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I'm Lisa Butterworth sometimes known as Kenzi and I'm a henna artist and the owner of a
henna supply business, kenzi.com. 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. The most
important ingredient for doing henna body art is good henna. Good henna is fresh and
finely sifted. The way you know if your henna is fresh is if it's a very bright green. You
can see here, this is a very nice bright green henna. This is probably very fresh. So this
is, this is the stuff that you want to use. And finely sifted henna is very important
so that you don't have clogs or any problems while you're hennaing. Fresh henna should
be six to twelve months old not any older and it's very sensitive to light, heat, and
air so it should just be kept in a zip lock bag like I have here and just in a cool drawer
or cupboard in the dark. Henna from health food stores or Arab or Indian groceries is
often not very fresh. It's usually been sitting on the shelves for a long time and getting
stale and sometimes exposed to heat or light. So I don't recommend buying henna from those
unless you're just gonna use it on your hair. It definitely should not be used to do henna
body art. I think that the best henna available for doing henna body art is available online.
I like to buy from henna artists who also sell henna. They use that henna to henna their
clients, so it's more likely to be fresh and they'll know exactly when it was harvested
and shipped and you're more likely to get really fresh and well sifted henna. I sell
henna on my own website kenzie.com and I sell Rajasthani henna which is Indian and also
Moroccan henna. You can also check out the website hennatribe.com. They have a very good
list of henna suppliers and most of these websites will sell henna in addition to any
henna supplies that you may need. Essential oils, tools and even henna kits.