Weekly is overkill for the henna process. I use henna occasionally but used it religiously when I started my hair journey. If you like your curls and kinks beware cause henna may straighten your hair and you might lose your bounce.
i agree. also, someone else (i forget her username but she has a fun style of writing) wrote to me in another thread, that all ayurvedic treatments must be followed with moisturizing treatments for a while. she was correct.
Henna being soothing to the scalp and cooling to your body, is awesome for hot countries and heat waves. (if it's pure, finely milled or you sieve it, sandy henna will irritate). Back home we used it for that cooling effect, rather than colour or conditioning being the goal...
Esp as in a poor country like mine, amenities (electricity, air conditioning, water, etc) go out daily for hours at a time --
unless you're rich enough for a generator or being in an area where it doesn't go out. My family's not rich. So...the suffocating heat makes henna a necessity.
You have to
prepare buckets of water in advance just in case, and having HOURS in between of the water being turned back on.. cannot be sure how long it will be... so you don't wanna waste it on washing out henna... Therefore you cannot immediately wash it out ...so the red tinge just builds up from how long you have to leave it in.
But as I remember it, we weren't knowledgeable about CONDITIONERS, and so with doing henna so often (weekly or daily)....one could have brittle results over time. Lot of people did not know that only oiling - that is NOT equivalent to proper conditioning. There's more available nowadays. Temperance applies with henna, Khadijah in Henna Sooq had said that, in different words, in Q and A video lof people asking if they could do it daily. But it seems so addictive if you wanna build up that red or burgundy tinge in dark hair....i love that colour.
My profile pic from years ago (a 'goal length' currently)
has that tinge showing a bit, and that was from henna.
If a person is addicted to enhancing that tinge, like i was, they can use Manic Panic's fuchsia or pink colours for a semi-permanent thing on top of the henna. just to restrain themselves from overdoing it if they are prone to (like me) ....