Here are some simple recipes for mixing your natural hair products. Please visit www.longhaircommunity.com and www.longhaircareforum.com as you will find a wealth of information, along with techniques and various recipes. You can even ask questions on their forum!
Please remember when using any new hair product it is always recommended that you do hair strand tests first! We also encourage you to add orange blossom water, rose water or essential oils to your pastes and mud, to leave your hair smelling great!
Mixing Cassia Obovata for golden tones:
-Mix powder with warm or hot water and let sit for 3-4 hours. Make sure your mixture is like pancake batter or as desired.
-Apply the cassia paste onto clean hair that is either damp or dry. Apply mixture in layers starting from the back and moving forward.
-Wrap your hair and leave on for at least 3-4 hours.
-Rinse or wash paste out.
Mixing Cassia Obovata and Henna for marigold blond to strawberry blond tones:
-Mix powders together at a proportion of 25% henna and 75% cassia of total powder needed for your hair.
-Add warm to hot water and let sit for 3-4 hours. Make sure your mixture is like pancake batter or as desired.
-Apply the paste onto clean hair that is either damp or dry. Apply mixture in layers starting from the back and moving forward.
-Wrap your hair and leave on for at least 3-4 hours.
-Rinse or wash paste out.
Mixing Cassia Obovata and Henna for copper tones:
-Mix powders together at a proportion of 50% henna and 50% cassia of total powder needed for your hair.
-Add warm to hot water (or strong chamomile tea, its liquid) and let sit for 3-4 hours. Make sure your mixture is like pancake batter or as desired.
-Apply the paste onto clean hair that is either damp or dry. Apply mixture in layers starting from the back and moving forward.
-Wrap your hair and leave on for at least 3-4 hours.
-Rinse or wash paste out.
Mixing Henna for red tones:
-Mix henna with warm lemon juice, or warm water, and allow the paste to sit from 2-12 hours (as this depends on the dye release of your henna powder chosen). Add enough liquid to make a paste the consistency of pancake batter.
-Apply the henna paste to your (damp or dry) hair by sections starting from the back and moving forward. Make sure you wear gloves when applying henna, as it will stain your hands.
-Wrap your hair and allow to sit from 1-6 hours.
-Rinse or wash the paste out.
How to store your powders: fridge or cool dark place.
How to store your pastes: freezer up to six months.
after you take the paste out of the freezer…..does it need to be warm to put it on……..
also…….what do you mean by wrap your hair? a towel or plastic? thank you
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Carol
Thank you for your post Julie and Carol!
After you take the paste out of the freezer just let it sit out at room temperature and thaw naturally. Then you can apply it.
After you put it on you need to wrap your head up such as in saran wrap or a shower cap.
Welcome!
What is the difference between “copper” tones and “red” tones? My natural color is auburn (dark brownish red) but is coming in gray. I tried a henna-indigo mix from another company and got nearly black over red–way too dark! Managed to get some indigo out with hints from longhaircommunity.com but still too dark. I will get some black cut off but want to take care of incoming gray roots. So, how do I get to a dark red/auburn color? Henna, Cassia and Amla in equal portions?
Thank you for your post Rachel.
Copper would be less red. Red tones are achieved when using henna alone. You may want to use just henna alone since your hair is already dark toned. I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any other questions.
I have a question about henna and amla together- does it still bring about a color change? Does amla alone darken the hair?
Thank you for your post Jenna. Amla won’t usually darken your hair much especially if it is a dark tone. Sometimes it make s light or blond hair beige looking, and on dark hair it doesn’t show up. Henna and Amla in certain proportions will be less red. What tone did you want to achieve and what is your natural/current hair color?
Beige… Oh wow! Lol. I have a golden color (dye) and I wanted to keep it as close to that color as possible.
Hi,
I used your brown kit with Moroccan henna + alma. I had some highlights before using the henna. My color is way too dark and way too red. What will happen if I put some cassia on my hair? Will it make my hair less dark?
Jenna, enjoy!
Tania, thank for posting. Cassia won’t lighten your hair as there are no stripping agents in it. Did you use the indigo that came with your Lush Brown Kit? What color was your natural hair color? What color are you trying to achieve?
I have very very long naturally red hair with white around my face (like an owl). after reading everything I could get my hands on, talking to hairdressers, and to people who use henna – after two and a half years, I used LUSH henna (the red one).
my front hair showed roots of white. and ORANGE stripes. I went to lush. They said: use more, do it on dry hair, no plastic wrap, over night.
I did.
I now have jello/koolaid orange all over the front of my head.
What do i do to 1. tone it down, 2. get the red (on the auburn side) that is natural? sigh.
Hi, I was thinking of using Cassia with a pinch of Henna. I want it to be golden/slightly strawberry blonde, but I don’t want an orange unnatural looking colour. My hair is naturally dark blonde with some natural sunbleached highlights. For how long should the mixture stay in the hair for a subtle colour change/enhancement? Should I use shampoo when rinsing out the henna/cassia?
yes Amla makes hair darker especially if you have light hair.
Usually we don’t recommend any cassia with henna and indigo as it can cause the recipe to be diluted too much. We’re not really familiar with that recipe as we haven’t ourselves tested what we carry out to do those specific recipes for those color results. We also don’t have katam to experiment with. There isa good book on amazon called natural hair coloring or something to that affect that you can read up on as it does have very good recipes.
Thank you. I will look for that book. It might help in my many hair experiments. I have been testing spots all over my head. But, because I put my head up, it’s hard to notice.
Welcome! Please let us know how it goes.