Henna!

So I went to the clothesline fair in Prairie Grove today and it was AMAZING! If you want to go to a strictly arts and crafts fair, this is the one for you. They call it the clothesline fair because originally artists just hung their stuff out on clotheslines for people to buy. Anyway I got a henna tattoo there. I've always wanted to try one of those kits you can get for it, but I never knew how Henna actually worked. Well today I got a complete education on the subject, so let me tell you; Henna is an organic dye/stain made from the henna plant. It is then dried, mixed with eucalyptus oil, and made into a dark green paste. You apply the paste to your skin with a little bottle with a thin pen tip on it. It dries black and then when the paste cracks and falls off, its light orange, which darkens to reddish brown with oxidization over the next five days. It can last up to six weeks if you don't wash it too vigorously. At the clothesline fair you can just tell them how much you want to spend and what sort of thing you want [sun, flowers, paisley, etc.] and they just doodle on your hand. Its super cool. And it smells really good, all the eucalyptus I guess. I'm hooked now, I love my little sun and I want to do my whole body :)