Remind me why henna is a good idea

[stew]

So I put henna in my hair yesterday for the first time ever. It seemed like a good idea because I would like to have my natural hair colour back and I'm tired of destroying my hair with chemical dyes. I used Caca Brun from Lush and it basically just brought my hair back to my natural colour, which I am so pleased with.

However, the permanence of henna makes me nervous.. the permanence of anything really :rolleyes:

So.. remind me of the benefits of henna so I don't end up regretting my decision to go natural!!

[Bianca]

Well, if ur color is back to natural, like u wanted, do u need to use henna again ?? Wasn't that it :)

[Alvrodul]

The shine. The softness. The strengthening effects.

And the color!!! :gabigrin:

[Georgies]

I don't lush hair color is permanent for most people - there are other ingredients in there (cocoa butter etc) that make it more like a gloss, from what others have posted. And the indigo may fade before the henna.

But it still has conditioning benefits!

[Littlewing13]

You can also get conditioning benefits from cassia if you don't want to change your colour. No reason to change if you don't like the colour! I recently tried a schwarzcopf live 8wash red just to see if I liked red on me first before I took the plunge. I liked it. (It does last longer than 8washes btw) & now Im going gradually red with henna.