First
thought of the day: Crap, I overslept!
I had slept
for 11 hours with the indigo in my ends. Crap.
Literally blue?
But once I
had rinsed it clean, I’m not sure I can actually tell I did anything to the
colour. How odd.
The henna
did the perfect “barely there” effect, but the indigo seems to escape me and be
so barely there I myself isn’t even sure I have done anything.
Don’t get
me wrong, I would rather have that than it becoming too dark.
But it also
irritates me: I wouldn’t have added indigo if I hadn’t wanted an affect.
It worries
me a bit because now I’m tempted to add more indigo and maybe then it will turn
out too dark.
Seems like an appropriate reaction :)
Is the
problem maybe my henna-dose being so low that the indigo can’t even bind to my
hair?
Not sure here, but maybe the mixture of henna and cassia in your henna treatment doesn't give the indigo enough to bind to? I only know people who do henna-only treatments before indigo and that seems to work well. But then again, they also don't dilute with conditioner. I'm not that familiar with how indigo works, but I have a couple of uneducated guesses:
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2. the mixture of henna and cassia doesn't work with indigo
3. The henna needs to oxidize before indigo can successfully bind on to it.
I'm sorry I can't be of help here....