Coffee hair rinse...

Has anyone tried this to darken/ add shine to hair? If so please share how you did it and what results you got.
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3c/4a
I made it! Tailbone length stretched, WL curly
Teri Laflesh's book "Curly Like Me" sits on my desk and everytime I get frustrated and an impulse tells me to shave my head, I look at it in hopes that one day my hair will graze the top of my butt.


I made it! Tailbone length stretched, WL curly
Teri Laflesh's book "Curly Like Me" sits on my desk and everytime I get frustrated and an impulse tells me to shave my head, I look at it in hopes that one day my hair will graze the top of my butt.


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I wet my hair in the shower, usually low-pooing, and when I get out of the shower, rub the mixture on sections of hair, then twisting those sections. I then pile up all my hair onto my head usually wrapping in a shower cap, then pulling a head scarf on it. I wear it over night and rinse it out.
I made it! Tailbone length stretched, WL curly
Teri Laflesh's book "Curly Like Me" sits on my desk and everytime I get frustrated and an impulse tells me to shave my head, I look at it in hopes that one day my hair will graze the top of my butt.
On this, I went from a Hot Toffee to a Melted Chocolate. I'm sure if I'd continued I'd gotten something darker. After the week, it held up with a once a week DT, usually on Saturday night. But I've gone as far as two weeks without loosing the stain.
Also, I heard brewing sage leaves and using that as a rinse makes a dark brown dye.
Soon, I'm going rinsing my hair dark brown again, and see if I can give myself red highlights with red chai tea DT, which I've used to bring out my red tones.
I just wanted to reiterate that this cinnamom tea mixture is to lighten hair, not darken it. If you want to darken your hair with tea you should avoid adding the cinnamon as cinnamon is a known hair lightener.
Coffee with lightly stain the hair a dark brown and also add shine because it is acidic. The richer you brew the coffee, the deeper the stain.
If you are going to add cocoa powder o your mixture avoid hersheys as it has been neutralized with added alkalis. This can damage your hair.
3a/b, very dry, fine/med-coarse, high porosity
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I made it! Tailbone length stretched, WL curly
Teri Laflesh's book "Curly Like Me" sits on my desk and everytime I get frustrated and an impulse tells me to shave my head, I look at it in hopes that one day my hair will graze the top of my butt.
Good to know Thanks!
I made it! Tailbone length stretched, WL curly
Teri Laflesh's book "Curly Like Me" sits on my desk and everytime I get frustrated and an impulse tells me to shave my head, I look at it in hopes that one day my hair will graze the top of my butt.
I have naturally golden blonde hair, but have been dying it a dark espresso brown for about a year. I want to return to more my natural colour, but really don't want to spend huge $$$ by getting gradual highlights in a salon every couple months. (plus my hair is already processed and dry enough!! I want to go natural CG!)
I made it! Tailbone length stretched, WL curly
Teri Laflesh's book "Curly Like Me" sits on my desk and everytime I get frustrated and an impulse tells me to shave my head, I look at it in hopes that one day my hair will graze the top of my butt.
The down side? I'm on my third day with it and my hair STILL smells like coffee!Gross! It was also slightly nauseating to work with, it reminded me of puke
Oh well, I can look past it! I will definately be using again!
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1/2 cup triple strength black coffee(cold liquid)
3 tbsp non-alkanized cocoa powder
1/2 cup leave in conditioner
mix and pack on after doing Spritz&Condish: leave overnight under a shower cap....rinse
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I discovered a thing of cocoa powder in my pantry the other day and thought about this thread....
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Mix recipe is 1.5 tablespoons and 3 black tea bags.
I can't really see a difference in color but it does appear to have more sheen. I thought I strained all the dregs out but to my surprise some go away and it took awhile to rinse out.
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Toay my hair seems oily... contimplating some grinds in conditioner. Thinking the thickerness (ha) of the conditioner might help it Stick.
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