Aasy Henna Designs For Hands
Henna is a bush that when ground into a very fine powder and made into a paste, stains your skin leaving a temporary tattoo. Henna used in this artistic form is called mehndi (in India), though most people still refer to the art of mehndi as simply henna. Henna is also used to color the hair, but this article is about henna as a skin stain, not henna as hair color.
Henna was originally used as a way to cool the body in the desert. People would cover the palms of their hands and the soles of their feet with henna and found that as long as there was a stain, their body temperature stayed lower. This practiced migrated from covering the entire palms and soles to one large dot in the center and, eventually, to artistic designs.
A seldom realized henna fact: Henna is a permanent stain. The henna does not fade away, the skin exfoliates off and thus "fades" the henna desig
Henna is a bush that when ground into a very fine powder and made into a paste, stains your skin leaving a temporary tattoo. Henna used in this artistic form is called mehndi (in India), though most people still refer to the art of mehndi as simply henna. Henna is also used to color the hair, but this article is about henna as a skin stain, not henna as hair color.
Henna was originally used as a way to cool the body in the desert. People would cover the palms of their hands and the soles of their feet with henna and found that as long as there was a stain, their body temperature stayed lower. This practiced migrated from covering the entire palms and soles to one large dot in the center and, eventually, to artistic designs.
A seldom realized henna fact: Henna is a permanent stain. The henna does not fade away, the skin exfoliates off and thus "fades" the henna desig
