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Lush caca rouge/brun review
I have to say I was basically trying to figure out how to write this post as it has soooooooooo much information it almost turned out in a book. After many and many weeks of trying to write this and get it published, I think I rewrote the whole thing multiple times (I keep writing about useless stuff that you don't really need in life) p.s. The first part of this post (up until the second use of henna) was written back in December, while the rest of it was written in the last two weeks or so.
So here we go!
This product is something I am using for the first time today, and it's not like I didn't use any kind of henna before. I used it the first time a few years back, and it did nothing really to my hair but considering how cheap I got it, I wasn't that much disappointed.
Since then I tried many new colors that ruined my hair which resulted in me cutting my hair to a pixie cut (picture on the left is picture back from September of 2015, and the picture on the right is back from December of 2015)
That pixie now, I am proud to say, grew out to be a nice little bob. Chopping off my hair, you'd think, would make me smarter and result in me avoiding bleach and any harsh treatments, but nooooooooooo..... I actually bleached my hair a few months back, only this time I was wiser and tried to keep my hair as healthy as possible. (you can find that post here!)
So after I went trough pink summer hair phase (which is documented here) (ps, I loved this hair so so sooosooso much but it was soooooooooo much work to keep my hair blonde + pink and I'm just too lazy to bleach my hair every month and a half.)
That's why I decided to give my hair some rest and let it breathe for a while. Which resulted in dying my bleached hair back in my natural hair color to avoid bleaching the roots.
As you can imagine, my "natural" brown color was hanging on my bleached strands for as long as possible, but after 2 months now I ended up with a lot of light brown highlights which means it's time to play hairdresser again!!!
Only this time, instead of using normal hair dyes I decided to go natural, and use henna hair dye. I've read so many good reviews of Lush henna so I decided to give it a try and now here we are.
If you try to find a tutorial about applying and using henna, all of them will tell you that it's a messy process. I expected it to be a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE mess, but it ended up being just a tiny bit messier than using normal hair dye. If you are as clumsy as I am, that is.
The most important thing is you need to be strategic.
Prepare EVERY SINGLE THING you need, and even things that you don't really need but might need in a special situation. Also, you should probably apply henna over the bathtub, or while standing in the shower. This will make your mess zone well barricaded which will result in less cleaning afterward - can I get a yoopikayey for that!? Have a cling wrap and shower cap on stand-by.
The first thing you need to do is break the henna bar in small pieces, I actually ground my henna, and then mix it with boiling water. Now for the water, you should not use too much of it, but also not too little. You need to get that yogurt consistency which will be easy to get trough out your hair and will not be dripping off your hair.
You should apply henna when it's still warm, as the warm henna will bring out more color than the cold one.
Once you get henna in your hair, wrap it with a cling wrap and then put a shower cap. Now you can wait for 2-4 hours......................... use the time well my young padawan.
If you're using henna in the winter time and you feel like your head under all that alien looking wrap is not warm enough do few squats or sit ups, you can even just run around your house if you want. The important thing is to keep your blood circulation on it's best so the heat doesn't go down.
Why the heat?
Heat helps your hair to absorb all the nutrients henna brings.
So use this knowledge wisely.
And finally, resutls are here!
After 4 hours of waiting patiently, I was ready to rinse the mud off my hair. And let me tell you the process of rinsing henna out is a like a tinge of art and a whole lot of conditioner.
So basically, you want to make your hair as slippery as possible to get all the henna out of your hair without being stuck in the shower for hours. So first thing you should do is drown your hair in water as most of the mud on your hair is by now pretty dry, and once you wet your hair apply conditioner 3 times more than you would normally use, and apply it all over your hair. YES, FROM THE ROOTS!
Once your hair is slippery enough, just rinse it all of with water.
Trust me, this method will save you a lot of time.
Once you are done with conditioner, you can go ahead and shampoo your scalp and if necessary reapply conditioner on the ends.
And whola you're done.
Now, I should probably warn you if your hair is not on the healthy side (aka, dry, brittle) you will not see much change after the first use of henna. Actually, it's safe to say it will look even worse than it used to look before.
Here is the reason why: Henna is used to coat your hair, to protect it from all the influences like weather or sun. However, this coat also is the reason why your hair won't be able to get any nutrition from your hair conditioner or hair mask which will obviously result in a not soo good looking hair.
But, this protective coat loosens up a little bit over the time (after few washes) and once again your hair will be able to soak up most of the things you put on it.
And I can tell you from the experience once you use henna for few times your hair will become much healthier, and it will look shiny as hell and also will be really soft so don't judge it on the first try. Give it a little time.
First photos were taken right after my hair was dried, and as you can see it's really really bright.
However, the color changes in first few weeks. The orange tones turn a little bit more subtle.
But even after a month and a half I couldn't get used to the color still, so I decided to visit Lush again and this time purchase Caca Brun or the brown henna edition. So did I go full brown? No.
I actually mixed one block of caca rouge with one block of caca brun.
I could see the difference right away. It wasn't as orange as the first time I used henna, and I like the way the color develop in the first weeks. It still has a red tinge, but less than before.
*First photo is right after my hair was freshly dyed and dried. ** Other two photos are around 3 weeks after the last henna.
One more thing I have to say is that henna doesn't cover the roots. Let me explain. For example, if your natural hair is brown and you bleached your hair some time ago and decide to give up on bleaching and you want to use henna to even your bleached hair with your natural hair it may not work the way you want it. The bleached part of your hair will go to a really bright color, but it will only lightly color your roots. That difference between the bleached part and the natural part of your hair will still be there, but it will be more subtle.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you have bleached or light hair don't use the black edition of henna as it will probably leave your hair with blue tinge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you are still reading this, FINALLY you came to the end of the post. So my final thoughts about this product are following: I will definitely re-do my hair in few more weeks again using caca brun+caca rouge. Even tho the whole process is quite long, it does help your hair a lot. My hair is much softer than it used to be, and it seems less dry. So this product definitely has my vote.