Beautiful hair — what each girl dreams of. The large role is played, of course, by genetics: by nature we will not get to anywhere. But it is necessary to look after hair, be they magnificent and dense or thin and rare. One of ways to help hair to remain healthy is henna use. We will tell about advantages and shortcomings of this way in article.
What henna consists of
Henna is absolutely natural means. Simple words are the leaves of a bush which are dried up and ground in powder. The plant is called a henna not prickly. When it blossoms, collect leaves which are dried up then. Basma — paint of a dark shade, is made from other bush — indigofer. There is also a colourless option which do of a plant under the name a cassia.
Whether you know? It is interesting that from a top of a bush leaves for painting on a body as paint from them gets into skin better dry and longer keeps the color. From the lower tiers of a plant collect material on production of hair-dye.
Main types and their application
Natural paint is used not only for coloring of hair. There are different types of henna about which we will tell.
Red
Hair can be painted henna in various shades, but, perhaps, the most beautiful option — copper. The shade will depend on on what hair color you apply henna, from liquid with which you will dilute powder, and of hold time of paint. The main thing the fact that you with guarantee receive either red hair color, or bright and the poured reddish. Especially beautifully red henna is shown on a fair hair under sunshine.
Well the condition of hair is influenced by consumption of such products: bananas, kiwi, spinach, dairy products, beef liver, walnut, filbert, almonds, cashew.
By such dye it is also possible to do drawings on a body which will differ in the tenderness and a copper shade.
Whether you know? Henna was found on the remains of mummies of Egypt, namely on their hair and under nails that demonstrates use of this material as cosmetic. It is considered that for the first time this paint began to be applied by the person for 1200 B.C.
Colourless
Colourless henna is an ideal option to recover the hair after chemical damages, diseases. It returns them life, gives volume. Also it is great option to dry roots and to get rid of excessive fat content. But here it is worth being careful as the problem is concealed in work of sebaceous glands which henna will not influence. It only superficially for short time will reduce fat content.
One more plus will be found for themselves by those girls who have strongly whipped tips. Henna sticks together them from what the effect of increase in volume appears. Colourless powder, as well as color, well struggles with dandruff, but at the same time you will remain with the natural hair color. Remember that even colourless henna can change a shade.
Black
Black henna or basma — a great option to paint over a gray hair, to strengthen hair, without injuring them chemical dyes. Black paint also beautifully looks on skin.
What is better?
It is necessary to choose henna concerning what aim you pursue. It is possible to strengthen hair, to get rid of dandruff colourless option, and here it is possible to set effect in beautiful color by means of copper or black natural paint. If you did not use anything similar before and want to receive a beautiful, for example red, shade, then experiment on a small curl better. It is quite difficult to foretell precisely as henna will behave, and it is even more difficult to tell what color will turn out.
Begin to paint a head of hear, using a small amount of powder, leaving it for 20-30 minutes. If the shade is shown poorly — next time time can be increased. For example, the shade of a basma can be strengthened, having diluted henna from basmy with strong coffee or black tea which will strengthen inflow of blood to head skin. Same it is possible to make also for red paint to receive deeper color. Henna is where it is necessary to look for the ideal proportion a trial and error method and to exclude mistakes, it is important to work slowly.
Important! Black henna will give in pure form to hair a green shade. It is possible to neutralize it, having added in an equal proportion to a basma red henna.
Highlights and features of use
Let's sort in detail how to use henna to receive positive result.
How many henna keeps
As it was already noted, henna is not washed away completely. It so strong gets into structure of a hair that remains there forever. The shade, of course, is washed away over time. A period until this shade remains, a hair, different for each type, and the scheme of coloring.
On curly hair which structure more porous, paint will keep up to 8 weeks whereas direct curls keep color much longer. Basma will be washed away quicker, on average in 30 days. The more often you will use henna for the purpose of coloring, the color which will be more saturated each time will longer keep. A considerable role is played also by initial hair color:
- Brunettes will carry month beautiful black color of a basma, but to be recoloured in brown will not be able.
- Fair-haired and to brown-haired women it was lucky — to them it is possible and to go to dark colors and to be shaded by bronze for longer term.
- Red-haired up to 3 months will be able to carry a bright red shade of henna or to get rid of brightness, having directed the vector towards quieter chestnut shades.
What color depends on
Color of henna — a thing unpredictable. Let's understand what it can be:
- As it was already noted, it is possible to give to a shade more saturated color, having dissolved henna or a basma with strong coffee or black tea.
- Carefully add essential oils to paint as castor oil with red henna will give a marsh shade.
- Always connect Basma to henna which will neutralize a green shade of a basma.
