Henna

I have been creating henna body art for about 15 years and make my own henna paste from natural henna powder, lemon juice, cinnamon, cloves, eucalyptus oil, honey and tea. It not only looks good, it's therapeutic!

Henna body art can be used for any occasion - or just because you can! Weddings, birthdays, festivals...a most beautiful personal adornment.

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Henna (Lawsonia inermis, syn. L. alba) is a flowering plant - a tall shrub or small tree, 2–6 m high. It is native to tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, southern Asia, and northern Australasia in semi-arid zones. The leaves of the Henna plant produce a red-orange dye molecule, lawsone. This molecule has an affinity for bonding with protein, and thus has been used to dye skin, hair, fingernails, leather, silk and wool. There are no such plants as black henna or neutral henna: products sold as such may be indigo or cassia, and may contain unlisted dyes and chemicals. Substances marketed as "Black Henna" are not...and are not safe or legal.

Henna is commercially cultivated in western India, Pakistan, Iran, Yemen, Morocco and Sudan. Though henna has been used for body art and hair dye since the Bronze Age (more than 5000 years), henna is enjoying a new popularity in body art due to improvements in cultivation, processing, and the influx of people from traditional henna using regions. It's also non-toxic, temporary (up to 3 weeks), and pain-free! Henna art is virtually hypo-allergenic; less than 2 people in a hundred may be allergic to the ingredients (not the actual henna).

Traditional Wedding Henna

Berber (Moroccan) style Henna

The artist at work...notice that I also wear my own Henna!