DEEP CONDITION WEEKLY (at least)!!!!
I love henna, but I did not realize it was so drying to the hair. I had to get a major trim at my last visit to the stylist due to the dryness of my hair. My stylist told me that with henna, it is essential that I steam or deep condition weekly at a minimum! According to my stylist, even though I kept my hair moisturized with water based moisturizers sealed with oil, the moisture did not penetrate the hair shaft. I will still use henna, but only at the roots from now on.[/QUOTE]
YES. TO. ALL. OF. THIS.
Let me preface my response by saying my hair is highly porous so it takes things like relaxer and apparently henna with the quickness...with that being said...
Not only did henna dry my hair out to a crispity, crackly mess, it had the nerve to seriously loosen my curl pattern. So I looked like I had a dry, underprocessed Wave Nouveau atop my head,
![Lachen :lachen: :lachen:](/smilies/lachen70.gif)
!
![Ohwell :ohwell: :ohwell:](/smilies/ohwell.gif)
. Not cute.
It wasn't funny at the time but now, meh. That's what I get for jumping on bandwagons. Just know that whatever moisture game you got now
MUST be jacked up the the 10th power to keep your situation moisturized! But it did thicken my fine hair up so that was and is the only positive claim I got from using henna. It stinks, it's messy, it dyes errythang, it takes forever to rinse out,
![Nono :nono: :nono:](/smilies/nono.gif)
.
But this is just
my experience and I know a lot of folks on the board
LOVE IT...