Hi! :) Happy to be here.

[Raiwen]

Hello lovely people!

I've been stalking for a while and finally decided to join the community properly. I love that this forum exist, it's such a great archive of knowledge and experience!

This is my current hair state, the length is somewhere around 55 cm / 21.5 in. My goal for now is to reach waist length with healthy unbleached hair. I'm also considering dying it red with henna this autumn, that is something that I've been wanting to do for years but kept postponing it. I used to dye it with semi-permanent red dye in high school and it's visible, pretty dark but not too dark so that you don't notice it's red, so I'm hoping that henna will be similarly visible on my hair. I even have the powder waiting for me to use it for 6 months now This is one of the reasons that pushed me to start posting, wanting the access to the pictures so that I can see how henna looks on hair similar to mine

One of the other things I would like to work on is to get rid of dandruff. Random things bring it back and I wasn't able to figure out a pattern. I just know that for some reason Lavera Sensitive Shampoo works for me. I'm afraid to experiment with completely SLS free shampoos because of this. I never know what will bring the dandruff back, and when it's back it's there for a couple of weeks at least.

So this is me, nice to meet everyone, and I'm looking forward to learning new things!

[lapushka]

Welcome!

Side-note. Henna will probably leave a "glow" on your hair, as it is pretty dark for it. It will not turn red-red but rather leave a sheen on the hair.

[Ylva]

Nice to meet you!

[shelomit]

Howdy!

Do the photos show (roughly) your natural hair color, or is there any semi-perm remaining in it? If that is your natural color, your hair is probably too dark for henna to register as "red" on you. My own color is a few shades lighter than yours, with natural reddish highlights, and henna just gives me. . . somewhat more coppery reddish highlights. I love it for the conditioning effect, though, and my family is North African so there is an important cultural aspect to henna for us.

If you are interested in a mahogany/"cherry cola" color, though, you might be able to get that from henna.

[Raiwen]

@shelomit Yes, this is completely my natural color, except the little bit of bleach at the ends. The red has grown out long time ago.

I attached a couple of images to clarify what I'm going for. The first image is my hair in a strong diffuse light. Even though it seems completely dark indoors, there is still space for a pigment to be visible. The other 3 images are how my hair looked like with a semi permanent dye which pretty much washed out with only a little residue of red left, it wasn't strong enough to lift the color from my natural hair. I expect something like this from henna too, not changing the value of my hair, just the shade to a deep dark red, just with more natural redish hues then this. But even if it doesn't work I'm ok with a nice warm glow too



My hair seems pretty similar to hers, I feel it could look close to this, dark indoors, having a nice bright shade outdoors.

[Feral_]

Hello and welcome!

[TatsuOni]

Welcome!

You should strand test to see what color you get There's also this thread that might interest you https://forums.longhaircommunity.com...res+henna+hair

[Sarahlabyrinth]

Hi - welcome to the forum

[Raiwen]

Thanks everyone for the welcome!

Welcome!

You should strand test to see what color you get There's also this thread that might interest you https://forums.longhaircommunity.com...res+henna+hair

That's exactly what I'm looking for Thank you!

[shelomit]

@shelomit Yes, this is completely my natural color, except the little bit of bleach at the ends. The red has grown out long time ago.

I attached a couple of images to clarify what I'm going for. The first image is my hair in a strong diffuse light. Even though it seems completely dark indoors, there is still space for a pigment to be visible. The other 3 images are how my hair looked like with a semi permanent dye which pretty much washed out with only a little residue of red left, it wasn't strong enough to lift the color from my natural hair. I expect something like this from henna too, not changing the value of my hair, just the shade to a deep dark red, just with more natural redish hues then this. But even if it doesn't work I'm ok with a nice warm glow too

The photo of your hair with the semiperm is actually pretty much what I was trying to describe with "mahogany." That should probably be attainable with henna! It may take multiple applications to build up the level of reddishness that you want, though. Tatsu is exactly right: strand test, strand test, strand test. . .