Hair is the most beautiful part of human body. It singly handed holds the entire expression of personality even though it is biologically dead. The previous fact thus allows us to take discretion about how the mane is going to be styled! Hence, we resort to hair colours which can’t seem to avoid the flowing problems
- Pricey upkeep
- Harsh chemicals
- Allergies
- Damaged hair
Costly affair, yet to blend in with the societal branding of “trends” we try to follow the flock of sheep.
But after we see how it has ravaged our hair, hair colouring becomes a complete NO
But here we present 10 amazing natural tips that induce kitchen leftovers to bring about the desired tinge to your lovely locks!
Before you tend to attempt any of these, remember the following:
- Wear gloves whenever handling natural dyes.
- Wear clothes that you don’t mind turning into kitchen clothes while dying.
- If sleeping it over, make sure to put a towel over the pillow. We obviously don’t want you to dye your pillow covers.
- All these mentioned remedies are natural. Repeat them twice or thrice a week for proper results.
1. HENNA hai na?
If you haven’t seen your mom going through this arduous procedure on Sundays and get a tinge of redness on her hair, then I don’t know how you have spent your childhood weekends. Henna has been a part of the Indian household for centuries now, predominantly used for colouring hair red, henna has impeccable conditioning and strengthening agents to not only colour your hair but also retain the colour.
Based on the actual colour of your hair, the results will vary from light orange, deep red or dark burgundy.
Need directions? Your grandmother would happily help. Other than that, here is how you go about henna application:
Mix in some coconut milk and lemon juice into 200 grams of henna powder. Mix it well and set it overnight for preparation. The next morning divide your hair into sections and apply the mixture. Make sure that every strand is covered.
Rinse it with cold water once it dries.
2. CHAMOMILE TEA for lighter hair
Chamomile happens to be a natural bleaching agent. It effectively brings out a lighter tinge in your hair and highlights the areas that you want to. It is also a well-known upkeep item for artificially coloured hair as it helps to maintain the blonde highlights.
For ombre tips and gold highlighters, at a cost lesser than any chemical treatment, chamomile tea is probably the best remedy.
Find 8-10 chamomile tea bags and immerse them into a large bowl of boiling water. Let the bags seep in for 10 minutes, squeeze the bags for complete result. Add half cup of lemon juice and quarter cup of coconut oil. Take the mixture into a bottle and shake it vigorously. Massage your hair with the bleach solution and sit in the sun for 10-15 minutes and not longer.
3. Miracles of CAFFINE
Don’t we all love a mug of coffee on a rainy day with a beautiful Mills and Boon book? It enriches our soul and keeps our head clear. Don’t be surprised to know that it has similar effect on your hair too. Coffee works as an amazing capability of giving rich, black colour to your hair. Coffee bears tannins, molecules that give coffee its dark rich colour which can in turn help your locks turn dark black and shiny.
Add coffee to boiling water and boil further for 5 minutes. Turn of the heat and let the coffee settle for 10 minutes.
Make enough so that you can soak your hair into the mixture.
After soaking your hair, rinse the leftover coffee on your hair. The goal is to cover every inch and strand of your hair with coffee. Cover your hair with a shower cap for one and a half hour.
Wash off the coffee with cool water and DO NOT USE SHAMPOO. Only use conditioner to restore the effect.
4. Explore the browns with WALNUT
Fun fact!: walnut when broken open looks like a brain!
Surprisingly, it fares well for your hair too! Walnut has abilities to colour your locks in luscious brown tint. It shimmers your hair with dark chocolate like dye that you can flaunt on any day!
Walnut is constituted of tannins as discussed in coffee, juglone and plumbagin, proteins and substances that bestow walnut with its natural drank black brownish colour.
Make a powder of walnuts and add 8-10 spoons of it into 2 cups of boiling water. Set aside the mixture for an hour. Soak your hair in this mixture and let it dry. After 20 minutes, simply rinse your hair with cool water.
5. RHUBARB for glistening blonde hair
See your blond hair colour fading? Presenting you one of the most ancient cosmetic, 3000 plus years old that has acted as a skin fairness agent for generations of civilisations, RHUBARB! Rhubarb is known to give a light tinge to anything that it touches. The root of rhubarb which happens to be a rhizome has lightening abilities thus ensuring the blonde colour. Moreover, rhubarb is blessed with oxalic acid which serves as a fixative. Thus, rhubarb’s effects last longer than any other home remedy.
Take some dried rhubarb root and simmer it in water for 20 minutes. Let the mixture sleep overnight. Wash your hair as usual, pour the decoction into the hair. Catch the dripping liquid in a pan and repeat the process 3 times. Air dry the hair without rinsing.
DO NOT BREATH IN THE STEAM WHILE MAKING THE MIXTURE.
6. BEET the reds with BEETROOTS!
Adults love beetroot, amazing addition to salads, a beautifully healthy drink and what not! Imagine its colour staying onto your hair? Well doesn’t that sound fancy and cheap too?
Here is what a beetroot rinse can do. Relieve you of an itchy scalp, dandruff, dryness and rejuvenation of scalp dermis. Not just painting your hair red, beetroot makes sure that its potassium, protein and vitamins help to strengthen your hair. Beetroot is probably the girl who can do both sugar and spice!
A cup of beetroot juice, half cup of rose water and half cup of black tea. Loaded with oxidants this rinse will ensure a lovely red tinge to your hair. Soak your hair in this mixture, rinse after an hour.
7. The Flower treatment for the Red Locks
For all the red heads reading this article, here is a red hair dye rinse made of flowers that exude the red tint gloriously. Hibiscus and marigold are the most famous natural substances used in the dying industry. Their essential oils have tint in them, making them capable of exuding colour in their extract. A mixture of these can give out a warm red tint to your mane, not too dark to be brown and not too light to be blond.
Find hibiscus flowers and marigold flowers, dry their petals and soak them in boiling water for 20 minutes. Strain the petals to find clear liquid, add 1/4th cup of red wine to the concoction. Apply the liquid as a final rinse after conditioning. Tap the dripping liquid in a container and repeat the process as much as you can.
8. LEMONS to limelight!
Highlights are the obvious rage out there. Streaks of hair in variant colour than your usual hair flowing haywire here and there over your mane is the style statement today. Given thet each streak costs 500 easily, we suggest a 10 rupee per 10 streaks option. Presenting lemon zest a natural bleach used as a bleaching agent in literally anything that promises to bring out whiteness in anything.
Choose the streaks you want highlighted, paint it with lemon juice. Stand in sun for a while. Repeat this process as much as you can and notice the lovely highlights framing your face!
9. SAGE and ROSEMARY to blend the browns
Sage is known to darken greying hair for generations now. Rosemary on the other hand is known to maintain brown tinge more than any herbal method ever cited. In form of tea, sage and rosemary infused together will provide a deep brown tinge to your locks.
Find rosemary and sage tea bags, if you are fine with brewing the herbs, sure go for it! Immerse the tea bags into boiling water and press the tea bags for more infusion of the tea. Keep aside the decoction for half an hour. Use it as a final rinse after shampoo collecting the dripping solution, using it twice or thrice until it is completely exhausted.
10. Pump the Funk quotient with PURPLE!
Blonde, brunette, redheads set aside, purple is the colour that explodes into the beholder’s eyes. It is the most fun colour that you usually have to undergo several harsh chemical procedures to acquire. What if I tell you that some mashed blackberries will do the trick?
Mash some blackberries and work it onto your damp hair like shampoo. Set aside for 2 hours and rinse! Now click a selfie for those insta likes!
Brunettes and redheads, please lighten your hair with lemon before you go for this.
