Some Important Things To Remember While Creating Henna Paste For Body Art

The trend of applying henna or mehandi, as it is commonly known in India, is no longer restricted to wedding events and other social or religious occasions. In fact, over the past few years, mehandi artists in Chandigarh and other major cities have been approached by clients who want to use this herbal paste for creating temporary tattoos and body art. This natural staining mixture enables people to fulfill their desire of getting a stylish body art etched without having any side effects or leaving a permanent mark on their skin. However, in order to make the body art look truly beautiful and make it last long, it is important to have the right kind of henna mixture.

Choosing The Perfect Ingredients

There are several recipes for creating a perfect henna mixture, which have been developed by individual cultures and communities over time. However, the ingredients required for creating the right henna paste are slightly different and often combine the best aspects of the most popular recipes. Generally, professional mehandi artists in Chandigarh and elsewhere, use their own selection of ingredients to give a slightly unique touch to the henna paste they create for body art. The most common ingredients used in this specific recipe include the following.

Something Acidic: Adding an acidic ingredient helps to deepen the color of the stain left by the mehandi paste.  In most cases, the acidic content in the past is supplied by adding a generous quantity of lemon juice. This not only maintains the natural quality of the paste but also avoids any instances of skin allergies and rashes etc. But, in case lemon juice is not an option, mehandi artists may choose to a small quantity of acidic chemicals such as benzene. However, this practice is not generally recommended as it might cause serious skin damage to people with even slightly sensitive skin.

Something Sweet: A sweet ingredient needs to be added to enhance the consistency of mehandi paste and make it drapable. Most mehandi artists in Chandigarh choose to add sugar as the sweet ingredient as it not only helps in ensuring that the paste remains stuck to the skin after it has been applied but also prevents the paste from cracking up, once it has dried. Alternates of sugar such as fructose, dextrose and sucrose can also be used but each of them has a different and unique effect on the paste.

Some Essential Oils: Essential oil such as Lavender, Cajeput, Tea Tree Oil, Clove, Cardamom, Ravensara, help in enhancing the long life of the henna stain while also giving a natural shine to the body art by nourishing the skin underneath. Professional mehandi artists in Chandigarh can use any of the above mentioned or other different types of essential oils for creating the henna paste that is just perfect for body art. Alternately they might also use substandard lubricants and even chemicals generally labeled as mehandi oil. As such it best to avoid any type of mehandi oil, and ask for specific oils from the above list.

Mehandi application has become much more than the simple art of decorating the limbs of a bride on her wedding day. Today, mehandi artists need to not only cater to the needs of their traditional bridal clientele but also to people who want to look cool and stylish in a natural way through henna tattoos and body art.