Dye Your Hair with
Tea
Hair Coloring Tips
Longer Lasting Hair
Color with Tea Therapy
I imagine a number of you who have sought out hair coloring tips
using “organics,” may at one time or another come across the idea
of using tea or coffee as an alternative method for tinting your
hair? There are problems in taking this procedure on by yourself
however. First, you don’t have a clear recipe or
understanding of what you’ll end up with after all your efforts.
And, the notion of application of the procedures that you have
found, look messy! It’s probably why you don’t hear much of women
using this as an at-home, natural alternative to hair coloring . .
. possibly teens and tweens accepted. Well, at least I haven’t
tried it and don’t know anyone who has.”
BUT, the news of one high end salon in Uptown Manhattan
offering, “Tea Hair Therapy Treatments, caught my attention.
Tela Design Studio, in
Manhattan’s fashionable Meatpacking District, was written up in
February’s issue of American Salon. Owner, Philip Pelusi is a
renowned stylist, a 40+ year veteran in the hair industry, an
entrepreneur, educator, designer and avid art philanthropist and
photographer . . . a Renissance man! He currently employees over
350 people including his 13 company owned salons in Pittsburg.
Pelusi has also pioneered, with the help of herbalist and
chemists, the first line of specialty organic products that carry
the FDA seal of approval, as seen on QVC. I got in touch with
Philip and it was easy to hear his strong passion and love of
life. “There are no products out there that are 100% organic,
Pelusi said, but we have produced a 95% organic rating on two and a
70-80% rating on 9 of our 11 speciality products , so far.”
“The base of all our products is tea, he said, green tea, white tea
and oolong tea.”
The line is called, Tela Beauty Organics, and is found at
Barneys. Soon these products
will be offered at other upscale hair care product retailers across
the country. All items in the Tela line are paraben free and safe
for color treated hair and contain Pelusi’s Tela Organic Core
Blend, which is composed of 35 USDA and Oregon Tilth Certified
organic ingredients. All shampoos and conditioners sell for $50
each.
The “Tea Hair Therapy Treatments,” consist of teas mixed with
deep conditioners that are applied to the hair. “Brunettes can use
a combination of teas such as, black tea with elderberries,
blackberries and raspberries,” says Pelusi and “blondes use classic
chamomile tea to enhance their color.” The treatments can
also help to stretch the time between hair coloring services,
as they “enhance the depth of color in highlights and brighten the
shine and tonality of color-treated hair.”
As I said before, I don’t know much about using tea in the hair,
but I’m hopeful that we may be seeing more of these type of
treatments offered and learn more of what teas can achieve!
For those of you who have never seen some of the homemade
concoctions used for dying the hair with tea, hear are a
couple I found. . . I’m not recommending these, its just
FYI.
For red hair:
* 1 tablespoon beet juice
* 1 red hibiscus tea bag
* 1/3 cup of catnip, dried or fresh
For blonde hair:
* 2 chamomile tea bags
* 1/3 cup of catnip, dried or fresh
* 1 tablespoon lemon juice
To Get the gray out
Turn gray hair dark again without an expensive trip to the hair
care salon or the use of chemical hair dyes. Make your own natural
dye using brewed tea and herbs: Steep 3 tea bags in 1 cup boiling
water. Add 1 tablespoon each of rosemary and sage (either fresh or
dried) and let it stand overnight before straining. To use, shampoo
as usual, and then pour or spray the mixture on your hair, making
sure to saturate it thoroughly. Take care not to stain clothes.
Blot with a towel and do not rinse. It may take several treatments
to achieve desired results.
Condition dry hair
To give a natural shine to dry hair, use a quart (liter) of warm,
unsweetened tea (freshly brewed or instant) as a final rinse after
your regular shampoo.
Some receipes call for adding henna or vinegar and wrapping hair
in a towel (old towel that can handle tea/beet stains.) And don’t
forget to keep it off your skin, unsightly stains could be
embarrasing and a bit hard to explain!