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1. Fairy fox design intro (1080p): Hello everyone. My name is Laura Pentateuch from Barry Fox design and here
on Skillshare today, I get the opportunity to
introduce you to Festival henna. This is one of my favorite
things in the whole world. I liked not lying. I love the chance to
be in the public, to be hanging out
listening to live music, have amazing junk food that people are making right
next to me and we'll trade. Yes, it's a good thing. I want you to have it to Festival henna is the
perfect way to break into the scene before
you feel confident to start doing private
appointments or something, you can meet in a public place, put out a tip jar, have a book with a few designs
and you'll be good to go. Wait, No, you're good to go. That's why you need this class. When we're gonna hang
out today and we're going to go through
everything you need to know in order to be
a successful henna artist. I have 12 years in the
industry and I can tell you that every year I
get a little bit better. But I wish I'd had the chance at the beginning to have
somebody tell me. Yes. Good idea. No, not so much. That's what I'm going to
try and do for you today. Let's get started. If you want to join, all you
have to do is keep watching.
2. Fairy fox design supplies (1080p): Now that you guys have decided
to take the plunge and learn festival henna, you're
gonna need some henna. I want to walk you through
the things that you need. Now there are three steps
to every henna design. There's the before,
during and after. So before you even get a hint of design or before you
give a hint of design, you want to make sure you're
dealing with clean skin, especially right now where we're worried about
germs a little bit, having some hand
sanitizer or alcohol wipes on the table so that everybody can wash their hands, can be really nice. It also has the
added benefit of it takes off the very top layer of any little bits of dried skin or dirt or oil that is going
to inhibit the henna stain. Now, as you know, henna is a temporary
staying right? Wrong. Did you know that
henna lasts forever except that the skin
that it's on falls off. So penicillins are permanent. I like to use a fun fact when I start
doing a head-on someone. Now as you can see, here's
everything you're gonna need. The only thing that you
absolutely have to have is henna. This is a honeycomb. This is a traditional
method of application. There are some
other ones if this intimidates you or you
don't have access to one, you can also buy
henna in a bottle, but it is a very big
strain on your hand. And as you can see, I deal with strain on my hand already. I like to have my
henna in a cone. If you're just starting
out by your headshot from a dealer already
put together for you. It comes in the mail
and it's ready to go. Now headed doesn't last
forever in this form. If you're making a lot of henna, it makes sense to buy the henna powder and
mix it yourself. You can buy it in just
100 grams like this, which will make
many of these and every henna cone about
30 designs in it. So it might feel a little pricey to be out
there by real henna, but it's totally worth. It. Makes sure that as
you're buying your hana, you're buying from
a reputable artist and that you're making sure
that it's all natural. Chemical henges
are easy to find, but sadly they can damage your skin or the skin of the
person that you're doing. Make sure that
everything uses all natural and we'll make
sure everybody stay safe. While you're doing the actual
application of the henna, you're gonna use
your henna cone as well as something to
wipe the henna on. Now you might choose to use a napkin or a wet wipe
or something like that. Many Hannah artists
myself included. I just use my fingertips
to clean the tip of my honeycomb or you can
use the back of your hand. You just want to make
sure that you're ready for the little mistakes because they're
definitely going to happen and that's totally fine. How many pencil artists
out there, heavy racers? That's what we have
to, It's totally good. Once you've made your
henna and you've prepared your skin and you've done
the head and application. Boom, two steps down. That's when we get to what
is called the aftercare. Henna designs are beautiful and we love to make them last. You want to make sure that
you are going through and talking about
proper aftercare. It's also a great time to get your name and phone number
in your clients hands. So at a festival,
it might be busy. You might not have the
time to talk to them about their 13-year-olds birthday
party coming up next month. But if they haven't
aftercare card from you, that has your
contact information, It's a great way
to make sure that even after the festival's over, you can still be doing henna. With that aftercare. You want to make sure
that they know to leave the paste on as long as possible and to avoid water
if at all possible for about 12 to 24 hours. Then you have two
different things that can help you
with the elastic. The first one is a sealant. This helps the henna paste
stay on the skin longer. This one is a bone and
you could use chopstick, like it doesn't have
to be fancy you in olive oil, whatever you want. But what this does
is it keeps the skin moisturized and that helps the design from fading
quite as quickly. Whether you're helping
prep the skin, you're getting ready to do it, or you're getting
those supplies, you want to make
sure that you know the process of henna down pat. You want to make sure
that you get it in your book and that
you're ready to answer all of your
clients questions. When you're ready to do
a henna application for the first time or
for the 100th time or for the wouldn't
really have the time. The process always
stays the same. You get the handout
there and that you're ready to
do the design on. Now it can be really useful to have a pillow and
I'll tell you why. When you're working
on another person, their hand is
connected to an arm, which is connected
to a shoulder, and then there's a lap
and there's a lot of the body and doctors
don't like this either. Massage therapists
don't like this. They're always draping and covering the body
up with things. And it's really nice for
artists to do the same. So a pillow can be used to
place inside the lab and then their hand is there and all you have is the hand or the arm. When you're doing a
side piece on somebody, I call it the chicken position. We put the pillow underneath
there and it allows us to feel comfortable getting that close to another person.
