Your perfect natural hair color is actually many colors or shades of colors. What happens when your hair begins to whiten, silver, yellow and/or go gray?
You do not even notice...not at first. Then someone natural dyes giggles or 'nicely' points out that 'you are getting old' or you glance into the mirror when the light is just right.
Yikes! You try to ignore your crowning glory fading away or you rush to the store and buy hair dye or go to a hair salon.
1. Commercial hair dyes are hazardous to your health.
They all say so right on the label.
2. Your scalp absorbs all of those chemicals:
a. You get toxic!
b. You get nerve interruption and start shaking and get misdiagnosed.
3. Your dyed hair looks terrible.
All of the hair is one color.
4. The color of your dyed hair is not the color of the model's hair, in the picture, on the hair dye box.
5. Your dyed hair looks dyed!
I am a redhead. In the winter my hair darkens to almost auburn but with a lot of copper shades. Everyday in the summer I spend hours outside in the burning desert sun. Yes, I should wear a hat but..
My hair fades in summer then darkens back in the winter.
This summer I noticed some individual white hairs and several strands of gray hair mixed in with faded red colors.
Forget that! Not me!
Obviously no commercial hair dyes for me. Henna looks too much like commercial hair dyes, flat with no life.
I considered coffee but I like my red hair.
So I started researching hair needs. Zinc supplements kept coming up. I do not think highly of the safety, quality and expense of supplements in general and besides I was dealing mostly with sun fade.
As usually happens in research the answer magically appeared.
I opened a can of beets (beets, water, salt and sugar) for dinner.
Beets are high in assumable zinc.
Without pausing I poured the beet juice out of the can onto my hair. Instant curls!
I combed the hair and lightly wiped my face. The beet juice did not stain my face.
I let my hair dry. Combing it occasionally. The sugar felt like a light hair spray.
The colors were fantastic, not like beet juice color at all!
All over my hair was darker. Three times the first week I did this and then once every three weeks in the summer. None of the colors washed out, rubbed natural dyes off on the pillowcase or sun faded.
Perfect! It works on all of your body hair, for men and women!
Then I got my dander up. Sugar? Yuck! Sniff, sniff, snort, snort and so strutting off to the store I go to get me canned beets without sugar.
Disaster! Warning: Use canned beets with sugar!
There were strong fuchsia highlights and my skin stained, sort of. The color rubbed off on the pillowcase and, Thank You God!, washed out the next day.