#### Good morning everyone. I hope everything is gonna fine. How about the typhoon Jolina in the Philippines? May God spares the people from devastating situations. 

Today I would like to share a short story about how they made art using Henna powder.

When we were new in this house 14 years ago, I planted a henna tree in front of the house and it became a big tree, spreading and has a thorn. It accumulated big space so my boss decided to cut off and removed the root si it would never come again. It has tiny leaves which is can be used for hair and henna art in their part of the human body like a tattoo. The difference is henna will be vanished away after a long time duration.

When there is a wedding party, before the wedding day, it is their tradition to have henna art on their hands and feet. All-female members of the family, the bride, and relatives will come to the house at night. They would pay for an artist to perform it. The last time we had a wedding party here, I ask my employer to have a picture. They agreed but no picture from their faces. I was allowed to take the picture with their hand and foot.
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*This is the hand of the sister of the groom, the eldest son of my employer, and the eldest daughter of the family.*


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*And this is her foot and legs.*


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One of the sisters of my lady boss offered her hand to have a picture too.

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*The art was different from her niece. It varied from the ages of the female who wanted to have henna art. There is a style for adults and teenagers.*

The picture I showed from the Aunt was still in the process. The henna paste was still on her hand while the daughter of my boss had been washed and already clean. The henna paste was no longer on the skin.


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*This one was another style of the art of flowers for the younger sister. Everyone had a different style but I was just able to capture these three hands.*


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*The hands of my lady boss, the mother of the groom. She was the one who had it and finished first. She was busy making a garland made from the Sampaguita flowers/ Arabian jasmine flowers.*


#### The process on how to perform this?

The artist made the mixture by using henna powder with water and some important ingredients making a perfect henna paste. She brought it at home a day before she performed the art on the following day. The paste must be ready a day before it will be used. I smelled like there was gasoline mixed with it. I asked my boss and it was true, they put drops of gasoline to make a perfect paste.


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*Here is the henna paste. The artist will put it in cellophane formed in a triangle. They closed the edges using matches or lighter. They were si creative but I forgot to take the picture of the stuff. Just imagine when a baker puts the icing on their cake. The same procedure but it has only a tiny open on its edge so it becomes like a pen to draw the art.*



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*This is the henna powder before it was mixed with the ingredients.*


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*My employer told me to have it too for the special day of her son. Imagine, the groom on that day was 7 years old when I came to this family. But I refused making a henna on my hands. I was the one making the household, washing the dishes. How could I do with henna in my hands? It tooks 3 to 4 hours before removing the paste. And another reason I don't want to have it, because after having it my palms become too dry. I tried it before. I told them to just put make up and hairdo and thats enough for me for the big day.
##### Making henna art during the wedding day is one of their culture and traditions. I observed this during my 23 years of staying here.

That's all,thank you,@asean.hive community and hope you like it!

### Hive On and Keep safe!


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Gif credit to @gremayo 
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