hair!
Right, I need some hair advice please!
Recently, my hair has been looking very dull and not-shiny, and has been very dry. Also, it seems to be getting thinner, by which I don't mean that it's fine (I know that) but that there seem to actually be fewer hairs, especially round the top of my forehead. I can see my scalp for several inches round the hairline, so I think my hairs are actually falling out! I don't know if it's age or dye, but I'm suspecting age, as I've been dying my hair for 20 years!
But anyway, it's got me thinking, and wondering whether to go back to henna. I used to use henna years ago, and it was lovely, but then I stopped.
Starting at the beginning, here is my natural adult colour, mousy light brown:
(although nowadays, there is a fair amount of grey in my roots.)
I started dying with henna when I was about 17 or 18, and it looked pretty much like this:
1992/1993:
(bright sunshine)
(indoors)
(very bright sunshine)
It was in great condition, very shiny and very soft.
Christmas 1995 (I think this must have been henna, by the date)
Then during my last year at uni, I was having trouble finding henna, and I was finding it very time consuming to do, and switched to chemical dyes:
(still shiny here, but I'd only recently stopped henna-ing.)
And then over the years I've gradually used lighter gingery dyes rather than the darker browny-auburns.
I have sometimes tried to have a stronger/darker reddy auburn, but these have faded really fast and made my hair very dry.
(this was a couple of years ago.)
These days it's like this:
I'm getting bored with the colour, I'd like something stronger, and I definitely need to do something about the condition. I can make my hair shiny these days, but it needs straighteners and spray and stuff. Back when I was henna-ing, it was shiny and smooth and sleek all by itself. Is that age? Or dye?
I am not sure whether henna is safe to use over a chemical dye - it's been two weeks since I last dyed. I don't want it to go green or anything, or to fall out! And I remember that henna doesn't fade or wash out or anything, so it's a bit scary! Also, I have no idea where to buy henna these days! The Body Shop don't do it any more, and I can't go in to Lush.
Anyway, I hope you find my old eyebrows as amusing as I did.
Recently, my hair has been looking very dull and not-shiny, and has been very dry. Also, it seems to be getting thinner, by which I don't mean that it's fine (I know that) but that there seem to actually be fewer hairs, especially round the top of my forehead. I can see my scalp for several inches round the hairline, so I think my hairs are actually falling out! I don't know if it's age or dye, but I'm suspecting age, as I've been dying my hair for 20 years!
But anyway, it's got me thinking, and wondering whether to go back to henna. I used to use henna years ago, and it was lovely, but then I stopped.
Starting at the beginning, here is my natural adult colour, mousy light brown:
(although nowadays, there is a fair amount of grey in my roots.)
I started dying with henna when I was about 17 or 18, and it looked pretty much like this:
1992/1993:
(bright sunshine)
(indoors)
(very bright sunshine)
It was in great condition, very shiny and very soft.
Christmas 1995 (I think this must have been henna, by the date)
Then during my last year at uni, I was having trouble finding henna, and I was finding it very time consuming to do, and switched to chemical dyes:
(still shiny here, but I'd only recently stopped henna-ing.)
And then over the years I've gradually used lighter gingery dyes rather than the darker browny-auburns.
I have sometimes tried to have a stronger/darker reddy auburn, but these have faded really fast and made my hair very dry.
(this was a couple of years ago.)
These days it's like this:
I'm getting bored with the colour, I'd like something stronger, and I definitely need to do something about the condition. I can make my hair shiny these days, but it needs straighteners and spray and stuff. Back when I was henna-ing, it was shiny and smooth and sleek all by itself. Is that age? Or dye?
I am not sure whether henna is safe to use over a chemical dye - it's been two weeks since I last dyed. I don't want it to go green or anything, or to fall out! And I remember that henna doesn't fade or wash out or anything, so it's a bit scary! Also, I have no idea where to buy henna these days! The Body Shop don't do it any more, and I can't go in to Lush.
Anyway, I hope you find my old eyebrows as amusing as I did.