(Image courtesy Jan Hetfleisch via Getty Images.) The winners of this year’s World Bodypainting Festival are in, and you won’t want to miss these photos posted on Huffpost of the amazing work by some of this year’s artists, performers, and contributors, who came from 54 countries to participate in the festival. It took place in Carinthia, …
At their most basic level, jagua and henna are inks. For some reason, the subject keeps coming up in conversations with unlikely people, so these exchanges have served to remind me of a section in my book, Jagua: A Journey into Body Art from the Amazon, which speaks to ink having stemmed from a desire …
Aloha from Maui! I’m on vacation with my husband Pascal in tiny, historic Paia in Maui, land of near-daily rainbows and preternaturally green foliage so lush your eyes can’t quite believe it. Yesterday we joined lots of other nature lovers, who made their way over to the Twin Falls—a popular landmark on the road to …
Photo courtesy of Callie Sedlacek. I was in Paris recently and I am here to report that we are not alone in the States in our love of glitter, floral crowns, and temporary tattoos. My French husband’s cousin, Iris, one of my favorite people, and a lovely and talented 20-year-old, spent quite a bit of …
You may be wondering what spring flowers have to do with body art, but over here at Earth Henna™, we wait for spring more than most. Why? Because although we love the cool, brisk air of winter (I’d say something about those twinkly snowflakes, but we’re out here in Los Angeles), and getting to wear heavy …