Being able to see and experience color in life is a gift often overlooked. Color makes everything seem better and brighter. It’s naturally therapeutic and it can lift your spirits and feed your soul. Personally I think it’s an absolute blessing if your job involves working with color but not all of us are that lucky. So every now and then we try to make up for the ‘lack of colours’ in our lives by literally colouring it!
If you’re at a loss for how you can get involved with color – on a small manageable hobby-like scale then you’re in luck because I’ve got 2 things you can joyfully colour and none of them involves eggs for Easter.
In no particular order of effectiveness, the following can be coloured with natural food dye. If you are deligent and you’ve got lots of time you could make your own colours with natural ingrediance such as berries but I would stick to organic food tint/colouring for quicker results:
1. Hair…
Hair dye and food dye are both dye and while the latter will obviously only yield you temporary results, it’s much safer and certainly kinder on both your scalp and the environment. It’s a fantastic choice when you just want something different for the day and you can just shampoo it out if you don’t like the results. To tint your hair with natural food dye, just mix the color in the intensity you like into some conditioner and apply to your hair. Leave on for 20-90 minutes depending on your hair color and how deep you want the color to be. Then just rinse it out with cold water and there you have it instant tint. Alternatively you could add the dye to aloe gel and make colored streaks in your hair just as you would with the colored gel or mousse.
Note: Natural food tint tends to work better on lighter hair.
2. Flowers…
Yes I get that look on your face, flowers are already naturally with color why would you want to color them? Well these days flowers are coloured to achieve the unnatural – blue roses, black roses, green daisies…you name it they have it. But when I mention coloring flowers, it’s for a different reason. It’s for the art of flower pressing. Adding some color tint to your ‘subjects’ will ensure the color intensity stays after the pressing.
