help me get this henna out of my hair!!

[Qetesh]

I henna’d for the first time yesterday. Here is my process
Henna mixed with green tea, molasses, hello hydration conditioner, alma oil, essential oils, and some lemon juice.
I let it sit overnight then applied it to dirty dry hair. let it sit for about 5 hours. (did chores) then rinsed it out – shampooed lathered 4 times… rinsed … and rinsed ….. finally once my water was ice cold and I couldn’t take it anymore I deep conditioned for 40 minutes with sarlem wheat germ. Then rinsed out…..

My problem is…. I STILL have henna on my head…. If I scratch my scalp I can see it in my nails…. What am I doing wrong?????

Any suggestions….

On a lighter note my hair has a nice slight red tint to it. And I like the way the curl pattern seems more calm if u can say such a thing.

 

[SohoHair]

I always use a cheapie conditioner (V05 Tea Therapy) to get the henna out BEFORE i shampoo. I find that shampoo does nothing to help get henna out. I rinse thoroughly then work a lot of the conditioner into my hair leave it in for a minute or two then rinse. I do this about 3 times and then I shampoo and deep condition as usual. HTH.

 

[destiny616]

saturate your hair with any VO5 conditioner, squeeze the excess out, saturate hair with VO5 again and rinse, repeat until all henna is removed

you may end up using 3-4 bottles of VO5

 

[Qetesh]

Thanks for the suggestionsJ

I have strawberries and cream moisture milks I can use up.
The thing is it seems to be out of my hair, but somehow still kinda on my scalp. I also have little balls of it like small dried up particles of henna. ….

 

[Cichelle]

I use conditioner to rinse out my henna also. I rinse it out as well as I can, generally until the water is running clean and then I don't much worry about it. For the first couple of days, I can usually see henna if I scratch my scalp, but over the course of the next few days it's gone. I do cowash daily, though.