Re: Henna on the face?

Posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on April 13, 2000 at 21:57:01:

In Reply to: Henna on the face? posted by Crows Dancing on April 13, 2000 at 20:43:00:

Do not use henna anywhere around the eyes.

Hennotannic acid will destroy red blood cells if it comes in contact
with them, and tissues as thin as eyelids will pass hennotannic acid
into the tiny cappilaries near the surface. Anyway ..... do you
really want unsterilized vegetation and lemon juice right up in your
eyes? Owwwwwwie! And, for heaven's sake, don't use any product there
that you aren't absolutely certain is harmless! These are your eyes
we're talking about! Any goofup of dyes or other rot that might be in
some ***"henna"**** products could be really awful for your face, too!

Henna will stain facial skin but not particularly well .... and
there's that fade down process that looks like you did a messy job of
eating an orange popsickle and didn't clean up.

Also ... if you get any sun .... henna is a 100% sunblock, so you'll
have a motley white where the henna was.

Romans working in Palestine around 30 AD complained that the women who
decorated their faces with henna looked like vampires stained with
their most recent meal.

There are some perfectly good cosmetics for doing up your face ....
check websites for theatrical makeup, temptu and such!

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