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I'm Lisa Butterworth sometimes known as Kenzi and I'm a henna artist and owner of a henna
supply business, kenzi.com and based in Brooklyn, New York. My first introduction to henna was
when I was living in Morocco. I was in the capital city and I was having henna done by
a Moroccan henna artist. And she moved very, very fast creating this incredible lacy glove
on my hand and I was just blown away by how incredible the design was and how fast she
did it. I never thought I would be able to do anything that good. When I came back to
the United States, a friend of mine also knew about henna and she knew that I had gotten
it done. And she just bugged me and bugged me until finally I just wanted to make her
happy and so I had to figure out how to do henna. So I taught myself how to do henna
and started hennaing her and hennaing all of my friends and so I got good enough to
go pro. Now I can do henna in pretty much any style but my finest will always be from
Moroccan henna since that's where everything started. And it was my interest in Moroccan
henna where I met this 13 year old kid from Boston, my friend Nick. And he and I spent
the past 13 years geeking all about Moroccan henna. We've been collecting all sorts of
stories and photographs and designs of Moroccan henna. And this lead us to write a book and
the book is called "Moor: A Henna Atlas of Morocco." It is pretty much a comprehensive
history of the culture and history of the Moroccan henna as well as the detailed break-down
of how the designs are constructed. And about a 100 pages of designs and really gorgeous
photos of Moroccan henna. Most of my henna work these days is doing henna for brides.
I really enjoy doing henna for brides because it's a kind of collaboration where the bride
shares with me her vision of what she wants her henna to be for her wedding. And I tap
into my skills and talents and create an original work of art for each bride. I've done henna
for films, I've did henna for Spike Lee and also Jonathan Demme films and I've done henna
for fashion, photography and all sorts of things. I also helped to create and run a
website called hennatribe.com. This is a great website for an aspiring henna artist and professional
henna artists to get advice and share all sorts of henna related topics with people
all over the world. As a teacher of henna body art, my philosophy is that anyone can
do it. Henna is really just doodles and after a while you doodle and you doodle and these
doodles start to take shape and you've actually created a henna design. So I like to really
work with people who think they're not good artists and help them discover what is inside
of them and create beautiful things with henna. Today I'll unleash your inner henna artist
and have you drawing henna designs all over your friends and anyone else who will sit
still.