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 [...]
Posts from ‘September, 2005’
There is a difference!
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 [...]
Teaser
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 [...]
Let the games begin!
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 [...]
Report from the hair-henna front
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. [...]
Ankle & Moroccan
I don’t think I ever posted my ankle experiment. I did my ankle in an easy floral design from my old Earth Henna kit, taking an extra effort to use fine, crisp lines. To ensure that it dried properly, I utilized my handy-dandy blowdrier. I sealed it with watered-down glue, applied with one of those [...]
Magic Brew
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) [...]
Fudging and Oxidation
Alrighty! Now to post the follow-up. I left the paste on all night and took it off in the morning. Here are the results: As you can see, my pretty hand design was totally ruined because I didn’t wait for it to dry before sealing it, and I fudged the hell out of it! My [...]
Henna Success!
So it didn’t go perfectly, but it went pretty well, in my opinion. I didn’t get my EOs in the mail, so I added ground cinammon and allspice to the mix so it would smell good. Nice combo! Completely took out the "moldy lemonade stand" motif. Some things I’m gonig to fix my next time [...]