It was my first time meeting the family of farmers who harvest the henna found in our Earth Henna tattoo kits. You have likely not experienced “desert dry” until you’ve been to the outer reaches of the Sahara, aka The Great Desert. A hot wind was blowing like crazy, making it nearly impossible to see, …
Jagua tattoos aren’t just gorgeous on the skin, jagua is believed by many Indigenous peoples in the Amazon forest to be a mystical fruit endowed with all kinds of powers. As a follow up to my last post on the subject of jagua, here is more magical information, mythologies and beliefs surrounding the jagua fruit …
When I first heard about the jagua fruit, as used by the indigenous people of the Amazon jungle, I immediately assumed it would be associated with magical and mystical beliefs. Why? For one thing, there’s something surreal about how, when you grate the flesh of the fruit and squeeze it, the color of the …
I keep coming back to this question. Why do people want to bother with that fake black stuff, which is primarily black hair dye?* Why not just go with the real deal? Your skin stained the deep, rich, reddish brown color that screams organic, ceremonial and mysterious. Besides, as we all know, a safe, natural …
We were in the henna business for 12 years before jagua tattoos entered the scene back around 2009. People LOVED henna tattoos, and continue to do so even after all these years, but absolutely everyone wanted to know if we knew of a temporary tattoo that looked like a real tattoo. So when we heard about …
The holidays are over, and we’ve wiped out our wallets, basically in order to connect with people we love by giving anything from token gifts to extravagant, dream-fulfilling displays of largesse. So what did you get for Christmas? Was it something you hoped for? Or something that made you cringe? (Really? Another blank notebook? I …
We’re thrilled to introduce our newest product, Nature’s Ink Freestyle! It’s like a jagua tattoo kit but not really, because there’s nothing to mix or assemble. You just open the happy purple box featuring Sugar Skull Lady with her rose blossom headdress, pull out the bottle of pre-mixed jagua gel, and start creating your own …
Overwhelmingly, people love jagua tattoos—the fact that they’re dead-ringers for permanent tattoos, that they last two weeks, that they are as easy to apply as henna tatoos, even simpler since you only need to wait one hour before removing the gel! But if there’s one beef about jagua that I hear on a regular basis, …
Last week I wrote about henna flower designs being popular with henna lovers, and then I realized, duh, jagua flowers are a thing too! What was I thinking? Somehow, in my mind, I tend to think of jagua designs as being more permanent tattoo-ish in style. But really, a quick look online confirmed it. People …
How do you choose between henna and jagua? Which do you prefer: henna tattoos or jagua tattoos? What’s the difference between a henna and a jagua tattoo? What kind of art do you create with henna, versus jagua? We get asked these questions a lot when we’re at Vidcon, the Youtubers conference; at natural product …