Re: the young at heart and the restless
Posted by Natasha Papousek on September 26, 1999 at 23:42:36:
In Reply to: Re: the young and the restless posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on September 26, 1999 at 20:46:39:
Just back from working a bellydance workshop. It was actually really
slow (businesswise) friday and saturday, but today was much better.
Anyway, I had a lot of time to try things. I tried the facial mask by
itself, and it did OK on the fine lines, but I'd underestimated how
dry the filled in parts were and after 10 minutes (it took a LONG time
to dry) I had an orange goopy mess. So I wiped that off. Amazingly,
I had a nice orange stain even after such a short time (THANKS for
fresh henna!) so I was able to retrace the design.
This time I used a mix of lemon-sugar-clove oil and the mask. I
applied a thin coat with a paintbrush. It dried to a beautiful
translucent crust. Touch-proof, moveable....while I was still in the
airconditioned building. As soon as I stepped out into the hot and
humid Texas sunshine, the coating went sticky. Not too bad for me. I
would have just put a piece of TP over it, taped everything in place
and that would have been it. But then, I might as well just stick
with lemon-sugar and wrap. So I tried dusting it with powder --
which worked -- took away the stick, but it also meant that it wasn't
clear anymore.
After three hours I just couldn't stand it anymore. I'm a picker.
Can't help it. That's why I do my henna before I go to bed usually.
But today it's a really nice color. A very dark burgundy brown on my
finger and more of a tobacco brown on the back of the hand. Very
nice. Since I didn't do a side by side test for color, I can't say
whether it's the really fresh henna, the double application, or the
mask-mix. Maybe they all contributed.
- Re: Peel off mask vs. lemon-sugar mix vs. liquid latex... Lauri 20:39:57 9/28/99
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