Ive been hennaed!! as in Henna -ed. Yeah thats Henna. You know that stuff people put in their hair to make it black (or brown). This is what happened:
Yesterday my mummy dearest made me sit down and apply henna on her hair. This has never been tried at home before due to the questionable domestic abilities of her first born. However due to the recent shifting houses thingie we're minus a beauty salon. So ...haha as they said in Oliver Twist, the lot fell on yours truly.
Since we didnt have a hair dye brush in the house, ammi came up with the brainwave of using a toothbrush. So I put 2 packs of henna to a bit of tea and mixed it about, and started applying the muck on ammis hair.
So there I was, happily spreading this brwnish-greenish goo with the toothbrush and not bothering to keep the goo out of my fingers...After all, I reasoned, henna is natural right? So its not like a toxic substance or whatever right? And it will go away right?
And then halfway through, ammi suddenly says 'Oh have you got henna on your fingers? The lady at the salon always uses gloves'
WHAT??! GLOVES?
To cut a long story short, the bloody stains didnt go away. Not even after dipping my hands in Chlorox for half an hour. And applying Thinner. and Surgical spirit.
Nope. Nada. The stains didnt go.
I wonder why those people in those voting counters in elections dont use henna as a marker. The stuff they use go away in Thinner. Hell they even go in Nail polish remover. Henna is better!
and the funny thing is it did go away a bit...In lime juice! I was squeezing a lime and voila! almost half of henna stains went away!
Long live Lime Juice!!!
Only, now my fingers feel like rubber. Not surprising after the cleaning fest they underwent...Humph. Poor me :(
Yesterday my mummy dearest made me sit down and apply henna on her hair. This has never been tried at home before due to the questionable domestic abilities of her first born. However due to the recent shifting houses thingie we're minus a beauty salon. So ...haha as they said in Oliver Twist, the lot fell on yours truly.
Since we didnt have a hair dye brush in the house, ammi came up with the brainwave of using a toothbrush. So I put 2 packs of henna to a bit of tea and mixed it about, and started applying the muck on ammis hair.
So there I was, happily spreading this brwnish-greenish goo with the toothbrush and not bothering to keep the goo out of my fingers...After all, I reasoned, henna is natural right? So its not like a toxic substance or whatever right? And it will go away right?
And then halfway through, ammi suddenly says 'Oh have you got henna on your fingers? The lady at the salon always uses gloves'
WHAT??! GLOVES?
To cut a long story short, the bloody stains didnt go away. Not even after dipping my hands in Chlorox for half an hour. And applying Thinner. and Surgical spirit.
Nope. Nada. The stains didnt go.
I wonder why those people in those voting counters in elections dont use henna as a marker. The stuff they use go away in Thinner. Hell they even go in Nail polish remover. Henna is better!
and the funny thing is it did go away a bit...In lime juice! I was squeezing a lime and voila! almost half of henna stains went away!
Long live Lime Juice!!!
Only, now my fingers feel like rubber. Not surprising after the cleaning fest they underwent...Humph. Poor me :(
Seems like you had a sticky experience. Sorry, that was lame. Why do women apply all these things to their hair? I thought it was just to get a tint.
ReplyDeletenah u apply henna to make ur grey hair black.
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