Base color and henna reaults

[-Fern]

That looks great, SwanFeathers!!! And we are practically hair twins, haha. I particularly love the photo with your hair henna'd and braided... It looks so smooth and healthy. Great job!

[Nightshade]

Swanfeathers that turned out great!

Sadly I don't have a picture of my natural hair color since I started dying my hair when I was 11, but it's close to this.

With multiple layers of pure henna:





Then I transitioned to Fire Genasi. Here you can see the Fire Genasi for the first few inches and the straight henna for the rest:




Then finally I lightened the length with Sun-In to match and I've been on straight Fire Genasi ever since.

[SwanFeathers]

Here are my before&after in indirect sunlight

[SwanFeathers]

So after 3 months, the warm brown-gold color that my hair faded to after a whole head fire-genasi treatment finally pushed me over the edge. That wonderful color that my hair was immediately after fire genasi had looked so nice, and I'd received so many compliments that I went 100% henna to replicate it. I never thought that I would love this burgundy wine color, but I really really do. Here is my color progression from natural to fire-genasi to straight henna.

Natural

Fire genasi

Henna

Fire genasi

Henna

Natural in sunlight.

Fire genasi indirect sunlight

Henna in sunlight

[MusicalSpoons]

Wowzers! That's a delicious colour! The fire genasi colour was lovely too but with full henna is very striking. Enjoy!

[Genne]

Here is shortly before

https://jenniferblockerphoto.zenfoli...3CFA#hcf8b3cfa

Here is shortly after my first, (and only so far,) treatment.

https://jenniferblockerphoto.zenfoli...3CFD#hcf8b3cfd

It went pretty dark after that and some people cannot even tell it has red in now, (my signature picture was taken after a couple weeks.) I used a henna only product and left it on for 3 hours.
Jen

[Genne]

Nightshade,
The picture that shows the first few inches with Fire Genasi makes me think this is something I ought to transition too. I have my second pure henna mix here and I'm planning to do it tonight. Likely I'll transition from onward.
Also, your pictures are just lovely, really gorgeous captures.
Jen

[lapushka]

I like that color; and I had the same thing happen. I think it's so typical for henna, inside you get some kind of brown and it flashes orange or red in the (blazing) sun. Henna is funny like that.

[SwanFeathers]

I made a collage, hope it's helpful to anyone looking to see possible outcomes.

[Suortuva]

SwanFeathers, your hennaed colour is so amazing. Breathtaking. Wow!

And why couldn't I achieve that kind of colour with henna? Blah...