This is the best henna I’ve done to date! The design is from Darcy‘s book. The paste is the one I made the other night. The sealer was Maxx’s fabulous half-glue, half-lemon juice mix with some glitter thrown in, generously dabbed on with two Q-tips. I blowdried it, and it was so well-protected and flexible [...]
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Paste Consistency = O
After working with Darcy’s great mix all weekend, I finally had a pretty decent idea of what a good paste consistency is. I mixed some up last night, adding more and more and more lemon juice (but only a small bit of sugar and honey, and not too many essential oils), stirring the hell out [...]
The Apprentice
First of all, I’d like to share a design I did last week (sorry for the delay). It’s my first palm design! And whoa, do palms give crazy beautiful color or what? The design is from Darcy‘s book that I’ve been talking about so much lately. Which conveniently leads me to my next announcement… I’m [...]
Too thick of a paste
First of all, I realized I had the traditional sealant wrong in my Basic Mehndi Mix post, so I changed it. You dissolve 2 or more parts sugar to 1 part lemon so it’s nice and pasty. I just mixed up a jar myself… and then adulterated it with some unnecessary essential oils and ground [...]
Basic Mehndi Mix
A mixing guide for beginners, by a beginner. HENNA BREW Ingredients 15 grams (about 2 tablespoons) quality henna (order online from Mehandi.com or Henna Tribe suppliers) 1/2 to 1 teaspoon sugar, brown sugar, honey, or molasses 2 drops tea tree or cajeput essential oil 1 drop of any other essential oil that smells good (I [...]
Fingertips
The design on my wrist and finger are kind of awkward, but I love what I came up with for my fingertips. Unfortunately, it totally smeared and bled overnight (even though I didn’t use saran wrap, and even though I blowdried it before and after sealing it with glue — the price of an over-sugared [...]
Ankle & Moroccan
I don’t think I ever posted my ankle experiment. I did my ankle in an easy floral design from my old Earth Henna kit, taking an extra effort to use fine, crisp lines. To ensure that it dried properly, I utilized my handy-dandy blowdrier. I sealed it with watered-down glue, applied with one of those [...]
Henna Success!
So it didn’t go perfectly, but it went pretty well, in my opinion. I didn’t get my EOs in the mail, so I added ground cinammon and allspice to the mix so it would smell good. Nice combo! Completely took out the "moldy lemonade stand" motif. Some things I’m gonig to fix my next time [...]
Henna
This is my new thing: (image from the Henna Page) No, not moldy crack. It’s henna! Properly applied, it should look something like this: (image from the Henna Page) The first time I did henna on myself, last Christmas, it turned out like this: The stain was pretty dark, but the lines? Terribly chunky. And [...]