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Coloring your Gray with Henna
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You can henna your gray hair and get
beautiful results ...
you've got to use body art quality henna, time, skill and patience! Here's why!    How does henna dye hair? Your gray hair is special. Henna on gray hair is orange. 
 Darken the henna to black. Darken the henna to brown. Once
upon a time, plant dyes were the only hair dyes. Henna and indigo
were the most effective, safest, and most commonly used hair dyes, and
people used them as early as 6000 BCE. These were used across North
Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. The
exact mixes were kept in oral tradition within families or small
businesses in those countries. They were rarely used in Europe, because
the plants don't grow in Europe.
Plant dyes are more difficult to mix and use than synthetic dyes, and learning to use them is an art as well as a science. Be patient. Try stuff. Have fun! |
