henna
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To drum up traffic, she recruited one of the tenants at Tiller Terrace to draw free henna tattoos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Light-up toys flashed in every kid’s hands and fireworks exploded overhead while henna artists inked swirling patterns onto excited patrons.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2025
“All my friends were Black, and we got together and cooked Indian food and painted henna on our hands, and I never felt uncomfortable with my cultural background.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2024
Researchers used lawsone, a red-orange compound found in henna leaves that has antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial properties, to boost the performance of cotton.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 8, 2024
It was mehndi, a design made from the powdered leaves of the henna plant.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
By late afternoon, old indigents with hennaed beards filled many of the alleyways, prostrate in nests of discarded twigs.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2019
They both was fair, and each one had hair hennaed auburn-purple and dressed in curls.
From The Verge ● Mar. 1, 2018
With her long, hennaed hair, expressive voice and contagious energy, Manny is clearly the forward thrust of the Bear Creek engine.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2013
The face of the heavily hennaed woman at the veggie burger van visible wrinkles in disgust the moment Hayden Thorpe starts belting out his fruity falsetto.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 6, 2011
Ignatius patted his mother's hennaed hair with one of his huge paws.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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