Indigo Henna

I'm sure many people think that henna can only dye hair a reddish color. Actually there exists indigo henna. If you recall, indigo is used to dye jeans blue. It's a natural way to also color hair black. When mixing the indigo henna with water, it forms a blue-ish color. But fear not, your hair won't turn out blue (unless your hair is white). So if you want the benefits of standard henna without the reddish color, try indigo henna!

However be careful, if you buy a product listed as "black henna" which, when mixed with water, turns blackish/brownish, this is not indigo henna. Be on the lookout for dark blue liquid mixtures only!

As soon as I take my hair out of kinky twists, I plan to try it out!

Henna'd!

So I put my very first henna gloss in my hair. Strangely when I rinsed it out and put conditioner in my hair, my hair still felt hard so I did the Aphogee 2 minute reconstructor as well. I'm not exactly sure what to be expecting BUT I do love the curl definition.

YouTube is Expensive!

I'm sure some of you out there can attest to this - watching YouTube videos is expensive!

You watch 1 video and the natural chica is using a new product. You watch a product review and see what a great job it does on hair. Then at the end of the video, the chica says how cheap it is and where she found it...which of course makes you want to purchase it.

So..needless to say, I've decided to try out some new products. Just ordered them from Amazon/eBay..still have to pick some up from target/CVS but here's the list so far:

shampoo: creme of nature sunflower and coconut detangling shampoo

conditioner: garnier fructis triple nutrition conditioner

leave-in conditioner: mixed chicks leave-in

deep conditioner: miss jessie's super sweetback treatment

henna: jamila (w/vatika oil)

somethin special: aphogee 2 minute reconstructor

ladies - if you've used any of the above, do they get a thumbs up or thumbs down from you?