To be quite honest, I don’t know why the fact that Ireland’s Saint Patrick, renowned for converting pagans to Christianity back in the 5th century, became an accepted reason for people to go out and get drunk in the streets every year, but if you’re going to take part in those festivities, you need a …
It doesn’t get too cold and somber here in sunny southern California, we must admit, but we don’t sit around gloating about it (well, maybe sometimes, just a little!). Instead, we huddle to figure out how we can brighten your winter and bring a little extra sunshine to your day, and we’ve come up with …
Nadia Ali, Earth Henna Brand Ambassador. Our new brand ambassador, the beautiful and talented Nadia Ali, is a highly sought-after and prominent henna artist in Los Angeles. She creates gorgeous modern temporary tattoos in henna, jagua and white henna, using Earth Henna products, as well as magnificent traditional bridal mehndi. She and her team of artists …
At Earth Henna, we are all about body art, body adornment, temporary tattoos, and we love all the ways in which people beautify themselves. For 20 years we have promoted the gorgeous mehndi culture and tried our best to give our customers all the tools they need to create beautiful henna tattoos in the home …
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I am going to repeat the suggestion I made back around Thanksgiving, which was oh, so long ago! I was talking about the holidays, and how they usually mean spending time with family. Family, along with the lighting of candles and twinkling lights and gift exchanges, …
“Krishna Painting a Henna Design on Radha’s Palm” by B.G. Sharma. Everybody loves henna tattoos—even the gods. It is common knowledge that artists are able to tap into the realm of the divine, from which inspiration flows. Famed Rajasthani artist B.G. Sharma, known for his exquisite and meticulous devotional paintings of Hindu gods, and Krishna in particular, …
I swear, if I read about one more guy losing his job over allegations of sexualized behavior on the job, sexual assault, or rape, I can’t decide if I’m going to run outside screaming for joy or grief. Hmm. Now that I think about it, it will be for joy. It’s about time the world …
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 …
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 …