Henna by Heather

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Body Art Services Offered by
The Area's Only Internationally Certified Henna Artist

  Henna Tattoos Body Art Appointment Rate: $100/hr

Travel for appointments outside Attleboro, MA is charged at 50% of the hourly rate.

Minimum appointment times apply.
See below for more details.
  Bridal Mehndi (mehandi/mehendi/mendhi)
Specializing in Indian, Arabic, Morrocan, and Gulf styles, plus the ever-popular flowers and swirls... anything is possible!
  Face and Body Painting inting
  Glitter Tattoos
  Brush-on tattoos (way better than airbrush!)
  Celtic Woad (aka Ancient Blue)

If you'd like to hire me for any of the services listed above, please contact me by using my webform, emailing me, or calling 401-831-7375 (or 617-429-6301 in Boston)

Heather is an ICNHA Certified Henna Artist available for appointments in:

Massachusetts: Boston, Worchester, The Berkshires (Lenox, Lee, Adams, etc), Cape Cod (Marion, Mattapoisett, Mashpee, Provincetown, etc) Fall River, New Bedford, Taunton, Attleboro, and anywhere else.
Connecticut: Including New Haven, New London, Greenwich, Hartford, Manchester, New Britain, Berlin, Avon, Southington, and anywhere else.
Rhode Island: Providence, Newport, Kingstown, Woonsocket, North Kingstown, and anywhere else
Other places throughout New England and the Northeast: including Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, New York, and Pennsylvania...and perhaps beyond, pending travel arrangements.

Hourly Rate: $100/hour
Henna, glitter tattoo, brush-on temporary tattoo, gilding, indigo, or face painting supplies are included in this rate.

Travel will be billed at 50% of this hourly rate for appointments outside Attleboro, MA

Minimum appointment times:
Within 30 miles of artist (Providence, Attleboro, Foxboro, Taunton, Fall River, New Bedford): 2 hours
Within 60 miles of artist (Boston, Newport, Worcester, Lower Cape Cod, Southeastern CT): 3 hours
Within 100 miles of artist (Central CT, Upper Cape Cod): 4 hours
Within 150 miles of artist: 5 hours
For each additional 50 miles from artist, add 1 additional hour.

click here for info on booking an appointment for a single tattoo

Bridal Mehndi

All brides receive a free consultation, during which we will discuss your schedule and when it would be best to fit in your mehndi, design preferences for the bride (and possibly bridal party, family, and friends).

Mehndi for the bride typically takes between 1 and 3 hours, but will vary based on design choice. An additional 5-15 minutes per guest at your mehndi party should be added to determine the total time required (how long you allow per guest will determine how elaborate their henna will be).

If you would like multiple artists, I am most often able to provide them, as I have excellent working relationships with many other area henna artists. This is wonderful if you will be having an especially large mehndi party.

Parties

Henna is a great idea for parties! Everyone leaves with a design that is unique to them, but brings them together with the group because everyone's got henna. And your design lasts 1-3 weeks, serving as a frequent reminder of how much fun you had. Henna is great fun at birthday parties, bar/bat mitzvahs, bridal showers, baby showers and birthing / blessing ways, ladies nights, etc. Typically a minimum of 2 hours is suggested for groups of 10 or more.

Pregnant Belly Henna

Henna is great for pregnant bellies! Make this life-changing experience even more special by having your belly decorated with 100% natural henna. A fun idea for baby showers and blessingways, but also possibile to do on as an individual appointment with just the mother-to-be.

Plan on 20-30 minutes for a relatively simple design for the mom-to-be, or an hour for a full-belly, complex design. Plan an additional 5-20 minutes per guest to receive henna.

School functions and Corporate Promotions

Heather is an excellent choice for corporate and other large events, as she can do 50+ designs per hour (1 minute per person) under the right conditions - namely doing a small selection of very simple designs while her own trained assistant answers questions and manages the line. About 10 designs per hour (6 minutes per person) is advisable if you'd like your customers or students to be able to have a more authentic henna experience while still moving through the line quickly. Rates vary depending on event timing and number of guests to be hennaed, whether the assistant will be required, etc. Your guests will be amazed and impressed, and very pleased that you've provided such a cool, unique, and hard-to-come-by activity for them.

Non-Profit Organizations

Sorry, there are no discounts for non-profit groups - but you can contact Heather to discuss how you can use henna or facepainting as a fun fundraiser for your group. You do the planning, and Heather will do henna, facepainting, or any other body art you'd like, and one of your staff or a volunteer collects a fee for each design Heather does. Hourly rates still apply - your group gets whatever is in excess of the amount collected.

Events: Click here to see a list of upcoming events!

