 I just noticed my little friends sitting on the windowsill just there. Hey guys, today we're going to go on a journey together. A journey of dyeing my hair red. If you guys have been following me for a while now, you will have seen me try out different natural hair dyes in the past. I've tried dyeing my hair blonde, I've tried getting natural hair lights, I've even gone purple slightly. So today I wanted to try out and see if I could go red. I'm someone who likes to go the natural option, I tend to go for the natural alternative rather than the chemical one. So I know there is an easy way to get your hair red through chemical dyes and things like that. But I wanted to try and find a natural alternative to dyeing my hair red. And the benefit of using this dye that I'll be sharing with you today is that it is more permanent than say using chin rick which I use to dye my hair blonde or the beet juice which I use to dye my hair purple. This one actually stains the hair and lasts for way longer. It doesn't fade and it doesn't bleach out when you wash it. So say you've dyed your hair red in the past using chemical dyes and you find that it starts to fade over time. This doesn't happen with this natural dye. This one actually stains the hair and it doesn't fade which is just like. So I've been looking for a while on ways to dye my hair different colors and Hannah was one of the early discoveries that I came across. So Hannah is basically just ground-up leaves so it's completely natural and Hannah in its natural form without anything else added to it can actually stain your hair red. Hannah comes from the plant Losonius Inimus. I think I pronounced that right. Losonius Inimus, I think I butchered that though, probably not how you say it all. I bet you get the gist. It's actually been used for thousands of years for body art and to actually color your hair. So it was used back in the day before they had all these chemical dyes and things. The only thing is Hannah is not able to lift your hair color so it will not be able to bleach it so if you're trying to get blonde, Hannah's not the way to go. It can only deposit color on your hair so it just stains it. So for instance you can't be super super dark brown or black and then dye your hair with Hannah and be strawberry blonde, that's just not how it works unfortunately. So it can only stain your hair like I said before so it just deposits color but because of that, she just turned the head on, oh my God, what are you doing? Where was I? I lost my train of thought. Oh yeah, so Hannah can only deposit color so it can only stain your hair but because of that it is a healthy way to dye your hair because it doesn't involve using harsh chemicals. There are a few different types of Hannah coloring kits that you can get, some make your hair purple, some red, some even black so just depending on what type of hair coloring kit you get will depend on the hair color dye that you end up with. Anyway, I've never dyed my hair with Hannah before so we are going to be learning together on this journey. So, let's get started. So the hair that I'll be using today is from Light Mountain Natural. It's in the color red and it's easy to identify just because it has the fox on the front. I personally got my Hannah from iHerb online but you can find it on Amazon. I think it does come in a three pack. I think I paid $8 for it but apparently there's ones going for $15 for the three pack on Amazon so you may find a better price there. This particular brand of Hannah is linked in the description below for you guys if you want to check it out. But no matter what type of brand or what type of pack of Hannah that you get you just want to make sure that it only has one ingredient in it and that is just pure Hannah. This type of brand only had Lusonia Inomis in it which is just the pure Hannah leaf powder and that's what you want when you're looking to dye your hair with Hannah. Light Mountain Natural actually do a number of different blends with Hannah so you may notice different ingredients under the ingredient label that's not just Hannah, they have other ingredients in there but these are just natural ingredients that you can find in nature that have been used for thousands of years to dye clothing, hair and skin so they're completely fine to use on your hair. Now just make sure for whatever type of Hannah you're using just to read the instructions and make sure you're doing the process right. Now I started off by actually pouring my Hannah into a smaller dye mixing dish but I realised it was too small so then I tipped it into a bigger sized bowl so you may find this as well so just make sure you have a big enough bowl to hold the Hannah. Then I combined it with some paprika to give it a more burgundy hue later on because I read that paprika can help bring out the red in Hannah a little bit more and then I also used water to mix it together but I added in the water quite slowly just a little bit at a time to mix it together to create like a pancake type batter was the consistency that I was going for. Once all the ingredients were mixed together I poured it back into my smaller dye dish because I didn't want it to stain my bigger bowl then I covered it with some cling wrap to help keep the moisture inside because I didn't want it to dry out because in order for Hannah to work you kind of need to leave it to cure for a few hours so I left mine to sit for around four hours four to eight