Much want to decorate the body unusually. One of ancient ways to decorate body is the tattoo, but its shortcoming – that this change is irreversible, and therefore not everyone is solved on the real tattoos. However there is alternative – temporary tattoos which without impact on skin will help you to look some time even more unusually, than always.
- To create temporary tattoo which will keep from week to two weeks use method which is known since ancient India, and it is used there still, having extended worldwide – put tattoo with henna.
- Take small amount (20-30 g) of quality natural red henna without impurity and sift it through small sieve or silk fabric.
- Squeeze out juice from two lemons and dissolve henna in quarter of glass of lemon juice. Water does not need to be added – the acid environment which will be provided by lemon juice is necessary for henna for manifestation of color.
- Stir henna in juice to consistence of dense sour cream, densely close the container with paste cellophane package that air did not get, and put to the dark and warm place for 12 hours.
- After time add spoon of sugar and couple of drops of oil of eucalyptus or tea tree to mix. If mix has turned out too dense – add to it still some lemon juice. Again densely wrap capacity and leave for 12 hours. In total paste is prepared day.
- For putting henna on skin think over the drawing in advance and use toothpick or cellophane cone with the cut-off tip.
- Before applying the drawing on body, degrease the chosen site of skin and carefully dry up. Correct errors of the drawing by means of Q-tip at once, otherwise will be not to reduce the absorbed paint.
- Right after drawing the drawing will be pale orange, but after a while it will begin to darken and within two days the drawing will gain henna-red color. The more roughly and the land skin, the will be brighter the drawing – therefore palms.
- When the drawing on skin dries up, blot it with the cotton pad moistened in mix of sugar and lemon juice to fix henna and to strengthen manifestation of color.
- Do not touch the put drawing several hours, and it is desirable to leave it for the night and to remove the dried henna only in the morning, cleaning off it cotton pad with lemon juice.
- That the drawing from henna kept long time, protect it by means of oil from solar influences and household chemicals and also do not apply peelings and srubs on the painted skin.