Re: Staining process
Posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on August 05, 1999 at 00:42:59:
In Reply to: Staining process posted by Jade on August 04, 1999 at 18:49:06:
If I understand what I'm seeing under a microscope...little bibblets
of hennotannic acid bind themselves into the dead dry cells in the top
layer of your skin. The longer the leaf/acid/whateverelse moosh is on
your skin, the more chance that the bibblets have to cruise up on your
cells and get stuck in...and the more deeply they can penetrate into
the layer of available cells. (They'll go down into my heel skin
farther than the thickness of the cards buttons are sewn onto, but not
farther than the width of a flat toothpick). The more bibblets bind
with your cells, the darker is the appearance of the stain.
There are a lot of other factors too...like heat, freshness of henna
and penetrability of skin.....but up the first 6 hours more and more
bibblets make themselves cosy and bind down.