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Our chemical free natural brown permanent hair dye is dermatologist recommended and comprises just two key ingredients – henna & indigo – that leave you with nourished healthy looking hair. Based on herbal hair science our method of application offers 100 percent professional level colour and effectively colours even 100 percent grey. It’s adored by natural beauty fans who enjoy the feel of fuller and thicker hair enriched with dark brunette hair colour. Our rich dark brown permanent hair colour combo is made with naturally organic plant leaves from the henna and indigo plants.
Henna is a plant that grows up to six metres high in hot, arid, dry, conditions. It’s botanical name is lawsonia inermis. It’s a beautiful small shrub that produces small oval shaped green leaves and small white flowers. It survives in the harshest desert earth conditions. The natural hair dye from henna comes only from its leaves. The leaves of the mature henna plant contain a red orange dye molecule called lawsone. These leaves are carefully harvested and then dried, crushed, powdered and finely sieved to produce a powerful hair dye powder. Our indigo dye comes from the indigofera tinctoria plant and it’s leaves undergo the same process in order to produce a natural permanent dark hair dye which colours hair natural brown and black when used after henna.
With henna and indigo you can get all shades of auburn hair colour, through to brown hair colour and black hair colour. This is a vegan and cruelty free hair dye containing 100% naturally derived ingredients. Any Ammonia & PDD free brown hair dye that gives rich and lasting hair colour is so hard to find – but here it is.
To predict henna hair colour you need to understand how henna works, what it does, and what it does with indigo.
The pictures below will help you to understand how henna works on different hair colours. But the only sure fire way to predict what henna hair colour you will get with henna and indigo is by doing a strand test. This is especially important if you have blonde or ash colour hair. You’ll see some strand test results in our Henna Hair Dye Reviews Gallery which you can get to from the menu link at the top of this page.
You’ll see that whilst henna is its own right a henna auburn hair dye, it’s not just about natural auburn hair colouring. Henna dye colours hair a different shade of auburn henna red depending on your starting colour. The lighter the hair colour base you’re starting with the more intense then henna auburn will be. The darker your starting colour, the more subtle your henna hair dye shade will be.
Henna & Indigo
Henna and indigo will always make your hair colour darker, not lighter. Your henna hair colour is determined by your starting colour. Henna will slightly deepen darker hair colours and will add mild red low lights to your hair.
On lighter hair colours your henna colour will be much more noticeable. You’ll get auburn hair colour on light brown hair and chestnut brown tones with red lowlights on darker brown hair.
Blonde hair will turn fiery red.
Grey hair will go orange red, and you’ll need to use indigo after the henna to tone it down to brown, through to black.
Indigo after henna will always get you to brown within 15 minutes to 30 minutes.
Indigo after henna will get you to black within 50 minutes to 1 hour.
We recommend our henna hair colour starter kit for your first time application,which comes with everything you need, including a very detailed Instructions Booklet to answer all of your questions and guide you through the first time application process.
If you’re a blonde hair colour and you’re looking for some fiery auburn red hair colour streaks, have a look at Carly’s friend photos in the Blonde Hair Colour Gallery photos where Carly has highlighted blonde hair with red highlight henna streaks.
With pure henna you will get translucent auburn henna hair colour colour that binds to your own hair colour. It’s slightly mysterious. And it’s extremely beautiful. It takes 48 hours for the colours to adjust to their final hair colour shade, determined by your body chemistry alone. Henna and indigo are first and foremost a beautiful philosophy because the fact that you’ve embraced them means that you’ve walked away from dangerous chemical hair dyes.
How to Predict Henna Hair Colour
To predict henna and indigo colour, follow the strand test instructions in the Renaissance Henna Hair Colour Kit. Cut a few strands of hair from the nape of your neck or ask your hairdresser to save some hair for testing. Whilst a strand test will give you a prediction of your henna hair colour it won’t give you the full picture which you will only get with a full hair application. It may be to do with body temperature, and the fact that henna is a “changing hair colour” which means that the colour oxidises during a period of approximately 48 hours. Henna hair colour adjusts differently and uniquely on real hair on real heads fired up by the warmth of beating hearts. You don’t get all that in a strand test. A henna hair application is a unique experience. Something that everyone on the planet should try at least once in their lifetime.
On darker hair shades like black and brown, you’ll get a subtle deeper hair colour tone which enhances your own natural hair colour and shimmers in the light. The natural henna hair dye gives colour which is natural to you, so the end result will always be unique to you.
On lighter hair colours like blonde and ash hair colour, the results will be more dramatic, but still beautifully natural. Just henna, used alone, will give you deep auburn hair colour on lighter starting colours .
The key notes of pure henna are: auburn, burnt red, and rust red hair colour tones. And you can tone down henna red to a brown or black hair colour with indigo.