3. Fairy fox design design book (1080p): As you guys have becoming
festival artists, it is so much fun to
do henna in public, in a place where
people are having fun. But the biggest thing that
you can do to support yourself and it gets success
is to have a festival book. And so this class is all about building your
festival book. I want to make sure that you have something that
is going to support you and be there for all of your wonderful guests to enjoy. Now there are gonna be a
couple of important things that you need to include
in your festival book. The first one I'm
going to give to you, it is in the resource section. It is the history of henna. You want to make
sure that you are the cutting edge of people's
experience with henna. And so you want to
make sure you have the answers to their questions, frequently asked questions about where it comes from
and what it's for. If you want more of
this information, I did teach a henna one-on-one class that
you're welcome to take. But just to stick it
in your handbook, I'll go ahead and give
you that resource. The second thing that
you need in your book is clear pricing guides. People want to know how much it costs and I can't tell
you how much I hate when I'm in the middle
of a design and someone needs to ask me
about every single picture. But what about this one? How much does this cost? I wish I had it
didn't cost anything. I wish it could all
just be for free. And we could live in a world
of flowers and rainbows, but unfortunately,
money matters. So let's make sure that we
label everything it clearly. You might want to do
that with colors or with numbers or
different pricing dots. I'll show you some examples. Now what we want to do is once you've got your pricing and
you've got your instructions, you need your designs, right? Absolutely. In the rest of the
ten, of course, we are going to be
looking at how we build those designs and where we
draw our inspiration from. At the end of the class, I
really hope that you have a good idea of what you
want to have in your book. I cannot stress enough
how important it is that you get to design this, this book belongs to you, it will not match mine
or Peggy's or SUSE, and we want to make sure
that you are comfortable and that you are putting out
art that you are proud of. But we also need to make sure that we remember this
artist for everyone. So make sure that
you're producing something that in your handbook, everyone finds something they like or something
that they love, and then you will be
happy, they will be happy. I often tell artists to think of their designs as a
Yin and Yang symbol. You want to make sure that
you are represented your art. You're not doing things that
you disagree with or that you're uncomfortable or it's
outside your ability range. But then you're also doing
things that the person getting the design is actually
going to be thrilled with. We bring those two halves together and will
create beautiful art. I can't wait for you guys to share your projects
and to be able to comment on each others for how good these books
are going to be.
