"glassy" ...damn near impossible
Posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on September 30, 1999 at 23:34:18:
In Reply to: difficult skin? posted by Catherine Nielsen on September 30, 1999 at 21:12:44:
There is a sort of skin....calloused, porous, dead, if you run a
pin across it, the person will not even notice ... the sort that many
of us have on our heals; and that you see on people who lay bricks for
a living....that is what henna LOVES! There is an opposite sort of
skin, that I call "glassy"...it is shiny, sleek, like the skin
on our noses and eyelids....and if you run a pin across it, it will
bleed easily. Henna just barely goes there. That skin has a very
thin top layer. Some people have that all over their bods. Clavicles
very often have smooth "glassy" skin. It's a GREAT place to tattoo,
because the needle doesn't have to go far in. It's a rotten place to
henna, because the hennotannins have virtually nothing nice and dead
to bond to.
The other very "glassy" spot that I have found is a 7-month-pregnant
woman's belly...the skin is very stretched and all new, tight, glassy
skin.
Oily skin is also very resistant to henna. If there's pimples here
... henna is likely to not happen. Sunburned skin is also impossible
.... it's going to exfoliate something fierce in short order.