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Dec 22nd, 2002 at 11:07pm
 
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Mix enough powder with 200 ml cooking water to a not to thick paste. Add a teaspoon of lemon juice and let paste cool down to a pleasant temperature. If your hair is very dry you may add an egg. Apply paste on your hair and let it work as long as you want (from half an our to a night).
To make your hair darker
Mix juice of one lemon with a cup of strong coffee and rinse your hair without washing out.
For brown hair
Walnut oil applied with cotton-wool swab is helpful to get your hair darker. But attention it may cause spots.
To make blond hair brighter
Make a tea from 2 teaspoons dryed camomille blossoms and 600 ml cooking water and rinse your hair. You may dry it at the sun.

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Reply #1 - Dec 22nd, 2002 at 11:14pm
 
If you like, you can use your favorite conditioner when mixing up henna too!

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Reply #2 - Dec 23rd, 2002 at 12:29am
 
When I was using henna on my hair, I used to mix it up with a little red wine vinegar for the acid (to help intensify, like the lemon juice does) and for its scent. It really helped draw out the color, and cut down on that 'fresh dirt' aroma. ;)

And remember to clean up the room you're applying the henna in immediately and /thoroughly/ after you've got the henna in your hair! My bathroom has a few stains in the wallpaper from where I missed tiny splotches of the henna the first time I went over the room, and didn't find them until they had dried thoroughly. :/
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Reply #3 - Jan 16th, 2003 at 3:02pm
 
do you wash out the henna with shampoo? or conditioner? or just water?!
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Reply #4 - Jan 16th, 2003 at 3:31pm
 
Rinse with water until the water runs clear. It takes -forever- to get it all out. Wink If your hair is dry, I'd condition afterwards, but not shampoo.
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Reply #5 - Feb 24th, 2003 at 8:01pm
 
I'm thinking about dyeing my medium-brown hair, but I have a gray streak (birthmark) in the back.  I'm worried the gray will come out some ghastly color! Shocked

Any tips on dyeing the grey?
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Reply #6 - Feb 24th, 2003 at 10:34pm
 
You could try dyeing the gray to your natural color first, and then dyeing the whole of your head. Beware though, dye makes your hair very dry, are you sure you want to do it? Also, you could just leave the gray streak in and dye the rest if you're worried about the color.
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Reply #7 - Feb 25th, 2003 at 12:49am
 
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I'm thinking about dyeing my medium-brown hair, but I have a gray streak (birthmark) in the back.  I'm worried the gray will come out some ghastly color! Shocked

Any tips on dyeing the grey?

Try collecting some of the strands of the grey then do a strand test on them to see how it would turn out.  Be sure to include some of your regular hair as well.  Good luck.
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Reply #8 - Feb 26th, 2003 at 7:54am
 
One natural method for blonde hair I have been using is a rinse/leave-on treatment with rhubarb root.I mix pulverized rhubarb root with boiling water,let it cool off a bit and then apply it to the hair for about 45 mins.This has always given nice golden highlights to my dark blonde hair,but it is VERY messy(stains!)and I never liked the smell.So I hanvenīt been doing this for a while.
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Reply #9 - Feb 26th, 2003 at 11:30am
 
Interesting...I've not heard of the rhubarb root being used before.  How much root is used?
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Reply #10 - Feb 26th, 2003 at 6:29pm
 
I used only about a handful,in Germany you can buy it in pharmacies/healthstores,it comes in small pieces(not as a whole root).I put them in a coffee grinder to get a fine powder.
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Reply #11 - Feb 26th, 2003 at 6:38pm
 
I may just have to check out a healthfood store around here to see if they carry it.  Do you think it could be done with fresh root?  We have a huge plant in the yard that we plan on moving and reducing in size.  I could dig up that root. (After the ground thaws of course  Grin )
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Reply #12 - Feb 27th, 2003 at 6:47am
 
Hm,Iīm not sure.Maybe you could leave the root to dry for a few days after digging it out?It might be hard to pulverize it otherwise!I never thought about digging out the root Cheesyactually weīve got one  plant in our garden too.I hope you like the colour effect,it has always given me very golden highlights.
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Reply #13 - Feb 27th, 2003 at 7:59am
 
Some of my blonde friends wash their hair in shampoo that is meant to be for highligthed hair and it brings out their natural blonde highlights.
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Reply #14 - Mar 4th, 2003 at 4:24am
 
Well - one thing I would definitely make sure not to do for enhancing blonde hair is to use lemon juice (whether squeezed fresh or from extract) it will dry out your hair, and leave it susceptible to damage - especially if you use either heat instruments on your hair or in the summertime when out in the sun or in chlorine - it's awful!  I've seen what it's done to other friends of mine hair, and it's not worth it!  In winter time (when my hair sometimes looks darker since it gets a lot lighter in the summertime) I just use a spray of sun-in (not natural I know, but it's gentle on my hair, and has leave-in conditioners) whenever I need to blow-dry my hair a bit so that it doesn't freeze when leaving the house!
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