Links and Resources

We've gathered a few references and recommendations below. Affiliate links are clearly marked so that you'll know when you spend money at those sites, a commission or portion is paid to the artists of Trance Caravan. This also helps to offset hosting costs for this site and it doesn't add any extra to your purchase price. Please consider shopping with our affiliate partner stores for your henna needs.

Most affiliate links point to the Trance Caravan Store on Amazon

General Reference:

• The Henna Page - the best, biggest, most informative site about Henna. If you can't find it here, it doesn't exist. There's tons of free instructional and design PDFs, books for sale, and cultural, scientific and social research. In fact, just go directly to their Freebies and start downloading.
• WikiPedia's entry about Henna. If you are curious to see what a henna plant looks like, this has good photos.
  
• What color will your henna stain be? This handy stain chart on the Henna Page will help.
  
• Henna your Hair! Everyone always asks about my long red hair. It is very healthy and happy since I made the switch away from boxed chemical hair dyes. Did you know that many brown, black and red hair dye in stores and salons contains the exact same dye that is found in Black Henna? Bad stuff.
  
• The Encyclopedia of Henna on HennaPage.com is a great place to get totally lost in the histories and cultures of the world.

Suppliers:

ONLY suppliers whose products have been personally tried and tested by us, will be recommended by us.

• Henna Powder - we are currently using Mehandi.com's 2008 Jamila Crop. It's wonderful! Scroll down past the photo and you can order a sample for a whole dollar.
• The essential oil blend that is mixed with this henna power is called Serious Terps. The combination of Tea Tree, Cardamom, and Clove Bud oil is by far the best stainbooster we've ever tried. It's very pungent, but harmless on the skin.
• Good design books are important. Henna the Joyous Body Art (**affiliate link!**) was one of the first and is still one of the best. There are some very complicated designs in this vast collection, and it can overwhelm beginners to henna art.