Hi, I'm Perry, and you're listening to the Beauty Brains.

Hello and welcome to... Hello and welcome to the Beauty Brains, a show where real cosmetic

chemists answer your beauty product questions and give you an

insiders look at the cosmetic industry. This is episode 258. I'm your

host Perry Romanowski and today is a solo show. Valerie had said she was kind of busy at work and so she asked me to do a solo show today.

And so what I like to do with solo shows is I like to answer as many questions as I can and in fact we had a

whole bunch of questions that have been sent in over the past year that we just

for some reason haven't gotten to and

today I'm going to be answering those questions so if you sent in a question

via the the form that we have on the show notes, then this is your chance to hear the answer.

So let's get right to it.

Beauty questions.

First question comes to us from Tamara. Tamara says,

Cosmetologists keep telling me henna will make my hair unhealthy or break off.

I mix Henna powder and apply to my roots every month to make gray become natural or orange-red

highlights.

I never use the colored Hna. I think it makes my

hair stronger and shiny should I stop using henna. Well Valerie actually did a

deep dive on coloring your hair with Henna way back in episode 189.

Now I'm going to suggest that you go back and listen to that episode, but basically,

Henna can be safely used to color hair. But there are a number of negatives mostly that it locks you

mostly that it locks you into using only henna as yourant because you don't want to use other

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