4. Fairy fox design first design (1080p): Now that you guys have a firm hold on the supplies that you're
going to need to do, henna, I can't wait
to get doing it. It is so much fun
to jump right in. I want to talk to
you guys about what builds a good henna design. They're gonna be three
points to this henna. We want to make sure that
there is a strong focus. This is what the kid asks for, what the adult last four are
honestly what you asked for. If you want a flower,
if you want to moon, if you want to star,
whatever that is, it's going to go
right in the middle. For me, I loved leaves and
often we do little tiny ones. So why not change it up and have this big beautiful leaf
in our henna today. There we go. Look at that focal point. It is so nice, it is prominent. We're happy. Now we
want to support it. We all have friends and family in our lives that support us. Our henna needs that we need something to support
this design. So often we use shapes
to do that support. So here I'm just going to
add a nice little circle. This can also be a part
of that focal point. But then with the support, I'm going to add just as
something, a little extra. We might add maybe
like here we go, a nice Paisley right there. And then we're going to add
the opposite down here. Support is where we
need multiple people. The focus of your life
should be one person. We only focus on ourselves when we're
in a really bad place. But then we need more than one person to give
us the support we need. When you're adding the
supporting element, you want to make sure that
either there are two, whether it's reflecting
against symmetry here or you can do radial symmetry all the way around
your focal point. There. We've got our support, we've got our focus. Last thing is the core element. Everything loves decorations. Have you ever seen
somebody that has a fireplace mantle
that is empty? No. We've got to get all
the little extras. Let's put in some little extras. We can come right here
and we can bring in, these are often like
trailing elements, a little leaf, maybe
we can put a little backwards swirl whatever
we do at the top, we're going to bring
down onto the bottom. So we'll bring a little leaf on this side and a little swirl. Now this is crazy
simple, and I get that, but I wanted you guys to see the bare bones of
building a design. The beautiful thing about henna is it's waiting for you to add the embellishments that you find beautiful or that you think
are gonna fit really well. So these are called fills. We're going to
come right here on our support and we'll just
add a little line inside. One there up on the
top and one down here. Now once you add that line, this negative space right here is going to
protect our shape. It's gonna say, hey,
this is the backyard. We do a fence around
all the houses, but now the House can get
crazy and incredible. We're gonna fill this one
just with some swirls. Keep it nice and simple. A swirl with a circle around it. Then we just go through and
we add swirl and circle, and a swirl and a circle. This is where the meditative
process of henna comes in. It is amazing to sit with a design that you already have made all
the tough choices. We know where things
are gonna be, we know what they're gonna do. And now we just get to relax
and do the detail work. And we can do the fill down
here on the bottom as well. When you're putting
together a design, you want to make sure that you
limit the amount of shapes and detail work
just so that it's not super busy and confusing. So making sure you're
fills match and all of that can really help bring some of that piece
into your work. All right, so now we've
got a beautiful fill. We've got our
beautiful centerpiece, and we've got the
little bit of detail. You can always add more detail. So a couple more
leaves coming down. You'll see in hana all the time these little bumps
changing size. There's a million things that of course you will continue to learn in your
head, a journey. We're all on a journey. And so doughnut all
feel like you need to be perfect today because
that's just not true. We're going to just keep adding until we come to a
point where we think, oh my gosh, it looks good. When you get to that
point, you stop. Because adding too much
or making it really complicated or honestly making somebody sit there forever. Those are all bad ideas. This is how you build a design. Let's review real quick. First of all, you want that focus piece right in
the center of your design. Then you want to support it. And in the next section, in the next section, we're going to go through
what that support looks like. We have our focus, we have our support, and
then we decorate it. You guys are ready to build
some kind of designs. Let's move on.
5. Fairy fox design layouts (1080p): Now that you guys have
built your design, your first design, we're done. Moving on. We're going to start talking about
some layouts. Now if you look in the class resources
part of Skillshare, you will find this page. I made it just for you. You can see there's an
awesome place right here. Build you can go through and you can write those
three magic steps. And that'll just make sure
that you don't forget them. As we're going into
Festival henna, we want to make sure
that we are ready to do a beautiful design for every single person
that comes to us. Now, what is beautiful? You don't honestly, there
is a secret answer to this and I wish somebody
had told me this earlier, but people love what
they already know. What do you buy when you
