the best henna i ever had was the henna i got on the coast of kenya. we asked a few locals and got some recommendations. finally someone lead us up into the little town of Lamu. we went down tiny winding streets until we reached this woman's house. Here several women, who usually wear burqas, took their black robes off and revealed amazing flashy colourful dresses. we sat in her front room on a bench. It was an open air cement room, with a partially open ceiling and a doorway you had to bend down to go through. the paint was peeling, and through a doorway i could see a cooking pot on the floor, and a basin and a few towels hanging. other women sat around and laughed, and eventually one woman told a story in swahili about giving birth to her son, or so i gathered from the gestures and laughs. i also talked to a 14 year old kenyan girl from Mombassa who was on vacation with her family. she told me her mother wanted her to get married soon, but she wanted to go to university to study geography.
this is the henna i had done.
it was pretty and colourful and it lasted quite a long time, but not long enough.
here is a whole collection of amazing henna designs.
Amazing Mehndi Designs | Full Entertainment Web
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