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the bodypainting was made with khidab. Khidab is a Gall ink which is employed in Yemen mainly in the mountainous regions around the capital Sanaa instead of henna. For an account how it is made you can download an article:
Yemeni Women’s Body Painting with Black Gall Ink Khidab, Production Methods,
from my colleage Dr. Hanne Schönig at www.henna-und-mehr.de/pdf/Khidabartikel_eu.pdf; (Englisch)
or www.henna-und-mehr.de/pdf/schoenig_deutsch.pdf (German)
If you like to see original Yeminite bodypaintings with this ink visit: www.henna-und-mehr.de/de/khidabslide.html (German) or
very lovely bride, pleasure to work for her and her family too, lovely people...these are the days that i cherish! more info on my hennaowork www.handoffatima.nl
very lovely bride, pleasure to work for her and her family too, lovely people...these are the days that i cherish! more info on my hennaowork www.handoffatima.nl
Henna or mehendi is not a tattoo which is made with a needle to bring the color pigments beneath the upper layer of the skin and therefore painful and permanent.
To draw such fine lines the finely grounded leaves of the henna shrub is in a first step well sifted, than mixed with warm water. After several hours of let sit the paste the strained paste is filled in a cone or syringe to lay very thin and delicate strings on the skin, which will stain the skin red. THlS DOESN'T HURT AT ALL, but you have to be careful not to smudge the henna and also very patient, because henna needs between 6 to 8 hours to develop a color.
This picuture shows the mehndi after painting the henna on the hand. For that the henna rest moistened for several hours it is sealed with a coat of sugar water.
The patterns I do, are all created by me. A great deal of them are inspired from the henna and khidab artwork I saw in Yemen 2006. They are also known as gulf style or Khalidji. (Khalidj means in Arabic Gulf)
On my website www.henna-und-mehr.de (available in French and German: www.henna-und-mehr.de/de/anwend.html ) as well as on youtube you can see several little videos how henna is mixed and applied:
1.) how the paste is prepared: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrQVPuceyKs
2,) how henna is applied with a syringe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSn9OtM7RZE
3.) how it is applied with a cone : www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyqNnU8r7Xs
Khidab is a Gall ink which is employed in Yemen mainly in the mountainous regions around the capital Sanaa instead of henna. For an account how it is made you can download an article:
Yemeni Women’s Body Painting with Black Gall Ink Khidab, Production Methods,
from my colleage Dr. Hanne Schönig at www.henna-und-mehr.de/pdf/Khidabartikel_eu.pdf (Englisch)
or www.henna-und-mehr.de/pdf/schoenig_deutsch.pdf (German)
If you like to see original Yeminite bodypaintings with this ink visit
www.henna-und-mehr.de/de/khidabslide.html (German) or
Love to share my love for henna with all happy visitors of the Afrika Festival. The most beautiful kids came to my booth these two days....hard working can be fun you know!!! www.handoffatima.nl
This is the color result of the henna I did for a client who is undergoing a chemotherapy. Instead of waering a wig she wanted that I henna her bald head with flowers. She loves in particular hibiskus and so i created for her this design in which the hibiskus is prominent.
Henna or mehndi is not a tattoo which is made with a needle to bring the color pigments beneath the upper layer of the skin and therefore painful and permanent.
To draw such fine lines the finely grounded laeves of the henna shrub is in a first step well sifted, than mixed with warm water. After several hours of let sit the paste the strained paste is filled in a cone or syringue to lay very thin and delicate strings on the skin, which will stain the skin red. THlS DOESN'T HURT AT ALL, but you have to be careful not to smudge the henna and also very patient, because henna needs between 6 to 8 hours to develop a color.
This picuture shows the mehndi after painting the henna on the haed. For that the henna rest moistened for several hours it is sealed with a coat of sugar water.
The patterns I do, are derived from the henna and khidab artwork I saw in Yemen two years ago. They are also known as gulf style or Khalidji. (Khalidj means in Arabic Gulf)
On my website www.henna-und-mehr.de (available in French and German) you can see several little videos how henna is mixed and applied:
1.) how the paste is prepared: www.henna-und-mehr.de/movies/hzuberei_T1.mov
2,) how henna is applied with a syringe: www.henna-und-mehr.de/movies/hennaauftrag_T1.mov
3.) how it is applied with a cone : www.henna-und-mehr.de/movies/hennaqidra2.mov
Khidab is a Gall ink which is employed in Yemen mainly in the mountainous regions around the capital Sanaa instead of henna. For an account how it is made you can download an article:
Yemeni Women’s Body Painting with Black Gall Ink Khidab, Production Methods,
from my colleage Dr. Hanne Schönig at www.henna-und-mehr.de/pdf/Khidabartikel_eu.pdf (Englisch)
or www.henna-und-mehr.de/pdf/schoenig_deutsch.pdf (German)
If you like to see original Yeminite bodypaintings with this ink visit
www.henna-und-mehr.de/de/khidabslide.html (German) or
KHIDAB is the Yemeni black waterproof ink for body painting. It is used often instead of henna, but sometimes also in combination, to decorate hands and arms, back, décolleté as well as legs and feet with extended tendril-like patterns.
