(Image courtesy Jan Hetfleisch via Getty Images.) The winners of this year’s World Bodypainting Festival are in, and you won’t want to miss these photos posted on Huffpost of the amazing work by some of this year’s artists, performers, and contributors, who came from 54 countries to participate in the festival. It took place in Carinthia, …
Photo by Hans Silvester (from Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa). Several years ago, I happened upon a wonderful book by photographer Hans Silvester titled Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa. The photos are gasp-inducing! I ran to my computer and ordered several copies as gifts that Christmas. The book features breathtaking photographs of the nomadic …
At their most basic level, jagua and henna are inks. For some reason, the subject keeps coming up in conversations with unlikely people, so these exchanges have served to remind me of a section in my book, Jagua: A Journey into Body Art from the Amazon, which speaks to ink having stemmed from a desire …
Aloha from Maui! I’m on vacation with my husband Pascal in tiny, historic Paia in Maui, land of near-daily rainbows and preternaturally green foliage so lush your eyes can’t quite believe it. Yesterday we joined lots of other nature lovers, who made their way over to the Twin Falls—a popular landmark on the road to …
It’s just over a week since we dismantled our booth at VidCon, the annual online video conference. VidCon is where like-minded people come to share and exchange information, meet influencers in the industry, learn what’s trending, get a grasp on what it takes to master the field and, most of all, have fun; and anyone …
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 …
Photo courtesy of Callie Sedlacek. I was in Paris recently and I am here to report that we are not alone in the States in our love of glitter, floral crowns, and temporary tattoos. My French husband’s cousin, Iris, one of my favorite people, and a lovely and talented 20-year-old, spent quite a bit of …
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! …
A good part of the time, what we do here in our offices at Earth Henna is sit around trying to come up with ideas we think our customers would like. And since Cinco de Mayo is almost here, Paddy (whose official title is Multimedia Communications Specialist for Earth Henna) came up with the idea of …