Appendix 7

HEAT

95° F to 105° F is not an unusual afternoon temperature a summer festival in the USA. If you're working on black asphalt, with no shade, the temperature may actually be 115° F or more! If the weather is also humid, this is a very dangerous situation!

Make sure you and your boothworkers have a pint of fresh cold water to drink every hour, and keep a cooler of ice with you. If you are dizzy, nauseous, disoriented, headachy, or irritable you may be suffering from heat exhaustion! Put a ziploc bag of ice on your head, throat, neck, bosom. Cool off! Heat stroke is dangerous! Watch each other for signs of heat exhaustion, and and send overheated co-workers off to rest and cool down. Stay in the shade, move slowly, and wet your clothing with water.

Do NOT drink alcohol in extreme heat!

Appendix 8

Pattern Placement

Most people do not understand that henna is NOT a tattoo, and will behave differently on the skin. If they've never heard of henna, you have the opportunity to show them a wonderful new art form! Do your best for them.

Hands and feet, though they take henna best, are inconvenient for festival goers, and are rarely requested except by henna enthusiasts.

When people want henna on an area where henna stains poorly, lay down thick henna lines to maximize stain.

When they ask for an upper bicep or shoulder, let them know that lower down on the arm will give them a better stain, especially if they've recently gotten sunburned.
If they insist on upper back or shoulders, clean the skin thoroughly with isopropyl alcohol to remove as much oil from the skin as possible. This will help make henna stain better.

On men, the furless region that curves from inner elbow to inner wrist takes stain very well, and is well-suited to knotwork, tribals, and dragons !

Young women are fond of lower back henna. The areas to either side of the spine will take henna better than the skin directly over the spine. Try to convince them to have the pattern on their tummy, that will take stain better! Secure their t-shirts up under their bras, and remind them to leave them up for about 3 hours until the henna has fallen off.