Henna staining is custom quoted at the same rate as our our other offerings.
Options include: three, five, or ten minute designs for groups; Wedding Party henna; fair designs (custom available upon request); and Wedding or hand and/or feet henna. We use ALL NATURAL henna from the most reliable sources in the world. For the darkest stain possible, we mix alll our henna custom for each order and list all ingredients on site for our current paste. Therefore allow a minimum of five days in fall winter and spring before event for us to make your henna! Please go to the Pricing page for more info.
 
Amy of Paint the Moon Blue began working with Henna 13 years ago while living in San Francisco. Henna - or mehandi, a temporary stain on the skin, was once a decoration reserved for brides in India, North Africa, and the Middle East. It is now a wildly popular form of temporary body art that paint the Moon Blue is happy to offer to you!
Belly Henna
Paint the Moon Blue is currently offering henna for pregnant bellies! Instead of the usual oils, Pregnant Belly Henna is made with lavendar oil to be gentle and wonderfully aromatic! This makes a GREAT baby shower gift and we can also arrange a professional photography session to keep as a momento of your special day.
Pricing is hourly. Please call Amy at 781.439.0809 for more info and pricing.
The following text is taken from A Brief History of Henna and is reproduced here with permission from the author, Jen of Henna Muse, she provides Beautiful henna body art in the Fort Wayne, Indiana area:
"The earliest examples of henna used for body art actually come from what is now Crete, the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, and the West Bank. These date back to between 6000 and 3000 BCE. Next it spread to Lebanon, Cypress and Egypt in times from 3000 to 1400 BCE. Artifacts have been found that suggest henna was widely used throughout the Mediterranean, Northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula by 500 BCE and then began to spread through India as well. During these times henna was used in practices that kept away evil and promoted luck and fertility. A warming trend in the Middle Ages saw the use of henna spread as far north as Spain. This was brief, though, as laws banning anything vaguely Islamic were strictly enforced during the inquisition, and women put down the art in order to preserve their lives. Suddenly in the last couple of decades henna has enjoyed a worldwide boom. Ease of transportation and the availability of moisture and air tight containers has made it possible to ship henna all over the globe. The modern obsession with pop culture has made henna a very visible art-form thanks to western fashion pioneers like Madonna and Gwen Stefani."
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