go to the grocery store, you buy the stuff
that tastes good. Your whole cart is full of
things you've already eaten, except for the one item
you're willing to try new. So don't stress about coming up with something brand
new every single time. When we look at layouts, we actually compare them off
of letters of the alphabet. So our layouts are going to
be things like the letter Y, the letter V. We do all
kinds of layouts with an O. We use the C, we use a U. It is amazing when you look at a beautiful henna or really a lot of different
art and you're like, Wow, that looks beautiful. All of a sudden you're
like, Oh, look, there's that letter,
there's that letter. The letter S is one of my
very favorites to use, or even the letter L or I, depending on which first
grader you're talking to. So now I want to show you
how those fit onto the hand. If you look at a hand, It's really cool because it
has such beautiful asymmetry. You've got a thumb and the pinky and all of these different
things going on. And honestly this picture
is perfect because do you see how this
hand is crooked? Everybody, when you
say Show me your hand, they will put it
out and at resting, the hand is not straight. So every time you
do henna on a hand, you have to physically manipulate the hand
to straighten it. This is not comfortable like my arm is already
like, What are you doing? Why are you doing it
except for one time? When you finish, they will
straighten it to look at it. There are so many cricket header designs out there, you guys, It's hilarious, except for when you're the
one creating them. So I have crooked hands here, remember to straighten them. But as we go through here
you can see if we just add a simple v onto the hand. Look how beautiful that is. You can even turn it into a y and then you can
add a little dot. It is so hard for me to not
decorate these already. So there is a beautiful layout. Another layout, remember
we're gonna start with our focal point and
then we can draw an S coming above and below. That is going to create a
beautiful henna design. Another one is to go straight
down that middle finger. This is such a
powerful henna layout. We want to use that
one all the time. I want you to become
comfortable not only creating your own designs, but being able to
understand when somebody else is doing
something exceptional, how you can learn from that and create your own
designs based off of that. Here we have the
y, the S, the L. We can even take that V that we started with and just make
it into a beautiful You. Or one of my favorites
is when you bring the half circle or the C and you do it in
multiple places, look how beautiful
that hand becomes. The last one I want to show you is how we can elongate the hand. Everybody wants to be a
ballerina when they're little. It's because Bellarmine
is just so beautiful. They do these beautiful
things with their hands, with their bodies, and it's
so graceful and lovely. One of the things that
we can do for them in their henna is we can take that layout line and we can just bring it across the hand. The longest line possible is the one that goes
from corner to corner. If you think of a triangle, it's always that side
piece that's the longest. So you can take that L and
you just tilt it either from this side of the hand down the first finger or you can
do it in the other direction. And you can bring
it from the inside of the hand down that L finger. As you guys play
with these hands, I want you to have
confidence that if you stay with basic shapes and if you build with
your three pieces, these layouts are going
to lead you to success. So let's get going with
some actual designs.
6. Fairy fox design on skin (1080p): When you're ready,
all you have to do is pull the pin out
of your honeycomb. If you don't do a
pen in your hand, a cone, you're going
to snip off the tip. Again. There is a henna
class what Owen, you can take that if you
want details on this. But I'm going to take you
through how we're going to use our three buildings steps
to create a henna design. Now, many people
will have rings on. There'll be like, oh my
gosh, let me take that off. I'll tell you this. I have a collection of things that people left on
my table on accident. So if you're not going to be putting
henna where the ring is, let the rings stay on. You want to start
with your line, where's it going to go? So I'm going to do a design
right now that's going to run down my hand
in a diagonal. So I'm going to
just squeeze really lightly and put a henna
line clear down my hand. What that does is it gives
me a guide now I know. Okay, that looks good. If it looks a little long, then you can take a wet wipe or even just your finger and you can just wipe that line off. Now if you do it really thin, you won't have very much left. I did it a little thicker
so you could see, but this is now so faint that I can see it
and you can see it, but it won't stain the skin. It's kind of a
little cheater mark, but it helps your head
and turn out so good. Whether it's a line or
whether it's a circle, whatever shape you
feel the need to have. Go ahead and add that in. Now we're going to start
at the top and work down. This is going to help us be
able to make sure that we are confident in the
placement of our design. And also you'll notice
I'm bracing on the skin. I don't want to smear the
design that I took so long building the second that I am trying to
do an add a detail, we have a nice little
swirl right there. Now as we are adding this on, you want to make sure that
in your handbook you say things like every design is
