dying red hair blonde without using bleach

shandyclover

Congratulations on your natural redhair Ali! My DD is also a redhead, well now anyways - she was more a reddy light brown naturally and then 5 years ago started dyeing her hair with henna. She's taken it every colour in the henna spectrum, copper blonde to deep almost black mahogany, though I think she looks best the red mahogany colour. Henna is messy but can be cheaper then dyes and very good for your hair. DD has waist length hair and it's in such good condition and the colour so amazing she is often stopped on the street, a model scout spotted her and she got a modelling job purely on her hair - for a well known salon chain, (which is rather ironic as she's never had her hair dyed professionally and can count on one hand the times she's had a 'proper' salon experience) Anyways if you want a bit of variety but want to keep your hair in good condition you can find out more from this page...http://www.hennaforhair.com/mixes/index.html

MarzipanFish

I love red hair too. There's more of us than you'd think

i've thought about henna because i really like some of the colours you can get but i'm worried about the mess. OH has enough trouble with the normal dye. The end colour in the guide in the link posted is lovely.
Maybe i'll look into it again.

geri1965_2

I'm blonde and I would love to have red hair!

I guess you always hanker after what you can't have.

BitterAndTwisted

We natural blondes share a lot of the same attributes as red-heads like pale skin, pale eyelashes and blue eyes so going red for us would look pretty natural for the most part, except for the eye-brow colour which would be a dead giveaway but nothing a suitable eyebrow pencil couldn't fix. Now my hair's coming in grey I'm toying with the idea of going redder

cresbella

Hi I've been reading this thread

I used to use henna from the Bodyshop to colour my hair when I was a teenager in the '80s. The colour result was good however it did leave hair dry and 'crispy' at the ends.

My questions are:

does it still do this to the ends of your hair?, reading this thread it would appear that the formulations may now be gentler

Also does it still take a couple of hours to develop?

Will it cover my early greys naturally?

How often do I need to reapply, does it fade like semi permanent or grow out like permanent?

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I would be interested in using it again, I have mid brown hair with strands of grey just starting to appear so would love to cover these naturally.

ali-t

shandyclover wrote: »

Anyways if you want a bit of variety but want to keep your hair in good condition you can find out more from this page...http://www.hennaforhair.com/mixes/index.html

My hair is pretty much the same colour as the easy strawberry model (after not before ). Great site though.

missmontana

In a word, no. I have auburn/Titian hair, and did the whole t-section highlighting thing, my hairdresser said I had the hardest hair to colour and bleaching was the only way it would go blonde and even then it was never a very good blonde and grew out really quick... so hard to maintain.
If you fancy a change, get some clip in hair pieces of different colours, or change your style, make it curly/straight, get a fringe cut etc.