Lush henna hair dye

LizT

Hey,
I was just wondering if anyone has any experience of using lush's henna hair dye? My hair is a dark brown with a slight ginger tinge to it. I'd like to go a little bit more auburn so I was thinking of using caca marron. Any ideas?

jokettle

I used to use that; my hair is similar to yours and it came out with more of a purple tint than a red one. I liked it though

I used the caca rouge once; as it faded my hair turned ginger. Not the nice kind either

LizT

jokettle wrote: »

I used to use that; my hair is similar to yours and it came out with more of a purple tint than a red one. I liked it though

I used the caca rouge once; as it faded my hair turned ginger. Not the nice kind either

Yeah, I've read about caca rouge turning hair ginger. I was thinking of asking for recommendations in store, but I just find their sales people just gush about all their products even if they're not great.

I was thinking of mixing about 66% marron and 33% rouge to make an auburn kind of colour.

jokettle

Hmm...that could be interesting!

I stopped using it as it was so much work; 15 minutes cutting the block into small sizes, mushing it up with boiling water without spilling any, getting stains on your towel which turned green, sleeping with it in your hair so that you get a crick in your neck and clumps of it end up on your pillow, AND it smells rank...! It did leave my hair so shiny and soft, but it wasn't worth it in the long term. Was fun for a year or so though!

Ni Uidhir

just want to let ye know that loreal and schwarzkoph recommend that colour technitions dont use there colour in the hair salon on anybody who has had a henna tattoo.Dont know if the same applies for people who had used the hair dye but always ask for a skin test just in case:)

Swirls

There's a lot to be said for using henna and the Lush henna is really nice. But as Jokette said it is a lot of work. And it's more or less permanent. When you stop using it you'll have to grow it out. I've been doing that for a whole year now! You can't use shop-bought hair colour on henna, so I'm restricted to the ones you can buy in health food shops. I find them a whole lot easier to work with and it doesn't take 7 hours to do! So yeah, henna is great but hard work. Good luck with it anyway.

fillefatale

You're better off buying henna powder than using lush henna, its cheaper and the lush henna has added cocoa butter and perfumes and is generally much more messy to make.

jokettle

fillefatale wrote: »

You're better off buying henna powder than using lush henna, its cheaper and the lush henna has added cocoa butter and perfumes and is generally much more messy to make.

Where can you get henna powder? I'm toying with the idea of colour again, but the effort is putting me off I'll have to consider the whole growing it out debacle as well....

MissFlitworth

jokettle wrote: »

Where can you get henna powder?

I've spotted it in Indian & Pakastani supermarkets if you have any near you. If you're in Dublin you can definitely get it in the supermarket beside the Madina on Mary street (just opposite the Church bar)

OP - think carefully before you put henna in, I (raging with myself even now) did the henna thing for a few months using Lush's caca rouge & while I loved the bright red colour I wasn't prepared for the permanance of it! As mentioned before it's a pain in the bum to put in, smells, fades to ginger (henna itself is red, any brown/auburny colours that are made with it use other colourants as well so the brown does fade out and leave a gingery tinge after a while), you do have to retouch it regularly & you can't dye over it with regular hair dye so if you get sick of colours on the dark brown to red scale you're a bit screwed *eyes ginger ends of own hair*

LizT

MissFlitworth wrote: »

I've spotted it in Indian & Pakastani supermarkets if you have any near you. If you're in Dublin you can definitely get it in the supermarket beside the Madina on Mary street (just opposite the Church bar)

OP - think carefully before you put henna in, I (raging with myself even now) did the henna thing for a few months using Lush's caca rouge & while I loved the bright red colour I wasn't prepared for the permanance of it! As mentioned before it's a pain in the bum to put in, smells, fades to ginger (henna itself is red, any brown/auburny colours that are made with it use other colourants as well so the brown does fade out and leave a gingery tinge after a while), you do have to retouch it regularly & you can't dye over it with regular hair dye so if you get sick of colours on the dark brown to red scale you're a bit screwed *eyes ginger ends of own hair*

Yeah, think i might just get it dyed in my hairdresser's. At least if it goes wrong I have someone to blame!!

xxnoel

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Ni Uidhir wrote: »

just want to let ye know that loreal and schwarzkoph recommend that colour technitions dont use there colour in the hair salon on anybody who has had a henna tattoo.Dont know if the same applies for people who had used the hair dye but always ask for a skin test just in case:)

Proper henna is completely different to the kind of henna most henna tattoos are done with. Lush's isn't 100% henna but it's still natural. Black henna (which I don't think is actually henna at all) can cause allergic reactions (burns) in a lot of people.