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Henna Princess (I Wish)

First, just let me say that I haven't been able to update my website for awhile. I can still blog, but something has screwed up with our computer and I need Computer Whiz DH to look into it... and of course, he's been busy. So someday I'll update... hopefully soon.

Today, DD and I got out our henna kit (my gift to us at Christmas) and we did all the prep to be able to draw nifty exotic designs on each other. Now, DD is very artistic and a great one at drawing and painting, but she complained from the beginning how the video we watched made it look so easy to get these fabulous designs on your skin... and the reality was that it was much more difficult than we thought to make a design look good at all. I liken it to trying to decorate a cake with a frosting tube-- it's gloppy and the lines are hard to control. We did manage to get something half-way decent on our arms and legs... and then we learned another lesson about henna: it is easy to smear it by accident afterwards, waiting for it to dry-- you pretty much need to be a princess and lie around being waited on for a few hours to get the henna to perfectly darken your skin. Sigh!

You are supposed to leave the henna on your skin for 6 hours. Fortunately it dries completely after about 2 hours, which doesn't work out so hot when you've decided to have your daughter henna-paint on your belly, or your upper chest. I had a clothespin clipping up my tank top so that I could let the henna dry.

DD was pretty discouraged by the process, but I am still wanting to play with the stuff and see if I can put designs in more convenient spots, and see how that works.

It's a lot less painful than a tattoo!

Posted by sapphire at June 18, 2004 12:39 AM