Creating Freehand Glitter & Mica Tattoos
Recently in Toronto we had our annual henna conference, Henna Chai. We taught classes on running a henna business, freehand glitter and mica tattoos, and how to seal your henna cone. Sealing and closing your henna cone. Most professional henna artists make their own fresh henna paste. So we roll our own cones, and close them. We shared various closing techniques, such as with tape and with elastics. My personal favorite is closing my cones with elastics as they can easily be rolled down. An important tip: Make sure the flow of your cone and/or bottle is always either full with henna paste or that your tape or elastic is very tight, and rolled down as much as possible. The tighter and fuller everything is, the better the flow of the paste and the faster you can work. Business Tips Add yourself to Facebook. A fan page is a better choice over groups because you are able to be more interactive with a fan page and check on your stats. Fan pages also link to your twitter account, so every time you update your status it’ll send it to twitter. That way you don’t have to post the same information twice. View Henna Sooq’s Fan Page for ideas. Put yourself on google.Google Maps allows you to add your business, and location on it. I highly recommend this as google will grab your information and place you on the first page in google searches for your area. Use meta tags. These are keywords that will be found in your website. They are usually put onto the website via your web...Read more
