a few questions, new skin, sun burn, festival

Posted by Christina Sahinoglu on July 25, 2000 at 21:42:52:

I have a few questions, maybe someone here knows.

1. first of all, I've read so much about new skin here I'd like to try it to compare results but I have sensitivity to latex so that concerns me. If I recall latex is an ingredient in new skin? does anyone have any experience with this? And if new skin is not an option what other options for wrapping is there?

2. The other day I hennaed my feet and legs, I did a tiger on one foot with little paw print going up and around my leg and then the other foot was a lizard with little lizard prints going up and around the leg. Afterwards I decided to go sit outside and read a book while it dried since it's so hot down here in texas I figured the heat would help too. But after reading for three hours I went inside and even though I had been sitting in the shade I was sunburned pretty good. The design was still good and dark though. But I Was wondering if anyone has experience how the sun and sunburn can effect henna? I'm adduming it's not a good idea to henna sunburned skin but I got the sunburn while the henna was on. Also is it possible to put on sunscreen before doing the henna so that I could sit outside again or does the sunscreen block henna absorption?

3. Lastly I'm attempting my first festival this thursday, friday, and saturday. It's the Mosquito festical in Clute texas (an hour south of houston), so if anyone lives down this way feel free to stop by and say hi. I have business cards and after care sheets printed up. And I also have a release form for minors since the festival organizers asked for that. I'm going to have all my design books spread out for people to read and look at then I have four copies of specifally $5 and $10 festival designs for people to choose from. I also have to big signs, one with photographs and description of henna, my ingredients, etc. and the other with a sampling od designs from the festival design book. I did have a question though since this is my first one, does anyone have an idea of how much paste I'll need? I'll probably make a fresh batch the night before each day, but if I have left over say from thursday would it be okay to mix that with fresh paste or would that be too much of a risk of it not coming out? One good thing is that down here in texas it's so hot don't have to worry about keeping people warm though. I can't lemon sugar though since it's outside with mosquitos and bugs, so is there anything I can do about that, or just tell people to leave the paste on as long as they can? This is a large festival (20,000 attendence I've been told) so what type and size of crowd do you think I can expect? Also the festival goes on to midnight with live bands and such and I'm going to have lighting but is there a time it gets too late to do it, like if people are going to be going home to bed soon? Well I apologize for this getting so long, I'm just getting nervous, excited etc about this weekend and any ideas hints you have would be appreciated.
Thanks again
Christina Sahinoglu

Follow Ups:

• No mess and no hassle for Festival... MyST 10:17:53 7/26/00 (0)
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