Afghan Henna Beard
Its basically cos they dont want grey beards.
Afghan henna beard. No more chemical reactions burning or itching before during or after use. It gives the hair fingernails and skin a reddish tint depending on how much you use. Whilst watching i noticed a traditional looking afghan with a vivid red beard that was almost certainly dyed.
And they dont have access to coloured dyes such as brown black. By some google trickery my post pops up near the top for searches for red beard afghanistan. This aroused my curiosity so i did a simple search came across this page first.
Here are the henna d hands of a male afghan soldier as he stands at attention. Strangely enough there was also an incident concerning the death of a local farmers cow though it seems the troops got to enjoy the meat in that case. Women use it on their hair cos they dont want grey hair.
Henna hair dye is different than box dyes henna is a plant based hair dye and does not contain color developers that can instantly color your hair give you the exact desired color preparation and wait times are longer with henna but since these are plant based colors they are safer to use. Muslim men aren t allowed to dye their hair unless they use henna ie henna is the only thing they can use to dye it. Henna here in afghanistan the people have the custom of putting henna in their hair in their beards on their finger nails on the palms of their hands all in the name of beauty.
Also its good for hair it. One post titled red beard still gets lots of hits especially after the movie restrepo shows somewhere on tv. Some within the salafist camp take things an extra step and dye their beards with henna producing a range of colours from maroon to bright pumpkin orange.
10 in the gallery above it is not solely the subject s orange beard that one may notice but also how the tea in the cup he is holding is almost the same color as the beard. Secondly pashtun men have been using henna on their hair and beards for centuries and do so to emulate the prophet muhammed who also used henna.