Rainbow Research Henna Hair Color and Conditioner Persian Light Brown, 4 Ounce

This is a review for the 'Persian Blonde' henna. My natural hair color is medium blonde. I have been dying my hair platinum blonde for many years and fried it into oblivion, so I was looking for a natural way to color and condition my hair while I am growing out the bleach blonde ends. I thought parts of my hair that were fried with bleach were beyond repair - boy, was I wrong. Henna made my hair come back to life. It looks thick, shiny, and simply fantastic. Here are answers to some of the questions you are likely asking yourself: 1. Will it dye my hair? Not really. It gives hair shine and a bit of a sun-kissed hue, but do not expect a dramatic difference. If your hair is any color but light blonde, you will see no difference in color. 2. Is it easy to dye hair with henna? Yes and no. Mixing henna and putting it on your head is very easy, but the process of putting on henna and washing it off is VERY messy. It has the consistency and color of mud. Plus I recommend you leave it on your head for no less than 2 hours, so from beginning to end plan for 3 hours for the whole activity. 3. How do I mix it and what do I wash it with? OK, after a lot of experimenting I came up with the following formula: take henna, 1 teaspoon of argan oil, and 1 teaspoon of lemon juice. Mix with warm chamomile or ginger tea until the mixture is the consistency of thick yogurt. Let stand for 30 minutes minimum, apply to head. Also, use argan oil to get henna out of your head once you want to wash it off. It won't get out of your hair without a fight. Olive oil will do the trick as well. Hope this helps!

I am not a big reviewer BUT this made my hair gorgeous. I am almost 60 never colored my hair and not too much gray but its beginning and fast. My Hair is long, thinnish and medium brown, used to be a towhead blonde when very young, slowly browned and finally graying. Its a little messy to do but well worth it. I used a rich hair oil and green hot tea. Heated up 2 oz. hair oil added to 3 tablespoons of henna light brown powder (green color), was nice goopy and green. Added the hot tea slowly to make a 8 ounce glass jar of fluffy paste; well emulsified, mixed well. Turned my dry head of hair upside down in huge sink and slowly massaged in tablespoons all thru scalp to ends. I packed it on, didn't use plastic gloves, slight hand staining but washed off easy with soap. Rolled up my hair in a bun and covered with plastic wrap for hour plus. Wanted to go overnight but was too tired. Rinsed well but not enough to get all oil out. I purposely left some in and went to bed with towels on my pillows. Washout second time with minimal shampoo again, no sulfates ever. The grey was golden and hair was ultra soft. Look forward to doing it again and leave in longer. Smelt nice like the rich hair oil I used. Hair is nice and shiny-love it, I feel brand new :)

I purchased this color and the marigold color. Used the blonde color twice each time barely saw a difference in my hair. My return window has passed or i would have returned this item. I have to admit that the first time, i didn't know what i was doing. I mixed half of the powder mixture in water, waited a few hours and then applied it on my clean hair without oils. Nothing! The second time i researched and added apple cider vinegar as directed and waited. This time i kept the mixture in my hair longer, 8 hours and nothing. So either this is not for my hair or i'm doing something totally wrong.

I had strawberry blond hair as a young women, as I aged it darkened to light brown with a reddish cast. Now that I'm 64, it's probably about 30% gray and the contrast between the gray and brown isn't enough to be very attractive in my opinion. I decided to try the Light Brown Henna hair color. I followed the directions and it was a little messy but not difficult to do. The only reason I'm giving this product 4 stars rather than 5 is the directions, while pretty detailed in most areas, don't tell how much of the powder to use. I made the 16 oz of hot tea they recommend and ended up using about 1/2 of the powder to get the correct consistency. This was about twice as much as I needed to color my hair which is about to my shoulder blades. There isn't anything in the directions about keeping left over mixed product so I don't know if I can use it later or if I should toss it. Besides that, I'm very happy with this product. I put the powder, tea and olive oil mixture in a dish detergent bottle to apply it to my hair. Be warned, the mixed product looks dark green colored, but my hair didn't turn green! The majority of my gray is much better blended with my brown hair; the total color is light brown with a reddish cast. It looks very natural. I would recommend this product, just start with about 1/4 of the container and see if you need to make more rather than making a lot of it and wondering what to do with the leftover.

Long story short, this is the most natural henna I was able to find on the market, no dangerous metallic salts, no PPDs that are actually carcinogenic, this 'rainbow' company is like the Saint between all henna dyes. Other henna dyes use PPDs that can damage your organs, please I would like to say that to everyone- be VERY careful what henna dye you will buy. Currently I still enjoy the color of Rainbow natural henna dye even after 4 weeks, I used the light brown henna. But even after having such great experience with this henna dye, I no longer will buy henna since I cannot lighten up my hair- henna only deposits color, henna cannot make your hair lighter, which is fine for somebody that only needs to cover their greys or their lighter colored hair. That being said, it is an amazing natural product, but I will go back to more commercial dyes since I am a brunette and I really, really love lightening my hair, one more thing- this color covered my highlights- my 'bad' highlights that were not looking very natural, it was still worth it, good experience generally speaking.

It took hours for the color to take, but I did like the color which was light brown. I do have some grey hair but never experienced henna taking so long to color the grey hairs.

I love this product. It doesn’t dry out my hair. The color stays rich and doesn’t fade. And my hair feels SO soft, and conditioned after I use it. I will never use a chemical to color my hair again. I’m sold!

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