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 …
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 …