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sabineFor many, many years I'd been a loyal customer of Lush for their henna product. I loved how it deep conditioned my hair and made it super-duper shiny. But I'd been getting frustrated at how it as taking longer and longer - 4-6 hours! - to get the same level of vibrant red that my inner vision of Me required.
So I decided to go back to chemical processing and waited many months to let an Aveda stylist make my hair awesome. And it turned out...okay. It wasn't what I really wanted, but I tried to be happy with it because of the $$. I sort of despaired of making the stylist understand my vision, so I'd been putting off going back. I didn't have the People Points necessary to argue for what I really wanted, so I just avoided it and let my natural hair color "shine".
And then I saw pictures from the January hafla and shuddered. That's not what my hair's supposed to look like. Not at all.
So I turned to the internet, searching for a new henna vendor. I found Henna Color Lab. I purchased their starter kit with both the Pure Henna shade and the Wine Red shade. I decided to start with Wine Red and followed their instructions.
Holy. Cow.
This is a MUCH more aggressive henna than Lush's. As in, I let it sit for just over an hour and I have Jessica Rabbit Red. Dark, vibrant, purple undertones, the whole awesome package. I love it. Love, Love. LOVE it. I feel much more like Me. Now, I can go in and get it cut and not have to worry about the stress of explaining that, no, I don't particularly care if it looks "natural". I just want to look like Me. And the Me I see in my head has this hair. I feel better. Still chubby and bad skin, but better.
So I decided to go back to chemical processing and waited many months to let an Aveda stylist make my hair awesome. And it turned out...okay. It wasn't what I really wanted, but I tried to be happy with it because of the $$. I sort of despaired of making the stylist understand my vision, so I'd been putting off going back. I didn't have the People Points necessary to argue for what I really wanted, so I just avoided it and let my natural hair color "shine".
And then I saw pictures from the January hafla and shuddered. That's not what my hair's supposed to look like. Not at all.
So I turned to the internet, searching for a new henna vendor. I found Henna Color Lab. I purchased their starter kit with both the Pure Henna shade and the Wine Red shade. I decided to start with Wine Red and followed their instructions.
Holy. Cow.
This is a MUCH more aggressive henna than Lush's. As in, I let it sit for just over an hour and I have Jessica Rabbit Red. Dark, vibrant, purple undertones, the whole awesome package. I love it. Love, Love. LOVE it. I feel much more like Me. Now, I can go in and get it cut and not have to worry about the stress of explaining that, no, I don't particularly care if it looks "natural". I just want to look like Me. And the Me I see in my head has this hair. I feel better. Still chubby and bad skin, but better.
