During my last visit to
Twirl, the BEST toy store on the planet, I discovered a very cool little kit for self henna art. The Mini Henna Body Painting Kit by
Earth Henna comes with everything you need to create your own henna art on yourself or any willing participant.
Each mini kit comes with:
- Reusable stencil transfers
- Pre-measured natural henna powder directly from the fields of Morocco
- Pre-measured mixing solution for making henna paste
- Plastic squeeze bottle applicator with fine tip (used by professional henna artists!)
- Four grams of eucalyptus oil
- Q-tips and toothpicks (a henna artist's must-have tools!)
- Cotton bag for storage of unused supplies
- Clear, step-by-step instructions on how to mix and apply your Mehndi designs
- Invaluable tips and techniques from professional Mehndi artists
Here is what I ended up with (see below). Not bad for someone who had never even been in the same room as henna before. The applicator tip is very fine and clogged up once or twice, but a gentile squeeze onto a paper towel took care of that right away. Application really easy and the flow was nice and consistent. I felt like a pro applying it.
After the henna dried I left it on for a few hours, as per the instructions, before removing it. Most of the henna peeled right off, but there were some suborn chunks, as well as stencil, that had to be rubbed away with vegetable oil. I did notice that the areas where I used stencil stained a lighter shade than the areas where I free handed it, but it looks pretty cool like that.
