Relaxed hair and Henna colour

I'm taking out my cornrow style in Appox. two weeks.. is it safe to use coloured henna e.g black,chestnut on my texturized hair... Has anyone tried this and been successful?
I don't what to end up with green hair

Just wanna say that I LOVE YOUR HAIR..
Very healthy..
How come you relaxed it though after growing it long and healthy?
I like your braids and your grade of hair. Keep up the good work hun..

I use neutral henna, but I do seem to remember some ladies posting that used colored henna without a problem

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yesiam said:
Just wanna say that I LOVE YOUR HAIR..
Very healthy..
How come you relaxed it though after growing it long and healthy?
I like your braids and your grade of hair. Keep up the good work hun..

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Hi yesiam, thanks for your kind words. A hairdresser texturized my hair Dec 2003, i wanted more manegability and styling options. I was very unhappy after a corrective in feb, dried out my ends causing breakage, so i had a haircut. I hope to get back all my length by Dec 2004..wish me luck.

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HOTCHOCOLATE said:
I use neutral henna, but I do seem to remember some ladies posting that used colored henna without a problem

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Thanks for replying.. i hope i get more responses

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den1 said:
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yesiam said:
Just wanna say that I LOVE YOUR HAIR..
Very healthy..
How come you relaxed it though after growing it long and healthy?
I like your braids and your grade of hair. Keep up the good work hun..

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Hi yesiam, thanks for your kind words. A hairdresser texturized my hair Dec 2003, i wanted more manegability and styling options. I was very unhappy fter a corrective in feb, dried out ends causing breakage, so i had a haircut. I hope to get back all my length by Dec 2004..wish me luck.

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Girl Puleez!
Im sure you will get 'there' in no time. Your hair grows like a weed..

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yesiam said:
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den1 said:
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yesiam said:
Just wanna say that I LOVE YOUR HAIR..
Very healthy..
How come you relaxed it though after growing it long and healthy?
I like your braids and your grade of hair. Keep up the good work hun..

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Hi yesiam, thanks for your kind words. A hairdresser texturized my hair Dec 2003, i wanted more manegability and styling options. I was very unhappy fter a corrective in feb, dried out ends causing breakage, so i had a haircut. I hope to get back all my length by Dec 2004..wish me luck.

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Girl Puleez!
Im sure you will get 'there' in no time. Your hair grows like a weed..

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you sound more confident, than i am.

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You can henna a relaxer. You CANNOT relax henna'd hair for atleast 2-3 weeks after.

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MoezThunder said:
You can henna a relaxer. You CANNOT relax henna'd hair for atleast 2-3 weeks after.

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I'm almost 2 months post-relaxer, so is it okay then?. I won't be relaxing until December anyway.

I would imagine so Den....I haven't usedhenna for the reason you are hesitant - I've read that that the results are iffy if used on perviously chemically processed hair of any kind.

If you try it, please let us know how it goes. You could always do a strand test. I was considering henna recently and though I couldn't find any in time, Ihad planned a stand test - just to be sure....

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Tracy said:
I would imagine so Den....I haven't usedhenna for the reason you are hesitant - I've read that that the results are iffy if used on perviously chemically processed hair of any kind.

If you try it, please let us know how it goes. You could always do a strand test. I was considering henna recently and though I couldn't find any in time, Ihad planned a stand test - just to be sure....

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Thanks for suggesting the strand test this will be vital in making my decision to colour or not. If the strand test does go to plan, i've got to decide what to use and how much of it? as you know that i have very thick hair already.

My most recent color job was with a product that mixes up a lot like henna - you add water (although my understanding is that henna can be mixed with things other than water like lemon juice, brewed coffee, or herbs steeped in water)...and I used two boxes of the product. I actually needed 3. Whatever you do, buy more than you need once you do the strand test - I suspect with the length and thickness of your hair you'd need at least a total of 10 ounces of product after you've mixed it. With my color one box called for 2 ounces of liquid and mixed up to about 3-4 ounces of product - for a total (remember I had two boxes) of 6-8ounces. I needed one more box to really have enough but I was able to make do.

I'm not sure if that experience was totally on point as to henna but it might help anyway. If you take nothing else away - my point is: make sure you have enough.

Not sure if you caught these already, but here are some sites that focus on henna. These women don't chemically straighten, but they so know quite a bit about the henna mixing process and different brands and such - so it may help as well.

http://www.galaxina.net/henna/
http://www.haarkram.e-something.de/start.html

Good Luck!

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Tracy said:
My most recent color job was with a product that mixes up a lot like henna - you add water (although my understanding is that henna can be mixed with things other than water like lemon juice, brewed coffee, or herbs steeped in water)...and I used two boxes of the product. I actually needed 3. Whatever you do, buy more than you need once you do the strand test - I suspect with the length and thickness of your hair you'd need at least a total of 10 ounces of product after you've mixed it. With my color one box called for 2 ounces of liquid and mixed up to about 3-4 ounces of product - for a total (remember I had two boxes) of 6-8ounces. I needed one more box to really have enough but I was able to make do.

I'm not sure if that experience was totally on point as to henna but it might help anyway. If you take nothing else away - my point is: make sure you have enough.

Not sure if you caught these already, but here are some sites that focus on henna. These women don't chemically straighten, but they so know quite a bit about the henna mixing process and different brands and such - so it may help as well.

http://www.galaxina.net/henna/
http://www.haarkram.e-something.de/start.html

Good Luck!

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Thanks for taking the time to post this infomation Tracy, it really is helpful,, I'm going to check out those links right now.

Your welcome!

Those websites you recommended are great, extremely detailed information, i will use it wisely. Thanks again!!