Black tea is not only a drink everyone knows about, but also a good tool for coloring hair. It gives hair a variety of beautiful shades, paints gray hair, makes hair healthy. Depending on what shade you want to get, black tea is used as an independent means for coloring your hair, and in combination with other components.
Very many use such a common natural dye, like henna . This popular dye is usually diluted with water, and if you want a warm brown shade, henna should be diluted not with water, but with a decoction of tea.
With the help of black tea, you can give your hair a pleasant chestnut shade (dark or light). To do this, you need to use a very strong infusion of tea. A mixture of 2 tablespoons of tea (granulated) filled with 2 cups of boiling water (steep) boiled over low heat for about half an hour, filtered through a tea sieve. When it reaches a comfortable temperature, it is applied to clean, slightly dried hair, which after this procedure is covered with a pack and wrapped in a warm terry towel. To get a light chestnut shade, you need to walk with this package on your head for 20 minutes, and to get a dark saturated chestnut color - 40 minutes. Such a paint is good because it does not need to be washed off.
Fans of a copper shade of hair can get by using a mixture of tea and walnut leaves, which consists of the following proportions:
1-2 tablespoons of walnut leaves (dried),
2 tablespoons of black tea.
This dry mixture, filled with half a liter of boiling water, boiled for 20 minutes, allowed to stand for 15 minutes and applied to washed hair. If you want to get a bright copper shade, use a mixture that consists of tea and 200 g of onion peel , which must be boiled in half a liter of white wine. The resulting broth filter, apply warm to washed and slightly dried hair, cover it with a packet, wrap it with a towel. Soak the hair in this condition for 40 minutes, then rinse and dry with a towel.
If you have gray hair, you want to paint it, you can do it with the help of black tea. There is a simple and affordable way that will not only color, but also make your hair healthier. Mask , made from 2 tablespoons of black tea, filled with steep boiling water, insists half an hour. Then the filtered broth is applied to clean, dried hair, which after this procedure is covered with a plastic bag and wrapped with a towel. To get a light chestnut shade, you need to hold this solution on your hair for 15-20 minutes, and if you want to get a darker shade - 40 minutes.
Black tea is a universal remedy, it can color even dark hair. If you mix a decoction of chokeberry blackberry with an infusion of black tea, you will get a shade that does not disappoint you.