Last of the Eyes of Tamara Yemini Henna & New Filling Machine

Powder Filling Machine

The liquid filling machine made such a difference that I invested in a powder filling machine, too!  It weighs powder out of the hopper and then beeps. I hold the bag up to the chute and it dispenses the henna into the baggie.

There was a bit of a learning curve. I speak and read exactly 0 Chinese. But still, once everything was figured out it proved MUCH more efficient than the old "scoop, weigh, scoop, weigh, scoop, weigh" method I was doing with a spoon and a kitchen scale.

It enabled me to bag and label 5.5 kilos of our Eyes of Tamara Yemini henna in just over an hour and a half, which is twice as fast as the only way!

Eyes of Tamara- Not Much Left

This also lead to a realization that I'm running out of it. As of this post I have 55 100g bags and 43 10g sample packets.  That's it. I'm unable to import more because of the political situation in Yemen, so if you love this henna, you'll want to snap it up now.

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

100g Full Packs

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