Heather is available for almost any event you might imagine, and has experience including but not limited to the following:
Weddings - Bridal Showers - Baby Showers - Bachelorette Parties - Birthday Parties - Graduation Parties -After Prom Parties - Bar Mitzvahs - Bat Mitzvahs - Sweet 16 Parties - Quinceaneras (Sweet 15) - Concerts (with crowds as small as 50 to as big as 100,000) - Art and Music Festivals - Street Fairs - Religious Ceremonies and Celebrations (Hindu (Diwali, Holi), Muslim (Eid), Jewish, Pagan (Solstice, Yule, Samhain), Christian, or any others)- College Events (including dorm nights, festivals, carnivals, dances, workshops, lectures)- Library Demonstrations - High School Lectures / Classes / Demonstrations - Holidays - Cotillions - Corporate Events - Corporate Promotions - Retail Store Special Events - Cosmetic / Aesthetician Events - Salon or Spa Appointments - Vacation Resorts (beach, mountain, or otherwise)

Individual Appointments

If you as an individual are looking to have henna done, it is highly recommended that you gather together a group of people and all have henna done together - throw a party! Although my rates are extremely comptetitive, it's definitely better to split the hourly rate with friends and/or family, and it’s much more fun that way! I will happily book a private appointment with you if you decide that is still what you prefer.

Appointments starting at $33 for 20 minutes may be available at India Restaurant in Providence on Fridays and Saturdays, 6-7pm or 9-10pm. Contact me directly to book an appointment.

Appointments starting at $130 for up to 1 hour (including travel fee) may also be made any other day at Color Bomb Tattoo, 150 Broadway, Providence, RI. Contact me directly to book an appointment.

Out-of-town individual appointments are also available, in accordance with the minimum time requirements above.

How long will it take?

People often would like to know how long it takes to do a single henna design when booking their artist.. Since the time it takes depends entirely on the design being drawn, please provide a few sample images that are along the lines of what you would like done - at least the same level of complexity, if not the same thematic content. With a visual in mind, I can provide a solid estimate for you. Check out my gallery for examples of different types of designs.

It should be noted that I can do 50+ very simple designs in an hour, with 15-30 designs per hour (2-4 minutes per design) being what most large event coordinators decide on. Most moderately elaborate traditional Indian designs, like those done at a pre-wedding mehndi party (or bridal shower or grown-up's birthday party), take between 5 and 15 minutes each.

Whatever your parameters, I will bring a range of design choices that fit within them.

Clients/Venues:
(ongoing/repeating events and venues you could easily go to and find me are listed first for your convenience... although if that is your goal, you should really check out my calendar instead)

Additional Services Available:

Face Painting
 I also offer face and body painting services for almost any event, using theatre-quality facepaints in a rainbow of colors. This goes over great with the kids! It's also a nice alternative for adults who don't want the 1-3 week commitment of henna. The paint lasts through the day, but easily washes off before you go to bed.

Woad
Upon request and with advanced notice, I can use Ancient Blue indigo to recreate Celtic woading. This is a natural indigo dye, like what's used to dye your jeans, but in a form that is appropriate for use on the skin. It's especially popular at and in preparation for renaissance faires, SCA events, sci-fi conventions, LARPs, and pagan gatherings. It's great for people who want a natural tattoo, but in a cooler color than the browns, reds, and oranges of henna. .

Temporary Tattoos
Almost any design that can be done in henna can be done as a hand-painted temporary tattoo as well. I use the industry standard temporary tattoo paint used in movies and on stage (Temptu). All temporary tattoos are painted on freehand.

Gilding and Glitter (aka Zardosi Mehndi)

Glitter tatoos are all the rage! I've found a method of applying glitter designs to skins so that they will last up to a week. A rainbow of colors (and then some!) are available. This is great for girls' birthday parties for those who don't want the 1-3 week commitment of henna or would prefer something with razzle dazzle. These look truly fabulous!


I also have 20+ different colors of gilding paste available, including gold, silver, red, pink, rust, copper, orange, purple, blue, white, spring green, hunter green, and many more.
Gilding paste and glitter can be applied over drying henna paste, over the final henna design the following day, or all by itself. I can also apply glitter and rhinestones in addition to or independent of any mehndi design. For more information on gilding and glitter work, visit the henna page.
 

Want to learn to do henna yourself?

  Group Workshops
  Individual Tutoring

Other Services
All of the services listed below are somehow related to my unique skillset required to do and market henna body art. People familiar with my work have asked me to do all sorts of related stuff for them. Here are some of their ideas - maybe I can help you, too!

  Tattoo Design (especially mehndi / henna styled tattoo designs)
  Drum Head Henna Designs (very popular among musicians - an excellent gift idea!)
  Wedding / Birthday Cake Decorating
  Calligraphy (invitation addressing, certificates, etc)
  Image Editing and Watermarking
  Internet Marketing and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
 

Web Design (and MySpace / Facebook account design and maintenance)
and also website promotion - help your website move up in Google and other search engine rankings! ....how easily you found my website is evidence of how good I am at this :)

  Party / Event Planning (including DJs, live entertainment, decorations, etc)
  Copy writing and editing
  Henna Art Consultant
  Sign Painting

 

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If Heather has already done some henna for you and you were pleased, would you be kind enough to fill out this webform so that she has a record of your lovely comments to use a testimonial later on? Email her with a link to your review, and you'll get $5 off your next party!