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By Rene LautenschlagerMary Jean Hartel, a young adult audiovisual librarian, teaches the “Henna Hands for Teens” workshop on June 12 through June 14, 2007, at the Athens-Clarke County Library on Baxter Street in Athens, Ga. On day one of the workshop, students learn how to draw henna designs, then practice for day two (painting on the real henna) by drawing the designs they choose on their hands. “The kids will be wrapped up like mummies tomorrow” says Hartel, referring to wrapping the henna to protect it while it sets into the skin. Hartel told her students that in India, a woman puts on henna for her wedding day, and when she moves into her husband’s house after the wedding, if her henna still shows, she does not have to do housework. Henna tattoos can last for up to two weeks if the henna is undisturbed overnight.
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