Re: Lonely Planet
Posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on October 21, 1999 at 15:35:52:
In Reply to: Re: Lonely Planet posted by Kenzi on October 19, 1999 at 22:35:42:
Heavy callous henna longevity VS exfoliation from wear....
It's my experience that when your skin is under harsh conditions, the
callous layer builds up well in excess of wear.... IE when I'm
barefoot all summer camping, my foot sole henna lasts 8 weeks at
least. In the winter, (and I'm still mostly barefoot) it's good for
no more than 5. I think skin callous overcompensates for wear. Henna
will penetrate easily an 1/8 of an inch into solid callous...the sort
of hoof-y part of your skin that could be there for decades. (I
measured the depth by skimming off chunks of my hooves to see just how
far in the henna had gone....it never gets to the blood-bearing layer.
It will go as far as the skin is really, really dead.) So...grim
housework will fade henna, certainly, but if your skin is deep enough,
it will still show henna because it penetrated so far.