Henna Art, Articles & Experimentation by Elaine
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 going [...]
You’ve been in the office too long when you realize your henna stains from the night before have deepened to the color of a redweld.
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 [...]
Kenzi from Henna Tribe had a great idea, and it looks like Carly and I are going to make it happen: The first (that we know of), slightly racy henna calendar, with gorgeous photos of full-body henna designs and info on the artists and the art! (Provocative shots of males and females are okay — [...]
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 like geranium)
Lemon juice
Dissolve your sugar into [...]
Wow! It turned out pretty good. The skin color is no better/worse than filling in my eyebrows with powdered makeup, and it matches my hair color better than the brown eyeshadow I usually use anyway, even during the orange stage. I can’t tell for the life of me if it actually stained the hairs red. [...]
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 mix). [...]
I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll be glad to make an exception. -Groucho Marx
Okay, I’m going into very unknown territory here. My eyebrows were so not-red as compared to my newly-henna’d hair that, well, I henna’s my eyebrows.
This is with the paste on, obviously.
My logic went something like this:
I’m bored.
My [...]
As cool as my henna highlights were, I decided to go all-out anyway. I wanted to see how the henna conditioned it, and I was feeling the need to be a little extreme (angst from overwork). So, I mixed together my recipe of henna, chamomile, yogurt, and lavendar, slathered it through my hair, wrapped it [...]
Okay, I have to give my man serious props, here. Impatient for henna glory, I decided to henna the rest of my hair tonight, even though that means the four-hour mark for washing the stuff out will be at around 2 a.m. There are a lot of comments one can make about smearing a bunch [...]