Step Four – Results
Rinse your hair as much as your can with water first un-manipulated, allowing the water to remove the bulk of the dye, watch your tub water as you do this. The darker the water the more dye you have on your head, as the water lightens up, you know you are at least close to removing all the excess dye from your hair.
You will probably not get all the dye out the first time, so don’t worry if on your next wash day you may still notice some dye in your shower.
You may notice that your hair feels a bit dry, just use conditioner to soften things up first before you shampoo, so you will condition shampoo and then condition again.
Once you are done in the shower prepare a moisture based treatment for your hair and deep condition for at least 20 minutes. You can just cowash* if you want to and skip the shampoo all together it really is up to you either way you want to make sure your hair is moisturized because henna on it’s own great can be drying.
Four easy steps right? Maybe not but so worth it in the end! Just a couple of things to remember, henna is heavy so for women with fine hair you might find that it can loosen your curl pattern because of how heavy it is. You can opt to just apply the henna* to your roots in this case so that you can avoid its loosening effects.
Additionally if you do not like the red tint henna gives then you can always add some indigo powder also found at your local Indian grocer which depending on the amount used will gives your hair a brown to jet black color instead.
If for any reason you do not feel like doing a full blown henna* treatment, go for the gloss, this is basically henna mixed with conditioner, the mix is a whole lot easier to apply and wash out and you also do not feel the drying effects of the powder as much as if you did a full treatment.
You didn’t think we would end this post without an actual demonstration did you? Here is Kitt51181 mixing and applying her henna:
Have you hennaed lately?
Wendy Lines says
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dee says
What are some uber–moisturizing condish I can use? Last time I hennaed my hair it was so dry! I used Shea Moisture mask but my hair was still dry. Or is there a condish I can mix up myself? i like the benefits of henna but my hair can not handle the dryness.
Chanda says
I’m a newbie to Henna but I love it! I’ve hennaed about five times already and I believe that henna has helped my hair grow or retain length. I haven’t seen the reddish tint but I found out that The Amla Oil I use may cancel out the reddish tint from the henna. I want the reddish tint so I will stop using Amla as a prepoo and use coconut oil. One day my husband thought I left our toddler alone in the bathroom. How a henna blob ended up behind the toilet is a mystery to me! So ladies put down that newspaper!
Diana says
I’ve used henna three times. I love the result, black, black hair. I am confused about henna gloss. Because I won’t be using
Indigo, will my hair turn red? Or should I use indigo again?
Kelly White says
I wanna try this
Evelyn Green says
I do it all the time
Lucie Jorite says
Often yes. Its cultural for us
HaBy Bogamaroy says
Omg am retouching mine right now. N to c that others wants to try I will say go for it
HaBy Bogamaroy says
Make sure you guys get the pure one n I get great result when I mix it with squeeze lemon juice
Dequindre Robinson says
What exactly does it do? I have 4c hair
Tenisha Little says
I love henna!!
BlueCornMoon says
I’ve been using henna & indigo to cover my gray & keep my hair its natural jet black since 2010. I order my henna & indigo from mehandi.com or hennaforhair.com They have a forum & will answer all questions & you can also call their phone number & leave a question & they’ll call you back with an answer. They have EXCELLENT body art quality henna & indigo.