The Banshee Paranormal Festival was awesome! November Party, The Evil Streaks, and Reverend Bastien all played great sets. (The Evil Streaks were so good I had to buy two of their CDs - one for me and one for my dad, who will love their punky 60's rock / rockabilly sound.) The Varnum Armory was [...]
I had a great time doing henna at Nixi Expo in metro west Boston (Waltham)! Here are some of my favorite henna photos from the event. I met so many wonderful people, and was so happy to spend time with them and do custom designs to suit their desires. Notes on the photos themselves: I [...]
I just read a blog post on etiquette for face painters, by Kate of The Face Painting School. Tip #7, regarding "You’ll often get asked to donate your services," really hit home for me, because it seemed like the requests for free work were even more numerous than usual this week. As Kate correctly says, [...]
Here's some Indian bridal style henna I did at the 2013 Henna Gathering. I did this one on my newfound henna friend Marlene. Indian bridal mehndi with zardosi glitter gel Radha portrait detail from a traditional Indian bridal design done at the 2013 Henna Gathering Here's a photo I took of [...]
I had a lovely appointment yesterday with Sarah! She wants to get her foot tattooed in a design that looks like henna, and sent me some photos for inspiration that ran the full gamut of traditional henna. From dainty and relatively simple Moroccan slippers to detailed and intricate Indian bridal henna, she likes it all. [...]
In India, the shape we call a paisley in the US is known as "ambi", or mango. I had known this for quite some time, and knew a bit of the imperial history behind why we in the US have come to know the mango shape as "paisley". In short, folks from the British empire [...]
I've been watching All American Muslim a bit. I like the show a lot so far. I like that it shows a wide variety of people with a wide range of perspectives on their religion. I think it is a good show and am so far pretty happy with the portrayal they are presenting. I'm [...]
I was surfing around the internet, and was so pleasantly surprised to see this beautiful photo of the henna Selena Gomez got recently! It is very adorable, with her nickname "Sel" in cursive script with a little trail of stars. I would like to make one thing very clear about this photo for [...]
PPD - Not for Me!lyrics by Olena Wilshanetskysung to the tune of "Mary Had a Little Lamb"by workshop participants at the Boys and Girls Club of Pawtucket, RIled by Heather Caunt-Nulton Is it made with PPD?Not for me!Not for me!Black is made with PPDand it can burn my skin.Henna should be deep rich brownOnly brownPretty [...]
I hate The Summer Self-Henna Dilemma. Do I do something AWESOME for myself that I will think is really fun and a challenge to do, pretty to wear, and cool to get a photo of for my portfolio, which I wouldn't have time to replicate in a festival setting if you begged me to? Or [...]