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 …
Carine Fabius introduced henna tattoos to the west coast in 1997 with the first henna studio in the United States. Her popular book, Mehndi, the art of henna body painting, was the first book published on the subject in the U.S. (Random House). In 1998 she created the ever-popular Earth Henna body painting kits with her partner Pascal Giacomini. She is also an art dealer, freelance museum curator, the author of five books, and a regular blogger on Huffington Post.
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 …
Believe it or not, we at Earth Henna may not be as big as Amazon.com; but like that retail behemoth—which seeks to be “…the Earth’s most customer-centric company”—we think about our customers. A lot. We pride ourselves on having the best products on Earth, and in providing the best customer experience ever. Unless you’re being unduly mean …
Black glitter almost seems like an oxymoron. If it’s black, how can it produce a sparkling effect? When you think glitter, you visualize shimmery silver, like what comes in our White and Silver temporary henna tattoo kit. You imagine gold, red…any color, really—but not black. Yet that’s what so cool about the black glitter we …
I’ve been in the temporary tattoo business for 20 years now, and along the way I’ve learned a few things. Here are just five of them: 1. People are looking for meaning in their lives. Even though they’re temporary—whether they’re getting a henna tattoo or a jagua tattoo or a white henna tattoo—people care about what …
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 …
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 …
“Reading the Earth Henna story is almost like delving into The Alchemist—if you close your eyes, you can almost picture Giacomini [one of the Earth Henna owners] wandering like a shepherd through the deserts of Morocco.” “So, if you are contemplating getting a real tattoo, Earth Henna’s Black Jagua Temporary Tattoo Kit might be the …
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 …