Throughout history people have always liked to adorn their bodies with drawings and paintings and a way of doing so are tattoos with henna.
What is henna?
Henna or henna is, in its origin, a natural dye hair a reddish color and is also used to make tattoos coloring the skin using a technique called mehandi.
Henna plant that grows in warm climates and are white and fragrant flowers, the leaves are crushed once dried into a powder are used.
The tradition of henna tattoos dates back to more than five thousand years.
Henna tattoo designs
Depending on the countries that emerged using different types of tattoo design.
African tattoo designs with henna: geometric patterns are large and thick lines. They are relatively simple to perform. Often they use black henna, considered inadvisable because it can cause allergies.
Arab or Middle Eastern designs: they tend to use more useful than African floral patterns.
Mehandi henna designs or South Asia are very elaborate and very fine lines and designs are the most popular have been made.
To prepare the henna tattoos need to make
Henna powder.
Applicator cone.
Limes or lemons.
Water.
Essential oil henna.
Sugar.
Tea or coffee powder.
In a bowl mix the ingredients following the preparation instructions that will take us to buy henna.
The mixture should stay thick, in a similar mash texture, and smooth.
We can prepare it only with water or use coffee that will give a darker tone.
We must let the mixture sit for a few hours.
Lemon mixed with sugar helps the henna tattoo adhere better to our skin.
As a tattoo with henna us
We need a template, with the picture we want to do, and place it on the body part where we show off the tattoo.
we have prepared the dough with a spatula is applied and after three minutes will remove the template.
We must let dry henna and last about thirty minutes to apply, with cotton, mix lemon juice and sugar that we will have prepared and let dry overnight. Carefully remove dough and design will remain etched in our skin.
Depending on the source of henna, pigmentation of our skin, and the area where we make the henna tattoo, this will be one color or another.
Duration henna tattoo
The residence time henna tattoo depends on the area where we have made.
Depending on the quality of henna that we used for the tattoo, as we wash the tattooed area, the gel we use and the pH of our skin, we can look our tattoo between one and three weeks
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