The hair post.

[halimede]

Hair post, as promised to trickofthedarkFirst up, my number one definition of great hair is healthy hair, be it fine, thick, wavy, curly or straight as a board. Obviously if you like the teased up, heavily hair-sprayed look your mileage may vary, and that's fine. But the silken cascade of flowing tresses thing (think Mary Sue) is what my hair tips and tricks are

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[flambeau]

I had a lovely wood comb that I got from the Body Shop, but I think invisible lovecraftian monsters must have eaten it. Feel moved to do an oil treatment on my hair now, though. It's gone all dry and frizzy lately and I haven't really adjusted to that, since it never was before. Have seriously considered cutting it short, or at least shorter (one advantage of not having hair long enough to sit on should be that you don't accidentally sit on it and neither does anyone else...), but I think I'd miss it.

Isn't there henna treatment that's more brown than red, or is my mind going?

[halimede]

I bought a wood comb from kostkamm too (I *love* that 'slightly damaged' bargain basket!) but I'm completely swayed by the horn. I'll probably sell or give away the wooden one at some point. It smells nice though. Cedar, I think. :)

Oil is good. And the length sounds very cool indeed. I'd certainly try frizz remedies before chopping it off. Though trimming the ends and/or doing a search-and-destroy on the split ends can sometimes help.

Henna pretty much stays in the orange/auburn/red spectrum, but you can indeed get various colors if you mix other stuff with the henna. There are herbal mixes available in shops here where they add things like walnut husk, indigo, rhubarb root, stuff like that. (Be careful with commercial mixes though, some of them have the icky, damaging toxic stuff mixed in after all, and the bad stuff goes by a gazillion confusing names.)

There are also people experimenting with different mixes on hennaforhair.com. My hair is auburn-but-still-in-the-red-spectrum, not in the browns. Some people report getting

[flambeau]

Maybe I'll look into the senna thing. I'm all for things that are good for my hair, but I don't want my hair to be red. *g*

Also, I meant to say before, wrt shampoo: most commercial stuff is way too strong, for me at least, so I usually dilute it with a bit of water. This has financial side benefits as well. ;)

Been working on searching out split ends over the past few days. Kind of a pain. It's fun to see all the naturaly tapering ends on hairs that have never been cut, though.

[halimede]

Belated comment catch-up rally:

I'm all for things that are good for my hair, but I don't want my hair to be red. *g*

{reads own comment over} I did make it clear that with mixes with other herbs thrown in you can get brown tones, right? It's just plain henna which can't, and there are enough products with henna in the name that don't have henna at all and/or have toxic dyes in them that I always feel I have to be very clear that henna alone is red to auburn only.

Been working on searching out split ends over the past few days. Kind of a pain. It's fun to see all the naturaly tapering ends on hairs that have never been cut, though.

Try these sites for good ways of trimming the split ends more easily:
http://www.xxl-haar.de/english.htm
http://splitends.bebto.com/getridofse.htm

Also, *never* been cut as in absolutely never? Whoa, cool. :)

[flambeau]

Comment catch-up is kind of a pain, because then people comment back. *g*

I've mostly just taken a section of hair at a time and slid it slowly along my fingers, watching the hairs as they spring up and cutting the ones that seem to need it. And then doing it over again. And over again. And over again. Yes, never been cut as in absolutely never - they get a bit brittle, though, so I'm cutting them as well, along with the split ends.

I think what I mostly took away from your comments was that it seemed quite complicated to find something with henna in it that's essentially the same color as my hair is now. Then I realized that I really don't want to put anything in my hair that would cover up the white hairs. :)