From: bensmail@oscar.stat.washington.edu (Halima Bensmail)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.arabic
Subject: Re: Henna
Date: 29 Jun 1994 00:56:53 GMT

Haiko Cyriaks (hcyriaks@informatik.uni-rostock.de) wrote:
: Hello!   

: Visiting Arab countries my friend always saw women with wonderful
: textures on their hands and foots made by henna. She bought henna
: trying the same but the result was not a strong red-brown, nearly
: black like the color was at the Arab women. It was a quite light
: orange. Fine textures like tHIN lines or points were almost invisible.
: What was her mistake? How to get strong color and fine textures?

: Thank you for answer! 
: Good bye,
:          Haiko

Hi Haiko
When you apply your henna, and before that it dry you put
with a cotton on your hand some lemon juice or some the
and be sure that it will be black after one or two day

PS: you can mixte with your henna a little bit of lemon juice
or a little bit of the

halima

Newsgroups: soc.culture.arabic
From: USERNAME@NIEHS.NIH.GOV (USERNAME)
Subject: Re: Henna
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 1994 19:17:04 GMT

In article <942829032825@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk>, ABRASAW@IBM3090.BHAM.AC.UK says:
>
>>Hello!
>>
>>Visiting Arab countries my friend always saw women with wonderful
>>textures on their hands and foots made by henna. She bought henna
>>trying the same but the result was not a strong red-brown, nearly
>>black like the color was at the Arab women. It was a quite light
>>orange. Fine textures like tHIN lines or points were almost invisible.
>>What was her mistake? How to get strong color and fine textures?
>>
>>Thank you for answer!
>>Good bye,
>>         Haiko
>>
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>
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>Hi Haiko,
>
>I think it is the time needed to apply it that matters. It will get
>more black if it lasts longer. preferably 6 hours. You need to cover
>it because it seems that the chemical needs a reasonably hot temperature
>to work, that would be annoying and inconvenient sometimes. You can do
>that at bed-time and leave untill you wake up
>
>I hope that can help
>Ahmad
>
I used to use Henna a lot when I lived in the Gulf area, we used Yemani Henna, 
There are two colours, Red Henna and Black henna.
People mixed Henna with youghurt, or with tea or coffee and some even added
a little oil to it, Henna tends to dry out your hair a little, so oil treatments are 
recommended. I  mixed it with coffee a few times instead of water,
that seemed to work good, it didn't come out orange! you could also mix black Henna with 
Red Henna to get a darker colour. I've never heard of using black henna on
hands or feet. I don't see why you couldn't though, maybe mix it with Red.

Good luck.