So a few people have asked about henna on eyebrows. I actually rememberd to take photos of the results the last time I did it. It took me a few tries to perfect it — you really need to take care to keep water from lightening it up too much for the best results. First [...]
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Paste consistency, and pretty cones
I’m experimenting with different henna recipes to get a consistently good consistency for doing designs — not so dry that it immediately cracks, not so sugary that the design flattens out and bleeds like a bad batch of cookies, not so thin that it just dribbles down the skin. Last night I mixed the following [...]
Challenging the norm
A lot of interesting things have been going on in my blogging absence! Here’s an attempt to keep you guys up to speed. The UK-based henna artist Cat Hinton, who has a background in biology, is running a series of henna experiments that challenge the Western notion that lemon is the ideal liquid for henna [...]
Fire-engine red!
So last night I decided to henna my hair again, because the roots were starting to show. As reported by other henna heads, the second application layers over the red tones and turns out absolutely gorgeous. Not a hint of orange to be seen! It is pretty bright — almost fire-engine red — but that [...]
Paste Consistency = O
After working with Darcy’s great mix all weekend, I finally had a pretty decent idea of what a good paste consistency is. I mixed some up last night, adding more and more and more lemon juice (but only a small bit of sugar and honey, and not too many essential oils), stirring the hell out [...]
Final Hair Results
I realized that I never posted all of my hair photos. Now that it’s nice and mellowed out, in its final color, I think I can! I hear that repeated applications deepen and darken the red color, but if you’re a blonde (like me) and you henna with chamomile and a bit of lavendar (like [...]
Eyebrows, Poste-Paste
Wow! It turned out pretty good. The skin color is no better/worse than filling in my eyebrows with powdered makeup, and it matches my hair color better than the brown eyeshadow I usually use anyway, even during the orange stage. I can’t tell for the life of me if it actually stained the hairs red. [...]
Fingertips
The design on my wrist and finger are kind of awkward, but I love what I came up with for my fingertips. Unfortunately, it totally smeared and bled overnight (even though I didn’t use saran wrap, and even though I blowdried it before and after sealing it with glue — the price of an over-sugared [...]
Groucho Marx
I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll be glad to make an exception. -Groucho Marx Okay, I’m going into very unknown territory here. My eyebrows were so not-red as compared to my newly-henna’d hair that, well, I henna’s my eyebrows. This is with the paste on, obviously. My logic went something like [...]
Full head henna
As cool as my henna highlights were, I decided to go all-out anyway. I wanted to see how the henna conditioned it, and I was feeling the need to be a little extreme (angst from overwork). So, I mixed together my recipe of henna, chamomile, yogurt, and lavendar, slathered it through my hair, wrapped it [...]