Къна и билки за хубост - Customized decision

I have, only I didn't really know it was henna until I started reading about others having problems. At first my hair was great - I was doing henna glosses and absolutely loving the color, but all of a sudden I started noticing that my hair started breaking off for some reason.

I was doing everything I could think of to keep my hair moisturized, but I just kept seeing these little broken bits of hair every time of would run my fingers or a comb thru my hair.

My hair is naturally coarse so as I henna'd, my hair started to feel coarser and drier and drier - almost like plastic. Even clarifying, getting a water filter ( for hard water), oiling with various oils - nothing seemed to help. I asked around, but every one I spoke to seemed to have such good results with henna that I never would have thought henna could be my problem.

If someone hennas with good results, that's wonderful, and I would be the first to congratulate them. But just because their hair is spectacular with henna does not mean every one else's hair will be spectacular with henna. I think everyone knows that we all have different hair and one size does not fit all.
 
Ok, so after my breakage got so out of hand that I just couldn't do anything else with it. I decided to cut it all off. I mean down to 2" from my scalp. I was miserable with short hair, but I felt it was the only way to get back on track - nothing would stop the breakage.

So what makes me think it was henna? Well, as I said I cut my hair down to 2" and have had regular trims, no hair dye, no perms, nothing as I'm regrowing it. Because everyone else kept saying it just couldn't be henna, I decided to try a full head henna gloss again. Initially, my hair felt and looked great - just like before - so I did it again a few more times. To my horror, I have just recently started noticing those darn short broken hairs again:mad:. The only thing I have used on my hair is the henna, so I truly believe in my heart that henna is what caused my breakage problem before and if I don't knock it off and get it under control, I just might be in the same boat again :shudder:.
 
Now, before anyone says anything about genetics, as a child my hair was at my tailbone, and at the time before my previous breakage had gotten so completely out of control my hair was at my waist - full hemline. Then the breakage started, and it literally looked as if some mischievous little sprite crept into my room every night for months and secretly snipped little bits, pieces and chunks of my hair away:confused:.
 
For me it seems like there is a magic number or something. My hair takes henna just fine until I hit that "magic number" of times using it and then it was just too much for my hair.
  OP, I often feel like some people really take it very personal when someone says they have had a problem with henna. I wonder why that is? If someone's hair reacts badly to a shampoo that everyone else raves about, most people just shrug and pass it off as "everyone else's hair is different". But there's something different about someone claiming to have had a bad experience with henna. This is why when I inquired a couple years back (different forum) if anyone else had issues with henna, and the unanimous and in some cases indignant response was "NO!!". I assumed it just couldn't be henna and didn't bother asking any more:shrug:.
 
I guess the invaluable lesson I learned was/is know thyself,LOL.

По въпроса на Kalina. се замислих за онова, което dragon8 казваше за кокосовото масло и как не прониква в косата, ако има филм около нея. Сега не ми се търси поста, но си спомням, че тя спомена, че и къната "филмосва" косъма. Навежда ме на мисълта, че от много къносване може да се получи доста стабилен филм около косъма и така много трудно да навлизат в сърцевината на косъма всякакви овлажняващи продукти. Не претендирам за верни разсъждения, май само си чеша клавиатурата. 

Иначе засега май решението е само здраво подстригване  .

Аз се подстригах преди 2 дена, свалих 20 см коса, сега останалото изглежда много живо и плътно (от коса до кръста, буквално, влизаше ми в дънките с ниска талия  ). И обема стана повече, преди явно косата тежеше. А след едномесечно мацане с кокосово масло (не се къносвам) има такъв прекрасен блясък, че не мога да й се нагледам    .