made special for the wearer. That allows you some artistic
freedom to adjust things. Some people's hands are
more narrow than others. Some people will want more of the fingers to be done and all of that, and
that's wonderful. And we want to encourage and
celebrate those differences. But we also don't want them
to be upset if they were expecting the design to be
exactly what was in your book. As you go through and you add all of these little details, the design really comes to life and that's why I like
to call it building. People always ask
me, they're like, Oh my gosh, could you
see that in your head? Node? But really for me, it's a lot like
working with Legos. I just take one little piece
and I stick it down and then I see what will fit
next to that little piece. As you can see here, I'm doing my petals
around this flower. I like to have variation
in the size of the petals. I think it looks more natural. But if that bothers you
or you feel like you're always running out of room
for a petal or something. You can definitely just
do those little marks at the beginning and
kind of map it out and make sure there are so
many different ways to connect to the art piece that you're doing and to make sure
that you're comfortable. If it's giving yourself
that guideline, whatever whatever you need. Here is our focal point. It's kind of off at the top, which I think is really fun. And now we're gonna
just trail down. But before we go too far, we want to make sure we
put in our supports. So I'm going to just bring
two little leaves right here and get them on either side of this line
that we started with. That's going to really help
my design stay balanced. And it's going to help it
look beautiful and elegant. When there are people at a fashion show or walking
down the red carpet, they had to train for that. You should watch Misko geniality because she doesn't
start out that graceful. And our henna designs don't start out that graceful either. We spend a lot of time
learning how to make things awkward and then we get to learn how to make them
beautiful and flowing. I love to make things flow, but underneath there is
always a scaffolding behind every single beautiful building is a really ugly framework. And we don't go visit
the grand opening until they put the paint
and the carpets in. What we want to do now is
we want to just flow down. We're going to just bring some
henna out and then create a nice little leaf on this side and bring
one out on this side. You can see that we're just following that line
and filling it in. I love to think of these as like peacock feathers or something
that I'm just creating. A shape that is going to
follow that framework. And because it's MIT, I've made the hard
decisions already. It makes the implementing, makes the implementing
so much easier. Now I'm getting down to
where I'm on a finger. When you're doing the
head on the finger, whether you're drawing it for your henna book or if
you're actually there, you want to make
sure that you're not putting the details
too close together. So that as the henna sticks to itself and it clumps up and
you lose that detail work. So at this point I'm going to go ahead and I'm gonna
put my line back in. Then here at the end, I'm going to add a nice leaf. Then maybe just
three little dots, the kind of end. Well, now I can see
where I'm going, how much space I have left. And I can just fill it in with some of these
beautiful little details. I've kept this
quite symmetrical, doing one on this side,
one on this side. I typically don't like symmetry because then it has to match. And if you do asymmetry, it doesn't have to
match and you get away with breaking the rules and
staying out past curfew. We just want to make
sure that we're using the same type of style and elements
so that nothing is feeling lonely and
nothing's feeling crowded. And we just put that side
and bring this together. As you are building your
book and your repertoire. And you're having so much fun doing it because let's be real. This is ridiculously fun. We will continue
to learn and grow. So one of the things we
can do at this point when you feel like you're done
is you take a step back, always take a step
back and look at it. You might even want to take
a picture and ask yourself, Okay, I'm done, but am I done? I can see right here this is so beautiful and complex and fun. And up here it says I have a little lonely
and empty still. So I'm just going to make it feel more important
because it's our focus by adding just a couple
little elements coming up. And then awkwardly, I'll come around and do it
on the other side. Always do your best to create a space that you're
comfortable working in. So if that means standing up
for your last few details, if that means having the
client changed the position, whatever you need
to do to get there. But now I feel like
my overall shape is a triangle and that
makes me a lot more happy. And I get to wear some beautiful
henna for the next week, which I know we're all jealous. So of course, if you're
doing hard on yourself, I want to see a picture, throw it into your project. I would love to see that.
I'll definitely comment. But know that I am
here for you guys. If there is anything that you are struggling with
or getting caught on, I am more than happy to
give you my thoughts. I'm more than happy to try and help you with
the design development, whatever it is that
you're stuck on, know that you've got
be in your back pocket and we will create some
beautiful headed together. Thanks.
