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 developper, and you can also do this yourself if you know how. For example you’ll put words such as your city, work you do, such as for us it would be: baltimore, maryland, henna, henna artist, products…
- Keep a blog. This is the best way to get yourself found on google and all search engines. You can post information about your work and anything that you would find interesting to promote yourself, and then use a large amount of tags. These tags are keywords which search engines will use to grab you, and help others find you when they search.
Creating Freehand Glitter & Mica Tattoos
You’ll need to watch our video on creating these: Freehand Glitter & Mica Tattoos by Khadija
What you’ll need to get started:
I prefer doing freehand glitter & mica body art over using stencils. Stencils can be a bit repetitive. Using the luer lock system to create freehand body art designs is a lot more fun, and artistic. Submit some of your work to us via email at khadija@hennasooq.com so we can share with others!
We hope you read all the way through because we want to let you know that we’ll soon have a large variety of mica colors in stock, along with new cosmetic body art glitter coming any day now. Our new cosmetic glitter colors are: chartreuse, bronze, purple, moss green, blue, tangerine.
