4 Tools Henna Artists Use Henna & Mehndi Art.

by Amit Negi Digital Marketing Expert

I'm Lisa Butterworth's, sometimes known as Kenzie, and I am an artist and owner of a Mehndi supply business, findmetop dot com. Today I'll unleash your inner Mehndi Artist or Mehendi Wala and have you drawing Mehndi designs all over your friends and anyone else who will sit still.

There are a lot of tools that you can use to do Henno with, and you can try them all and see which you like best in South Asia, which is India, Pakistan and Bangladesh and a lot of the Middle East, they use a plastic comb. In India, milk comes in bags. And so a lot of the heads of artists in India use that plastic milk bag to make cones out of here. In the West, we use Mylar wrapping paper, which is what I have here. You can also use the plastic that comes wrapped around flowers and you can also use salad bags or chip bags. So that's one of the tools that you can use in Morocco. They use the syringe. They actually have special Bridal Mehndi syringes and they mix their head and paste a little bit thinner and they mix it in a little tea glass and then use the syringe to suck the Mehndi up. And then when they Mehndi, they depress the plunger in the Mehndi just kind of flows. So they have to work really fast to keep up with the flow of the hand. What I use and what a lot of artists in the West use is something called the Jaccard bottle. This is a Jaccard bottle that's full of Mehndi with a tip on this bottle has a cap that screws on and off, which is really handy for keeping the paste from getting all over your stuff when you're just storing the bottle like in your bag. And then it has this little plastic tip that pops out and pops in. So you pop it out to fill up the bottle with Mehndi paste and then you pop it back in very easily and then you just screw on these little metal tips. And the metal tips come in three different sizes, small, medium and large. And I like to use the medium one for most of my work. And again, these are called Jaccard Bottle.