Darcy of the Henna Lounge hosted a wonderful weekend of henna, Indian food, craftmaking and crude jokes! See more photos here and here.
Posts under ‘Mehndi’
Now Serving Reno/Tahoe
After several months hiatus from the internet, I’m back with the news that I’ve moved home from San Francisco to Reno! The main Web site is also up with basic pricing info, contact info, etc. Here’s a bit of what I’ve been doing lately, with promises of more to come!
Glitter!
Summer festivals and some leaky glitter poofers have reintroduced me to the joy of sparkles! I like having glitter poofers for festivals because it breaks up the monotony of eight hours of squirting green goop on people. It gives me a reason not to hate my less favorite festival designs (because who can dislike glitter?). [...]
Paste consistency, and pretty cones
I’m experimenting with different henna recipes to get a consistently good consistency for doing designs — not so dry that it immediately cracks, not so sugary that the design flattens out and bleeds like a bad batch of cookies, not so thin that it just dribbles down the skin. Last night I mixed the following [...]
Challenging the norm
A lot of interesting things have been going on in my blogging absence! Here’s an attempt to keep you guys up to speed. The UK-based henna artist Cat Hinton, who has a background in biology, is running a series of henna experiments that challenge the Western notion that lemon is the ideal liquid for henna [...]
Happy New Year!
Things have been quiet lately here — I haven’t done much henna since Thanksgiving. Today things were extremely slow at work because all of our clients skipped out early for the three-day weekend, so we had nothing to do. I had a couple old cones and lemons in the fridge there, and some design ebooks [...]
Thanksgiving henna
Wow, have I been busy lately! However, on Thanksgiving I made it a point to meet up with a good friend and henna the hell out of her. Thank you Rebecca for being such a willing canvas, and for sending me your after-pics: She reports that the stain got even darker the next day. It’s [...]
Left-handed compliments
Check it out!! I can henna ambidexterously! I can also take photos without using my hands. Freaky, huh? I also think it’s freaky how weird and elephant-wrinkly my hands look at that angle. Design from Amira‘s Indo-Arabic Bridal book (which is quite nearly brand-new).
Re: Henna and Holidays
Note: Comments on this entry have been disabled due to spam posts. Thanks to Khadija for clarifying some misunderstandings I had about Eid Al Fitr! The post has since been fixed. And she also told me about another big holiday coming up around December 31st (depending on the phase of the moon, as the Islamic [...]
Henna & Holidays
Here’s one of three designs my arms are currently covered with, inspired by some ebooks I got from Amira over at Henna Spirit. This one is actually two I took out of her African designs book and adapted for my hand (one was originally for a foot). I’ll have photos of the other two tomorrow, [...]