Without Khadija, I don't know if there would be a Mektoub Henna or any of the trips we took to Morocco. In Khadija we found a kindred spirit, someone so passionate about Moroccan henna that it became her life's work. She was our teacher at our first Mektoub event in Marrakesh. We met her on Instagram and loved her work, hoping that she would teach at our event. Jenpa and I went to Morocco for a research trip before our first event and that is where we first met Khadija. She gave us both huge hug...
Mar 10, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 32
I came across Fatma's work on Instagram from a comment she left on one of my posts. We got to chatting and I knew I wanted to learn more from her. I know so little about East African henna and thought that others might be as curious as I am to know more. A little bit more about Fatma: Tima of Simply Gorgeous Henna (instagram: @simply_gorgeous_henna) provides professional body art services and products to conscious beauties in Mombasa and the surrounding areas. Natural henna and jagua are groundi...
Dec 21, 2024•2 hr 7 min•Ep. 31
Today's guest is Caryl Cunningham (@carylcunningham on Instagram) who is a tattooer but started out as a henna artist. She was one of our guests at the Mektoub Marrakesh Henna Journey in March 2022. I was excited to talk to someone who is a hardcore traveller and learn about her perspective on the event. If you are interested in the Mektoub events please follow us on instagram (@mektoubhenna) or visit us at MektoubHenna.com. If you have suggestions of people you would like us to interview email ...
Jul 15, 2022•56 min•Ep. 30
If you have ever met Connie, online or in person, you know she has many thoughts and feelings. She joined our Mektoub Marrakesh Henna Journey in March 2022 and we were really happy to have her there because we knew her and liked having some friendly faces at our first ever event. Listen in to hear her perspectives on our Moroccan event and her transformative experience.
Jun 29, 2022•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 29
This is the first in a short series of inteviews with attendees at the recent Mektoub Marrakesh Henna Journey. It features Monique of Alchemy Henna (@alchemyhenna) chatting with attendee CV from Art of the Zodiac (@art_of_the_zodiac) about her experience at the workshop. For more info visit us at MektoubHenna.com
Jun 19, 2022•37 min•Ep. 28
We talk about our journeys as fans of Moroccan henna, from geeking out over photos of Moroccan henna in the early days of the internet, to deciding to host this Moroccan henna workshop featuring Moroccan henna artists, and a whole lot more. The event will be October 8-15, 2021 in Marrakesh, and registration opens on March 28, 2021. Click here for more information. A few others things we mention in this episode: Our featured henna artists' IG accounts: Khadija @galerie_henna Nadia @marrakechhenna...
Mar 22, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 28
Samir is a Moroccan musician and friend of ours. He took us on a wonderful journey through his career as a musician, discovering gnawa music and making it his life. You'll hear his story and also get to listen to some amazing music. We hope you will be as charmed by him as we were. Enjoy!
Jan 07, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 27
In this episode Monique and Kenzi chatted with Jen about his several trips to Morocco and learned about his henna encounters in Marrakesh, the city of art and artists. Come join us on this virtual audio tour and fill that void that misses traveling!
Dec 29, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 26
Monique, Jen and I have been chatting throughout the pandemic, trying to find ways to keep creative and support each other, but always coming back to the same topics of henna, Morocco, and Moroccan henna. We had talked about getting the podcast back in service but we were stumped about what we could talk about. Finally after months of waiting for the muse to arrive we decided to just invite you sit in on our chats about Moroccan henna. We will be interviewing various people who grew up in Morocc...
Dec 17, 2020•53 min•Ep. 25
I’m going to break an old taboo about talking about money with other people; I’m going to break it hard by talking to Sowmya Ranganathan about money AND broadcasting it to anyone who will listen. I personally think this rule is kind of stupid because it keeps people ignorant about money which causes us to make poor decisions about our money. This is especially problematic for small business owners who deal with money more directly than those who work for someone else. For many reasons, I have wa...
Oct 01, 2015•2 hr 6 min
Perhaps you heard that a bunch of us Moroccan henna fans are doing a full weekend workshop in NYC at the end of February. Maybe you are interested but haven't made up your mind yet. If that is the case, I hope that these conversations with three of the instructors--Nic, Nev and Noam--will help make the decision to sign up even easier! You can hear in their own words what the three Ns are bringing to the workshop and why they think it's going to be amazing. Rebecca and I will also be teaching at ...
Jan 15, 2015•1 hr 4 min
Welcome to Episode 22 of the Caught Red-Handed Podcast which is the first ever live podcast and therefore most of the intro is about my experience at HennaCon. It was my first time, and one of my rare appearances at a conference. If you’ve never been to a henna conference and aren’t sure if you’re ready, believe me you are. The only prerequisites are a passion for henna, a desire to learn and grow, and a minimum of a few weeks of doing henna. I was surprised to see that HennaCon offers so much t...
Nov 17, 2014•1 hr 29 min
Listen to this Episode Subscribe to this podcast via iTunes I interviewed 13 people (myself included) and got 13 different recipes. Imagine that! Incontrovertible proof that there is no secret recipe for henna paste, no perfect one-size-fits-all recipe. Who would have ever guessed that! All my guests are pro artists with years and years of experience and most of them are still working on their perfect recipe. Almost everyone agrees that you have you change the recipe according to a variety of fa...
