Knitting Dragonflies

I have used Henna on my hair for about 2 years now. I has been quite a journey. I’ve had various reds, from orange to auburn. While it does make my hair feel great, I’ve had to stop for various reasons. I’m going to list some of my hard learned henna lessons and advice. I wish I had known some of this before I started. First some general advice on henna, especially if you have light or graying hair….I’ll also list my best info links at the end of this. Yes seriously, before and after 100% henna…the worst moment is when I was shopping in Target and two little boys said “Mommy look at that women’s hair!”, Yes I had to leave my cart and exit the store. Needless to say I’m rather fearless with my hair now. -If you have light hair or graying hair, I would recommend using henna in combo with buxus or indigo to tame the orange color, ( mixes here ,  gray hair kits here ) (see henna for hair explanation of how henna works on gray or light blonde hair here , and yes you will be orange ...

Fire Hooping, Barrington. Photo by Amanda Giles My girlfriend Rachel, who is my Henna sister, got a fire hula hoop for Christmas! While I’m still practicing on a standard hula-hoop, she has progressed to a LED hoop and now a fire hoop . I love the directions, it actually says, “at some point you will catch yourself on fire”, so someone stands by with a fire extinguisher while she hoops. Now that person should be sober! And you can’t really knit if you are the extinguisher person either. Red Hat pattern by Bernat , this is the second hat I have made with this pattern. Every month we get together to henna our hair, if you are interested in moving away from chemical coloring to henna, like many people are, (especially if you are being treated with chemotherapy or pregnant) the best website is Henna for Hair. Rachel before hair…light brown   and after….beautiful auburn We were both interested in switching to henna and started the journey together. She is a light brow...