Henna Tattooing

Series Summary

Henna is a large flowering shrub whose leaves can be dried, ground, and mixed into a paste to dye skin. Henna has been used as body art for thousands of years in the Middle East and northern Africa. There are various shades of henna that can be applied to the skin but the actual color that will show on your skin depends on the tone of your skin, how dry or oily your skin is, and how concentrated your henna paste is. Henna tattooing, for all of recorded history, has been popular among young women and continues to grow in popularity today. If you would like to learn how to tattoo using henna dye, learn from one of our experts.

In this free online video series learn how to use henna to dye skin from body art expert Kathleen Wright. She will teach you how to buy fresh henna, how to mix henna powder, how to add lemon juice to henna mix, how to ferment henna, how to fill your dye bottle, how to tattoo using henna, how to create a henna armband, and how to care for your henna tattoo and ensure that it lasts a long time.

Video Transcript

"Hi! My name is Kathleen Wright, I’m here in Miami as a Henna Artist you can get me at hennaparties.com. What I’m going to do today is show you tips and techniques for a successful Henna Tattoo at home. On behalf of expertvillage.com I’d like to welcome you. What we’re going to go over is steps like just learning the basics of how to vex using the right products, the tools and just little tricks on how to draw all that stuff and the real key to a successful tattoo. The first thing I want to say is you can find a how to book online through another Henna artist who has a great, great how to steps on her website and the pattern page can be downloaded you don’t even have to print it out you can download it onto your computer and that’s at the hennapage.com. This is the first or second volume, it’ll have a whole bunch of beautiful designs as well as step two illustration of how to start. So the first thing is to get your tools together, that would be my first advise to you. "