Dye Your Hair Dark with Natural Ingredients

Dying your hair with natural ingredients is safer and more fun than using hair dyes, and you get to experiment more. You can fine tune your ingredients to get a custom color all your own. All ingredients are optional, adjust the quantities to your liking.

Steps

Henna

  1. Mix natural henna powder with lemon juice or other acidic liquid.
  2. Let sit for at least 6 hours, or until you see dye release in the henna. The henna should be the thickness of cheap conditioner, but thinner than henna for body art. Try half lemon juice/half water to keep the mixture from drying your hair.

Amla

  1. Add a handful of a natural herb called Amla, which is powdered Indian gooseberry. It adds cool tones and enhances curl. Amla is brown, but adds only slight color.

Walnut

  1. Add walnut powder, checking to make sure you aren't allergic first. Walnut powder will add dark brown tones.

Indigo

  1. Add indigo. Indigo is blue, added to henna it will make many shades of brown.
  2. Apply to your hair, leave on for about 4 hours or more. If you can make it to 10 hours, your hair will have soaked up the maximum amount of dye.



Tips

  • Cover everything before starting.
  • To make things easier, ask someone else to apply it for you.
  • Use the other ingredients without henna, and you only need to leave them on for an hour. Create a base of conditioner and egg whites if you don't want to use a lot of the plant products.
  • Use a cheap conditioner to help wash out the dye. Smother your head in it and work it in like shampoo. Repeat until the water is clear.
  • Amla makes a great face scrub! Mix a handful with enough water to make a paste and wait 5 minutes. Careful with the eyes! Scrub your face and rinse. Your skin will feel tighter and smoother.

Warnings

  • Don't use premixes unless you know exactly what is in them. Many "natural" hair dyes contain PPD or other chemicals.
  • Cover your head with a shower cap. If the mixture dries completely, it won't be good for your hair, and will be harder to wash out.
  • Like any powdered dried plant leaf, henna is perishable. If it's allowed to sit on a shelf for too long it will lose it's dye strength.
  • Henna is only brownish-red, so if you see black or colorless henna, it is either another plant all together, or contains chemicals. Colorless henna can also be immature henna plants, cut before it is mature enough to make a dye. It takes 2 to 5 years for a henna plant to mature.

Things You'll Need

  • Henna
  • Amla (Indian Gooseberry)
  • Black walnut powder
  • Indigo
  • old newspaper/ old towels
  • cheap conditioner
  • shower cap
  • old clothes
  • gloves

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