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Mara's Mix
| I am an inveterate haircolor
junkie. While perusing the bottles of L'oreal and Gatsby and their ilk
in the beauty supply store, I came upon this crappy brand of henna
called Surya. My mom was pressuring me to change my hair to a normal
color. So I bought it. Needless to say, it didn't work. My faded ends
were as silvery as ever. (I'm naturally a dark brunette but I've worn
lavender permanent dyes for about 4 years.) Then, while walking down the street, I popped into this odd Indian/Spanish/Chinese/Jamaican grocery store. Yup- it sure is the inner city, LOL. I saw a box of Jamila, and I bought it because it was $1.99. It was covered with dust, but I am a cheapo. Also, the store was owned by dusty old men, and even the food there was dusty. Here's how I did it: First I put 75g of Jamila in an old squirty bottle. The other 25 g is used to doodle stuff all over myself with mehndi. Then I put in Jamaican sorrel tea until it became a sticky mass. Then I put in enough lemon so that it would be able to squirt out of the bottle. Finally, I put in a few drops of patchouli perfume so that it would smell better. The next day after school, I washed my hair with a 99cent shampoo like SUAVE and put the henna all over it. It was fun to mush it around and pretend that there was alien poop in my hair. My brother screamed and called me a fecophiliac. Then I put a cap over it and watched SpongeBob for 3 hours. I don't think you'd get my color without SpongeBob, since it is so orangy/yellowy in the sun. One kick-butt part about henna is that it transformed my hair from the driest, nappiest-as-straight-hair-could-be, strawiest junk ever (don't put your hand in it, you'll cut yourself) to hair that feels normal. The color was not as dark or brown as I had hoped, but it's all good. It hung around mostly on the tips of my hair, filling in the fadey parts. There's still lavender and dark brown floating around somewhere in my hair. But it's alllll good. ~Mara~
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