My christmas present for Lienna - a photo on Flickriver

Since today is aid al kabir and in a few day christmas i presented my friend lienna with the above posted henna!
It was for me the occasion to try the jaquard bottles Kenzi (see her work at flickr.com/photos/kenzilicious/) sended me in fall. Although it is by far more hard to work with them as to work with kreecones they are much more handy as the jaquard bottles you can buy in Germany!.

Henna or mehndi is not a tattoo which is made with a needle to bring the color pigments beneath the upper layer of the skin and therefore painful and permanent.

To draw such fine lines the finely grounded laeves of the henna shrub is in a first step well sifted, than mixed with warm water. After several hours of let sit the paste, the strained paste is filled in a cone or syringue to lay very thin and delicate strings on the skin, which will stain the skin red. THlS DOESN'T HURT AT ALL, but you have to be careful not to smudge the henna and also very patient, because henna needs between 6 to 8 hours to develop a color.

On my website www.henna-und-mehr.de (available in french and German) you can see several little videos how hanna is made and applied:
1.) how the paste is prepared: www.henna-und-mehr.de/movies/hzuberei_T1.mov
2,) how henna is applied with a syringe: www.henna-und-mehr.de/movies/hennaauftrag_T1.mov
3.) how it is applied with a cone : www.henna-und-mehr.de/movies/hennaqidra2.mov

Taken in: Deutschland / Bundesland Berlin / Berlin / Ortsteil Schöneberg (show map)

Taken on: December 20, 2007

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