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Merry Christmas Guys!!! This Christmas, I have a very special Trader Girls to give you all! Leslie` Nikole is back with a pictorial for you all about henna! Thank you SO MUCH Leslie`! I hope you all enjoy!

HENNA IN TEN STEPS!

1. Put down newspaper like you have a dog that isn't potty trained. Henna stains are just that serious.

2. Sift through your henna into a bowl that you aren't going to be using anymore for anything special.

3. While your sifting, put five green tea teabags in a pot of 4 cups of water to boil. Let this boil up for about ten minutes, then take it off the heat to let it cool down a bit and pour out a cup and a half of water. ( I made a mistake with mine, I used 2 and some cups and it was too watery. I ended up putting flour into the mix; I sifted it so it worked out. Damm this stuff is BLACK! It kind of looks purple-y. )

4. Then, pour in your oil of choice. I heated up a bottle of (click here) Vatika (150ml) oil and poured it in. It's made up of coconut oil, lemon oil, rosemary oil and some other stuff. It was recommended to me by a Bengali girl in my class.

5. Stir up the mixture with a plastic fork and while wearing disposable plastic gloves. Then, let it sit with nothing covering it for 15-20 minutes. While you're letting it sit, do a quick clean up of wherever you mixed your henna and then move on to your bathroom or wherever you're going to put the henna on your head and put down more newspaper on the floor, cut open a plastic bag and put it in the bath tub or over the sink. Make sure you leave a hole for draining.

6. Make sections in your hair ( I did about 12 ) and start applying! You can do this however you want, with or without gloves. If your mixture is really wet, moist or runny; try not to move your head around to much. No one likes a henna splatter. Make sure your edges and ends are well coated and then "wrap" your hair with the help of the henna.7. After your done applying, wash off your hands/take off your gloves and get rid of the newspaper and garbage bag, you shouldn't have much more clean up than that to do, but if you do, get it done. 8. Get a plastic bag without a design on it ( if it has one, flip it inside out so that the ink won't touch your hair ) and cover your hair and make sure your hair line is well covered. After that, cover it with a towel. Wipe around your ears, forehead and neck so that the stain doesn't set in.

9. If you're going to sleep with your henna, you could try cutting a wife beater in two, making a cut at the arm loops (where the back and front connect, that little seam there) and down the sides. Use one or both pieces to wrap around your neck so that if the henna runs, it won't get on your pillows.

10. When you're done, put plastic wrap over your henna and pop it in the freezer until you want to use it again! >>

FIN!