Re: More on wraps (and this forum is a God-send!)

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Posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on August 17, 1999 at 19:44:28:

In Reply to: More on wraps (and this forum is a God-send!) posted by Keltie ^,,^ on August 17, 1999 at 17:40:04:

The wider variety of techniques you learn, the better it gets, because
there is no one recipe that suits all hennaes and there is no one
sealer or wrap that is perfect for all situations.

On the latex only.....the only problem I've seen is that the lines are
a little fuzzy with just latex (and I'm really picky about line
quality) and there are a couple of other problems intrinsic to
latex.... (been posted before) ...and last I tried paper tape over
latex did very badly. It seemed to encourage it to peal off and
goonch up.

One odd thing I tried recently....vet tape on my latexed, hennaed
foot overnight...seems that the vet tape contracts with warmth under
the covers, and I woke up feeling like all the bones in my foot were
being slowly dislocated in some sort of Inquisition torture. I don't
recommend that one at all.

When you're working with clients, try to nail the henna down so firmly
that they aren't even tempted to fiddle with it or pick it
off....because if they ruin their henna, you, as an artist, will be
blamed for a poor henna job. Unfair, but normal. At last years
Lilith fair, the henna artists paper taped the henna down and all
their clients kept pulling up the tape to peak at their henna...and
ruined their hennaes completely!

On the whole.....TRY EVERYTHING! One way is a traffic sign, not a
henna rule. Ladies have done themselves up with henna for over 4000
years, and in over 40 countries, and every one of them has a slightly
different way of working.

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