Khidab is obtained through pyrolysis. Cuprous oxide gives the ink its dark blue-black color. Dr. Hanne Schönig has described the composition and production in detail in the article: “ Yemeni Women’s Body Painting with Black Gall Ink Khidab, Production Methods”
which you can download at www.henna-und-mehr.de/pdf/Khidabartikel_eu.pdf (Englisch)
or www.henna-und-mehr.de/pdf/schoenig_deutsch.pdf (German)
If you like to see original Yeminite bodypaintings with this ink visit
www.henna-und-mehr.de/de/khidabslide.html (German) or
Henna or mehndi is not a tattoo which is made with a needle to bring the color pigments beneath the upper layer of the skin and therefore painful and permanent.
To draw such fine lines the finely grounded laeves of the henna shrub is in a first step well sifted, than mixed with warm water. After several hours of let sit the paste the strained paste is filled in a cone or syringue to lay very thin and delicate strings on the skin, which will stain the skin red. THlS DOESN'T HURT AT ALL, but you have to be careful not to smudge the henna and also very patient, because henna needs between 6 to 8 hours to develop a color.
This picuture shows the mehndi after painting the henna on the hand. For that the henna rest moistened for several hours it is sealed with a coat of sugar water.
On my website www.henna-und-mehr.de (available in French and German) you can see several little videos how hanna is made and applied:
1.) how the paste is prepared: www.henna-und-mehr.de/movies/hzuberei_T1.mov
2,) how henna is applied with a syringe: www.henna-und-mehr.de/movies/hennaauftrag_T1.mov
3.) how it is applied with a cone : www.henna-und-mehr.de/movies/hennaqidra2.mov
KHIDAB is the Yemeni black waterproof ink for body painting. It is used often instead of henna, but sometimes also in combination, to decorate hands and arms, back, décolleté as well as legs and feet with extended tendril-like patterns.
Gall inks were already used with the development of writing in advanced ancient civilizations. Sanaa', today the capital of Yemen, is considered one of the oldest city states in the world. It can therefore be assumed that body painting with khidab is of pre-Islamic origin. Nothing in the arabesque ornaments indicates this, as the floral and abstract designs were only developed as a consequence of the Islamic directive not to portray living beings.
Khidab is a precious substance. It is obtained through pyrolysis. Cuprous oxide gives the ink its dark blue-black colour. Dr. Hanne Schönig has described the composition and production in detail in the article: “ Yemeni Women’s Body Painting with Black Gall Ink Khidab, Production Methods”
which you can download at www.henna-und-mehr.de/pdf/Khidabartikel_eu.pdf (Englisch)
or www.henna-und-mehr.de/pdf/schoenig_deutsch.pdf (German)
If you like to see original Yeminite bodypaintings with this ink visit
www.henna-und-mehr.de/de/khidabslide.html (German) or
Paste-on photo of what I believe is my own design *strongly* influenced by Riffat (whose work I had been obsessing over all day previously... so I may have unintentionally copied :)
riffat.co.uk
very lovely bride, pleasure to work for her and her family too, lovely people...these are the days that i cherish! more info on my hennaowork www.handoffatima.nl
Bridal henna, hennapaste is still on the skin, final colour will be be beautiful mahony reddish/orange
Love to share my love for henna with all happy visitors of the Afrika Festival. The most beautiful kids came to my booth these two days....hard working can be fun you know!!! www.handoffatima.nl
The design is an alteration of of a traditional Moroccan crown design I got from Kree Arvanitas as she introduced me to the art of painting with henna.
Henna or mehndi is not a tattoo which is made with a needle to bring the color pigments beneath the upper layer of the skin and therefore painful and permanent.
To draw such fine lines the finely grounded laeves of the henna shrub is in a first step well sifted, than mixed with warm water. After several hours of let sit the paste the strained paste is filled in a cone or syringue to lay very thin and delicate strings on the skin, which will stain the skin red. THlS DOESN'T HURT AT ALL, but you have to be careful not to smudge the henna and also very patient, because henna needs between 6 to 8 hours to develop a color.
This picuture shows the mehndi after painting the henna on the hand. For that the henna rest moistened for several hours it is sealed with a coat of sugar water.
The patterns I do, are derived from the henna and khidab artwork I saw in Yemen 2006. They are also known as gulf style or Khalidji. (Khalidj means in Arabic Gulf)
On my website www.henna-und-mehr.de (available in French and German: www.henna-und-mehr.de/de/anwend.html ) as well as on youtube you can see several little videos how henna is mixed and applied:
1.) how the paste is prepared: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrQVPuceyKs
2,) how henna is applied with a syringe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSn9OtM7RZE
3.) how it is applied with a cone : www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyqNnU8r7Xs
Love to share my love for henna with all happy visitors of the Afrika Festival. The most beautiful kids came to my booth these two days....hard working can be fun you know!!! www.handoffatima.nl