Making Your Own Henna Paste

Mehandi Recipe There are many recipes to make your own henna paste. Here is a basis. Feel free to try different variations that is. After all, most people come with a personal combination of ingredients that stain the skin of its darkest

Mehandi

• 1 cup boiling water
• 2 tablespoons black tea or coffee
• 3 teaspoons sifted henna powder (do not skip the screening step!)
• 1 teaspoon oil of eucalyptus
• Lemon-sugar glaze strained juice 1 / 2 lemon
• 1 teaspoon sugar

Boil the water cup and make your tea or coffee. That ruled for a few hours. Strain to remove any particulate material or tea. Put henna powder in a glass or plastic container and add eucalyptus oil, but do not mix! Gradually add the tea and coffee about 3 teaspoons at a time and stir the powder with a small spoon. Use the spoon to press powder and water. Do not worry about lumps. Allow to sit anywhere between 6 and 12 hours. Really. The longer you let it sit, the softer the mixture will be like all particles are absorbed henna. If you're impatient, after six hours that can cushion any remaining pieces with a spoon.

After painting your design, you want to wait until the henna is dry enough to not be drip (which will be kind of apartment), but no cracks. Would you like to dab the barest amount of lemon and sugar icing on the henna to keep it moist. Using a cotton swab or ball is a good way to implement only a little. Then you want to leave it in as much time as you humanly can withstand that

Helpful hints:

After scraping off the mud, try not to get wet skin for several hours to help the best series in color, about 4 or 5 hours. Traditionally, henna is left on overnight. If you use lemon and sugar glaze, henna actually stay in overnight and the bits that come face to wash away their leaves. The less wash the painted area, the longer the design will last. Swimming, hot tubs, dish washing, etc. because all designs to disappear more quickly. The application of creams or lotions to the skin can also result in less retention of color.

Keep in mind, one can not remove a henna tattoo. Soak the stain on the skin and must wear off over time. Wash and other actions that remove the outer layers of skin May lighten a little color, but you will not be able to keep a henna tattoo for one week and then simply "get rid of her because she is tired of it. The marks are on your skin for two or three weeks or more