austin_tycho | (no subject)

My mehndi looks a little darker today. I need to take a picture of it. As mentioned earlier, it's a test-run for the tattoo I'm thinking of getting- maybe for my 40th birthday. There is a little redness where the fixative and cotton sort of turned into glue on my arm and I had to scrape pretty hard to get it off, otherwise it's a simple outline in a warm brown color. It's a combination of the astrological glyph for Pluto (the cool one, not the dumb PL one) and the yin-yang. We tried to come up with mehndi-eqsue frilly bits to fancy it up, but the design just wanted to be it's own simple self.

Antares said to put a little oil on it to keep it moisturized, and mentioned olive oil. I was all "but can it be any oil?" and she said as long as it was natural, go for it. I started with lavender, but then remembered that I had some BPAL Pluto oil that seemed appropriate. I can't seem to find on their site anything stating that they're using all essential oils, but I'm hoping they aren't using anything too funky. It just was too fitting.

So, want to get some mehndi? Go here: Laksmi Skin Art