Henna and Bleach?

Hey Ladies,

I would like your help and expertise. I want to henna my hair and am looking to get a very specific red color. I want a nice true RED, not Burgundy or Auburn. I know that since my natural hair color is off-black/dark brown that I am going to have to lighten it up.

My texture is 4b/c. I know that bleaching will loosen the curl to like a 3b/c at least. Even though I don't really want to loosen up my curl I know it will happen once I bleach it. So really the question is has anyone else ever bleached then henna'd? What were your results (positive and negative).

Thanks in advance for your help ladies!
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I did not kno that bleaching loosened up the curl that much...I will be interested in the answer to this!

by the way, I wonder which is more damaging...bleaching or texturizing?

I have done both (separately of course) but don't know. The 3b/c happened when I went from my natural color all the way to white blond. I had crazy shirley temple curls!

Well bleaching is a chemical treatment that is pretty permanent and damaging to your hair no matter how careful you are! It has chemicals that could react negatively to the natural ingredents in Henna (that's why they say you can't use chemical colors to your henna'd hair). I would say for health/safety reasons, dont do it! I've bleached before, and it TOTALLY ruined my hair even though it looked pretty!

^ I completely agree. The effects a dye can do to your hair is much less harsher than what bleach can do to your hair. Do you really wanna alter your hair's texture chemically? Body Art Quality henna can be used over bleach and hair dyes, but I am not sure you really want to go that route since you really dont know what shade the henna will give off. A dye is safer IMO

I concur with the others. The bigger change to your natural hair colour, you should hand it over to a professional to do to minimise the potential of damage. I'd be quite concerned about what bleach would do to natural hair espcially if you are doing it at home and something goes wrong.

Thanks for all the input ladies. I'll probably just go to the shop and have it colored. I was going to go their anyway for the blonde.

Henna and bleach..will turn your hair green and then it will disappear

Nappturall wrote:Henna and bleach..will turn your hair green and then it will disappear

I definitely don't want that to happen! I will not use henna and bleach together. Thank you for all the help ladies!