It doesn’t get too cold and somber here in sunny southern California, we must admit, but we don’t sit around gloating about it (well, maybe sometimes, just a little!). Instead, we huddle to figure out how we can brighten your winter and bring a little extra sunshine to your day, and we’ve come up with …
Nadia Ali, Earth Henna Brand Ambassador. Our new brand ambassador, the beautiful and talented Nadia Ali, is a highly sought-after and prominent henna artist in Los Angeles. She creates gorgeous modern temporary tattoos in henna, jagua and white henna, using Earth Henna products, as well as magnificent traditional bridal mehndi. She and her team of artists …
So you’re thinking about getting a tattoo, but you’re not sure what to get. And this is important, since you’ll be looking at your tattoo for the rest of your life, right? I know this seems like an obvious thing to say, but sometimes what’s obvious for some is hiding in plain sight for others: …
Photo: Felicia with her face tattoo. There is one more mysterious and magical activity you can partake in with jagua as your guide. In my last post, I suggested you get together with friends and shrink somebody’s head as a fun and scary idea for Halloween. This one is a little more subtle, though. You …
Photo courtesy of jivaroinfo.wikispaces.com. I recently had an interesting conversation with a horror expert, @ThatColdShiver. He has a huge Twitter following, and they hang onto his every word as he live-Tweets his comments, thoughts, reactions, and interpretations of what’s happening on screen as he watches horror films. So I asked him to clarify for me …
For all you pros out there, this information may be old hat; but lots of folks still don’t know what jagua is and how it works. So I thought I would reprint this chapter titled Frequently Asked Questions about Jagua from my book Jagua: A Journey into Body Art from the Amazon. Is jagua the …
Unless you were kidnapped and deprived of all contact with the world, you know that the hottest topic for the last two weeks was the solar eclipse, which took place on Monday, August 21, beginning at 9:05 a.m. until 10:21 a.m. PST. The eclipse was also referred to as—my favorite new word—totality. I wanted to know what it all …
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 …
People just love having painted hands. There’s something so exotic and tribal and just plain gorgeous about adorning your hands with a beautiful temporary tattoo; not to mention watching the surprised and delighted looks on people’s faces as they catch a glimpse of your unexpectedly decorated hands, as you talk animatedly about something, or make …
Pascal helps with jagua extract preparation. When we left off last week, Pascal was running around trying to find a few more items to bring as offerings to members of the Matsés. The next morning, departure for the Matsés village was set for 5:00 a.m. That’s when he realized that the “boat” was nothing more than …