Reply With QuoteOoh, very nice result, WednesdayAddams!
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Is this you?? Wow, you could have been born with that color. It suits you so so well. Anyway, I subscribed.Originally Posted by yeshuasdaughter
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Ooh, very nice result, WednesdayAddams!
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Thank you!
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Wow, that looks so natural! New subscriber here!
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I can't wait until I have enough posts to see everyone's henna hair! I could post my hennaed hair from two years ago, but it was a big fail, so I'm trying again... still doing strand tests.
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Let's see if I still know how to upload pictures here...
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After 7,5 years of silvering dreadlocks, back to loose, fine, straightish hair.
Fresh Hennahead and loving the red!
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Let's see if I still know how to upload pictures here...
Sha-ZAM. What is your recipe? And how long do you leave it on?
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Thank you both!
Mainly, it's so very very red because my hair is about 50% silver...
More so in front, less in back.
I've only done 2 full henna's so far, the first with not very potent stuff from Jacob Hooy, which was rather gritty and made my hair more to the yellow side of orange.
The second was with the Henna-Amla-Jatropha mix from Khadi, which is supposed to give a more reddish orange: which it did!
(They have a pdf of their colour chart, which I found quite accurate)
In both cases, I mixed with only (warm) water, waited for dye release in a warmish room around 4 hours, then left on my head for around 5-6 hours.
After that, I bought some great quality (very fresh, very fine) henna from a Dutch webstore (Louland), but I've only used that for touch-ups / glosses; 100g henna + 20 g amla, mixed with water and about half a tablespoon of sugar for consistency; waited for dye release, then frozen.
When using that, I defrost one single cube (about 15-20 ml I think), mix it with homemade flaxseed gel and gloop that on my hair, trying to focus on roots, hairline, temples etc; cover and leave for around 1 - 1,5 hours before CO-washing it out.
I adore the henna red, but because my original hair colour is so very different (very cool brown with a lot of silver), the roots show up very quickly and noticeably; by doing this quick gloss quite often, the roots blend in nicely.
After 7,5 years of silvering dreadlocks, back to loose, fine, straightish hair.
Fresh Hennahead and loving the red!
Re: Show Me Your Hennaed Hair!
Thanks for the info!Thank you both!
Mainly, it's so very very red because my hair is about 50% silver...
More so in front, less in back.
I've only done 2 full henna's so far, the first with not very potent stuff from Jacob Hooy, which was rather gritty and made my hair more to the yellow side of orange.
The second was with the Henna-Amla-Jatropha mix from Khadi, which is supposed to give a more reddish orange: which it did!
(They have a pdf of their colour chart, which I found quite accurate)
In both cases, I mixed with only (warm) water, waited for dye release in a warmish room around 4 hours, then left on my head for around 5-6 hours.
After that, I bought some great quality (very fresh, very fine) henna from a Dutch webstore (Louland), but I've only used that for touch-ups / glosses; 100g henna + 20 g amla, mixed with water and about half a tablespoon of sugar for consistency; waited for dye release, then frozen.
When using that, I defrost one single cube (about 15-20 ml I think), mix it with homemade flaxseed gel and gloop that on my hair, trying to focus on roots, hairline, temples etc; cover and leave for around 1 - 1,5 hours before CO-washing it out.
I adore the henna red, but because my original hair colour is so very different (very cool brown with a lot of silver), the roots show up very quickly and noticeably; by doing this quick gloss quite often, the roots blend in nicely.
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