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 …
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 so often ask how we came to be involved with jagua and the Amazon that I thought I’d write it down and point people to our blog! To my husband Pascal and me, we were just doing what we always do—walk through a promising door when it opens. But people keep telling us how …