Re: New Skin

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Posted by CAtherine Cartwright Jones on September 24, 1999 at 15:28:30:

In Reply to: New Skin posted by Roxanne on September 24, 1999 at 06:48:16:

I have been using NS for the last thousand or so hennaes....and it has
some excellent qualities and some nuisance factor.

1) Use it instead of, not as an addition to, lemon sugar.

2) Let your henna dry completely (crusty dry) and spray on NS lightly
(one quick pass like hairspray) or paint on the liquid like you're
painting fingernails.

3) Wrap your henna with whatever wrap combo you've decided is right
for you...sleep overnight.

4) NS , in my experience, dramatically darkens the color of henna!
(addition of the clove oil in the NS, perhaps)

This has the outstanding effect of immaculately preserving the detail
of your henna. If you're doing eeny-weeny-twiddly stuff .... NS is
the way to go. Also, if your style is extremely dense patterning
contrasted with narrow pale spacs, NS will largely come off with the
henna.

Problems: NS doesn't partlcularly like to come off your skin. You
can just let it wear off, or you can oil it off. I shower with my
henna just unwrapped in the morning and that loosens everything
up...then I sort of rake and rinse everything off...then I use
cocoabutter to get the NS scraps off. Impatience is a big
problem...the NS will certainly go away, but some people get very
impatient with it. Some folks have city water that strips henna
badly...mine doesn't harm it at all.....I don't have an answer for
folks that have henna-killing water, except save some rainwater for
the job.

Other problem...some people get red itchiness with NS...I think the
question to ask is "are you allergic to nail polish or nail polish
remover?" and then don't NS those people. Don't use NS on a pregnant
lady....(don't use ANYTHING on a pregnant lady that isn't absolutley
totally harmless) ...the vapors will make the lady giddy.

NS and wrap instructions at the link below:


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