Light Mountain Henna Hair Color & Conditioner – Spicy Cinnamon Hair Dye for Men/Women, Henna Organic Leaf Powder and Botanicals, Chemical-Free Semi-Permanent Hair Color, 4 Oz

Natural is the way to go!
First of all, let’s get this out of the way. This is NOT a dye! If you’ve been dying your hair for years or even decades, don’t expect this to be anything like a chemical dye. Think of it more like a mud mask that stains your hair. This will not look like a dye, it will not go on like a dye and it will not rinse out like a dye. But that’s OK, it really is. The trade off is it doesn’t smell like chemicals, it doesn’t burn your skin and it doesn’t ruin everything it plops on the minute it lands! Plus it adds a little something extra to the color that I can’t quite define.I absolutely recommend doing the allergy and strand test. Only for the strand test I would recommend following the same curing step as for the actual application. Then go ahead and cake it on, like you will for your whole head application. When I did the strand test, I was disappointed. It didn’t look like it would do much for my hair. But for the full application, I let the henna cure for 1 hour as suggested in the instructions, then left it on my head for 1 hour, applying heat with a hair dryer as instructed. The result was fabulous! This gave my hair a shine and dimension not possible with chemical dyes.As I said in the beginning, you should be aware that this is not your traditional dye. It is gritty like a mud mask. (Actually its very much like what comes out of a babies hinnie, but I’m too much of a lady to say it!)This won’t apply like a traditional dye. My daughter (who’s 16) who applies my dye when I’m too busy or broke to visit my hair dresser, moaned and groaned for about the first five minutes then finally got the hang of it when she accepted it wasn’t going to go on like a traditional dye and changed her application method. I’m not sure I could have applied it myself. She spent about an hour just getting it on, then another ten or so minutes working it into my hair and making sure everything was covered. I don’t think I’ll be asking my regular beauty technician to take this on.All in all, the process took 3 to 3 1/2 hours. 1 hour to mix the henna and let it cure, 1 hour to apply , 1 hour to cure on my head (don’t forget to heat your head up with a blow dryer every 10 minutes or so!) and half and hour to rinse (Rinse once, put in conditioner, let that sit for 10 to 20 minutes, then rinse again.)So don’t think you can slap this stuff on in an afternoon. Make sure you give yourself plenty of time. I’d set aside half a day, especially if this is your first time.Oh, one more thing you should know. Since this is not a chemical dye, it will not erase roots! You know, that line of demarcation you get when your hair is dyed a completely different color than it was meant to be. I’m a dark brown with chemically altered red, so my dark brown roots pop up after about 2 weeks. Thiswon’t completely erase them like a chemical dye would. But it will blend them in.Also, if your a blonde or a lighter brown, I would urge caution! If this took so well on my hair, I would think it would take even more on lighter hair! You may want to pay close attention on that strand test and maybe not let it cure so much. Also, I noticed that this color (bright red) had a lot of orange in it, which my dark hair can take and in fact, I think its that orange that gives my hair that extra dimension I was talking about. However, my guess would be that on lighter hair, that orange my be more prevalent than anyone would desire. In fact I’m planning on stepping down to red instead of the bright red on my next purchase.Bottom line is, this is natural and worth the work! I plan on using this from now on. Besides, it appeals to my inner hippie!

The colour is deep and rich and is quite dark if left in the max time. My hair was also thicker and had a nice shine

I have used henna a long time. this one is easier to apply and wash out than the previous brands I have used. The color is the same as colora henna.

It started out very bright and faded to a regular henna colour, pretty much the exact same shade as Lush caca rouge colour gave me. It makes me wonder if they added some kind of dye… that would suck because the whole point of henna for me is that it’s natural. I like how easy it was to mix, unlike solid henna blocks. It did its job, but I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 because I read on some forum that Light Mountain Naturals is not guaranteed to be pure or regulated, and that’s kind of scary. I just want pure, plain old henna, no metallic salts etc. So it’s hard to know about that purity stuff, but either way it got the job done so thumbs up.