NightBlooming Red Herbal Dyes Strand Tested on Medium Blonde Hair

The center strand is a control lock of medium blonde, the end of which is dipped in a blend of all the colors.  Color Swatches top to bottom: Enyo War Goddess Ruby Red, Kitsune Fox Fire Red, Fire Genasi Bright Copper, and Rusalki Strawberry Blonde

One of our lovely customers was so kind as to allow us to use her photos of her strand tests in exchange for some of her favorite herbal hair color.  We're excited to show these to you and hope it illuminates the possibilities with some of our beautiful hair colors.

You can see how these line up with our color charts, and although we always, always, A L W A Y S recommend strand testing on hair from your brush before committing to henna, should show you some of this in action!

Before we get to the pictures, here are each of the colors tested:

Rusalki Strawberry Blonde

10g Sample Packet

100g Full Size

Fire Genasi Copper 

10g Sample Packet

100g Full Size

Kitsune FoxFire 

10g Sample Pack

100g Full Pack

Enyo War Goddess Ruby Red

10g Sample Pack

100g Full Pack

Strand Tests on Medium Blonde Hair

Here you can see our color blends (bottom) compared to different types of 100% henna (top row), an uncolored control lock (center), and then our red blends (bottom).  Bottom row left to right: Rusalki Strawberry Blonde, Fire Genasi Copper, Kitsune FoxFire, and Enyo War Goddess.

With Flash. Left to right: Rusalki Strawberry Blonde, Fire Genasi Copper, Kitsune FoxFire, and Enyo War Goddess.

Indirect Sunlight 1. Left to right: Rusalki Strawberry Blonde, Fire Genasi Copper, Kitsune FoxFire, and Enyo War Goddess.

Indirect Sunlight 2. Left to right: Rusalki Strawberry Blonde, Fire Genasi Copper, Kitsune FoxFire, and Enyo War Goddess.

Indirect Sunlight 3: Rusalki Strawberry Blonde, Fire Genasi Copper, Kitsune FoxFire, and Enyo War Goddess.

Backlit by sunlight: Left to right: Enyo War Goddess, Kitsune FoxFire, Fire Genasi, Rusalki Strawberry Blonde.

Direct sunlight. Left to right: Rusalki Strawberry Blonde,  Fire Genasi Copper, Kitsune FoxFire, and Enyo War Goddess.

Direct sunlight. Left to right: Rusalki Strawberry Blonde,  Fire Genasi Copper, Kitsune FoxFire, and Enyo War Goddess

Control Vs Yemini Henna

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Another set of tests were comparing the medium blonde control and our 100% Pure Yemini Henna.  You can see the amazing dye saturation this gives with just one application!

Control (left) and Enyo War Goddess Ruby Red Hair Color (right) in direct sunlight

First Honey & Enyo Release

Update on Our Bees

The honey bees have settle in nicely and are going crazy producing both comb and honey.  It's facinating to watch them on the flowers in the yard and also drinking off the lillypads in our pond.

A honey bee on a flower in our garden

 

Bee on a stick!  They're very gentle.

 

Inside one of the hives.  That's honeycomb on top and drone comb near the bottom.

 

A bee in flight under our cherry trees, carrying pollen back to the apiary.

 

Our first bit of honey!

We checked on the bees and found they were building cross comb in one place (meaning not straight across on the top bars, making it something we wanted to discourage), so we had to cut the comb out.  There was a bit of honey in it and it's amazing.  Floral and sweet and probably the best honey I've ever had.  We won't be harvesting honey in bulk until spring, but it was nice to try a bit without taking away from the bees' main stores.

Releasing Enyo War Goddess Henna Hair Color

 

 

 

A long time coming, I was finally able to find time to make a good big batch of this to post!  You can check out the 10g samples and the 100g full sizes. 

 

 

 

In closing, the very talented Sinead Anja Hering laid claim to her poem Freya in our previous post!