Henna for mehendi

Painting of individual parts of the body in an ethnic style is more popular than ever. It has the name mehendi (mehandi, mendi), and this art is more than 5000 years old. Such a painting is usually carried out with a special composition made from henna.

What kind of henna is better for mehendi?

Henna for mehendi in its composition is no different from the one we use for cosmetic purposes. There is only one requirement: for the convenience of drawing, the henna powder must be thoroughly crushed, so carefully start sifting the powder beforehand and preparing all the large pieces.

There are a lot of recipes for cooking henna pasta, however, traditional ingredients are henna, lemon juice and sugar. Sugar is used to make the drawing more durable. Also in paste for drawing mehendi it is possible to add various essential oils at will, which will give it a pleasant aroma. Painting henna mehendi should be done not immediately freshly prepared paste, and let it brew for about 24 hours. This will make your drawing more resistant.

Drawings or tattoo henna mehendi is also called a biotattoo. Immediately after removing the paste layer, it has a pale red color, later, within the next 24 hours, the shade becomes saturated, from dark brown to burgundy, depending on the skin color, the area of ​​the body on which the tattoo is performed, and the time of the paste on body. Many, to make the color of henna more saturated, use a recipe in which the pasta is cooked on the basis of strong tea leaves, but without the addition of lemon juice.

Colored henna for mehendi

The natural compositions of henna paste can give only shades from red to dark brown and reddish-brown. However on sale now it is possible to see set of multi-colored structures which also are called as a henna for mehendi. In such pastes, chemical dyes are necessarily added, which makes them unsafe for use. Unlike natural henna, which is almost non-allergic reactions and which has a beneficial effect on the skin, colored pastes for mehendi can cause severe skin allergies due to the components in their composition. For example, for the production of black henna for mehendi, the para-phenylenediamine (PFDA) chemical is used, and the recently acquired white henna for mehendi contains ammonium persulphate, magnesium carbonate, magnesium oxide, hydrogen peroxide, carboxylated methylcellulose, citric acid and water . Therefore, before applying these compounds, it is necessary to conduct a test for skin allergy.