.
One for breast cancer
awareness
...... if you got 'em, check 'em every month! As vile as the exam is,
do
it once a year!
Breasts can get dark,
beautiful
henna stains easily with terpene-rich henna pastes! For detail on
mixes,
see:
The
Serious Mixes! If you mix a few drops of geranium or neroli
essential
oil into your Serious Henna Mix, you're hennaed breasts will have a
delicious
fragrance!
Breasts are
a challenge
because the real things have virtually no resemblance to half a
grapefruit,
which seems to be someone's notion of what they should be.
They're
never evenly round, and I've not seen an identical pair yet. The
geometrically
circular designs, therefore, only fit on a very few breasts, those that
are very young, or are smallish. Most ladies, having had an
acquaintance
with Mr. Gravity, have breasts that will need elongated or asymmetrical
patterns. Also, if the two don't particularly resemble each other, a
graceful
asymmetry of pattern will be more attractive than geometric
precision.
Women have a strange love/hate
relationship
with their breasts. All our other body parts give us benefit, pleasure
and maintenance of our own organism; but breasts are there to succor
and
delight others. For us, they get in the way of running, make us spend
beau
coup $ on bras that are never comfortable, hurt once a month, and put
us
at risk for cancer .... and they're never the size and shape that we
would
like. However, we make peace with them because they delight our
babies
and lovers. May as well henna them ..... it's a nice canvas.
Just for history; the earliest examples
I've
seen of hennaed breasts are from about 3000 BCE in the Eastern
Mediterranean
near Turkey.... and I do have a fair number of photographs and
records
of henna patterns on breasts from indigenous sources, pre 1930. Tree of
life, vine, blossom, bird and serpent patterns are often favored.
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