Alrighty! Now to post the follow-up.
I left the paste on all night and took it off in the morning. Here are the results:
As you can see, my pretty hand design was totally ruined because I
didn’t wait for it to dry before sealing it, and I fudged the hell out
of it! 
My foot looked pretty good though. Interesting thing about henna: Right
after you take off the paste, it’s bright orange. After you let it
oxidize for a day or two, it starts to look like this:
God, I love how my foot turned out. I’m starting to have this trend of
messing my hand up, though. I tried going over that big blotchy mess to
make it look nicer, but it’s just … awkward. Yuck.
And now you all know what a fabulous color my carpet is, too!
I
figured out how to describe the texture of this batch of henna. Slimy.
Even after letting my hand dry for four hours, it was still all goopy
and stuff. When I go to remove the paste, it isn’t a tidy little mess
of dried-up henna goobers. It’s a coating of slime that’s nearly
impossible to get off! Definately less sugar in the next batch — I’m
almost positive that’s the culprit.
Also, I’m thinking about
nixing the saran wrap for when I leave this stuff on overnight. If you
don’t put plenty of layers of an absobant material over your henna
before saran wrapping, you end up with a steamy little sauna and what
I’m starting to think of as henna bleed. At least, that’s my theory.
(Remember, I’m not very good at this yet!) Unless you’ve sealed the
henna really well with watered-down Elmers, or covered it pretty
thoroughly with a wickable material, I bet that the sweat and moisture
from the saran wrap sauna makes the henna flatten out, just like a bad
batch of cookies.
Either that, or I just wasn’t being as
delicate as I thought I was. It could also be the sliminess of the
henna that contributed to that.
Oh well — it’s not going to
keep me from doing my ankle tonight! I’m going to seal with that
watered-down Elmers I was talking about earlier. The back of the bottle
says "doesn’t run or drip; dries clear; safe, non-toxic; flexible when
dry." A Henna Tribe
person mentioned that it makes it nearly indestructable while on, and
easy to remove. Just peel up the ends of the glue and peel it off,
henna and all! (Though that may not work with the Slime Batch. We’ll
see. Hopefully it will, however, stop the henna bleed.)
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