It's been nice and warm
Last week I went to see a friend, a henna artist (remember she had done this two Christmases ago, already) and asked her to decorate me, something light for the summer.
This is how my feet looked when I got home:
Once I waited the required time, I had to unwrapped these puppies and dry scrapped them of the henna. which gave this:
This is what it looked like two days or so after:
It's been over a week already and sadly they started to fade some. It usually lasts about two weeks. When she had done my arm, I had made a boo boo. You're supposed to cream yourself, which I do, daily, with or without henna, but what I didn't know is that vitamin E is an anti-oxidant and will help remove henna. On my arm the design only stayed a few days, until I realised the cream/lotion I was using contained vitamin E. This time I've made sure there wasn't any vitamin in what I've used. The fact that I wear sandals which rubs on the area when it's hot and humid might be contributing to it's fading, but still, it does look pretty good.
Hubby says it doesn't do a thing for him, and that's fine, I did it for my pleasure. This was/is one of my Summer's treats! What is yours?
2 comments:
One of my summer treats used to be to take a half-day off from work during a heatwave and go see a movie in an air-conditioned theater. I haven't done it in ages, though, because now that I work from home, it's less of a treat. I'd rather be at the movies than in an office, but I'd rather be at home than anywhere else.
I think they look beautiful!
One of my summer treats is icecream.. I know it's pretty standard thing, but i simply cannot tolerate something that cold except on the hottest days of summer. I only eat expensive, good quality icecream, and it is fabulous.
I occasionally sandpaper all the hair off my legs in summer, and enjoy the strange feeling of a skirt swishing around my bald ankles.
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