Sep 21, 2014•1 hr 13 min
Subscribe to this podcast via iTunes Sarah Mixing - Jared M. Burns Photography This episode of the mixtape mixology series is a classic East Coast-West Coast battle with Middle America officiating. We have Sarah Walter in the West, representing Seattle (pictured above). Deborah Brommer takes up the middle position, representing the flyover states from her home in Ohio. She's the perfect person to middle because she is very tolerant of all types of henna, mixes, essential oils and even tools. She...
Aug 24, 2014•1 hr 25 min
[gallery ids="340,336,339"] Download this episode (right click and save) " style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;">Listen to this Episode Subscribe to this podcast via iTunes I can hear you all out there banging your spoons against your henna bowls in anticipation of the next Mixtape episode. Clang no more, put those bowls to good use. This episode will give so many new ideas for mixing henna that you'l...
Jul 10, 2014•1 hr 1 min
Listen to this episode " style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;">Listen to this Episode Subscribe to this podcast via iTunes Photo by Wardah HalimPhoto by Manpreet SokhiPhoto by Sowmya Ranganathan Henna recipes are like snowflakes...no two are the same. Or maybe a better metaphor is that henna artists are grannies with their own special recipe, made with love and no measurements, or maybe carefully meas...
Jun 08, 2014•1 hr 35 min
Subscribe to this podcast via iTunes Disclaimer: It's hasn't yet happened that this podcast requires a disclaimer so I hope I am doing this right. In this episode the existence of sex and sexuality is acknowledged. If you are under 18, please ask your parents if you can listen to this episode. If you are an adult and don't want to know that these things exist, that there is an industry devoted to it, and people who work in it, I suggest you close this browser window and walk away. For the rest o...
Mar 15, 2014•2 hr 15 min
Subscribe to this podcast via iTunes Perhaps you remember Darcy from the inaugural episode of this podcast, or maybe you have seen her work online...either way, she is hard to forget. A bridal panel just wouldn't be complete without talking to Darcy. In my years of friendship with her, Darcy has shared with me so much of her bridal henna knowledge. Her advice---based on personal experience---was very important to the growth of my own bridal henna business. I hope that you listeners will benefit ...
Mar 05, 2014•41 min
Sarah, of sarahenna.com, is not only a fellow henna artist but is also an IT person by day, like myself. Talking with her for the podcast felt very familiar because of our similarly split personalities. I've long admired Sarah's work, especially her bridal work, because it embodies so much of what I am always striving to achieve, especially clean lines and original designs. Wandering around her Flickr galleries is such a pleasure and also an inspiration. I learned a lot from my conversation with...
Jan 21, 2014•53 sec
Subscribe to this podcast via iTunes My interview with Fatima was so fun. After we hung up I was exhausted and energized and kinda teary. It was such a joy to talk to someone who is so passionate about her art and especially about Moroccan henna. I often feel like I'm the tree in the forest which no one is there to hear when I talk about Moroccan henna. The henna world is all Indian, all the time and there doesn't seem to be space for Moroccan henna in that world which makes me very sad. That's ...
Dec 29, 2013•1 hr 47 min
I have always loved Sumeyya's work and have stalked her and her photos for years, but after "meeting" her on Skype for the podcast I learned that we are both Michiganders and fellow fast-talkers. As always, this episode was all about what I could get out of it for my own personal use, as a bridal henna artist. I gleaned some great marketing tips from Sumeyya as well as new ways to think about the layout of bridal designs. I have a page of notes of things I want to work on and I owe it all to Sum...
Dec 22, 2013•1 hr 44 min
I'm in a rush to get this out so I'll just post Bridgette's bio here and add to this post later, if time permits. I am native to Vermont, growing up surrounded by mountains and forrest. I have always been artistic, mostly a photographer before discovering henna in 2011. The soothing flow of henna quickly became the focus of my artistic energy. Instead of trying to capture a moment in time, henna allows me to be present. A quiet creation to celebrate and adorn in any culture or country. I feel bl...
Dec 12, 2013•53 min
Listen to this Episode Listen to this episode "> Subscribe to this podcast via iTunes Listen to this episode "> What a surprising pleasure it was talking to Neeta Sharma for this episode. It really shouldn't be such a surprise because everyone told me how sweet and generous and knowledgeable she is, and she did not disappoint. I don't know if Neeta could hear it but I was smiling on the other end of the line. As always, the interview taught me so much; I continue to think of these intervie...
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Sep 29, 2013•1 hr 28 min
Hiral and I are fellow wolverines from Michigan..though Hiral’s birth country is India. I met her about 6 years ago when I was visiting Michigan. She still saw herself as an inexperienced henna artist. Fast-forward a few years and Hiral had rocketed to new heights in her henna skills. She is a model for engaged effort to master an art form and the results were amazingly apparent. Her path to super-pro included attendance at too many henna conferences to count (I exaggerate only slightly), consta...
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At long last here is part 2 of my interview with Nic. Part 1 finished with us discussing how to learn a new tool and this episode starts off with Nic’s advice on how to learn a new style. Thanks for patiently waiting for each episode. I am trying to get them out regularly and often but it’s hard with a full-time job and my henna work. I finished editing part 1 right before my trip to Australia so you would have something to tide you over, and then as soon as I returned I started editing part 2. ...
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