The answer is, it depends. And are you sure you really want to?
I discovered henna for hair when I lived in San Francisco. If you read my earlier blog entries, you’ll discover my love affair firsthand.
This is the color and state of my hair before I went the henna route. It’s mostly my natural color; [...]
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Can I bleach henna out of my hair?
Henna on Eyebrows
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 [...]
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 mixes. [...]
Third time’s a charm
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Okay, so this is my third before-and-after of my henna-head. I think my hair has reached maximum henna saturation, because this application blended in my roots but didn’t seriously affect the overall color!
Today’s recipe:
100g henna
1.5c double-strength chamomile
2T olive oil (…garlic flavored, yuck! I didn’t [...]
So many compliments!
So yesterday I got like fifteen compliments on my hair in less than two hours as I was running around town doing work stuff. I figured I should include a pic of how it’s looking, since it’s apparently so stellar!
It’s not a week and a half since application, but it’s getting pretty mellow. When I [...]
Peak color
Out and about this morning, I must have gotten a dozen compliments on my hair in less than two hours. I guess it’s at its peak color — just four or so days after reapplying it!
It’s weird, I’ve never gotten so many comments on my appearance before. Sure, one or two people usually tell me [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 this:
I’m bored.
My [...]