Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Got Henna?

Have you seen all the dance students with henna tattoos lately? Free henna tattoos have been offered at Tammy Jo's the last few days as a sampling of Earth Girls Henna. Free tattoos will be offered again on Tuesday, September, 16. Allow 45 minutes from tattoo time until dance class begins. Henna tattoos must not inferfere with dance classes. (Photo is borrowed, representative only, not work of
Earth Girls)



Book Earth Girls Henna for your child's next birthday party, for baby showers, wedding showers, anniversarys, festive parties, or just a girls' night. Check out the website at www.earthgirlshenna.com. Evening and weekend appointments available. Pay per design plus $35 for the henna artist's travel costs and appearance fee. (Subject to less than 25 miles round trip travel time. If the distance is greater, the apparance fee will increase). The $35 is payable in advance and the cost per design varies by complexity and application time. Tattoos generally cost between $5.00 and $50.00. The tattoos for most birthday parties generally will cost between $5 and $10 each. If you choose, you may pay an hourly rate of $100.00 and hire the artist for as many hours as you want. The henna artist will tattoo as many people as she can within the paid time frame.


To book Earth Girls Henna for your Event, send an email to batscout@aol.com, or call Lisa Pruitt (Thorner) Brandenburg (Chloe Thorner's mom) at 606-831-9978.


Henna is plant material from the plant lawsonia inermis. The plant is dried, ground into a powder, and then the powder is combined with essential oils, sugar, lemon juice, and water to make a paste. The paste is applied to the skin as a design and once the paste comes off, a reddish/brown stain is left as a temporary tattoo.


Once applied to the skin, lawsone molecules gradually migrate from the henna paste into the outer layer of the skin. Though henna's lawsone will stain the skin within minutes, the longer the paste is left on the skin, the more lawsone will migrate. Henna paste will yield as much dye as the skin can easily absorb in less than eight hours. Henna tends to crack and fall off the skin during these hours, so it is often sealed down by dabbing a sugar/lemon mix over the dried paste, or simply adding some form of sugar to the paste. This also adds to the colour of the end result, increasing the intensity of the shade.

When the paste has fallen off the skin or been removed by scraping, the stain will be orange, but should darken over the following three days to a reddish brown. Soles and palms have the thickest layer of skin and so take up the most lawsone, and take it to the greatest depth, so that hands and feet will have the darkest and most long-lasting stains.

Chlorinated water, lotions and soaps may spoil the darkening process: alkaline may hasten the darkening process.

What is black henna? Black Henna” is a misnomer arising from imports of plant-based hair dyes into the West in the late 19th century. Partly fermented, dried indigo was called “black henna” because it could be used in combination with henna to dye hair black. This gave rise to the belief that there was such a thing as “black henna” which could dye skin black. Indigo will not dye skin black. Pictures of indigenous people with black body art (either alkalized henna or from some other source) also fed the belief that there was such a thing as “black henna.”

Most so called "black henna", or black temporary tattoos have a dye included called PPD. PPD can cause severe allergic reactions, with blistering, intense itching, permanent scarring, and permanent chemical sensitivities. Estimates of allergic reactions range between 3% and 15%.

Real henna does not cause these injuries and very few people have been known to have sensitivies to real henna. If you are allergic to essential oils, lavender, lemon juice, or sugar you should not get a henna tattoo.

Monday, September 8, 2008

NEWS YOU CAN USE

YAHOO! CLASSES HAVE BEGUN
TODAY IS THE FIRST FULL WEEK
NICOLE IS BACK TEACHING TAP.