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Help>>Black Henna where to get it & is it safe?
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Is black henna safe? What I mean it is all natural like normal brown henna. I have heard from someone that black henna is made artifically to be black with loads of chemicals. I also heard that you can only get natural black henna with no chemicals from Africa. Where can I buy it with no chemicals???
I would like to use black henna to create eye browns like semi permanent makeup.
Advice please and if you have any useful web-links please post them too.
Thanks
I would like to use black henna to create eye browns like semi permanent makeup.
Advice please and if you have any useful web-links please post them too.
Thanks
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BAD idea.
Stick with normal henna (Yemeni is best IMO), let it dry slowly in moist air (kitchen with tumble dryer on, perhaps?) and reapply to darken.
AVOID BLACK HENNA.I could dream to wide extremes, I could do or die: I could yawn and be withdrawn and watch the world go by.Yup you are officially Rock n Roll0 -
why avoid black??
I thought it was called indigo and has been used for years to colour and strengthen hair???
MAybe not eyebrows as I hear it's dreadfully messy and an eyebrow would be quite fine work...
I wouldn't want reddy brown eyebrows....
ETA: maybe try something like this???
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/HENNA-EYES-Safe-Natural-Henna-Pen-Liquorice-Black-/200539825342?pt=UK_Health_Beauty_Tattoos_BodyArt_SM&hash=item2eb11ae4be0 -
Where is the best place to get Henna for this? Can you buy it in Boots or Superdrug?“…the ‘insatiability doctrine – we spend money we don’t have, on things we don’t need, to make impressions that don’t last, on people we don’t care about.” Professor Tim Jackson
“The best things in life is not things"0 -
Black henna often means synthetic dye. The type that results in the TV features showing people with football sized heads and no hair.
Not indigo.I could dream to wide extremes, I could do or die: I could yawn and be withdrawn and watch the world go by.Yup you are officially Rock n Roll0 -
but Indigo is used as black henna isn't it? (sorry If I'm wrong - I thought indigo was what was called black henna??)0
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http://www.hennapage.com/henna/ppd/index.html
http://www.hennapage.com/henna/warnings.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henna#.22Neutral_henna.22_and_.22black_henna.22
You have a valid point, but I'd be wary of taking the risk.I could dream to wide extremes, I could do or die: I could yawn and be withdrawn and watch the world go by.Yup you are officially Rock n Roll0 -
there is only one 'colour' of henna, red henna. Any other colours are made with chemicals and are not true henna, nor good for you.
To get a black colour you would use indigo. I have only used this on hair, not eyebrows etc as you want to do, but to get a black colour you mix and apply the henna, then when it is rinsed mix and apply the indigo.
This http://www.hennaforhair.com/ is a great site for information and directions on henna, although ordering from them is expensive as they're american based and postage adds up. I've ordered mine from http://www.henna-boy.co.uk/ and it's good quality hennacarpe diem :cool:
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