How to Ferment Henna to Make Tattoo Dye

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Kathleen Wright, hannaparties.com New York City to Miami. Just getting back to mixing your Henna keep in mind once it’s mixed you have to let it sit out for 12 hours without being refrigerated. It’s another step that your Henna kit at home probably didn’t tell you. That’s what makes it potent it has to sit and get all juiced up there with a lemon and that’s how it intensifies. After the 12, just picture I left this out for 12 hours, I got it again you can cover it with you know with a tin foil or something else or use a bowl if it works better for you. After the 12 hours or so you leave it overnight you get some kind of oil it has to be either Cajeput or Eucalyptus is fine. Put about I only mixed a small amount of Henna so I’m putting about six drops of oil and then I mix it. Then what I would suggest is letting it sit a little bit longer with the oil before I use it like a paste on the skin I let sit. Now this sometimes makes it a little bit liquidly so you’re better off starting thick with the Henna, make it a thick paste. "