I have chest long brown hair w/ some grey. I ordered 1 pack dark brown and 1 pack wine red Henna. Is 1 pack enough? can I mix the two color? thx!
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I think 1 pack should be enough but it really depends how long is your hair. I have shoulder length hair and I only used 1/2 pack. I don't know about mixing but I guess that would work. One thing I found out about Henna is that color doesn't stay long at the 1st time of using. I did a 2nd dyeing few weeks later and that lasted much longer.
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sIf I remember correctly the maiden henna is a dry formula that you mix with water. It is messy and takes a lot of product. I now use the "Surya Brasil" cream formula. I like it much better, easier to use and the color last longer. You would probably need three bottles of the product. I would buy two of each color if that's the color you want. I have grey hair and use the chocolate cream color and it comes our a brownish mahogany on me. good luck!
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You can mix henna powder with indigo to get shades of auburn/black. I reccomend searching 'henna for hair' and reading the free Ebook about it. There is a lot of good information about using henna and how to mix it with different plants to get different colors. My experience with using only henna is that you can still tell the difference if your hair is multiple colors. My tips are more blonde from previous coloring and they are much more vibrant orange than the rest of my hair. So this alone will probably not blend in your grey hairs.
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My hair is dark brown. After I applied the Lively Light Brown Henna for approximately 1 1/2 hours, my hair color was extremely dark (almost black). After several shampoos over a three week period, my hair color eventually lightened to a medium brown (which was fine). I'm not sure what results you would achieve with ash brown hair. Overall, I loved the fact that henna was a excellent conditioner.
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Sharon, Yes, you can do that to get a customized color. I wouldn't mix 2 different products, but 2 different colors of Surya henna would be just fine to mix. I almost always mixed 2 separate colors to get a shade I wanted and had no ill effects. Hope this helps!
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I have no experience with this brand of henna, so not quite sure why Amazon asked if I could answer this question...lol...but my hair is a very dark brown, almost black, and when I use henna my hair never turned a noticeable orange or red color...I could see it, but it toned down after the color oxidized. It still looks dark brown. So, if this brand turned your hair red, and not auburn, I would have to wonder what dyes are being used along with the henna in this mixture. Henna only dyes orange, not red. What you could do is try amla. Amla is used if I remember correctly to cool down the orange in henna, giving a cool brown, as in a not warm brown. Indigo with henna is usually used for a blue-black type shade. But since I'm worried that this isn't pure henna since it gave you a red, maybe you could buy both indigo and amla and test with some hair from your brush or comb and see if there's any odd color reactions before doing your whole head. Or maybe check out some of the darker shades this company offers and do the same with your shed hairs.
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The longer you leave the dye in the richer the red you'll get. I have almost brown hair and so my results are much darker. The lighter you are the color seems to stand out more vibrantly in my opinion. Especially with hi-lights. The color will bleed for a good week but will eventually slow down. Try to use some lavender oil to make the smell a little better. The more you dye your hair the richer the color you get. I've actually mixed different henna reds and get radical results. Its up to you tho. I've been using henna for a year and it never ever fades. I will always use it.It also helps to get a good deep conditioner to make your hair easier to brush through. Just remember to rinse hair thoroughly, as long as possible henna is hard to get out and makes your scalp itch. I also buy my own gloves, the ones that come in the package suck, their too big and cheap. Best of luck .
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you can mix colors but you will have to test it on your hair for length of time to leave it and results. Just like regular hair color, it "takes" differently on grey as opposed to brown hair. I notice that it is very hard to get color in the few white hairs I have... If you have used henna before, you know this is a long process. Using some type of acid as an activator is often helpful.
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This is going to give you pretty darn red hair. Like BRIGHT red. If you are looking for a hint of red I would try a different color or try to tone it down a lot by mixing half of a dark brown box with half of a red box. I'm not sure if the manufacturer would recommend that but if I was going to experiment on myself that is what I would do. If you Google Light Mountain Henna Red and look at the images you'll be able to see other people's outcomes, many look the same as my own color. I use this brand/shade every other month. I'll never stray!
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Yes! As long as your hair is dark before you use the henna it will work perfectly. When I did mine my roots were dark and the rest of my hair a light light red. When I used the henna my the dark sections of my hair turned out like they should have, burgundy but the light parts did turn orange. I kept it this way because it's like an unintentional ombr. Make sure your hair is all one color and dark and you should be fine. Also, you might want to get two packs. It took me two colorings to really get it to where I wanted.
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Hi, fortunately because henna is a 100% natural product, it can be used as often as you need. It could be used 2 times in the same day if you wanted :)
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My roots didn't respond well to the henna. Gray turned a bit orangey. I loved the conditioning the henna gave to my hair, however, I'd have to maybe get tips on how to get better coloring for my gray
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There are neutral colorourless henna conditioners made by Surya Henna, Rainbow Henna, and Light Mountain henna (my favorite). You can leave those for hours and not color your hair. But if you buy NATURAL (red) henna, you WILL tint at the very least, but more than likely you'll get red hair (unless your hair is very dark). If your hair IS dark brown or black, you can use this henna and only get a slight tint. Leave on for an hour and you'll be good. BUT if you have light or medium brown hair, it WILL color. So try the neutral henna, it's the same conditioning results without the red.
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It depends on how light your hair is. BUT, pretty much as soon as you put it in it will start to color your hair....Your best bet would be to look up what to mix with this henna to make it more your natural color. There are tea's, coffee, even other powers that will help keep some of the red down :) hope this helps!
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I picked the red one which came out really nice. The henna powder was a greyish green which is normal. I am half west african and know that this is real henna. My hair color is dark brown and the red henna didn't come like the picture of course but close to it.
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The dark brown that I had purchased for my hair has specs of red in it. If your hair is more toward the reddish burgundy then order #118. If it has more of brown with red specs order #4/6. I know it sounds confusing but I took a chance to order a product on line. Hope that helps Daryn. Have a lovely day.
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My hair is almost passed my boobs I would use 2 bottles just to be safe! But I use two bottles because I mixed the color together, it's a pretty good amount of hair dye for one tube, but be safe than sorry and get two :)
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my hair is naturally light brown, and when I used the henna for the first time it did give me the deep red that I wanted. I would recommend for you to leave it as long as you can, the longer you keep it on the deeper the red is. The longest I've left it on is 3 hrs and it was a nice deep red, maybe the color you want. good luck!