Custom Search

Moroccan Henna

Moroccan Henna is a plant that can reach up to one meter in height. The leaves are producing dyeing yellow or red. The henna is often used for body painting. There are several types of henna plants depending on country of origin and cultures such Iran, western India, China, North Africa and the West that use henna for tattoos.

Moroccan Henna is a plant that can reach up to one meter in height. The leaves are producing dyeing yellow or red. The henna is often used for body painting. There are several types of henna plants depending on country of origin and cultures such Iran, western India, China, North Africa and the West that use henna for tattoos.

Tattooed on the skin the same shade of color may varys from person to person depending on the color and acidity of each skin. And also depending on the type of henna used and the duration of time it remains on the skin.

The name “Paradise plant” was attributed to it for its green color and its benefits since ancient times. Henna is a vector of many symbols, which carry a message as a protector against the evils of black magic and against evil eyes and minds.

Henna is a major component in rituals that punctuate the lives of Moroccans. Although it is mostly used by women, a male child would dip his hands at a crucial stage of his life knowing the time of circumcision.

However, it is only a single staining, unlike the girl who will bend to the ceremony during different stages of her life as a woman.

However, henna’s use is most important at the celebration of marriage as a ritual. Henna has the inherent character of legends, mysticism and beliefs that have accompanied it over the centuries and made it magical in the eyes of Moroccans.

Moroccan Henna is also an instrument of seduction and an essential element of the dress of the bride. And in the Moroccan countryside, it is always the tendency to tattoo artistically before the wedding which is called N’kich especially in urban environments.

An entire evening is reserved for the installation drawings. Hands and feet of the bride thus become not only a plastic space but a fertile field for exploration, an ethnological richness of signs and shapes.

Moroccan Henna tattoo is also present in other key stages of women's lives: that of procreation and the end of mourning for four months and ten days following the death of her husband.