- The golden shade is received, dissolving red henna with infusion of a turmeric, camomile, a saffron. Infusion needs to be done strong and sustained. For this purpose 2 tablespoons of flowers, a glass of boiled water and an hour and a half are enough time.
- Copper hair will turn out from henna mix with honey, ginger, a turmeric, cinnamon, a carnation or crude egg.
- Dark chestnut shades are realized by an amla, hop and cocoa powder.
It is important to consider hold time of natural dye on hair:
- Fair, fair hair and usual red paint at endurance of 5 minutes to half an hour will give the quiet, brought closer to a chestnut shade, quite light. But if to overdo, it is possible to darken strongly.
- Dark fair-haired curls at the same dye on water after 40-50 minutes will shade copper.
- Half an hour on a fair-haired head of hear, average between dark and light the shade, henna will give you a deep chestnut.
- The brown-haired woman, having spent hour under copper paint, can become a little chocolate.
Whether it is possible to wash away if necessary
If you overdo henna and receive very bright shade, it is possible to get rid of it if at once to wash up hair shampoo. Color is shown usually within a day. That it was fixed better, three days are better not to wash a head of hear. Therefore if you are dissatisfied in too bright color, then it is possible to get rid of excessive brightness if the first three days every day to wash hair. Unfortunately, completely to remove color it will not turn out any more.
It is important! Remember that henna is quite badly removed from hair. If it seems to you that it is washed away, then it at all not so. It is possible to return to the color, having only waited until a dyed hair completely grows. If you want to clarify them, then under the influence of chemicals it is possible to receive a green shade. Therefore before painting a head of hear, it is worth thinking properly.
That dye came out filaments quicker, they can be smeared with any oil for half an hour then carefully to wash with shampoo and warm water. So, under the influence of oil of a filament will reveal, so — dye is better to come out. Also perfectly rinsing by water with vinegar or a lemon helps.
In what advantage of henna for hair
Henna helps us and with beauty of hair, and with their health. Let's look in what its force is still concealed.
For strengthening and health
In the Asian countries, henna is used for treatment of a set of illnesses: elevated pressure, diseases of digestive system. It is done to this day. Outwardly apply it at skin diseases or wounds. This means well dries ulcers and wounds and also is effective at chicken pox and smallpox, a scrofula, eczema. This natural powder is excellent antioxidant. It destroys a fungus, harmful microbes, bacteria and parasites.
Learn what vitamins are necessary for hair and as vitamin A and E influences their strengthening.
Therefore very long time ago people painted a foot with henna, protecting themselves from a fungus. Infusion from bark of a plant of a henna cleans an organism and also is effective at bronchitis and high temperature.
For appearance
It will be easier to estimate advantages of this natural powder-paint if their tax in the form of lists. For our hair:
- Henna strengthens a filament, sticks together it, protects from fragility, negative external impact.
- It is ideal and absolutely harmless way to change hair color.
- Colourless henna in the form of the improving and restoring mask can be applied by people of any age, even children.
- Does not lead to allergic reactions, and on the contrary, it is capable to help those who suffer from too sensitive head skin.
- Saves skin from excessive fat content, struggles with dandruff.
- Paints over a gray hair.
- Improves blood circulation of head skin, so, useful substances arrive to hair bulbs more often from what the last becomes healthier and gives a strong hair. Actively fights against an alopetion.
- Means contains a set of useful substances in the structure: fats, acids, vitamin K and Page.
- Interestingly also the fact that this means protects our locks from negative impact of ultraviolet in warm season.
Whether you know? The injured nail can be recovered if to apply on it mix of henna and vinegar.
Whether harm is possible
Even the thought that natural means can be harmful does not come to much to mind. Let's try to confirm or disprove this judgment.
What henna is dangerous by
Much do not manage with the help of this means to get rid of gray-haired filaments. More often it turns out to paint them in very bright orange color that looks not really beautifully.
Frequent use of henna can not only strengthen a filament, but also make it very fragile. So, trying to protect a head of hear, we deprive of it an opportunity to adapt to external negative factors. Besides, if you possess dry head skin, then frequent use of henna can break water balance and work of sebaceous glands that will surely affect health of a head of hear. Hair after henna very hard give in to laying: at you it will not turn out to wind them precisely. Besides use of hair dryers and irons on the curls painted by this powder is quite dangerous as you risk to make them drier, so — fragile.
For treatment of the injured hair use masks with avocado oil.
The most unpleasant is that henna will not give you the chance to correct something paints with the chemical composition from which it is much easier to predict result. She will never leave a dyed hair until you shear them. It is necessary to put the clarifying means very carefully under supervision of the skilled master as curls will get a green shade.
How to lower an adverse effect
Here several rules which will help you to keep hair healthy and not to harm them are collected:
- It is possible to make henna liquid not higher than 70 degrees. High temperatures kill useful properties of natural powder.
