How to Add Gilding & Crystals to Henna Design: Part 3

Video Transcript

"Hello this is Heather for Expert Village and now we'll decorate her fingers a little bit with gilding. We'll do the flowers in the same kind of color motif as this flower. So we're going to do from the center, again squeezing very gently with the gilding paste cause it is thin and you don't want too, too much of it. Just get in there, spread it around with the tip and kind of careful not to knock off the henna paste. Then you can decide if you would like a crystal there or not. I think I'll actually add some little purple crystals in that flower. Since it's smaller we have some smaller crystal to go in there. If your crystal isn't facing up correctly you just flip it over before you pick it up and put it over on the design. So it is important that you place down facing up. It's best if you use tweezers like these that are Precision Tweezers. They are just eye brawl tweezers, but if you get ones that have very pointy metal tips like this, it actually helps you a lot in picking up these tiny little crystals. You want something that has a good ability to squeeze but with not too much resistance. What we're going to do is just put a little bit of paste right in the center of this design and just a little bit to highlight around that design as well and then you put the crystal right in the middle there. So I'm picking up the tweezers, just pick up the crystal very carefully, move it over to the finger and place it down. You can just continue working on all the fingers, repeating that pattern so that it stays consistent. You can see we've already put the crystal on this one but I'm just going to go in and highlight with the gilding paste. Put a dot in the center for the crystal to go and I'm just going to flip that over with my hand, pick it up with my tweezers and put it down in that little finger motif. If you run out of crystals by any particular color, you can go get more but in most cases it works just fine to not have it exactly on the whole design. Now that we would do the whole hand in this manner."