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Loretta and Lelia's Mixes
| For clarification: Loretta is
the older sister and is writing this out. She has long hair. And she
frequently has problems with referring to herself in third
person. Lelia is the younger sister, has short hair, and is
fantastic with henna body art. She’s had a great desire to henna her
hair for great color and to hopefully get more fullness. Loretta wanted
to go dark for something new and to show her husband how good she looks
in dark hair. Lelia did want to go darker, but we ran out of indigo-
more on that later. Loretta had used some manic panic on her hair about a year ago, and Leila had cut off all her previously dyed hair. So we figured we were both safe. Lelia got 100 grams of Rococo Henna and we used indigo from mehandi.com. Loretta
decided to do a test with just indigo to see if it would work. Ladies
and gentlemen, to answer the oft-asked question, using just indigo is a
bad idea. It looks smarmy, there is no other way to describe it. It has
no shine, no sheen, it’s just a dull kinda blue. Please ignore the lint
from my brush.
 This
is Lelia and Loretta’s hair before.
  The 100 grams of Rococo henna was mixed up the night before with some lemon juice to let the dye release. When Lelia got to my house, we decided the henna needed to be thinned, and we used some apple cider vinegar. I glopped about 30 grams on to Lelia’s head. He has two bleached streaks which were foiled out. And that answers another question- what happens when you bleach hair that has been indigoed? Green.  Loretta’s hair used the last of the henna. For being long, my hair is really thin. I had henna all down the back of my shirt, and Lelia had glops on her feet, and there were glops on the bathtub. We wrapped our heads in saran-wrap, then a towel, and then watched Moulin Rouge while the henna went to work. Henna covered hair:   The movie was about two hours, and that was as long as we left the henna on. It took me FOREVER to rinse it all out of my hair. Afterwards we both had beautiful hair. I almost considered stopping there. I had a lot of orange on my scalp. It happens.   We had 100 grams of indigo and figured we could share it as well. It was mixed with just water and left to sit until the top oxidized and turned a funny green-blue, about a half an hour. Lelia started to put it on my hair and holy big mess batman. We should have taken pictures but we were too busy trying to clean it up. Little bits of indigo flung all over the bathroom. I got some on my jeans (not a big deal, I mean they were dyed with indigo anyway.) The edge of the bathtub had blue spots, as did the bathmat. And the indigo did not go as far as the henna- she just managed to get it all into my hair. Put it up in saran-wrap and towel, and bleach the tub. The indigo was left on only about 45 minutes. It started to glop down my head then. I was left with this strange puddle of indigo stuck in the saran-wrap just above the nape of my neck. (At this point, Lelia had to bail, and I was left on my own.) You thought it took a while to rinse out the henna- it took EVEN LONGER to rinse the indigo out. And I don’t think I even got it all out. My hair was a lovely black-blue-brown, it smelled really strange (think wet hay, lemon, and vinegar) but had great fullness.here were orange spots still on my temples.  I met up with Lelia about three days later, and her hair was an awesome fiery orange!! She still thinks she may put indigo in it, she just needs some time, and her indigo to come in.  My hair bled in the shower for about a week. It started off as blue green, and by the end of the week it was kind of a gun metal blue. It took about two days for all the ‘crud’ to rinse out. I took a pict of my hair once it had finished bleeding to see what the color was. It’s up in a neat bun (I was playing with my hair) but you can still see the color.  Lelia and I did some pondering after the fact. Maybe we made the indigo too thick - we were trying to make it as thick as henna. It’s not henna, it’s a dye. When you use it as a dye, you make it as thin as water. Maybe we need to thin it and soak the hair? It would work better for my long hair, but not work so well on Lelia’s. We also pondered using pectin, but someone on the forum is playing with that and not having much luck. I wonder if you could mix it with conditioner or something like mayonnaise to get it to stick. (I knew someone in high school who would dye her hair with kool-aid and mayo - as the hair absorbs the oil in the mayo, the dye sinks into the hair.) I have also found a really strange side effect. My kitten usually sleeps on my pillow and would often tangle his paws in my hair and had been known to chew on my hair. Since I used the henna and indigo, he hasn’t even shared my pillow. It could be coincidence and he could just think he’s too cool for my pillow, but I think he doesn’t like how my hair (and my pillow) smells now. It’s more than likely the lemon juice, since cats don’t like citrus. If Lelia adds the black or we figure out how to keep the indigo from going everywhere, we will let people know!!! Loretta and Lelia http://www.laminathegreat.com/index.html  |
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