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Sue B's Mix
 
Sue's gray roots before henna
Sue's roots after henna ....... no gray!
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| A few months back, my mom and
aunts asked me to start dying their hair at home rather than shell out
the big $$$ at the salon. My mom and one of her sisters are very
gray, while my other aunt only has a spray of gray in the front with a
few grays throughout. I talked my aunt with sparse grays into
letting me henna her hair instead of dye it (she was using
semi-permanent dye anyway). We used the "Hennalucent" and Rainbow
henna with inconsistent results. Then I started searching the net
and found Henna for Hair and
WOOHOO! The world of REAL henna opened up. My mom finally agreed to let me switch her over to henna from standard nasty hair dyes (better for the both of us!). She was really really scared, but I scared her with all the PPD talk more. She's got some chronic migraine stuff going on right now so I think the possibility that the PPD was making her migraines worse was scarier for her than the possibility of her hair being bozo the clown orange. She's about 50%+ gray right around the front and on her crown, less so as you go back towards the nape of her neck (barely any gray there). Her natural color is dark brown. The last time we dyed it with PPD dyes was about 6 wks to 10 weeks ago, I can't remember exactly. She had about 1-1.5 inches of roots and her top layer of hair was very oxidized and brassy strawberry blond. Her hair is quite damaged from all the regular dying with commercial dyes. I started with mixing 1.7 oz (~ 50g) of Catherine's henna with 1 oz of Black Walnut Hull powder, lemon juice and Tea Tree and Lavendar EOs (terping and scent). Let that hang out in the baggie for a while until the paper I wrapped around it stained. Then I mixed .9 oz (~ 25g) of Catherine's indigo with warm water, waited for dye release, then mixed the henna and indigo mixes together. Slopped them on my mom's towel dried hair. Her hair is chin length and thin (but very dry and damaged from all the dying) and I used about 2/3 - 3/4 of my mix (froze the rest for next time!). It went on so lovely and smooth (compared to the Hennalucent and Rainbow Henna I'd been used to using to henna my aunts hair). I wrapped her up in saran wrap and a head band to catch any drips. This was about 8 pm. I convinced her to sleep with it on (she wasn't very happy about that) and ended up washing it out at about 5 AM. I was totally paranoid, couldn't sleep, so I got up when I heard the shower running (we had stayed the night since we live about an hour away) and I was relieved. It's a bit more orange than I had hoped for, but I think it will mellow out. I was looking at Fia's gloss mixes and I think if her hair doesn't mellow out, we will talk about doing an indigo gloss to tone the red down a bit (unless of course she lets me do a full indigo process on top of the henna). If we do, we'll add that too! I've also used the knowledge of henna I gained visiting Catherine's sites to start doing some body henna. My friends and I recently henna'd our two friends 37 week pregnant bellies at their Blessingway... what fun! ~ danielle (DanielleN) 
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