Hair coloring with henna and basmosa: natural color and minimum of chemistry

Today on the shelves of shops you can see a lot of hair colors from different manufacturers. Against the backdrop of new products, old and proven methods of staining with natural ingredients - henna and basma - have come to the fore, and meanwhile, the coloring of hair with henna and basma is the most harmless way of dyeing hair. True and less durable than chemical paints.

A bit of history

People started using henna for hair coloring even in Ancient India in the Middle East and North Africa. Basma as a dye for hair used women of the East. All this happened more than seven thousand years ago. Then gradually began to appear chemical hair dyes, it became possible to receive the most incredible shades of colors, so it seemed that they forgot about henna and basma. But, as it turned out, not forever. And today many women who advocate natural beauty and minimum of chemistry prefer to dye their hair at home using these natural dyes.

This is how the hair colored with henna and basmosa look, see the photos below.

Henna traditionally gives all the red hues from light brown to bright red and dark orange. Basma - it's dark shades, closer to the color of the hair of brunettes, rather than blondes.

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In Soviet times, women dyed hair mostly with one of the dyes - either henna or basma. After that, they turned into either redheads or brunettes. Modern inhabitants of megacities are aware of wider variations on the subject of henna and basma, resulting from the mixing of these two dyes. Probably everyone knows that henna can be used without basma to get a red hair color, but basma without henna( in its pure form) is not used, because after the staining it gives a blue or green color.

Classics

Henna in its pure form paints golden-blond hair in a red color.

Henna on the discolored hair will turn the hair in carrot-red color. Therefore, now to get it with henna, cranberry juice is added to it. Then you get a beautiful color "mahogany".

Dark hair, and even more with a drop of "raven wings" henna does not take, you have to use basma.

The most popular recipe for turning into an effective brunette: dye your hair first with henna, and then apply a thick slurry basma.

The result will be something like this:

To get a blue, rather mild, chocolate shade of hair, paint them with henna and basmosa with the addition of coffee( proportions 1: 2:

How to deal with gray hair

White hair owners often think thatthey can be helped only by strong chemical paints. It is sure that this is far from true! Henna and basma are quite capable of painting gray hair no worse than the fashionable paints of well-known manufacturers. The only thing that keep the mixture on your head may need a little longer than with conventional stainLet's say it's not 10 minutes, but 20 minutes, not 30 minutes, but an hour. But I think the result is worth it, but you do not use paints that are harmful to the hair with ammonia, and most importantly, as a result, you get a beautiful natural color without a hint ofHere are the options for a photo with gray hair before and after staining with henna and basma

Secrets of

masters If you insist 8 hours of henna juice and heated lemon juice, you can get a mixture for dyeing a beautiful copper color.

Fresh henna juice poured into the henna solution on dark hair emerges with chic purple highlights.

Henna, along with chamomile infusion, gives the blonde hair a beautiful golden hue.

If you divorce henna with chicken( hibiscus), you can get a dark shade, close to a black cherry.

For a deep and even color of the hair, before the cultivation of henna, pour into the powder ground cloves( about 15 g).

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