International Certification
for Natural Henna Arts

A Voluntary Peer Review Certification Program for Henna Artists

Basic Henna Certification Exam
~Practice Examination~
Section 1
General Principles:
The questions on your practice exam are different from, but similar to, those which will be on the Certification Exam.


General Principles:

1) If  a henna artist takes money for henna work, that  henna artist should:
A) Keep records of income and expenses
B) Find out what local regulations are for vendors
C) Find out what local permits are required for a small business
D) Do all of the above
E) None of the above applies to the henna artist: henna is an art, not a business

2) Before a henna artist goes out to a job, the henna artist should:
A) Have patterns in their design book that they can actually do
B) Have a checklist of all the things necessary for a job, and check them
C) Arrive on time, sober, and ready to work
D) All of the above are true
E) None of the above applies to henna artists, because artists are creative, and those things ruin creativity

3) Before a henna artist starts taking money for henna work, the henna artist should:
A) Practice on self, friends, and family until results are consistent and professional
B) Be able to improvise designs to suit clients rather than relying on stencils
C) Have some understanding of the history and traditions of henna so as to not offend clients from different cultures.
D) All of the above are true
E) None of the above applies to henna artists, because artists are intuitive and sensitive, and those things would spoil their spontaneity

4) Henna is used:
A) For family celebrations
B) For religious holidays
C) For weddings
D) For all of the above and many more occasions

5) Henna traditions:
A) Are from many countries in North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia
B) Exist for many different celebrations of life, from birth to death
C) Are practiced by people of all shades of skin
D) All of the above are true
E) Only come from one country

6) Every henna artist:
A) Puts a stain on someone’s skin that will last for 3 weeks, and owes a responsibility to that person to make certain the pattern is beautiful and will not harm them
B) Has magical powers
C) Is a wimp; otherwise they’d be doing REAL tattoos
D) Just wants easy money

7) Henna is:
A) Something you can smoke to get high
B) One of the safest substances you can apply to skin, with an extremely low rate of sensitization
C) A plant that grows only in India
D) All of the above

8) Henna was:
A) First discovered by Madonna in "Frozen"
B) First discovered by Fatima in Arabia
C) First discovered by Cleopatra in Egypt
D) Discovered in many different places independently across North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia in the millennia following the climate warming after the last Ice Age

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