henna on hair photos : Lush Henna Hair Dye

Lush Henna Hair Dye Photo Picture Images Biography 2013

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Here at Lush we are very comfortable with henna. But we know that it scares some people if they haven’t experienced its joys before.
It’s a bit intimidating when faced with a natural material that smells strange, looks like a pile of steaming horse manure and is impossible to imagine a nice colour coming from it.
Henna has been used for thousands of years. Traces have even been found on the hair and beards of Egyptian mummies.
In modern times synthetic dyes have pushed henna out of use in many parts of the world.
At the start of Mark’s career 30 years ago, he felt very concerned about the health effects of these synthetic hair dyes and started to study natural alternatives. He soon realised that henna is the ultimate natural hair colourant and he has studied and worked with it ever since. He even wrote a henna book for the Herbal Society back in 1978.
Over the years he has combined his trichologist training with his knowledge of henna to make a variety of products, from henna shampoos, conditioning hair treatments, powdered hair colours and colouring pastes. But we think our current henna is the best we’ve ever produced. We now mix the powders with cocoa butter and press them into a brick.
We are smug about our henna bricks
It’s not often we are smug at Lush, because we spend most of the time worrying about what we haven’t done, or what we could do better. But when everything is getting on top of us and we feel like failures, we only have to go downstairs to our shop and look at our henna bricks for a satisfied smile to creep over our faces.
What we love about our current hennas is the fact that they are a completely new way of using an age-old ingredient.
By making the henna into solid blocks, we don’t need preservatives in there. But it also makes them easier and more effective to use.
It is best to think of henna as a hair varnish, that coats the outside of your hair. It colours the hair, but it also adds a stunning shine.
It is basically a powdered leaf, that needs to be mixed with water and have good contact with your hair, in order for the colour to transfer onto your hair. The cocoa butter in our blocks helps the henna adhere to the hair whilst it does its work.
Henna will give a colour coating and shine to your existing hair colour. Successful colour results depends on a few key rules.
PH levels
The more acidic the mixture, the more red the results will be.
Water
Henna needs water to allow the colour to come out onto your hair. Mix to a wet paste that will stick onto the hair without flaking off or falling away.
Heat
Break the block into a bowl, cover chunks with boiling water and leave for a while to soften. Then mix to a paste, the consistency of double cream, adding more hot water if needed.
Keep the bowl over another bowl of hot water( or bain marie ) whilst you apply the henna. The hotter it goes on the hair the better it can work.
Exposure to air
Wrap your hair up tightly for redder results.
Loosen it up and expose to air for a darker effect.
Water and steam
The more water involved, or steaming the head will produce darker results.
Plenty of henna
The more henna that makes contact with each hair, the better the transfer of colour.
So get lots of mix on there and make sure it covers all of your hair.
Repeated applications
Henna colour can build up, like coats of varnish. Deeper, darker and richer results can be achieved with more applications.
Other natural colourants
We do four different bricks, each for a different colour effect. They have other natural ingredients added to the henna to create different colours, like ground coffee and indigo. These help you choose from a range of shades from red, through brown to black.