Henna tattoo: master class. Video
The craving for permanent beauty and the presence of distinctive features on one’s own body overcomes both fear and pain. Hundreds of girls and young people annually pierce pentagrams, hieroglyphs, pictures or words of love on their bodies. The tattoo itself is of little danger, it is worse if low-quality materials were used to apply it.
Professional permanent tattoos
In professional salons around the world, they use the products of four well-known companies that produce dry and semi-ready mixtures for tattoos. These are American Precision, Italian Biotek, French Jet France and English Micky Sharpz. These companies are focused on making long-lasting tattoo inks and inks, so each product is aseptically packaged and tested multiple times. As a rule, paint is sold in a set with a solvent that evenly dilutes the pigment to the desired consistency and color.
Solvent base components – purified water, ethanol, listerine, glycerin and glycolic compounds
Until recently, pigments were not diverse, and most of them were prepared on the basis of plant substances such as henna and basma. Chemistry has stepped forward, and today there are a lot of multi-colored synthetic dyes on the market. They are certainly allergens, but they are safe to use in small doses. According to international standards, all chemical paints are additionally enriched with active oxygen, and therefore tattoos with them heal quickly.
Professionals today prefer mineral pigments that are durable and stable. They have a thick consistency and do not flow due to barium sulfate and titanium dioxide in the composition.
Plant pigments are used only for home and temporary tattoos.
If you want to apply a drawing, you will need:
- Iranian henna
- wooden stick
- glass vessel
- water
Dissolve a bag of henna (sold at 30 grams) in 2 cups of warm water, bring to a boil and cook for at least 30 minutes. Transfer the paste to a glass jar and leave for 4 hours without light, then stir with a wooden stick and check the consistency.
It is necessary to add dyes to the henna mass as soon as the solution boils. You need to cook with dyes for at least an hour.
To prevent henna from flowing and leaving a stable color, it should be like sour cream in density. If the proportions are taken correctly, you get a brown mass. Strain it. Drop henna onto a piece of thick paper with a stick. The drop should not spread.
For ease of applying the composition, you can drop a little olive oil or avocado oil into the ready-made solution, then henna can be painted on the body
If you want a deep drawing with shadows and shades, add natural dyes to henna. Natural ground coffee will make the color of the picture deep brown, with a tint of blue. Black tea will give a chocolate spectrum (in extreme cases, take basma, in principle, you can even replace henna with it). Lemon or lime juice will brighten the henna, depending on the concentration, you can get shades from orange to yellow. From red grape wine, henna will be red. Black henna will be if you add crushed graphite.