The supposed tempest over Beyoncé’s Indian adventure first blew through my awareness back in January. Now our crazy-long presidential campaign, and its crazy man-of-the hour, Trump the Trainwreck, has me thinking about it all over again. You may recall that at the beginning of the year, Beyoncé debuted a video with Coldplay. It was shot …
Coming soon! As reported by the British Daily Mail newspaper, a wunderkind named Seung Shin will soon be introducing two awesome products: 1) a tattoo ink that lasts one year, and 2) a removal solution that gets rid of the tattoo if you get tired of it before the year is out! Both the ink …
After all these years, henna insists on retaining some of her mystery. By now even though I think I know everything there is to know about henna, I can still come away scratching my head. And that’s especially true when it comes to getting good color. Everyone knows that, no matter what secret favorite ingredient …
I’ve decided that what I like most about henna is how it makes me feel. I think it’s fairly safe to say that human beings love to adorn their bodies. Whether it’s with jewelry or make-up, tattoos and piercings, face-painting and air-brushing, scarification, or coloring our hair pink, blue or green, the people on this …
Ever since writing my last post, 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 …
The FDA is not in the business of approving cosmetics before they go on the market, but it can and does take action against any product it deems potentially harmful to consumers. Every year the agency puts out an advisory warning people against “black henna.” This year’s advisory is no different, except that it looked …