Vaseline works, kind of...
Posted by Amy L. on January 17, 2000 at 05:50:18:
In Reply to: Anyone have workable prevention? posted by Eliz. on January 16, 2000 at 18:24:55:
Before touching up the areas where henna fell off before it stained
fully, I smeared vaseline all over the fingers and knuckles of my bag
hand... Oh, yeah, and I pushed all the henna away from the zip seam
and closed it off with a rubber band :) The vaseline only got on the
actual bag, of course, and didn't rub onto the left, hennaed hand, so
I would say it is safe... of course, if you DO get henna on the
vaseline and you need to wipe it, you have to apply more vaseline,
which is sort of a pain when you've only one hand to play with a
mehndi bag and vaseline tube at once :) I would probably start using
surgical or plastic gloves. (Plastic, because taking off a surgical
glove is very much a two-handed operation, and plastic gloves are far
easier to take off)