Here at Earth Henna™, we pride ourselves on how easy it is to use our henna temporary tattoo kits. It took us a long, long time to create this kit. By the time we came up with it, two other companies had already rushed to market with their own henna tattoo kits—even though we were …
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.
Every once in a while, we stop to remember that, before anyone ever used henna for temporary body art in this country, henna’s main job was dyeing hair! And there’s a reason why using henna for hair is so popular. Henna coats each hair shaft with a natural, semi-permanent protein called hennatannic acid. Heat causes …
Sometimes you just have to watch your wallet, but you want a superior quality henna kit—bad. If so, our Earth Henna Classic Temporary Henna Tattoo Kit is exactly what you need. There are plenty of flash tattoos and decals out there on the market, as well as metallic ink tattoos that you peel off and …
The running joke around here at Earth Henna is about how for 11 years we had the smallest product line in the history of commerce: one product! True, we did come up with variations on our original Earth Henna Temporary Tattoo Kit—let’s see, besides the Classic Henna Tattoo Kit, there’s the Premium Henna Tattoo Kit; my book about the art …
Earth Henna has been going strong in the temporary body art world for 20 years. Early on, back in 1997, when henna tattoos were just making their entrance on the body adornment scene, for some reason we had more foreign than U.S. customers. Eventually, it all came back around, and in the last 10 years, I would …
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 …
Erzulie — Mixed media by José Delpe. As Valentine’s Day approaches, our minds turn to love. For some of us that means What am I going to get him for Valentine’s Day? For others, it’s I wonder if he’s going to remember to get me something? Me? This year I’ve been thinking about love in …
HINT #1: It’s the New Year. HINT #2: Time flies—which means it’s time to start planning ahead. HINT #3: March is just around the corner. ANSWER: Come on, you haven’t guessed? IT’S ALMOST FESTIVAL SEASON! We get really busy around festival season, ’cause henna tattoos, jagua tattoos and cool beauty adornment accessories play into everyone’s …
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 …
Everybody talks about the stress of the holiday season. I know I do! First of all, it comes around so fast. Didn’t I just buy Christmas gifts for 15 people? Yeah, and I had to wrap them too. I’m not that swift at giftwrapping, my gifts usually look like you hope what’s inside is nicer. And …