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Pam's Mix
| This is a picture of my totally gray hairhair 3 days after I hennaed it! I added a bit of indigo to the henna mix as well as clove powder, with Mogen David Blackberry wine, lemon juice, paprika, eucalyptus oil from Indian Store and pectin and gelatin base. There was about 2 cups of dry ingredients with about 3 cups (or so?) liquids, I suppose. I added all of this to 200 g. of Catherine's henna mixed together with the warmed liquids to which the pectin was added at last (using Fias method of gelled henna). I allowed the pectin, wine, lemon juice base to cool down to 100 degrees F. before adding it to the henna, indigo, clove mixture. I used only about 2 tsp indigo . After it was all mixed in together I added Eucalyptus essential oil (2 tsp). I put gelled mixture into a carrot bag and also a ziplok bag and wrapped in paper towels and put on a heating pad set to "low". The mixture started to "darken" and turned to an olive drab color as soon as it was mixed up so the only way to tell dye release was by putting it on the paper towels which turned a slight yellowish cast when there was dye release. I applied this and let it stay on for only 3 hrs or so as it was late at night and I didn't want to sleep in it! Then washed this all out using shampoo and conditioner. I think that you could call this color "Brick Red". I think that I like the darkish color that the indigo added, if that is what caused the blackish streaks. The indigo grabbed onto the darker hair but not to the gray hair. I will try to send a better picture of this "affect".  This is a picture of my hair one week after I hennaed it. Yes, I like it much better than the gray I had. At least I have color again which is a welcome change. I was scared to death of the synthetic hair dyes as my sister and very many women in my family have breast cancer. My sister dyes her hair with synthetic dyes by the way. With soo much cancer in my family as well as my husbands family I was hoping also to influence the women in our family to dye their hair with something else than synthetic dyes. Pam
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