Aaaah school has started up again! Although it's nice to see all my friends again school is kind of stressful. I'm a senior now and it's only a matter of time before I graduate!

It feels like it was just the other day that I was walking into highschool for my first year. And summer! Where did my summer go?!

Anyways I want to share something that I played around with during the last week of summer.

For my birthday this year my grandparents in Japan sent me a gift, I got a really cute bag and inside the bag...

... was about 25 henna cones!

Henna is a paste made out of ground up parts of the henna plant used to decorate the body with temporary tattoos. People often set up a booth and do henna for money at festivals during the summer, and I really enjoy getting it done but I think it's really cool to be able to do it aswell.

I am not all that good at the traditional style of henna but I thought it would be cool to make some designs of my own. I did these on myself and my friends during the summer.

Here is the process for one of the temporary tattoos I did.

First I started off by sketching out some designs on paper so I would be able to copy them, since I only had one go once I started using the paste. I did a lot of flowers since I am most comfortable with those.

Then I very lightly "sketched" out the shapes of the drawing on the skin with henna.

And then I start going over the sketched lines making the lines thicker.

The flower ended up looking a little flat so I decided to add more petals to make it rounder.

I added some little shapes at the bottom and I was done!

Once the paste dries it starts to fall off of the skin leaving behind an orange stain, in the shape of whatever you drew, which later turns to brown.

I hope you enjoyed my process and have a good day!

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