7. Fairy fox design inspirations (1080p): As you build your handbook, there are so many things
to include and it is really hard to pare it down. Building a handbook is
something that henna artist who their entire career. I can tell you I have
been through five or six of them and I still right now, what am I doing to prepare
for my next season? I'm building a new head of book. Doughnut all feel trapped or controlled by the thing
that you're creating. It is a living
document you will be adding and subtracting
from all the time. But what are you going to add? You need to get inspired, right? So do I, I want to take you through some of
the sections in my hand, a book that I absolutely love. Let me show you
just a little bit of what that's
going to look like. The first section is symbols. I love having symbols in my book because they are super fast, which means we have really
great earning potential. But people can also
connect to them. They are so powerful. So here we have the Deathly Hallows
symbol from Harry Potter. I can't tell you how happy
Harry Potter fans are, but I learned how to do that. But you don't even need
something that hard. One of the most
popular ones that I'm always being asked for
is this one right here. It is like the beach
lovers vacation dream. It's super fast,
It's super simple, but people can love this. Make sure that you take
the time to figure out whatever symbols are that you're going to want that
you're going to love, and the other people are
going to love as well. You can do what I like
to call the Biddy henna. For people that have never
had a henna design before, it can be pretty intimidating
to get that first one. And so I have just some
really simple things like the heart or
the infinity symbol. Things that everybody
can be like, oh yeah, I'm willing to try
that you do it really tiny right on the wrist. And then they can see
if they like hint it. The next week there'll be back at your booth
and they're like, I want the whole sleep because that's what
happens to us all. We follow along with
it. Another one that you can do is you can
build off of these designs. So you can take an
infinity symbol and you can add a word to it. So we have so many
that we have like, Okay, we're totally in love
with the sun today, right? I wish it was sunny outside. There we go. We have the
word sun or love or peace, beauty, whatever it is
that you're feeling, don't feel trapped by symbols. There are millions of them, but go and include them. People love their zodiac sign. We love different
weather symbols. If somebody symbols, make sure you have some
symbols in your book. The next section that we
want to include is Floral. Lot of henna artists books
are purely floral and I like to try and give a few
more options than that. But you can keep
your florals really simple if you're just
starting out and you're like, Oh my gosh, I can't do it. Yes, you can. Absolutely. Simple swirls and a few little leaves
tucked here and there, and you have a
beautiful rose bouquet. This doesn't have
to be crazy hard, but I'm gonna show you the
very simple in any flower, there are three parts. When you're not doing
some more roses, you have the center
of your flower. Around the center is what I
like to call the transition. So this is how the petals are connecting to that centerpiece. This is how the petals are connecting to that centerpiece. Then we have the petals. You can do whatever
pedal shape you want. I love the shape of leaves. I will often just use leaves as my petals and it
becomes a beautiful flower. So take some time as you are building your
floral section of your handbook to look
at other artists. Flowers, discover what they are. Now they don't have
to stay the simple, Oh my gosh, absolutely. We can add some
little petal fills and flowers get
incredibly complicated, but you can also simplify them. So this is all about making
flowers that you love. Now, I'd tell you this, you may have a 100
flower designs in your book and people
will pick three. I don't know how
they know to pick the same ones everybody
else's picking. But you will find that
there are designs that everyone gravitates to that can help you as you
continue to build your handbook to make more designs like the
ones people love. There are so many different
styles out there. So we've got flowers,
we've got symbols. The next one I love
personally as animals. And so I try and get people to get out of most because it makes me so happy. But remember that it
doesn't have to be hard. This is an animal symbol that I use all the time and people
love it and I love it. But you can see it were just a little pop when we
added the heart. So it means we love the
animals and it's great. Now as you're doing animals, you want to remember
that just like people we don't love animals
that are super stiff, know we want to add
movement and flow. If you go out there and you
put this snake on people, they might never
come back, right. If we wanted to
make sure that we are giving those animals motion so we can give it a nice little snake
shaped head and then, oh my goodness, fall in
love with that snake. Let it do it slippery thing. And you will have a
lot more fun yourself. And then you'll also be
making people really happy. Now remember, just
because we're doing something that isn't
traditional henna, there are ways that we
can use those traditional skill sets that we have built in this, this beautiful snake. Yeah, we can make it solid, but we could also
throw in one of the fills that we
know and love and add those extra little details
