08/26/2018
AFTERCARE!!!!!! questions????? we love to help,,, henna is a stain that is trying to stain your skin, the longer you wait to get it wet the darker it comes out, the darker it comes out the longer you can get it to stay!!! We ask you to wait a minimum of 24 hours to get it wet, if we taped you up for the rain or fair fun, wait to take that tape off as long as you can stand it 24 hours would be best. When you first take the tape off most the night will be gone, if you were not taped do not pick of mud let it fall off on its own, until your ready to shower. No earlier than 24 hours after you got your henna when your going to shower, then make sure no mud is on you then, and gently rub some edible oil into the design. You want to create a protective barrier for water but DO NOT rub it OR scrub the henna with any cloth or scrubby things. Before every shower or anytime the henna may get wet apply , with your fingers , a SMALL amount of oil, (applied with your finger, no cloth!!!) doing this every time your going to expose the henna to water..
We suggest a small amount of edible oil be the only thing you use on the henna tattoo, for the life of the tattoo,, lotions almost always have things in them that are not good for henna, and fragrance as well as other ingredients in lotion are not nessesarily preventing exfoliation of those layers we stained,,,We suggest ONLY, edible oil, cooking oil, (coconut oil is not thick enough, so that is the one cooking oil we do not suggest using) even a small amount of butter rubbed into the design would work well,,, but nothing else,, ,, the edible oil will moisturize the area as your lotion would but will also protect it from your lotion and other things that will not be helpful in keeping the henna as long as possible!!! The goal while you have the henna is Giving nutrients the the stained layers without encouraging any exfoliation, , no scrubbing at any time, PAT dry after it's wet, exspecially after hot showers. All we have done is stain the top few layers of skin, and as you exfoliate the layers of stained skin your tattoo fades away. The Oil truck seems to give nutients to those layers as well as acting as a little but of a shield from the water.