Fireworks & Sage : LJ Smudging

[bec76]

A haiku to celebrate all that which lights against the darkness.

Perception is not
without change; the world is full
of constant beauty.

Comments

[avengangle]

I was in Rochester recently, and a woman there (in the band) had a henna trombone and a few eighth notes on her arm; she told me that she went into the henna shop (or whatever it's called) and asked her for a trombone; the artist immediately googled one on her Blackberry's tiny screen and replicated it freehand onto the woman's arm. It was dead perfect, and detailed in so many tiny ways, for being all of two inches long. It made me think of you. :)

[bec76]

Oh, wow, that's really cool!

One of these days, when I'm all gadgety and stuffs, I can do things like that too. :)

[duriyah]

That's really pretty!

[bec76]

Thank you very much! :)

[silverfae]

Your work is beautiful.

I'm curious about one thing... when your henna starts to bleed and fade, as they do, do you have a particular method for hurrying the process along? Mine seem to just get very blurry and yucky looking, and I'd love to have a way to convince potential clients that it's not going to look like an old orange tattoo at the fading stages.

[bec76]

Thank you! :D

I usually just let mine wear away, but when I'm in a hurry, I'll use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer to take off the top layers, then scrub with whitening toothpaste to take off the rest. There's not too much you can do to remove that blurry, faint-orange layer, you really just have to wait for it to wear off. Perhaps scrubbing it with Lava soap on a regular basis? Anything to help it exfoliate faster will help the stain fade faster.

[hourglassfull]

beautiful.

[bec76]

Thank you very much. :D