Henna - dont go there (Henna)

Member Name: missb_75

Product:	Henna
Date:	05/07/02 (622 review reads)
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Advantages: nice soft hair

Disadvantages: red, red, red

I made a big mistake last week and I urge anyone else who reads this to take heed and listen to my advice.

I have fairly dark brown hair, but it gets very dry at the ends and consequently has a nasty habit of turning a subtle ginger colour - not a good look in my opinion.

Because my ends are so dry though, I am loathed to use normal chemical hair dyes with ammonia and peroxide, as this just finishes my ends off and leaves me with a head full of split ends.

Ever on the lookout for a natural(ish) alternative that won't damage my hair, I happened upon a pack of henna in the Body Shop which promised to coat my hair with a lovely chocolate brown glow. I was a little suspicious intitially, knowing that henna generally produces a very definite red effect, but given that there were other packs in the range which promised the red colours and another pack which was for black tones, I thought their may be some grain of truth in the claims of brown-ness.

I am a fool - of course henna turns your head red - no matter how they package it or what they claim - i now look like anne of green gables - sigh. And to heap insult on injury I have been told by hairdressers specialising in vegetable colours, that they cannot put these colours over henna-ed hair and so I will have to wait at least 6 weeks before I can correct the damage - groan.

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