Posts under ‘Henna for Hair’

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 [...]

Well, there you have it! This is the best I could do taking a photo of the back of my head with a digital camera at two in the morning. It’s all pretty light at this point because it’s fresh off my head, with no time to let the color mature. If you can’t see [...]

Okay, still no photos, but early reports are in! A coworker was noticeably impressed with the chamomile mix as opposed to the coffee mix. He described the chamomile as "vibrant" and the coffee mix as "mousey and dark." I’m postulating that the chamomile worked great on my hair because it has a naturally golden-reddish sheen [...]

Well, it’s too dark out to get any good photos (you can expect those in a day or two), but so far, the color is gorgeous, and there’s not much difference between the four. At first I thought that the chamomile side was more auburn, but it might have just been the lighting in the [...]

Here we go! We’ll start with the before pictures. I divided the underside of my hair and slathered my mixes into each segment. Unfortunately, I’m horrible at dividing my hair into segments, so by the time I got to my fifth mix… I didn’t have any hair left!!! The last mix was the plain lemon [...]

God, work today is horrible. I hope I get to go home tonight with enough time to henna my hair. In any case — I checked up on the green goop this morning, and added the tea tree oil to the mix I was reserving for terps. The lemon mixes and yogurt mix oxidized beautifully. [...]

I’m conducting a hair henna experiment. There are those that say that adding coffee to your hair henna makes it browner; that chamomile makes it more blonde, that yogurt makes it condition more. We’ll see. My control will be plain henna with lemon juice. My mixes will be: Henna and coffee (Sarkisan chocolate macadamia, specifically) [...]