How to Add Gilding & Crystals to Henna Design: Part 1

Video Transcript

"Hello this is Heather for Expert Village and in this clip we're going to be talking about how to add gilding and crystals to add some color and sparkle to your henna design. As you can see we've already done the henna and we sealed it with the lemon sugar and now what we're going to do is go in with some gold, pink and green gilding paste and some pink and holographic crystals to enhance it. So just start with the gold. So first we're going to go in with the gold and just highlight some of the parts around this flower. We'll focus mostly on this flower for now. I'm going to go in with the pink on the leaves. What you're doing is just squeezing gently on the applicator bottle squeezing out a little and then on the case of leaves kind of spreading it around with the tip. Okay so we're just continuing to go in with the pink. Now while it's still wet what you want to do is take your tweezers and your crystals which you've already laid out and made facing up so they're easy to grab. Just pick them up with the tweezers carefully and just place them in the wet gilded paste so that they stick. So you're going to pick up the crystal carefully with the tweezers faced up, bring it over to your gilding paste and just press it in while it's wet in the way that it looks pretty. I like doing one in every flower petal, it's pretty and once you're satisfied with one area you can move onto the next one."