I got that "experimental" itch this week and tried my hand at some things. I bought some Dark and Lovely Go Intense golden blonde hair color a while ago and was nervous about using it. Now I've had this color in the past so I knew it would go well with my skin tone but I wasn't so sure I wanted to do a chemical treatment. Then I said to myself why not just do henna instead as a more natural coloring option. I did use henna once before and loved the results. So I bought the henna and read up on chemical based hair colors vs henna. I found out that you can use henna over permanent hair dyes but not vice versa. Even bleaching (stripping your hair of previous layers of color) won't work on Henna'd hair, it must grow out. Armed with that info, I went ahead and tried the golden blonde color to see how it would turn out. Worst case scenario I can henna over it and be good to go! Well here is the turnout...
I got a slight lift in my roots but the color is not what I anticipated at all....I left the color on for an extra 10 mins since my hair is pretty resiliant when it comes to coloring. The main reason I wanted to color was to cover my gray's and it did absolutely NOTHING to them. I'll rock this highlight for a bit and then I will use the henna because that covers the gray with no problems.
After the color process I blow dried my hair and put in about 25 single braids and rolled them into Bantu knots. In the morning I took that down and got the hairstyle pictured below. This is not what I expected but I worked with it...channeling 1960's vintage hair. As the day went by it got bigger and fluffier...the day ended in a small ponytail cause I couldn't take it!! I was extra happy to be able to make a ponytail too hehe!!
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