Posted in Hair, Hair Archive, Haircare Recipes | Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
After reading all of you guys’ helpful comments on My First Henna, I got some new ingredients and finally got around to doing my henna again a couple of weeks ago and it came out MUCH better this time. Here’s what I used:
Henna Mix 2
Ingredients*:
2 cups of steeped hot green tea (3 tea bags)
200gms of Jamila Henna
2 tbsps milk thistle powder
2 tbsps of almond oil
4 tbsps Suave Tropical Coconut condish
2 tbsps red wine vinegar (I figured it’s acidic and it’s red so why not right?)
*Everything highlighted can be purchased at the Savvy Shop
Directions:
Pour Henna powder into a bowl and add steeped hot green tea and vinegar to the mix. Add milk thistle powder and let sit for 4 hours. Then add the rest of the ingredients until the consistency is like pancake batter. 
I then coated my hair just like last time, but this time I only left it in for 4 hours. I also used more Suave condish to rinse it out. (My only mistake? Rinsing my hair in the shower, and not the tub what a mess! I’m still cleaning some of it out of the shower!)
I followed it all up with a deep conditioning treatment of coconut milk, AOHSR Condish and raw honey. (I’ll post that recipe soon!)
This time my hair came out soft and shiny and I think the color was a little richer. I think it might have changed my curl pattern a bit as well. Although I heard about people saying that henna changed their curl pattern, they always said it happened after using henna for awhile. This is only my second time using it! Here’s how it turned out after I did a twitout with Karen’s Body Beautiful Hair milk and KBB Hair Cream. (A review of these products is also coming!)
Here’s the results, you can really see the color change in my puff…
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Beautiful results! The curls in that puff look so shiny. I’ve never heard of milk thistle powder. You might have to give us a mini-post on that ingredient.
Really Pretty!!!! Your curls are awesome and the color came out great!
If you go on the butter and bars website there is a full section on how to henna. Its great! They also have all types of products that I have purchased and love (ie. raw african black soap, shea and mango butters, great shampoos etc) You should check it out. I made a purchase and was very happy. I even purchased my henna from there.
Savvy, I have been checking your site for the past couple of weeks and I think its very impressive! This is my first time leaving a comment. I have found all types of natural recipes for facemask, scrubs, and chemical peels(using fruits) if you are interested.
Really beautiful!
For henna glosses, you can go and see nunaavane’s channel on youtube. She made on video on how to do henna glosses. HTH
@Tara Welcome! Absolutely! Email me some of your recipes savvy@savvybrown.com and I’ll include them in my “Savvy Mailbag” posts!
Curly Nikki does a henna gloss as well – the link is here: http://www.curlynikki.com/2010/05/curlynikkis-henna-gloss-recipe.html
Your hair is beautiful!! Love the two Cs…color and curl.
Check out http://www.themoptopmaven.com for her video on henna gloss. A lot LESS time consuming as a regular henna treatment. That being so, you will do it more often and your hair will love you for it.
@Sonya Aww thanks for the compliment!
@Sonya great thanks! I’ll check that out
I’m getting ready to try a henna gloss. My hair tends to be dry regularly, so I’m afraid that doing a full-strength henna treatment will dry it out even further. A gloss looks like a compromise. I don’t care much about getting the color, but I’d love all the other benefits (softer, smoother hair, slightly looser curl pattern, etc.). And maybe doing the gloss first will give me a preview of what a full treatment would be like
Hello Savvy, this Janice and I tried the Henna and I didn’t do so good with
it. What else is a good hair dye to use that out on the market that may not be so harsh on the natural hair. My gray is so scattered in on the front
hair-line I really don’t like it. I would appreciate your feedback!
Thank You, Janice Barber
@Nana J. I’m sorry you didn’t have good luck with the henna. I will say that it doesn’t really dye your hair. It’s really for conditioning, and it has the added benefit of a slight color rinse. After doing a henna application if you follow up withan indigo application, the two combined will dye your hair black and completely cover grays. Find more info on that here. I don’t dye my hair, but from what I’ve read Herbatinit and Naturatint are semi-permanent and permanent natural hair dyes. HTH!