I read that using coffee as a rinse gives a nice shine to redheads and brunettes. I’m a redhead by the way. When I was younger, my hair was the color of a new copper penny. Now, in my 30s, it has faded to a dull red-brown. So I had already decided to dye my hair brown because I think brown hair is very pretty. When I read that you could also use coffee as a dye, I thought, what the hell, I was going to dye it brown anyway.

But as I was reading about the coffee dye, I learned of the redhead dye too. So I decided to try to dye the hair at the crown of my head red. And then finish off with a honey/olive oil mask to try to get the frizz down.

Results: I am not a brunette. Matt thinks that my coffee wasn’t strong enough. Though my hair is darker, I am still quite noticeably a redhead. And the beet/carrot juice mixture did not make me an extreme redhead. Finally, the honey/olive oil mix left my hair very oily and the ends are still slightly frizzy.

However, I like the slightly darker color underneath and the slightly lighter color on top. And I know when I wash my hair tomorrow, it will be less oily and then I can better tell if my hair is less frizzy. Also, I liked the honey/olive oil treatment much better than the mayonnaise mainly due to the smell. The mayonnaise smelled gross and the honey smelled divine.

Tomorrow is the final hair experiment: wash with beer for extra body.