hours or so. After the Hannah had set for a few hours I then when I got some hair from my hair brush and just brought it down with me to do a bit of a test run on a little bit of hair before I child it on my own hair then I just wrapped it up in some foil and left it for a few hours or so just to let it sit and to see what color my hair would turn with the Hannah. I then let my hair sit in the cling wrap for around four hours then I've rinsed it out under the sink until the water ran clear dried it with a paper towel and then I could see what color my hair was and I was quite happy with the result afterwards so I was quite happy to go ahead and test it out on my own hair. As a way to reduce waste I actually rinsed out all the cling wrap that I used and cleaned it off so that I could then dried out and recycle it in our soft plastics recycling. I covered our bathroom sink and our bathroom floor with towels just to prevent any Hannah going anywhere because it would stain and then once it was covered and ready to go I then had a quick shower as you saw just rinsed my hair because this brand of Hannah recommended you applying the Hannah on clean damp towel dried hair so I'd already washed my hair the night before so I just quickly rinsed it under the shower to kind of dampen it then dried it quickly and brushed it out and it was ready to go. Then I sectioned off my hair and applied lotion onto my forehead or around my hairline on my ears and the back of my neck just to prevent any Hannah from staining my skin. I then started with the hardest part of my hair which was my roots I find that's really tricky to get so I sectioned off my hair and started painting just a few inches down from my hairline on my hair on where the roots were and I found this was much easier than going straight to dying my whole head and you having go everywhere I found working up from the roots and then going down was much easier and I did this all over my hair. Once I'd finished applying it to the roots of my hair I then used my hands to apply the rest of the Hannah through the tips and the ends of my hair it was just much quicker this way rather than using the tiny little brush that I had before and I found it worked just as well and it was just as easy to do it this way and I just used my hands to massage it in all over my hair to ensure that all my hair was covered with the Hannah. I then tied my hair on top of my head and put a shower cap over the top then use some cling wrap to ensure that my all my hair was covered. Once it was finished as you can see very sexy and then I just left it on for the day pretty much. Alright do you remember all the last night when I took it off I was like oh my gosh I see right in there and then I woke up this morning I was like I started dyeing my hair at 11 30 a.m. yesterday that's when I finished everything. Side note my sisters were like to me it looks like you just put your head in like sewage because it was all muddy and it was just coming down my neck. It reminded me of the scene from pacifier when he comes out from the sewage like I was like oh thank goodness I'm not going out today. Hence I have some on my skin right now so I didn't quite get all the lotion on there so it did start staining my skin a little bit. So I started my hair dyeing at 11 30 a.m. yesterday morning and I didn't wash it out until about 9 30 at night so it was about 10 hours. I wanted to make sure I had it in there as long as possible especially because they recommended living in there for 8 hours or more of your dark hair and I had dark hair so I was like I'll leave it in for a while just to ensure the color stains my hair. Honestly I'm living the dream right now I've always wanted to be like the little mermaid with red hair and I just feel like I'm living my dream now. Anyway it did get really uncomfortable by the end having that sitting on my head I started to get a headache just from having my hair like being weighed down by all this like thick mud henna dye in my hair it was like weighing on my head so I did start to get a headache towards the end but once I washed it out it was fine and when I did wash it out I didn't use shampoo I didn't use conditioner I only used warm water and I just simply rinsed my hair until the water ran clear so I didn't wash it with anything any soaps or shampoos or conditioner just with water. It has left like a muddy henna smell to my hair even since yesterday it's still there it was really there when I had it in my hair but it can still smell the remaining sort of mud henna scent in my hair so I think that will fade when I can wash it I'm not gonna wash it for a few days now only because apparently the real color of henna starts to shine through after a couple of days and it kind of sets in your hair a bit more so we'll probably won't wash it for a few days now. So the skin staining will fade after a few days so I'm not too fast about that I'm just gonna walk around with this big henna tattoo almost on my face for a while so it's about 8 30 a.m. in morning at the moment so it's been about 10 hours since I washed it out and this is the color that's come through but we'll check in again in a few days time just to see how the color develops and see what it looks like then. I'm just really pleased that it actually did show through on my dark brown hair sometimes the color isn't as strong so and this is only once like through with dyeing my hair I haven't had to do it twice or anything