henna
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"I thought maybe a tiny dolphin would be a nice way of advertising the book but my skin's too fragile so maybe I'll just get a henna one."
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2025
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
Like where a henna carpet of pine needles was shin-bone deep.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
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
Both Newsweek and ABC published pictures of her, and the Newsweek story describes her physically — “her dark hair is hennaed, straightened, and worn flat to her head,” for example.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 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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