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’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 …
This year we return to VidCon, the conference “For People Who Love Online Video.” Why? Because, seriously, it’s too much fun. How can we not have fun when we are one of the most popular booths there? Every year, we arrive at 8:00 a.m. to find a line already forming around our space. And it is …
Beyoncé with Pregnant Belly Henna Tattoo at her Baby Shower (photo courtesy of Billboard.com). Every once in a while I get reminded that henna body painting is thousands of years old. Back when we first got involved in the world of henna tattoos, in media interviews I would be asked whether I thought the henna …
I’ve been thinking about the adult coloring trend, which started in 2015. I remember being at the Craft & Hobby trade show in Anaheim in 2016, and watching in wonder as the booth across the aisle from us totally sold out, by show’s end, of its entire inventory of adult coloring books. I was blown away! …