Jul 29
I saw something like this on pinterest, where a woman showed how to use washable gel glue as a resist to batik dye a tee shirt. She wrote something on there, but I decided to use a mehindi design. On the left, you can see where I’ve drawn the design in glue and let …
Sep 08
I went to First Friday downtown last night to peddle mehindi. It was successful in that Windy was good company and the atmosphere was relaxing, but not successful in that I didn’t convince many people to get henna done. Also, I’d brought a lantern, but the children must have left it on all night because …
Sep 05
I was experimenting with a new recipe tonight and wanted to test it out on my arm. My first problem was that the goop was too thin, so I had to add more powder. I worried that the henna had indigo in it again, because it was bright green, but it didn’t. It’s just fresh. …
Aug 18
I had more fun with henna tonight and Friday night. Some people volunteered to let me use their skin as canvases, though I didn’t remember to photograph all of it. I’m afraid that the batch tonight was mislabled and contained some indigo, because it was unusually blue-green. :( Either that or I added too much …
