Show Me Your Hennaed Hair!

[SpiralingWaves]

Girltron, I love what you have achieved with your henna mixes! Your color is so rich. I am wondering, when you are doing the indigo, do you cover your hair and are you using heat? And when you rinse the indigo out, do you use conditioner or shampoo?

[Girltron]

Thanks! I do cover my hair when I use indigo, but I never use heat. I'm not very exact about the indigo, my feeling about it is as long as it's wet it'll dye and there's no telling from one batch to the next how strong it'll be. That's why I don't really specify a dye time. I usually use conditioner to rinse out the indigo, and follow with a citric acid rinse.

The first shampoo I do after indigo/henna usually shows a reasonable amount of dye washout.

The other thing I didn't mention is that every so often, maybe every couple of months, I do a full-head cassia treatment mixed with chamomile, microwaved honey, and coconut oil. I leave it on all night like the henna. It helps correct the "plum" color more toward the natural orange-reds that I want.

I could have chosen a lower dye-content henna than Yemen, but I'm one of the weirdos that see a color difference between crops and Yemen, to me, makes an Irish Setter color that I prefer over the others.

[MadHatter]

Girltron you're hair is quite lovely. I find it difficult to tear my eyes away from your avatar to keep reading posts!

[Girltron]

Wow! That's a stunning compliment from someone whose hair looks just like a piece of golden silk fabric! Thanks!

[sonriso]

Hi Eufony, oh yes, I bought from Catherine. Like you told me I looked at few mixes,I found good mixes. I love your hair !!.
See ya

[sonriso]

I really enjoy seeing all the beautiful henna heads too!

sonriso-It really depends on what color your hair is to start. Henna always has an orange undertone, if your natural hair is light (like mine) the orange shows up well--usually in the sun or bright light. If your natural hair is dark, it's less obvious . And the more times you henna, the darker it gets. Also, when you apply the henna to your hair, the longer you leave it on the less orange. So, say I put henna on my blond--2hrs=carrot orange, 6 hours=red-orange crayon or what I like to call it--flaming hot cheeto red.

Hi there , thank you for your advice, I left it for 6 hrs , I mixed Rajasthan and Yemem, so my hair got an orange, one week after looks great much more dark.I love it.
Thank you for your advice.
See ya

[soleluna]

go have a look at my album

[Elarea]

Here is my color, about 1.5 weeks since my first henna. I used 200g Cassia/100g Henna from Yemen.

[Celebrian]

Here is my color, about 1.5 weeks since my first henna. I used 200g Cassia/100g Henna from Yemen.

That's beautiful. What was your starting color?

[Mrs_Zombie]

Treecrown,

My natural colou is dark-blonde to light-brown. I normally use copper-coloured henna, about one-third, mixed with golden-blonde henna, also one third, and finally one third colourless henna. The picture is taken in full sunlight, so it’s not always this light…
I use Henné Colour paris, which is a brand that you can get at every chinese or turkish shop here in the Netherlands, I don’t know if there are similar colours available where you live.

Wintersun, i don't know if you saw this, but this was a post before you asked how she got her hair that color. Its not the full recipe, but its a start