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Dear Heather: What should I tip my henna artist? People often ask me what they should tip their henna artist, and it usually feels a bit awkward to answer that question, as they are often basically asking me what I would like to be tipped… So I figure I will write up some guidelines here […]
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Check out this article my friend Joni wrote on hennaing her hair!: http://jonirae.com/learn-it-henna-your-hair/ Oh right, you can’t anymore 🙁 That was from waaaay back in 2010!!! When she still lived here in Rhode Island and was my neighbor!Now she lives in Missouri and is mega super internet famous as Tales of a Kitchen Witch. Originally
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How does the seasonality of henna work affect professional henna artists? first published: 2011. Updated 2015, 2021, 2025, 2026. The Henna Season – all professional henna artists experience it and know it well. For me personally, I’ve come to realize that my year and my feelings about how my year flows around it – how
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What is Henna? Is it the same as Mehndi, Mehandi, Heena, etc? Henna is a plant; the leaves of this plant have a dye called lawsone. The art of applying the plant leaves to the skin is typically given the same as the plant itself. If you have a henna tree growing in your yard,
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Dear Heather, I’m having trouble getting my henna batch to stain like I’d like. I’m a professional artist, and have been doing this a while – I know how to mix a good batch of henna. I’m also quite confident that I’ve got excellent henna supplies – I bought them from a reputable supplier, and
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FYI, there’s what seems to be a book-by-txt scam out there for entertainers / henna artists. “This is —- how are you doing ?, i will like to know your availability day in September, 2015 just 5 hours service, i will like you to get back to me with your availability day in September its a
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This lemon-sugar how-to was written for Lisa of Michigan! I also have said I might get around to making a YouTube video…but for now, here are some typed-up how-to instructions for you. What you need: -bottled lemon juice (or squeezed, strained lemon juice if you want to be fancy…which I never do) -sugar (just plain
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This summer, I’ve been getting a lot of requests for Aztec henna patterns. At first, I was wondering if they wanted me to draw Quetzalcoatl and awesome stuff like that – because I’d be totally down! But what it turns out that what teens and twenty-somethings mean when they request “Aztec” designs is a sort
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As you get ready for festival season, you’ll want to think about what you need in your booth. A question that comes up quite often on the Henna Gathering facebook group is “what do I need to bring with me for a festival?”… Well here, you go! This is my own personal checklist for when
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