Black Henna Tattoos For Girls And Design Gallery

Black Henna Tattoos For Girls And Design Gallery

What is Henna?
Henna is a plant. The leaves of the plant are dried and then crushed into a powder. The powder is then made into a paste that when applied to the skin, produces a beautiful reddish-brown stain. Henna is also used as a natural reddish hair dye.
Henna Tattoos
In many cultures henna tattoos are used to celebrate special occasions and rites of passage through life. All over the world people use henna to celebrate pregnancy, manhood, marriage, holidays and even death. In India the art of henna tattooing is called Mehndi. The bridal tattoos done for Indian weddings are some of the most beautifully intricate tattoos around.
Getting a Henna Tattoo
After you choose a tattoo design that you like, the tattoo artist then applies the paste to your skin. The paste needs to stay on the skin for 4 to 8 hours in order to produce a dark stain.
The Dangers of "Black Henna"
Never get a "black henna" tattoo. These are made from a paste that contains black hair dye. The black hair dye used to make this paste can cause severe allergic reactions and permanent scarring.

Henna Tattoo After-care
Once the paste has been applied to the skin, it should be left on from 4-8 hours. Keeping the paste slightly moist and warm will help the paste create a darker stain.

After 4 to 8 hours the paste can be gently scraped off. It is a good idea to apply a thin layer of cocoa butter or olive oil to help the stain darken and last longer. When the paste is first removed, the henna tattoo will be light and orange colored. As the skin is exposed to air over the next 24 hours the stain will darken to a beautiful reddish-brown.

Henna tattoos generally last from 3-40 days depending on skin type and body location of the tattoo. Tattoos on the hands and feet last the longest and get the darkest stain. Henna stains gradually fade over the course of 3-14 days as the top layers of skin are ex-foliated and shed.

Henna tattoos are a fun, natural and safe type of temporary tattoo. One of the funnest aspects of henna tattoos is that you can change your tattoo designs often. These tattoos are also a great way to try on a tattoo design to see how you like it before you get it permanently tattooed on your body.

Henna Tattoos

Henna Tattoos

Henna tattoo is one of the ancient practices of the people from the Middle East Asian countries that was passed on from generation to generation and evolved to today's modern genre of body painting and artistic expression. People back then, especially the women wear different designs. It was a tradition for weddings and festivities. When celebrities like Madonna and Demi Moore started it, during the late 80's that it became so popular and then, later it became a fashion rage not just in Great Britain and United States but all throughout the world.

Henna Hand Tattoos

Arm Henna Tattoos

Before henna tattooing became so popular there were ink tattoos or the permanent tattoos. It was common to teens and performers like rock stars, actors, models and artists at that time somewhere in the late 70's to early 80's. However, ink tattoos are permanent and painful so, it takes a lot of courage to do have it. Are you ready to take the risk and endure and process and accept the idea of a lifetime self branding? If not, then you're not in.

Henna Hand Tattoos for girl.

Henna tattoo has now become the fashion. Actress and singers like Lindsay Lohan and Jessica Simpson just had their new tattoos a couple of weeks ago along with famous stars like Britney Spears, Pink, Lady Gaga, Shakira and even Angelina Jolie who is so into ink tattoo now is into it as well. It was like a fashion accessory for them that they wear to compliment their outfits and it indeed looks good. Every time I open up and read an US and People's magazine, I always see some celebrities displaying their new henna tattoo design. They loved it, from teens to adults and even older adults and kids as well.