(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, …
Drumroll, please. Introducing our beautifully repackaged Henna Kit for Kids! In the last three years, we went on a repackaging adventure. It had suddenly dawned on us that, after fifteen years, our kits needed a face lift (yes, we’re a little slow sometimes). First up was our best-seller, the original Premium Earth Henna Body Painting …
Back in March of this year, a German botanist, Michael Schwertdtfeger, ordered a bottle of Earth Jagua gel from us. He also told us that in July he would be taking his botany and biodiversity students on a field excursion to Costa Rica, where he planned to introduce them to Genipa americana, the botanical name …
In my continuing efforts to bring you magical information, mythologies and beliefs surrounding the jagua fruit, here are another couple of excerpts from my book, Jagua, A Journey into Body Art from the Amazon! Protection from Bad Spirits The Ecuadorian Tsachila people and the Arakmbut Indians of the Madre de Dios region of the Peruvian …
Ever since writing my last post, I keep coming back to this question. Why do people want to bother with that fake black stuff, which is primarily black hair dye?* Why not just go with the real deal—your skin stained the deep, rich, reddish brown color that screams organic, ceremonial and mysterious. (Besides, as we …
The FDA is not in the business of approving cosmetics before they go on the market, but it can and does take action against any product it deems potentially harmful to consumers. Every year the agency puts out an advisory warning people against “black henna.” This year’s advisory is no different, except that it looked …