Thank you for your suggestions. I have talked about the pros and cons of henna to her in great details. We also watched Henna Sooq videos together.
My mom has chin length hair, and the ends are quite damaged and fragile at the moment, the kind that break easily when you brush a little too much. We want to henna her hair as a transitional phrase for her to grow out naturally without any further perm or chemical dye job. Her current hair color is already burgundy/purple/orange-ish due to many terrible DIY dye jobs so in her words, it couldn’t get any worse lol.
It’s been half a year since her last diy dye job and she has had quite some new growth and two haircuts to get rid of many burned ends. But every time she walked past the salon near our house, the hairdresser always told her to “get a perm or dye her hair to hide her grays because that’s what women of her age should do” and she gets fed up with that speech.
I actually tried cassia on her already and it didn’t really affect her hair color, luckily she still has a lot of black hair.
She also expressed her two ideas, 1) if she doesn’t like the orange tint, we can always add indigo; 2) if indigo also fails, it doesn’t matter, she would be growing out the gray hair gracefully and cut off the henna’d ends eventually as she wants to look like a match to my dad who has a full head of gray hair now.
I will do strand test for her first of course.
Also my next step is to convince her to grow long hair. There is a really small pool of women over 60 with long hair (past BSL) in where I live. In fact, I rarely see super long-haired women anywhere. Maybe they are all too good at hiding their long locks in buns. Though honestly, I rarely see middle-aged and elderly ladies with a big bun, they either have a short pony tail folding in as a temporary messy bun or just have a short haircut.
My current length is at tbl, if I let it loose and walk out to pick up a mail, I would catch a lot of side eyes because my length is considered unusually long.
I could count the number of females who had longer hair than I do with one hand, and all those girls were from my old school mates. And they had given up long hair at some stage of their adult life.
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