• These body adhesives contain water, acrylic emulsion, glyceryl, guar gum, sorbitol, titanium dioxide, and a trace (less than 1%) of  benzyl alcohol.
• When you dust glitter or gilding powder over the surface of ''white henna' you can create any color you desire: the colors of glitter or gilding powder stick to and seal the surface of the adhesive. 

• colorless henna
• skin bleach
• henna or any product for hair called 'white henna'

• Apply 'white henna' to skin as you would apply henna.
• When the wet, sticky paste becomes firm, apply gilding powder or glitter generously over the surface of the 'white henna'.
• The powder and glitter will stick to and seal the 'white henna' paste.
• Brush away the excess gilding powder or glitter. 
• The paste will no longer be sticky, and is now waterproof and durable.
• The 'white henna' will stay on the skin from three to ten days depending on how well the person takes care of the work. 

• At left, #1 is henna, #2 is Pros-Aide Cream Adhesive, and #3 is Becoming Moonlight® Gilding Paste.
• Becoming Moonlight® Gilding Paste is adapted specifically for henna artists.  This paste retains some color when dry, so you can see what you're doing.  This paste does not dry flat and it keeps the raised appearance of a henna line. This paste is slightly thicker, closer to what a henna artist is used to working with. 
• Pros-Aide Liquid Adhesive: a thin liquid which can be applied with a brush and dries flat and transparent
• Pros-Aide Cream Adhesive: a thicker version of Pros-Aide Liquid Adhesive which can be applied with a cone and which dries flat and transparent.
• You will get better results if you use a thinner line with the 'white henna' pastes than with henna. Thinner lines of 'white henna' dry faster.
• Thick lines in henna make a darker stain.  Thick lines in 'white henna' dry very slowly.
• Glitter and gilding powder stick readily to 'white henna' paste, and form the surface of the pattern.

• Plan your 'white henna' to take advantage of the violet areas in the drawing at the left. 
• Avoid hairy, sweatty, or oily areas.
• Avoid places which are rubbed by use or by clothing.
• 'White henna' works in many of the areas where 'natural henna' is not particularly successful.

• These adhesives that are used as 'white henna' were originally developed for physicians to attach life-saving medical prosthetics to a person's skin. These adhesives are also used by professional makeup artists to attach prosthetics for special effects. 
• The 'white henna' pastes discussed HERE:  http://hennapage.com/henna/white_henna/ are the worldwide industry standard for use in the professional medical prosthetic and special effects make-up industries, and have been used for over thirty years.
• These adhesive products do not contain latex. 
• Do not apply these pastes to a person who has an allergy to medical adhesives or Band-aids.  

• If you have a degree in polymer science and a laboratory set up, go right ahead.  The molecules that make up these adhesives are very complex structures, potentially cotaining millions of monomers, and the pastes absolutely love to clollapse into a lumpy, sticky, useless mess.
• If you try to fiddle with these adhesives to make them thicker, thinner, or colorful, the molecules are apt to react badly and the paste can collapse into a mess. 
• Seriously, just follow the instructions here:    http://hennapage.com/henna/white_henna/  The HennaPage artists who worked on developing Becoming Moonlight® 'white henna' since 2012 have largely figured out how to do this.

• So far, these body adhesive pastes seem to last a year in a jar and at least six months in a cone
• Keep your paste at room temperature.
• Do not freeze!

• No, it's just a different media which has been adapted to the needs of henna artists.

So, what is Becoming Moonlight® Gilding Paste? 

• We asked the chemist who invented Pros-Aide Liquid Adhesive and Pros-Aide Cream Adhesive to develop a variant especially for artists.  Artists needed the paste to be thicker, less transparent when dry, and to stay raised on the skin.  
• The chemist looked at the work the HennaPage artists had done, thought it looked great, and was excited that his invention for medicine could also be used for art.  He created Becoming Moonlight® gilding paste and mehandi.com has exclusive rights to this paste. 
• Becoming Moonlight® is absolutely different from the other pastes.
• Pros-Aide Liquid Adhesive and Pros-Aide Cream Adhesive can be used by any artist who can work around their limitations.

What is Becoming Moonlight®?