Dark!!!....cloves the culprit?
Posted by Kenzi on October 12, 1999 at 00:01:00:
Got a really dark stain from the henna I did last night. I only left
it on for 2 hours...it started to smear so I decided to save the
design and redo it for a darker design, if necessary. It was not
necessary. So dark!
The difference from other times? Cloves. I heated up my lemon juice
as usual, threw in a few teaspoons of whole cloves, strained it,
mixed my henna paste using this lemon clove liquid and got to work.
I also used the lemon-clove mix for my lemon-sugar (which is how it
is done in Morocco). I usually get a nice stain but that's after
leaving it on all night. My hands look like the Burnt Sienna crayon
in the 54-color Crayola pack. Wow.