that we are so good at. So here we go, love it. All of the snaky things. Okay. We've got our animals. The next one that I
want to tell you guys about is pop culture. Now we've got a little
bit of Harry Potter going on already, but remember, there are sports
logos, business logos. We've got even just
the basketball, soccer ball, all of that. We've got recent movies. Song lyrics are amazing. I love pop culture. And I find, oh my goodness, All you have to do is
get relatively close to the right thing and people
will come flocking. I don't know exactly
what this thing is, but I know that people really like the impostor they
think they've done. Just because you don't love the pop culture
reference doesn't mean that you can't give
that to somebody else. You can love the henna, they
can love the pop culture. We're getting in Yangming as you're going through and
you're learning new styles. Don't be afraid to use
things that are like old school that you
totally know how to do. You might not know what
I'm talking about. So I got to tell
you, I'd love adding words into my hana as we go through and there is
somebody and they are so happy. So as we go through and we are doing some
old-school happiness, oh my goodness. Use your words. Now if you feel like
my handwriting is bad, I'm gonna tell you
what it was mine, but my hand drawing
is actually okay. We can learn to draw letters. They are simple shapes,
circles and lines, circles and lines and don't give people fonts
that scary to death. Gothic calligraphy. No, not gonna do that,
but I'll tell you what. I'll do some bounce lettering. Look how fun it is to take a Skillshare class
because there are a lot of them on lettering. And you will end up with a whole lot of fun
in your henna, because henna does lettering
like nothing else. So absolutely add some words. A lot of people that
come to you for henna are looking for something that's a
little meditative. They're going to look for
some celestial objects, or they might be looking for amigdala or something
that really helps them if you're not
comfortable using words, Learn. But you can definitely give them some of those
beautiful things. I have seen so many pretty
phases of the moon, Hannah's that are absolutely beautiful and you can tuck
them into other designs. Remember that these
different styles sections, you can do fusion designs in the center of a
beautiful flower, can live anything that
can be really fun. We also have the
chance to do mandalas, which mandalas are so
fun and beautiful. You just want to start with some basic circles and then find a way to connect
them to each other. We need to take entire classes
on mandalas because it is just an incredible,
fun, Lovely things. So you just keep going and you do another round and it goes,
and it goes and it goes, as you doodle these
in your planner, they will become better and then they'll make it
into your handbook. The last section I
want to talk about here in styles is the
traditional henna. Now there are so many
different traditions that people go to henna for. There's Moroccan henna, Sudanese Gulf style could Geely traditional
wedding Indian. They're amazing these traditions and we want to make
sure that we're respecting them and that we are spending time getting to
know more than just oh, that's pretty so I'll do it makes sure that if there's
something sacred that we respect that and that we
make sure that people we are heading also understand
where things come from. You can totally in your head
a book have little did you know that on your
tribal page until about the Polynesian tattoos that were then reinvented
in the sixties and seventies to create
some American version that is now all over in
the tattoo industry. You don't have to feel trapped, but make sure that wherever you're going for your designs, you're going there with respect and mindfulness as we are so lucky as artists to learn and to grow from these other
traditions and cultures. Now that you guys
have seen a few of the different styles samples, oh my goodness, get going. Start the section. Start your inspiration
folders on pinterest wherever
you need to go so that you can collect
these different images and start to build
your own designs. Now if you're stuck, this is a big job. This is like a three-month job. What you can do is there's some pretty incredible
e-books out there that you can buy and you're supporting
another henna artist, but you're also
filling in the gaps. I know for me there are
some major gaps and I can struggle sometimes to make
all of the art myself. And so this is a
great way to fill in the book and to make sure that you have the supplies you need.
8. Fairy fox design outro (1080p): Hey you guys friends, let me call your friends. Thank you so much
for taking my class. I have loved sharing my
love for henna with you. I hope that this
starts a love of your own and that you can
then share that back. I know that a book can change
your henna experience. It certainly has changed mine. While you're still here
in the last few seconds, know that I would absolutely
love to have you do a project where I can see
what you're working on. And I tell you what, if you have some
pages that you've made for your book
you're willing to share. I definitely, I'm gonna throw a few extra in there
for you and we can share back and
forth and the henna books that we will
create will be amazing. My name is Laura Pentateuch. I've loved sharing
this time with you. If you want to see
more of my work, you can check me out on social
media, very Fox design. I would love to
spend some more time with you until next time.
Laura Pennock, Face Artist & Instructor: FAI
