Thanks for the advice! Re: Hair: fresher, hotter, longer....redder
Posted by Henna diva on November 16, 1999 at 21:09:47:
In Reply to: Hair: fresher, hotter, longer....redder posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on November 16, 1999 at 19:49:31:
Thanks for the advice Catherine and Natasha! I guess I'll just have
to buy a fresh batch of henna for my hair. And apply it several
times.
Also, that thing you said about the Kore statues is really
interesting. We studied some Kouroi/Korae (sp?) from the Greek
Archaic period in my art class, and that's something I hadn't even
considered when looking at the sculpture -- maybe something to do some
"extra credit" for.
Thanks again. . . I'll let you guys know how my next attempts go.
Maybe I'll even make a webpage dedicated just to henna'ed hair.
: 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.