It’s official. We are smack in the middle of fall. And as of last Sunday, Daylight Savings Time went into effect, essentially making us fall backward by 60 minutes, which means waking up in the dark (if, like most people, you have to be at work early in the morning), and heading home in the …
Creating henna tattoos, and then showing them off, is synonymous with warm weather. Here in Los Angeles, where Earth Henna is headquartered, it always feels like spring or summer. We’re lucky that way! But if it hasn’t started warming up yet in your neck of the woods, adorning yourself with henna tattoos is one sure …
Where do you get your henna? At Earth Henna, where we make temporary tattoo kits offered at stores like Urban Outfitters and Whole Foods, we have challenges that online suppliers don’t face. As with all natural cosmetics, we have to add preservatives, antioxidants and anti-bacterial agents to insure a longer shelf life. And you can …
Photo from Le Henné, Plante du Paradis by Michèle Maurin Garcia. Everyone once in a while someone asks me how the whole henna body art tradition started, so I thought I would share part of the answer here with an excerpt from my book Mehndi: The Art of Henna Body Painting—the first book on henna …
Photo by Yumna Al-Arashi, as published in Huffington Post. Last week’s Huffpost Culture featured a wonderful article about photographer Yumna Al-Arashi’s quest to document the origins of her grandmother’s time-honored tradition of facial tattoos. It turns out there are several motives behind the lines, dots, and symbols that adorn the faces of the women whose …
Mehndi, the Indian word for henna temporary body art, is the perfect thing to talk about on Valentine’s Day! For those who may not be familiar with the history and cultural practices surrounding henna tattoos in India, it’s all about love. The henna plant is believed to be infused with the positive power of the …
I’m a writer, so I love words. I can write a word I love on my body with henna, and there it will stay for 7–10 days. Like ineffable, which means incapable of being described with words, like life! I’m also an author, an art dealer, and a freelance museum curator. Creating henna tattoo kits is …