Even if you’ve previously used hair dyes, you’ll still get beautifully blended hair colour which is totally unique to you. You’ll need to explore the Henna Hair Colour Gallery to grasp how it all works. Whether it’s funky hair colour or natural hair colour you’re after, you will get translucent colour that shimmers in the sun and reflects light. You may even come to think of henna and indigo as the best hair dye brand nature has to offer.
Have been using Renaissance Henna – Henna & Indigo – products for almost 10 years. Amazing product and service, with super quick delivery. I had two severe reactions to normal hair dye that required urgent medical treatment and was at a loss on how to colour my hair after. Renaissance Henna was recommended and after carefully doing patch tests found out this was safe for me to use. I know I can trust the company and that nothing extra is added to the products unlike some other Henna products sold elsewhere. I would definitely recommend you try the products from someone who dare not use anything else.
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Celia Bishop
Verified owner
I have been using henna and indigo from Renaissance Henna for over 15 years when I started developing an allergy to PPD. I live in the US and tried ordering henna elsewhere, but RH is the best. The quality is fantastic, customer service is quick and responsive, and tracking (very important for overseas) is excellent. Shout out to Sabrina for all the advice she’s given me over the years.
I have been using henna and indigo over 10yrs. I developed hair dye sensitivity PPD and was recommended your site .It covers my greys perfectly ,love it and will continue to buy!
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sharonsonny
Verified owner
This product has been a life saver for my mum. She developed a hair dye allergy years ago, was mild at first but started getting worse with blistering. She was so upset at having grey hair that she used to make me dye her hair with a toothbrush, using a ‘low PPD no ammonia dye’ without touching her scalp. This took ages but I didn’t mind as it made her happy. But eventually she started getting rashes even with this technique. Made her go to Dermatologist at a Guys Hospital who confirmed with patch testing she was allergic, and luckily recommended this product to try.
It’s been amazing!!! She wants black hair but she also looks good with copper/red hair, the indigo and henna gives her tones of all three which adds some interest rather than just jet black like her usual hair dye. The grey hairs turn out brown but if you dye it regularly it gets darker each time. Yes it’s messy to apply but at least we can slap it on without the worry of causing harm.
Don’t know what we’d do without it
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DS
Verified owner
Iv been using their Henna for over eight years now after i suffered a bad reaction to my hair dye . I was so upset at the time thinking i would now have to go grey when i discovered Renaissance . I now have beautiful coloured hair which is just the right colour and using henna also gives a natural condition unlike my old hair colour . They also have a great customer service , nothing is to much trouble , their advice has been so important in getting the right results !! can’t recommend them enough .
Thank you for bring my hair back to life x
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Have been using Renaissance Henna – Henna & Indigo – products for almost 10 years. Amazing product and service, with super quick delivery. I had two severe reactions to normal hair dye that required urgent medical treatment and was at a loss on how to colour my hair after. Renaissance Henna was recommended and after carefully doing patch tests found out this was safe for me to use. I know I can trust the company and that nothing extra is added to the products unlike some other Henna products sold elsewhere. I would definitely recommend you try the products from someone who dare not use anything else.
I have been using henna and indigo from Renaissance Henna for over 15 years when I started developing an allergy to PPD. I live in the US and tried ordering henna elsewhere, but RH is the best. The quality is fantastic, customer service is quick and responsive, and tracking (very important for overseas) is excellent. Shout out to Sabrina for all the advice she’s given me over the years.
I have been using henna and indigo over 10yrs. I developed hair dye sensitivity PPD and was recommended your site .It covers my greys perfectly ,love it and will continue to buy!
This product has been a life saver for my mum. She developed a hair dye allergy years ago, was mild at first but started getting worse with blistering. She was so upset at having grey hair that she used to make me dye her hair with a toothbrush, using a ‘low PPD no ammonia dye’ without touching her scalp. This took ages but I didn’t mind as it made her happy. But eventually she started getting rashes even with this technique. Made her go to Dermatologist at a Guys Hospital who confirmed with patch testing she was allergic, and luckily recommended this product to try.
It’s been amazing!!! She wants black hair but she also looks good with copper/red hair, the indigo and henna gives her tones of all three which adds some interest rather than just jet black like her usual hair dye. The grey hairs turn out brown but if you dye it regularly it gets darker each time. Yes it’s messy to apply but at least we can slap it on without the worry of causing harm.
Don’t know what we’d do without it
Iv been using their Henna for over eight years now after i suffered a bad reaction to my hair dye . I was so upset at the time thinking i would now have to go grey when i discovered Renaissance . I now have beautiful coloured hair which is just the right colour and using henna also gives a natural condition unlike my old hair colour . They also have a great customer service , nothing is to much trouble , their advice has been so important in getting the right results !! can’t recommend them enough .
Thank you for bring my hair back to life x