#Dark copper hair skin#

With more than three feet of hair, I was looking at 6 years or so to grow it all out. The top several inches were the bright new-penny copper I wanted, but the blasted length, with its multiple applications of full-strength henna, was still dark red, even in direct sunlight. I also swapped from whole-head applications to only doing my roots ( using the Foolproof Braided Method that made wrangling multiple feet of hair surprisingly easy). THAT worked like a charm on my new growth, giving me natural-colored ginger hair.

#Dark copper hair skin#

Chock full of humectants that nourish and moisture the hair, skin and the body, honey is also an anti-microbial and anti-fungal.), I started developing Fire Genasi. While trying a long list of fruitless ways to get my henna to lighten (oil treatments, ColorOops, yogurt treatments, honey Our honey is from our own bees, organically and ethically kept with the goal of putting more pollinators into the world rather than maximizing honey production. What I had attached to my head, was this: It did, but the color was a far cry from the natural ginger-red I wanted–it was a cool burgundy tone that, while objectively lovely, clashed horribly with my skin and made me look jaundiced. My hair at the time was immensely damaged and I did multiple whole-head henna applications hoping to strengthen it enough so it would at least stop crumbling. When I first started using henna, now nearly 20 years ago, the fact that it would layer up, with each application making the color darker and cooler, wasn’t well-known.