I’m not sure why, but my hair has lightened a bit over the past couple of years. It’s still decidedly red, but I liked it darker (some strands are blood-red. I wish more were!) I’m not interested in anything as drastic as a permenent dye, so at the moment I’m looking for a good henna shampoo. Henna is supposed to be reddish-brown, isn’t it? So why are their products like Henna Gold that imply they give you golden highlights rather than red ones? I had a french henna shampoo, which was okay but really watery so I think that probably limited its effectiveness. Can anyone recommend one that they’ve had a decent experience with?
'Henna old shampoo at all? 
BTW–this joke bumps the thread-- this may get you an answer. 
Aveda has a Rose Madder conditioner that works pretty well at helping you keep a red color (I use it when mine is dyed red and starts to fade). It’s not very cheap, but it lasts, like, forever - I’ve had this bottle for seven years or so! I believe drugstore.com has it.
Here’s a thread from another message board I frequent that talks about different ways to accentuate and highlight red hair (copy and paste):
http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=23129&highlight=henna+glaze
It’s amazing what we’ll pour on our hair over there.
Yes, Aveda makes a nice Madder Root shampoo and conditioner. I haven’t used this one, but I’ve used the Clove shampoo and conditioner on my dark brown hair, and it brought some lovely warmth and tone.
Real henna will give you reddish orange to red, depending on the plant, harvesting and storage. Period. That’s what henna is. Reddish orange. Any other color - from “colorless conditioning” to “golden” to “black” ain’t henna. But there’s a lot of false claims and mislabeling out there.
www.hennaforhair.com is a fabulous website about henna. For hair.
I’ve tried Aveeda’s Madder Root shampoo & conditioner for my bottled red hair, and it left it feeling dry. Also, the Aveeda smell was very … noticiable. Alot of people seem to like it, but it wasn’t for me. As of late, I’ve been using Frederik Fekkai’s Rio Red Shampoo and its marvy. Apparently he has the products to use right now, so my best friend has been teasing me about being a fashionista or some such. I’m so out of the loop.
If you’d like elfkin477, (and I know this sounds weird, I hate throwing things away though) I still have some leftover Aveeda Madder Root shampoo & conditioner. Probably enough for one or two washings. I’d be happy to send it to you so you could try it before buying some, if you like.
Amaranta, the long hair community site is sooooo nifty! Thanks for sharing the link. 
Why do you want to shampoo a hyena?
Never mind—I misread the thread title.
I read it as, “Can anyone recommend a good hernia shampoo?”
Not henna, but I had some kind of shampoo that was dark red (I think it was Redken), and the dye tinted the hair. It didn’t show up on my dark drown hair, but I bleached a strip and washed my hair with the red shampoo, and the bleached strip turned pink.
Will henna cover gray hair? Once applied, does it fade out or will it grow out and leave roots showing? What about these tinted shampoos? I’m wondering if it’s possible to cover gray hairs without having to forever touch up roots, and I’ve heard mixed things about henna fading out v. having to grow out.
Henna will cover grey. The grey parts will be lighter than the not-grey parts if you have dark hair. If you have light hair and grey, you probably won’t notice much difference between the light parts and the grey parts. This is an example of henna on greying brown hair.
Henna spends three days or so being ORANGE (a somewhat shocking shade. Do not henna the day before your wedding!), then it mellows out. What color it ends up as depends on your hair color to start with, the quality of the henna, and any other things you add to the henna. For an idea of the ranges of color possible, click here.
My henna does not fade out completely. I do have roots as the hair grows. However, the roots are far less noticeable than when I used chemical dye. This is because henna does not change the underneath color of your hair - it doesn’t lighten it or darken it, it just reddens it. So the difference between my roots and my hennaed hair is not as noticeable as the roots and dyed hair. It’s hard to explain. But I’ve only hennaed three times in two years, as opposed to every month with dye. YMMV, of course.
One of the things I really love about henna is that it doesn’t fade out like dye does. If you’ve ever tried red dyes, you know how quickly they all fade to orangey pink. Henna doesn’t. The color will become somewhat duller after about two months, but it’s still definitely red.
My hair is very dark brunette and I’d like to cover up the incipient grays. There’s not a ton of them, and I wouldn’t mind if they were bright red amongst the browns, but I don’t want roots or touch-ups to be necessary, and I don’t want chemicals on my head because I have very sensitive skin. It’d be nice if I could dye only the gray hairs, leaving the rest of the hair unchanged in color Wasn’t sure if that was even possible, though henna sounds like it might be the ticket.
I’m going to try some of the $1 samples offered on the site you linked to, WhyNot. I really appreciate the info!