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Autumn's Mix
Autumn's hair in
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Autumn's hair in
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| I've dyed my hair with henna 3
times. I have to have help, I wouldn't want to try it without a
helper. My roomate does it in exchange for me hennaing his
skin. I use about 200g body art quality from Mehandi,
although I've added leftover Jamila henna from castlart.com. I mix it with
lemon juice until it's a little thicker than pudding, cover it and
leave it on top of the dryer, or outside if it's a hot day, for about 6
hours. Then I add tea tree and clove bud oil (my skin is tough.) the oils help smooth the paste out and gets rid of lumps. I add more lemon juice until it's a little thinner than yogurt, and wait another 2-4 hours. I've added paprika before, but I didn't notice a difference, perhaps because my hair is dark. I sit outside to do it, and cover the patio in newspaper and myself in old towels and saran wrap. Then my faithful helper clips hair hair into about 20-30 sections. He grabs henna by the handful, coating the sections and pinning them back. Once all the sections are covered, he undoes the clips and we both smear the rest in, then wrap it up in saran wrap. If it's sunny I'll sit outside as long as I can take the heat, and I leave the paste on for at least 4 hours. Then I wash it out in the shower using about 1/3 of a bottle of cheap Suave conditioner. It ends up shiner, smoother, fuller, and of course, orangey. It takes about 4 days for the color to deepen, on my dark brown hair it looks dark aubrun-brown, and in the sun, a very bright auburn. The strands that I had that were bleached started out dark orange, now they're light red. The only thing that bothers me if the tea tree smell, which I part of the reason I add ALOT of clove oil, and sometime other EO's just to cover the scent. However the tea tree smell seems to fade after 2 days, and the clove smell lingers for a week or 2, getting stronger whenever my hair is wet. Autumn Umphress  |
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