Ha! My Henna looks like face paint!

I don't do henna, that's my partner's gig. But some of my daughter's friends were over this weekend and begging so I gave it a whirl. (he keeps me stocked with a bottle in the freezer for "henna emergencies"!) Anyway, I scrolled through some google images then closed out the computer and let all the designs jumble up in my brain. I went to town and the finished product (to me) looks an awful lot like a face paint design. Hey! Can I help it if no design looks complete without a few tear drops and dots?

No way it looks good, it may looks wird rigth now, but when it get wash you will see the results, you made shadow effect that is used in henna too, and give a nice look to the flowers I do it too, just remember next time to make thick the edges of the flowers, thicker lines better stain, in henna you use the tear drops too, and off course the dots, if is your first one, it looks grate for me!!! just keep practicing, use the icing for practice that helps!!

sofie- its wonderful!
how long did it take?
was it hard to handle the bottle and draw withit? i have been mixing myown henna and rolling coes....thats a challenge1 and my designs are so stiff and awkward cuz i have trouble hadling the cone and pieces of henna break and parts stiks to other parts ...ggggrrrrrrr.....

It looks really good. I look at a lot of henna designs and think they would male good face paint designs and face paint designs that would make good henna. You even have some shading in there which is an advanced technique. I love tear drops and dots in my henna designs.

Aww.. Thanks guys. I have done a tiny bit of henna, mostly only when my partner Paul gets in a pinch! Seaturtles and suns and stupid festival stuff that people always pick. I don't like doing it. This was way more fun. I probably would like using a cone better (since I'm pretty handy with an icing bag from my old cake days!) but the bottle does just fine for what little I do.

The key is not to put anything into your festival books you hate or think is stupid. They will pick from what you offer. Just put the stuff you like in your books and on your posters. I don't offer kanji even though it tends to be trendy and popular because I don't like doing it.

Course if you are working with another henna artist you may get stuck with some you dislike.

If your good with an icing bag I bet you would rock a cone.

No, Paul does the Henna- so it's his gig, his boards, his call. The only time I pick it up is if there are more than one in line for henna (and nothing else!) and they want a simple design. Or once or twice Paul has referd me a job that he couldn't get to that required henna as well. (but I made sure the client knew my limitations with the medium before hand.) Sometimes I think that I might like to play with it a little more, but then I remember that I really like the way things are now. We each have our specialty- and don't feel competitive toward one another that way.

That is a good way to work.

I usually work in another artists booth as well and she is extremely talented. At first there were a lot of designs I dreaded and a few I hated so I stuck with what I could do and would stretch myself when we got really busy and everyone wanted the complicated stuff. This was easy to do since I started out as a booth babe and as such could ease into being an artist.