Brides' hands are painted with beautiful patterns in henna.
“Our grain is wet,” said a stocky old man with a henna-dyed beard. “It stinks.”
Don't use nail varnish, use henna to paint their nails (a natural product).
Yonder is my house, by the hedge of flowering henna ; I will guide you.
Her mother says she and Mariam parted in Makhachkala's Irchi Kazak street. Mariam said she was dropping into the chemist's to buy some henna.
We already had a special torch that can 'smell' henna plants, as well as normal cameras that can see warm spots.
When you coat the shaft of a hair with henna paste, the paste gradually migrates into the hair shaft and binds with keratin proteins there.
He addresses me directly once, while showing us henna in its natural form. "Woman," he says, "do you want to keep it?"
When the artist gets to me, she silently picks up one of my hands, turns it one way and then the other, takes a tube of henna, pauses, 17)tilts my wrist to the side again, and begins to work.
It is the moonlight night of March; the sweet smell of henna is in the air; my flute lies on the earth neglected and your garland of flowers is unfinished.
