thanks.

<I was a bit unsure where to put this, so Mods if this is in the wrong place please accept my apologies and slap me on the wrists>

[Ponytale]

OK, There was a woman who came into a GM stylist I used to see with strange tomato red hair. She said she worked in a restaurant and used the left over wine every week to color her hair. The color was odd, and I almost wondered if there was some other process she had done before the wine, like dye. Anyway, I would get a few other comments before I tried it.. Or I would use a dilute solution to test, or try some strands.

Maybe I am just paranoid after seeing her, but I would hate for something bad to happen...

Cheers.

[Newniepg]

Thank you! Tomato would NOT be such a good colour on me. I appreciate that you took the trouble to reply and warn me.

Having said that, I wouldn't be doing it every week, so I wonder if her tomato colour came from prolonged use.

I have been googling red wine for hair, but have found nothing interesting on it yet...the search continues.

[Medvssa]

She must have had blonde hair for the tomato colour to happen, anyway.

[Exodus]

I don't know what it would do for hair, but I definitely wouldn't like to have my hair smelling like wine. Doesn't the smell of wine use to stick onto things very good? (like any other alcohol)

[DotDotDot]

I'm pretty sure Nightshade put something in her herbal coloring article about red wine reddening hair. You might want to check that out.

[nomadhome]

It would be interesting if red wine really did dye blond hair tomato red all on its own. I guess I'd be surprised though, since red wine on clothes makes a cool red or even purple stain.

[iris]

It would be interesting if red wine really did dye blond hair tomato red all on its own. I guess I'd be surprised though, since red wine on clothes makes a cool red or even purple stain.
It's possible. Part of the color in red wine comes from anthocyanins, cool molecules that change color depending on the pH. They're red in more acidic environments, and blue in less acidic environments. (Like a litmus).

Cranberries have anthocyanins too, and cranberry juice dyes cotton blue/purple, but it dyes wool pink. That's because wool (like human hair) has an acid mantle, so it's inherently acidic, so it keeps the antho's in their red form.

Another component of the color of wine is tannins, which do not change color depending on pH, so that part of the color would remain constant.

But the anthos, yes, they could turn out tomato red on hair. They're not very stable though, so that component of the stain wouldn't be permanent. (One of the problems in selling bottled cranberry juice is to preserve the color - left to its own devices the juice would turn brown, - they add stuff to the juice to help keep the antho's around long enough).

Iris

[nomadhome]

It's possible. Part of the color in red wine comes from anthocyanins, cool molecules that change color depending on the pH. They're red in more acidic environments, and blue in less acidic environments. (Like a litmus).

Cranberries have anthocyanins too, and cranberry juice dyes cotton blue/purple, but it dyes wool pink. That's because wool (like human hair) has an acid mantle, so it's inherently acidic, so it keeps the antho's in their red form.

Another component of the color of wine is tannins, which do not change color depending on pH, so that part of the color would remain constant.

But the anthos, yes, they could turn out tomato red on hair. They're not very stable though, so that component of the stain wouldn't be permanent. (One of the problems in selling bottled cranberry juice is to preserve the color - left to its own devices the juice would turn brown, - they add stuff to the juice to help keep the antho's around long enough).

Iris

How interesting. Iris, you are a miracle of information!

[Newniepg]

Thanks people! I am off to read the article by Nightshade. I agree with nomadhome, Iris is indeed very knowledgable.

As I am not blonde I cannot see that a colour change would be drastic on me...I think I may have bash at doing this. If it goes horribly wrong I will post pictures to work as a detterent for naive young girls against the dangers of red wine.

[angelthadiva]

What did you find out, and what did you decide to to?