The fine art of dying your hair with henna

I will definitely be sticking with henna from now on, and maybe next time I will try to do it on my own. After two hours, the henna is fully developed. The color fades from green to a rich brown, and hardens due to the cocoa butter.

I only meant to leave it for the day and do it at night, but I got tired and left it until next morning. It had been clumpy when I left it, now with a stir it was really dissolved and even and went on smooth and creamy instead of chunky drops falling everywhere. I have to admit that I rarely use gloves, but use a nail brush and sugar scrub as soon as I finish. Very little staining, probably because I use mixes with very little indigo and don’t let my mixture steep long. Well I’ve just used henna called bonvita, from a health food shop. I mixed it to the paste with hot water and left it to cool.

I personally henna over coconut oiled hair, and sometimes even add oil to my henna mixes and get a fantastic colour. Black Henna Hair Dye A few times, I’ve even applied henna to hair after using silicones and still got great colour. I have only used harvest moon thus far as well. And I ran into a problem recently because I did not know I wasn’t supposed to use box dye afterwards. I thought maybe it had salts or metals but the packaging as you said does say no metals or salts or chemicals. So I am stumped.So I sucked it up and tied my hair up so it was harder to see.

I used natural highlights thinking I was putting on a neutral over my beautiful gray (salt & pepper color) that I love. So yes, I used to use red henna but my hair did really get orange. I’m using madison reed’s hair color now – sardinia red. It’s not natural by any means, but it doesn’t have some of the worst ingredients in it like ammonia. The grays become like natural highlights in my hair – the parts that are still brown and auburn get a little dark, and the grays turn to a brighter red. If you can bear it, one thing you can try is applying a darker henna, or mixing the henna product you used with hot strong coffee and re-applying it.

If you read the ingredients you will see that. There is also a lot of information out there by mark constantine, one of the founders of lush who is also a hair scientist. He sources the henna from iran, and is very particular about the ingredients they use. Mark also teaches henna master classes, and you can watch him teach on youtube.