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Friday, December 11, 2009

Mehndi Tattoos

Mehndi Tattoos Create

Mehdhi TattoosThe Egyptians used to rub henna and mehndi oil on the fingers of deceased Pharaohs, before beginning the process of mummification. Later, various cultures encouraged the creation of mehndi tattoos. Each culture had its own unique type of mehndi tattoos.

Arabs chose to put large flowery designs on their hands and feet. Indians preferred to make fine lines in each mehndi tattoos. They painted their hands, forearms, feet and shins with lacy mehndi designs.

As the inhabitants of the Middle East began to trade with Europeans, the stain created by henna powder became familiar to some Europeans. Then as other Europeans traveled to all four corners of the globe, those traveling Europeans, some of whom had become familiar with the mehndi designs, met Polynesians who wore a darker and more permanent skin design-a tattoos. That meeting paved the way for creation of the mehndi tattoos.

Although the Polynesian-style tattoo last much longer than the mehndi tattoos, not every person wants to have a permanent design on his or her skin. Many people like to have the ability to remove a tattoo, much like a woman can remove make-up. Those people are eager to purchase the mehndi tattoos kits, kits available at various sites on the Internet.

Such kits include stencils, design books, transfer tattoos, bindis and faux body jewelry. They allow a person to put a blue or black tattoo on any part of his or her body. Such a tattoo remains on the skin for one to four weeks.

The makers of the mehndi tattoos have sought to capitalize on the familiarity of hair dyes with henna. In the United States, the FDA has recognized the safety of such hair dyes. The FDA has not, however, given a nod of approval to the selling of mehndi tattoos.

The original skin stains made by the mehndi mixture were either brown, orange brown or reddish brown. Such stains contained only the chemicals in the henna plant, plus the chemicals inmehndi oil. The blue and black tattoos created from the mehndi kits have additional chemicals.

By H M

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