Hair: fresher, hotter, longer....redder

Posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on November 16, 1999 at 19:49:31:

In Reply to: Henna won't dye my hair! posted by Henna diva on November 16, 1999 at 04:44:12:

The red hair thing.....using the traditional method.
Get the best (freshest)hair henna you can find. Make up the henna
paste with lemon juice. Wash your hair. Muck the henna paste
thickly into your hair and braid the hair with the paste in. Wind
your henna-plastered braids into a turban. Leave that up to 3 days.
(source, rural Iraqi, early 20th century) (Good results will happen in
just a long afternoon in the sun, with your hair wrapped in
clingwrap. (source, British suburban teenage girl, 1998) Your hair
will rinse out red, but it won't be permanent. It will gradually go
back to just a red glow over your natural color in 8 weeks.

Also...henna your hair frequently, and it will build up red. Mine's
gotten really red after 2 years hennaeing.

The Kore statues from 500 B.C.E. in Greece were depicted as having red
hair, with waves as though it had just been unravelled after several
days of being braided. I suspect that these young women, being
"bride-ish" were ladies who had just hennaed their hair in
celebration. (I don't think there were an awful lot of women with
naturally curly red hair in Greece at that time. There are also
traces of red along the soles of the feet of one of them ... the hands
are mostly non-existant, so can't tell if they were meant to be
hennaed.

Follow-ups:

• Re: Hair: fresher, hotter, longer....redder Emmie Carter 16:55:51 11/17/99 (0)
• I wonder..... Shel 22:52:11 11/16/99 (4)
  • Thanks for the info... Shel 04:31:33 11/17/99 (0)
  • Don't henna over dye Catherine Cartwright Jones 02:00:21 11/17/99 (2)
    • Except on the brush remnants Anon 04:05:37 11/17/99 (1)
      • Re:Don't dye over henna Maria 04:27:57 11/17/99 (0)
• Catherine, what about blonde hair? MyST 22:20:10 11/16/99 (4)
  • Don't henna over bleach! Catherine Cartwright Jones 02:06:04 11/17/99 (3)
    • Re: Don't henna over bleach! chasidy murray 07:20:02 12/20/00 (0)
    • Re: Don't henna over bleach! chasidy murray 07:18:27 12/20/00 (0)
    • Re: Don't henna over bleach! chasidy murray 07:18:26 12/20/00 (0)
• Thanks for the advice! Re: Hair: fresher, hotter, longer....redder Henna diva 21:09:47 11/16/99 (0)
• Re: Hair: fresher, hotter, longer....redder Natasha Papousek 20:56:26 11/16/99 (1)
  • I need help Jorjan 12:09:36 6/16/00 (0)