henna my hair

I decided to try henna because my hair was completely ruined from chemical dyes/bleaching. It was some nasty orange color from the dye fading badly, and I couldn’t cover it up without doing more damage.

Anyway, I ordered from mehandi.com (really fast shipping BTW), and I’m pretty pleased with the results. It turned out darker than I would’ve liked, a really dark auburn, but it’s all good. I think I dyed it about a month ago, and the color hasn’t faded much at all.

I need to touch up my cut from yesterday and NEED to find some more henna!

I’d like to give henna another go. I tried it last year, when my hair was long enough to sit on, but the colour didn’t take very well. I didn’t try it again, becuase I didn’t want to ruin my hair. The hair got ruined anyway (psycho hairdresser), and now it’s shorter I’m ready to give it another go. I used Lush Caca Marron/Brun last time. This time I’m thinking of trying the Noir, with maybe a couple of squares of Rouge mixed in, so it’s more dark with red through it… don’t know if that’ll work, but we’ll see!

:D Yay so today I decided to use my Five Fives Henna. Got it under wrap at the moment so I’m just playin the waiting game. tehnically I have already achieved this goal, but I’ll say I’m done once its washed and dried. YAY, I’ve been wanting to do this for so long!!

well, my hair is all non-unwashed now so my previous idea won’t work..

just gotta get going and buy some good quality henna!!

Clearly, I can no longer do this. For the record, my hair is naturally dark brown but I had it permanently dyed jet black in January while I was in Korea. The black had faded over the months and I had over 15cm of regrowth although it wasn’t visible since my natural dark brown hair blended in with the faded dyed black hair. Anyway, most people know that when your hair is dyed black, you cannot dye your hair a lighter shade because the colour will not lift. You’d have to have your hair stripped or bleached which is extremely damaging.

I was impatient though. I wanted a change in hair colour as soon as possible. I didn’t want to attend the formal with boring black hair so I had my hair dyed at a salon called Luc Espace on November 14th, days before my formal. After having had a strand test done the day before, November 13th, I was given the green light for hair colouring. I then arranged to come in the day after at 2pm. I choose a light-medium brown shade and so the process began. After about 1.5 hours and a $50 hair treatment, I was finally having my hair blow-dried. This is when I noticed the middle section of my hair (eyes to chest, about 40cm+) was STILL black. That 15cm of regrowth I mentioned earlier was a nice shade of brown, the next section was black and the tips were orange. So basically, my hair was brown at the top, then black then orange. It was ridiculously ugly and I was distraught because the colourist told me that he’d have to bleach the black hair which would cost an extra $150.

That was an unmitigated disaster! I actually began to get teary-eyed because I felt terrible for my parents as their money had been totally wasted not to mention there was no way I could pay another $150 in addition to the the initial $200 fee. Thankfully, the colourist felt genuinely sorry, despite it not being his fault, and to my delight, told me he’d fix it for free. Fix it he did, but the colour was the most artificial orange-brown with golden undertones. It made me look so washed out. Nonetheless, I was happy my hair was now one uniform colour.

Unfortunately, there was no way I could attend my formal with my hair this icky shade of orange. I had it addressed the following day at nVogue, a Korean hair salon, for $60. They applied a semi-permanent ash-based toner to my hair to neutralise the orange and golden undertones. The orange has been cancelled out but there are still many golden flecks in my hair..I’d like to have my hair dyed an auburn shade later down the track. I’m thinking I should cut my hair short, haven’t decided yet. I’ll henna my hair after 2009, it just requires too much time and commitment which I cannot provide until early 2010.

I have naturally dark brown hair which I had permanently dyed black in January while I was in Korea. I truly regret dyeing it black. It was extremely black at the start of the year but the colour has since faded; over 10cms from the tips of my hair has returned to its natural colour and I have about 8-10cms of regrowth although it is not particularly noticeable.

My hair has been in a very damaged state for a prolonged period of time due to my tendency to overuse a flat iron and an inexperienced hairdresser frying my hair during the chemical hair straightening process. This was over three years ago though and my hair is gradually recovering – I ceased all use of electrical items on my hair for over six months now.

Anyhow, the problem is..I no longer want to have my hair this shade. I want to have it bleached blonde so I can henna it the shade (or something similar-whatever will suit my skin tone) shown on the picture. I think I’ll have to have my hair stripped though and God only knows how much that will cost/kill my hair! I don’t think my hair can handle it. It’s no wonder people say ‘Once you go black, you never go back’. It’s the hardest dye to remove. If I wait for the black hair to grow out, I’m going to be waiting for one or two years.

Sigh.

I hope the color turns out ok and not too dark. I’m bored, just a few more minutes to go…

If I make my goal weight tomorrow I’ll do my hair. Not henna, but dye- I have a box so I may as well use it. Once isn’t gonna kill my hair! :-D
Dunno abt making the GW though- I’m .6 lbs away :-/
Ok here’s a compromise: I’ll give myself a .2 lbs margin!!! :-p

Ugh, I’m something like a year overdue! At this point I’d let the cat do it! I have the box in my bathroom!!!