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[ewt]

Pinked my hair on Friday - pink really doesn't work as well as purple for covering my dark roots, especially when they are several centimeters long.

I think I'm going to go for red henna next time. Maybe mix it up with beetroot juice to see if that makes it more purple-y; in the autumn I'll use sloe berries. The bleached bits will probably turn bright orange-red but in hair I can probably get away with that colour. Besides, maybe it will mitigate some of the bleach damage. That'd be a good thing.

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[juggzy.livejournal.com]

Henna is likely to make the bleached bits worse. It's a myth that henna is better (or even good) for your hair than 'man made' hair dies. The very chemically active metallic salts and compounds in henna will make already bleached hair much more brittle and can react badly with any other chemicals that are already there

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

I wasn't planning to purchase henna that has added metallic salts.