Hello guys!
Today I'm going to show you how to make a henna gloss treatment.
It's a great thing and it's totally different from the full strength regular henna treatment.
First of all, let's talk about why it's better than the regular henna treatment.
It's so much easier and faster for you to do because the regular henna treatment can
take hours and hours, it can even take up to 8 hours.
While this one is just an hour or even less if you don't need a lot of colour pay off.
So it's super easy to do.
it's super easy to wash off because of the conditioner in it.
it's also not going to leave your hair dry and straw-like like regular henna treatment
can do.
And that's also because of honey and conditoner in the mix.
it's going to make your hair super soft and glossy.
It's also going to smooth any of your frizzies, fly aways - things like that.
It will really make your hair super soft and shiny, which is great for curly hair especially
because curly hair is always so dry naturally.
It's super easy to wash off compared to the normal henna treatment.
If you've tried the regular henna treatment, you know what a nightmare it is to have to
dunk your hair into a bath and trying to get all that henna out.
It takes forever, it's really not easy.
And of course just like regular henna treatment, it's still going to add some bulk to your
hair, so it's going to be thicker and healthier.
It's also very good for your scalp, so that's why I love it so much, and I'm sure you'll
love it just as much as me.
So well need just 4 ingredients, and first of all we need the regular henna, which is
going to give that beautiful warm reddish highlight.
Make sure that you get the one that is just henna and nothing else because I know that
some of them have things like...
I think it's called picramate or something like that.
It's a kind of...
I don't know... chemical salt, which is really not good for your hair, so just go for a totally
natural one, and preferably organic.
And then we need some apple cider viengar or if you don't have that, then white wine
vinegar will do as well.
This is optional.
This is great if you want to get a bit of colour in your hair.
But if you don't want any colour, then you can simply skip this step.
Then we'll need some raw honey.
Raw honey is one of my most favourite things of all time for my body, for any beauty uses,
because it's a very strong humectant.
It attracts all he moisture from the air and makes your hair or skin, or anywhere you're
using it, it makes them super moisturized.
So it's awesome for this.
And your favourite conditioner - mine is Green People, so I'm going to use that.
You can use any conditioner.
It doesn't have to be a super expensive one.
it just needs to be without silicones, you know, without the ending -one, and it should
have no protein in it, so really just a basic simple conditioner.
And then of course you need some water, which is not really an ingredient.
So if you look at my hair, it doesn't really look that different now, but it does look
slightly warmer still.
My colour was much stronger at the beginning, but it's almost totally washed off now.
That's normal, after the first applications the colour washes off really easily, and then
with each application it builds up and builds up, and it becomes stronger and lasts longer.
So I hope that's going to happen to me, too.
And as I said, if you don't want the colour, you can just omit the vinegar and keep it
on your hair for less time ,so you won't get too much of colour.
This treatment can be used for blonde hair, for brown hair, black hair - any hear really.
Just making a few tweaks here and there you can control how much colour pay off you want.
OK, it's time to move on to the kitchen and mix up this concoction.
So we'll start by adding 3 tablespoons of the henna, and then we'll mix it with an equal
amount, which is 3 tablespoons of boiling water, then we'll add a tablespoon of honey,
a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar, and 2 tablespoons of the conditioner.
So once you finish stirring the mixture, it should be like... hmmmm, what would you compare
it to?
Like thick Greek yogurt.
Like a puree.
Yeah, it's nice and smooth, but it's quite thick, and that should be the right consistency.
So what I usually do is I apply it on dry hair simply because doing it on wet hair,
there is too much dripping and I don't like that, so I do it on dry hair, but you can
also do it on damp towel-dried hair.
It doesn't really matter.
I usually divide my hair into 4 sections.
If you have more hair, you can have more sections.
I start applying on my roots and then I kind of move downwards, and I make sure that everything
is evenly coated with henna.
And then I kind of put my hair up in a bun.
I put on my wonderful shower cap, and that's it!
I usually leave it on for an hour, and I think you should probably leave it for 30 minutes
to one hour, depending on how much colour you want.
If you want really strong colour, then you might even leave it on for 4 hours, and it
you want the strengthening and glossing without the colour, you can leave it on for 30 minutes.
Once you're done, just wash it off with water.
You can use your conditioner, kind of like a conditioning wash.
Or you can use apple cider vinegar.
To be honest, I just use apple cider vinegar and that's perfectly enough for me.
It's better not to use shampoo because you really don't need it.
Henna already cleans your hair quite well, and it might leave your hair a bit dry.
So use either apple cider vinegar or a conditioner as a co-wash.
So that's it really.
And it you want to see what my colour looked like after this treatment, I'll try to insert
a picture here.
This is what my hair looked like before the treatment, and then this is what it looked
like the night after the treatment.
As you can see, it's really nice and kind of warm, reddish strawberry blonde.
I really like the colour.
I's more or less my natural hair colour - that's how it used to be before I came to this sunny
hot island and my hair got bleached.
So I'm really happy that I found something that brings me that warmth back into my life,
and back into my hair.
So I hope you'll give this treatment a try.
If you do, please let me know.
Thanks so much for watching, and I'll see you in my next video, which is going to be
something different, but something very interesting.
it's going to be my first impressions on an organic makeup brand called Vapour.
I'm going to try four different products on camera.
So if you're interested in that kind of stuff, stay tuned, and I'll see you next time.
Bye!