so I'm really just so happy with how the colors turned out. Okay so this is three days after dyeing my hair you can see my roots a bit oily because I haven't washed my hair with shampoo since dyeing my hair. I've had showers I just haven't been using shampoo so I've washed my hair with warm water and just a bit of like apple cider vinegar is like a conditioner sort of shine giver sort of thing so it hasn't actually been washed with any soap so hence the oiliness of my hair today so I'm really looking forward to showering tonight so I'll wash my hair tonight and I'll give you guys another update after I wash my hair to see how it goes. I haven't washed my hair since like for the three days because I want to make sure that the color set in and like stain my hair really well so that nothing like washed out or anything lot less like kind of prominent where the stain was on my skin before this one's still there and still inside my face so I think this will take a bit longer to fade. I just had this big like tattoo and yes I'm really happy with it it's really settled in if you want to make it more orange and more like kind of golden-y orange type of color there's a few things you can try I will share in the description below the like things you can do I think it's adding tea and lemon to the mixture because that lowers the pH of it and makes it more kind of orange red so if you want to try that out you can but I wanted mine to be more burgundy red so that's why I added paprika and it's really come along I really love it I've got so many compliments from people like thank you so nice so I'm really happy I was just really really happy with how it's come out in case you didn't get that yet I'm really really happy so yeah check with you guys tomorrow once I've washed it and we'll see how the color looks after that I'm hoping maybe the the henna dye on my skin might fade a bit more with shampoo but we'll see and here you can't notice it too much and when I tie it up in a bun it just looks really lovely I'll give you guys a little preview a messy really really oily haired bun and it just you can see a lot of the understones of the red in my hair it just looks really really lovely oh yeah I'll see you guys tomorrow so this is one day after washing my hair so this is probably the final update I'll share with you guys just after I've finished shampooing it so I actually shampooed it now so my hair is now clean my scalp isn't all oily and it's not as orange as it was before and this henna tattoo has faded a lot as well since I washed it and my hair no longer smells really like muddy and hennery like for a while I didn't expect that when I did my hair with henna that it would stink like one of the girls I followed pitted her hair with henna so it's not like a barn and that's probably the most accurate description for it but since washing my hair it's helped get rid of the snow it's still faintly there so I think after a few more washes it will help get rid of it completely I didn't notice much bleeding from the hair when I washed it yesterday so that was a really huge thing I thought oh it might wash out so I was really hesitant about washing it but it stayed in really well and this is the final results I think it's pretty permanent I'm not sure if it fades over time probably because I've done here it won't show through as off as well as if you had lighter hair for longer or for as long so I'm expecting it to probably fade over time but it's more permanent than the other dyes I've been trying which I'm really happy about so it just looks fantastic and in the sun see if I get a little bit of light here in the sun especially it shows Sue a lot more red I guess it looks so good so when I'm in the sun I'm always like just anyway that is pretty much my full update of dyeing my hair with henna I will be trying other natural dyes again in the future so if you do like these videos just stick around because I will share a few more natural ingredients to dye your hair with I'm still on the hunt for a cool like bright blue hair dye a bit like Katy Perry style so I'm still on the hunt for that so I will share when I do find out eventually you might have to somehow lighten my hair naturally doing like apple cider vinegar or lemon to like really kind of lighten it and then put in blue because it's just a bit dark at the moment today's huge ginormous incredible just huge shout out goes to Zaneb thank you so much for leaving a lovely comment on my apple cider vinegar hair lightening video right lightened my hair with apple cider vinegar thank you so much for the suggestion you're the one who put me on to that video so thank you so much thank you for watching and for leaving such a lovely comment please guys share your awesome ideas and things that you've tried yourself that I work for you on how to lighten and dye hair naturally I'm always so interested in hearing what works for other people or even just recipes or gardening ideas tips tricks and things like that do share with me in the comments below I love reading them and hearing what you guys are up to it just makes my day and it's just nice to have that community going via thank you so much for commenting leaving such lovely comments on my videos it really means so much to me so I'm so grateful and please keep going because I just love reading all your comments and I hope you guys enjoyed today's video fingers crossed and I hope to see you guys hopefully in my future videos bye