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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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