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  1. 🌿 A plant, a pigment, and skin that remembers. Why do fingertips hold henna stains so well?

    Lawsone binds within keratinized skin and nail tissue, while the thicker outer layers of palms and fingertips help the stain deepen and linger. Across cultures, that chemistry becomes art, adornment, and memory.

    ✍️ Trace the stain through chemistry and culture:
    theperpetuallycurious.org/henn

    A quiet color deepens, lingers, and slowly fades.

    #Henna #Chemistry #CulturalHistory #ThePerpetuallyCurious

  2. #EncountersAndObservations
    A girl near the edge of the sea: baggy colorful pants, lots of bracelets, huge headphones. She doesn't care about anything: neither the heatwave nor swimmers, not even the sea. She's engrossed in her process. In her right hand is a gold paper tube. A dark liquid comes from the tip. She's tracing it onto her skin in curves, swirls, dots -- extraterrestrial flowers. Now the heatwave, swimmers and even the sea disappear for me too as I'm watching.
    #henna #sea #people

  3. Oh oh oh - with Kid1's hand done and Kid2 quite happy with it - Kid2 spent some time this evening doing her own hand!

    #Henna #HennaArt #Art

  4. Kid1 is ecstatic on how well, dark it turned out!
    (Kid2's #HennaArt handiwork )

    #Henna #Art

  5. 2/2
    How it ended
    Friday night - #henna #HennaArt by kid2
    on kid1

  6. Friday evening kid2 on kid1's hand
    1/2
    How it started, how it's going...

    #henna #HennaArt

  7. Kid2 henna-ed a new 'friend' who got #henna for the first time. Said friend, who works in a nail salon, did kid2's nails last week. First time Kid2 got her nails done - excitedly so, as she doesn't have to play piano for 2 weeks. She got a cat eye design (and the process was "just like the videos on Instagram"!!)

    #Nails #NailArt

  8. Been a while since kid2 did any #henna !
    Came back to our apt after an evening out with partner and kid2 is getting ready for the wedding she's going to attend soon.

  9. I accidentally ordered a mixed #henna *product* for my #hair instead of my regular 100% #henna or #cassia. And I tried it because hell, why not? ... because now all the skin is peeling off of my scalp. That's why not. <scratches> and I don't even know if it's a crappy product or if I'm #allergic. 😣

  10. CW: body art

    It took at least four tries but I've finally achieved pretty much the effect I was shooting for.

    As usual, it'll get darker in the next 24 hours or so.

    This is a product of henna staying on skin for ten hours or so.

    Terping (that is, adding tea tree essential oil) does darken the hue. As does wrapping the arm in plastic foil, I think.

    I'm definitely doing more designs elsewhere! And I still want to do henna freckles on my face, but I'm still a bit chicken xD plus the next batch of henna is still "ripening".

    #henna #hennaart #bodyart

  11. Kid2's #Henna #Art 🧵/n contd

    Friday evening Kid2 getting Christmassy on her own hand and arm

    #HennaArt

  12. Kid2's #Henna #Art 🧵/n contd
    More for Kid1 - on the other hand, not as elaborate as 👆🏽👆🏽, but with a fair bit of smaller leafy bits

  13. Kid2's #Henna #Art 🧵/n contd

    After decorating kid1's hand (see 👆🏽), Kid2 decided she wanted do decorate her own hand with this henna cone. Not the most elaborate on herself but still a delight. She likes how this stains well.

    #HennaArt

  14. Kid1's hand this morning 😭
    (thanks to Kid2, see 👆🏽)

    #Henna

  15. Kid2's #Henna #Art 🧵/n contd

    Omfgg!

    Little did I know when kid2 started this on kid1's hand that it would turn out like THAT!!
    (In a bit over an hour - her speed has ⬆️)

    #HennaArt #BodyArt #Art

  16. Most people living in Ouadane depend primarily on agriculture and livestock-raising, but gathering also has its place. This woman collects leaves of henna, used to treat headaches and to bathe newborns. The leaf powder (dried, ground and sieved) is used to prepare the henna paste used for traditional tattoos.
    #Mauritania (2006)

    © Amélia Frazão-Moreira

    #photography
    #MedicinalPlants
    #henna

  17. Anyone have any experience with henna hair dye? I can’t use regular dye anymore and I am looking into natural ways. Any and all info welcome! #henna #hairdye #cosmetics #hair

  18. Kid2's #Henna #Art 🧵/n contd
    She came out before bedtime to show this one on herself - done this evening after dinner