HERB - Henna shades

[Christine A Seelye-King]

>(I used to see in the health food stores some that came in a range of
>shades like chemical hair dyes, from strawberry to dark auburn, and even
>neutral --any one know if it's still available like that?)
>			Ldy Diana

Yes, it is available like that at my store, Sevananda in Little 5 Points,
Atlanta.  The colors come from several varieties of the plant, and then
from mixing those to get even more colors.  One mixes the ground plant
material with hot water, you are really making a tea or a poultice for
your hair.  Using dark tea or coffee, paprika and other natural additives
like lemon juice all make for variations on the color.  You then let it
sit like warm goose s**t on your head, preferably wrapped in a plastic
bag or saran wrap, and sit in the sun or periodically warm your hair/head
with a blow dryer to keep the heat activating the color.  About an hour
later, rinsing and washing then conditioning, and you are henna'd.  
	Christianna, the only recently returned to her natural  hair color after
the bleaching process for Mrs. Santa Claus, then hennaing (with the wrong
color, one of my co-workers put black henna in the red jar - it wasn't
pretty!).  
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