- Not to apply chemical dyes together with natural.
- To paint a head of hear not more often than once a month. Those who has a dry head skin are recommended to do it even more rare.
Criteria for selection of henna for hair
Quality henna is produced in the warm countries, such as India, Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and Sudan. Look for these manufacturing countries on packings. Further business of the choice stands behind the structure of paint. For example, the Iranian option — – cheap, available, but its grinding quite large, the used bush leaves not perfect, with low pigmentation that affects unsatisfactory result of coloring. Besides, this producer does not monitor cleaning of impurity of other plants.
India specially grows up bushes for production of henna, observing the high ecological level of their contents. Leaves for a grinding are carefully selected. As a result the bag of henna Indian in the price surpasses Iranian, but it also is reflected as coloring. Criteria of a quality product are given below:
- henna is very well processed, to a condition of flour;
- in paint there are no impurity or big grains;
- as a part of colourless henna 99% of a cassia as often producers instead of a natural product fill a usual grass in a pack contain;
- powder of red or orange color says that its expiration date left or in the course of transportation the package was damaged, and it is better not to use such paint;
- fresh good paint has a green shade, with an easy gray or blue outflow.
Whether you know? The first jeans were painted basmy.
As it is correct to use substance
Getting to work with natural dye, it is important to understand how he behaves and that you want from it. The result directly depends on it.
Coloring of hair henna
You already know how to choose henna in shop and what to pay attention to. When before you there is a necessary number of bags and all tools (saucer, a thin hairbrush, a brush, gloves), it is time to start paint preparation. We pour out in a saucer necessary amount of henna (with it you decide on time when you understand how many means it is necessary at your length of hair) and we fill in with hot liquid not higher than 70 degrees. It is desirable to add it little by little and to constantly stir powder. As a result at you the liquid, but quite viscous weight with which then will conveniently work has to turn out, you need to distribute a brush it on hair. Too liquid will intensively flow down on the person and clothes and, naturally, to paint all on the way. Excessively dense weight will be badly distributed on hair and to get poorly into structure of a filament, so — it is bad to paint. Now it is possible to start the procedure of putting dye, a lock behind a lock. Try not to get on head skin if you use red or black henna. After coloring wrap up hair in a package, wash away paint from skin and muffle a rag which is not a pity for spoiling. Select hold time individually upon termination of which wash away paint warm water.
Apply essential oils to improvement of the general condition of hair and head skin: santalaceous, mustard, coconut, castor, tea tree oil.
It is better to apply means on clean and dry hair, and after washing off within 2-3 days not to wash the head, allowing curls to absorb properly in itself a paint pigment. But here too everything is individual, sometimes color is shown, only if to apply henna on damp locks.
Colourless henna for strengthening of hair
If to you bothered to observe in a mirror a dim, lifeless and fine hair with secants the ends, it is possible to try to strengthen and recover them colourless henna. Scheme of drawing such mask same, as well as color natural dye. Stronger effect can be gained, ate to add essential oils.
From secants of tips the ylang-ylang, a sandal-wood tree, vetiver, a pink tree will help. Dry filaments will recover under an incense, a lavender, a sandal-wood tree, orange, a camomile, tangerine. The eucalyptus, mint, a tea tree, a pine, a coriander, a bergamot will help to dry head skin, and from loss the pink tree, rosemary, a cypress will help. Several drops of essential oils will make the business, but if to add to a mask a large amount of oil, for example burdock, then it is better to wash away it with shampoo, otherwise fat curls are provided to you. Colourless henna can be added to your favourite masks for hair: with honey, egg, gelatin. Besides, if to dissolve with warm curdled milk powder, then it is possible to receive really standing result of restoration and revival of locks.
Honey is not only excellent ingredient for the restoring masks, it is actively applied also in traditional medicine.
Than henna oil is useful
Bushes which leaves are a basis of hair-dye have also beautiful inflorescences which aroma is applied in perfumery. Besides, flowers possess the pigment which use for coloring of lipsticks for lips.
Oil of a henna can be bought in drugstore and to apply to strengthening of hair. Its properties adjacent to usual powder henna. Applying oil is regular, you will be able:
- to strengthen bulbs of filaments;
- to add to a head of hear gloss and vivacity;
- to get rid of dandruff;
- to feed curls with necessary vitamins;
- to dry head skin;
- to smooth the whipped tips thanks to existence of a keratin in oil.
Important! It is also useful to apply oil on nails, skin of hands and feet, especially coarsened sites.
Now you are completely informed on that, henna is how useful in what its strong and weaknesses. Remember that coloring by natural means — the procedure which it is necessary to start after careful consideration and carefully. By negligence you can pay unexpected result and lack of an opportunity to correct unsuccessful coloring.