Hi, my henna recipe for my 75% gray/25% dark brown roots is 80% twilight henna/20% cassia mixed with amla. This is giving me great gray cover, and a beautiful copper red (my goal color) in indoor lighting but outdoors, oh my goodness, it's very orange, even weeks after oxidizing. I'd like to tone it down a bit, meaning brown it up just a tad. I tried several different solutions over the past year to try to achieve this, but nothing really worked till I added a very small amount (10%) of indigo to my recipe. I was scared to try that, since I'd had an indigo mishap in the past, but that little 10% made just the right difference. The color is now still very copper but not neon copper. Perfect.
I applied this new recipe to my roots only, being careful not to expose any of the lenths to the dye. But believe it or not, my lengths turned out considerably darker in certain places. I thought, how could THAT have possibly happened? I never had that problem at all, before adding indigo to my recipe (and yes, I buy all my supplies here). My theory is that as I was rinsing out the mud (I use a shower, not a tub soak), the indigo portion of my recipe must have "stuck" (?) to the more porous areas of my lengths. How can I prevent that happening next time? Would coating my lengths with oil help?
If I decide not to use indigo any more, would switching from Amla to Blueberry juice give me a shade that's closer to what the 10% of indigo is doing? Meaning, is blueberry juice more "browning" than amla? I am definitely not wanting to go darker or veer off into "cool" red (rose/burgandy) territory, I want to stay golden copper, just not quite so bright. Adding more cassia or switching to a lower dye content (Jasmine) did not help, that just made it a lighter shade of bright orange.
Thanks!
Maya
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