Last night's work

[leravenn]

This design is from the Henna Page, a free sample pattern from Dipti Desai. I put a lot of honey in the henna paste, which helped the consistency... but somehow retarded the staining process. Granted, I took it off after 4 hours and took a shower, but my skin usually picks up stain well, if briefly. It just barely gave my fingernails a yellow cast. So now it looks like I have a fungus or something. :P And the paste never really dried in all of 4 hours, though I'm assuming that's from a too-high ratio of honey-to-henna. So next time: less honey. I still have to get pantyhose so I can start straining my paste, and maybe then I won't be compelled to overcompensate for chunkiness with honey goo. In any event, I'm not posting any without-paste-pics unless the stain dramatically darkens... since there wouldn't be much to see otherwise. Soooo...





The ickle peacock/bird thingamajigger!