Recipe Shmesipe

Posted by Rupal on September 01, 1999 at 16:57:27:

Okay, now is a specific mehndi recipe really necessary to get good
results? We've seen Jeremy's comparison test photo (I'm pretty sure
he has a link to it somewhere from these pages!) and noticed how
similar all of his results were, and as a college student, I found it
incredibly difficult to prepare mehndi, my kitchen consisting of a
microwave, a refrigerator, a bathroom sink, and the inflatable coffee
table. I managed to boil my tea and add my cloves etc., but I have
been considering just reducing my recipe to water, tamarind paste,
eucalyptus oil, and lemon juice (+ henna of course!), provided that I
am using fresh henna. Any thoughts on this?

Also, how many of you use specifically HOT tea in your henna mix? I
did this for awhile but got grainy paste and eventually decided to
let the liquid cool down to a warm-lukewarm before adding it to the
henna. My results didn't change as far as I knew, and my paste
tended to last longer.

~Rupal

Follow-ups:

• Re: Recipe Shmesipe - that link! Jeremy Rowntree 16:44:04 9/03/99 (0)
• Re: Recipe Shmesipe Anon 03:58:20 9/02/99 (3)
  • Mordants bite Catherine Cartwright Jones 04:12:49 9/02/99 (1)
    • Re: Mordants bite Anon 05:39:18 9/06/99 (0)
  • So the coffee table makes a better head/foot-rest than a place to put a mug, but including it in my list was a nice touch wasn't it? :-) (nfm) Rupal 04:05:08 9/02/99 (0)
• Re: Recipe Shmesipe Natasha Papousek 23:45:34 9/01/99 (1)
  • "Boofy" Catherine Cartwright Jones 03:33:53 9/02/99 (0)
• agreed. Catherine Cartwright Jones 17:09:09 9/01/99 (0)