Re: skin temperature
Posted by Catherine on February 26, 1998 at 17:26:50:
In Reply to: skin temperature posted by Phoenix and Arabeth on February 25, 1998 at 08:16:47:
If I wrap the nearly dried hennaed skin in cling wrap, and sleep
ovenight wrapped, or at least leave the wrap on until it is fogged
with sweat, there is a vast improvement in staining. Your pores have
to open, your skin has to have that ammonia-urea-salty film on it
that acts as a mordent for henna. The cling wrap creates a
mini-sauna. Other things to improve the hot-sweaty
microclimate....drink copious tea, use a hair dryer, anything to make
your pores open and sweat. I teach mehandi in Cleveland, Ohio, and
we're hardly ever decently warm.
: Even in mild California climate we see a real difference when the
: skin gets cold there is real image-quality dropoff, and a less
: persistant design.
: What do you folks do to successfully counteract this in the more
: northern regions, mid-West, Cananda, Germany....whereever you get
: real cold weather???