henna heads.....What's your BEST HENNA RECIPE?????

[january noir]

Yemeni henna, 1 tsp. olive oil and water. You don't need anything else. JustKiya was so right.

I've been saying this for years and it's fallen on deaf ears mostly.
My best Henna recipe is purified water and a dash of Amla oil.

 

[DesignerCurls]

I think I have finally found my ideal mix. I wanted to keep mine very simple because I need maximum coverage for grays. I initially used the Jamilla BAQ henna but found Nupur to be easier to obtain, less expensive and deposit a great color on the gray!

Nupur henna
1/2 cup of aloe vera juice
distilled water

My was moisterized after rinsing which doesn't happen when I use water alone and the color intake was great!

I was just wondering how adding aloe vera juice to henna would turn out. reeko43 thanks for the info!

 

[Whimsy]

I used water, acv and henndigo. it was easy and worked well.

 

[frizzy]

My basic is:

henna mixed with hot water
coconut oil
honey
SAA

One box generally gives me 2 applications, so when I use the second half (that was previously frozen) I add conditioner to stretch it.

 

[againstallodds]

Cassia
Warm water
Coconut oil
Amla powder

I want to try adding honey and leaving out the amla powder next application - I want to try out a more moisturizing mix.

 

[DragonPearl]

Yemeni henna, 1 tsp. olive oil and water. You don't need anything else. JustKiya was so right.

I've been saying this for years and it's fallen on deaf ears mostly.
My best Henna recipe is purified water and a dash of Amla oil.

Guitarhero, january noir, Okay, trying the KISS method, what would you ladies suggest I add to cover grey hair?

 

[Guitarhero]

DragonPearl Do you want black hair? Use the henna first for several hours, rinse, then mix and apply indigo over your hair immediately for a few more hours.

 

[january noir]

@DragonPearl Do you want black hair? Use the henna first for several hours, rinse, then mix and apply indigo over your hair immediately for a few more hours.

 

[DragonPearl]

DragonPearl Do you want black hair? Use the henna first for several hours, rinse, then mix and apply indigo over your hair immediately for a few more hours.

Darn it, looks like I am going to have to take 2 days off just to do my hair.

Thanks, ladies, I am going to give it a try anyway...

 

[january noir]

Darn it, looks like I am going to have to take 2 days off just to do my hair.

Thanks, ladies, I am going to give it a try anyway...

If you use Moroccan henna, you can mix it and use it within an hour.

The more you do henna/indigo, you take less time to do it. All you need is a about 8 hours (at least 4 hours for henna, 30 minutes to rinse it all out, mix up your indigo (you can apply the indigo on damp hair) let set for another 2-3 hours and rinse that out. You may want to condition after, but I usually wait until the color oxidizes and deep condition about 3 or 4 days later.

Add a dash of sea salt to your indigo mix - makes the color stain faster and deeper.

 

[JJamiah]

I am so Excited, I used my Nupur Henna Yesterday (WINNEr ALL THE WAY)

I mixed my Nupur Henna with Hibiscus, Vatika Oil and Black Tea this is simpler then what I was doing and sure fire awesome, My hair felt wonderful and figured my issue really is the Indigo. Hmmmm




I mixed Hibiscus Aussie 3 minute moisture conditioner, ACV, Salt, Black Tea, Argan oil and Vatika oil into my Indigo........

Color came out wonderful, left it on for only an hour, And not roughness or stuck clumpy hair gunk. I am super happy! It rinsed out fairly easy I am glad I took the chance to alter the Water and salt only in my Indigo. Up until now I dreaded Indigo time. Not any more. I think Nupur will be my go to Henna

Lush was a mush
Jamila had to add to much to it

 

[mandii]

I'm thinking about using Henna to get these pesky grays in check. What kind do you use? and where can they be purchased?

 

[greenandchic]

mandii Some people are able to find an Indian store that carries BAQ henna. Where I live, there's a body art henna shop and studio where I generally get mine. Online http://www.hennasooq.com/, http://www.ayurnaturalbeauty.com/ and http://www.butters-n-bars.com/ are good places.

Henna will make your gray hair red, but if you do a henna/indigo treatment as mentioned above, or mix your henna with Katam, it will be dark brown/black and you can avoid the red. HTH

 

[Judwill07]

I've been wondering how to mix this. I didn't want to use the harsh box hair color.

Maybe I'll be brave enough to finally post pictures.

I'm glad I found this thread...subscribing.

 

[allmundjoi]

Henna + water + splash of acv + honey + 1-2 tbsp evoo

 

[Judwill07]

I've been saying this for years and it's fallen on deaf ears mostly.
My best Henna recipe is purified water and a dash of Amla oil.

With that combination, what color do you get? Is it more red or brown. I want to cover my gray, but I don't want red hair.

Maybe I'll just add some black tea...

 

[bimtheduck]

Just henna'ed for the first time with 300gm of Nupur, 2 c of black tea, 1 c of coffee, 1/8 c of alma oil.

 

[Anaya-Amani]

I've been doing henna/indigo & having a very irritated scalp- it's the indigo!!!! Be careful how much you use. I luv the way my hair felt after the treatment but I cannot use indigo anymore. I'm using neem, alma, Brahmi & henna only. I'm hoping the neem helps heal my scalp.


"...Forgetting what is behind and looking forward to what is ahead,..."
Philippians 3:13

 

[frizzy]

Indigo makes my scalp feel kinda itchy when its on, but I don't have any lasting effects from it.

 

[coyacoy]

i don't use indigo, just henna, but i did a 2 step henna/indigo on my mom's hair for the first time last weekend, and we had to wash the inidigo (step 2) out after only 10 minutes because her scalp was itching and burning. i didn't want to take any chances, so we rinsed it out. afterwards, as planned, i had her sit under the steamer w/a moisturizing DC and then it was all good. i had read somewhere that too much salt (if you add that to your indigo to help with the color uptake) can cause this; however, my mom has such sensitive skin and i only used a little salt, i'm not sure what the cause was. nevertheless, because the grey's around her hairline were so pervasive, after about 30 mins of the henna, i went over just the hair line with indigo; and when we washed it out, the black color uptake was fantastic. because of this, fortunately we had overall good results even having to wash the step 2 indigo application out way prematurely. was a good lesson, as well, though, because next time around i will again combine the two into 1 step rather that 2 - and especially given how her scalp was so irritated with just the indigo.

 

[Smiley79]

Bumping to read later. I need to stock up on some more Amla powder. I love that stuff!