Have you ever had a Henna tattoo? They are hugely popular in India where the plant-based dye is used to create beautiful and intricate designs on the skin that lasts only a couple of weeks. here in Australia, it is still unfamiliar to some people- something Halitha Khan, who now lived in Devonport, Tasmania- is working hard to change.
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00:00I never imagined that I would be having my own henna business.
00:08It was just out of love and passion.
00:11That's how henna was for me.
00:12The Tasmanian people, their response towards me doing henna tattoos for them is so welcoming.
00:20I want to make it popular in Tasmania.
00:23I really want to do that.
00:28Everyone does henna back in India, everyone.
00:30There's no wedding which goes on without having the bride line up completely with henna.
00:36If there's a festival, the first thing that the girls get done is their henna.
00:41That's very important back in India.
00:46I have been in Tasmania for a year now.
00:48The first market that I did, I was very nervous and very scared.
00:52I didn't know how people would react to henna body art.
00:56I started at four, and I didn't look up until it was 8.30.
01:02The response was so huge, and I loved it.
01:06There are people who come to my table and they ask me, what is this stuff?
01:13So it's always very interesting for me to let new people know about what henna is.
01:19It's what I enjoy the most doing.
01:21So I really think that people who enjoy getting henna done will also like to learn it.
01:29If you just have that passion to do henna with so much of love in what you're creating,
01:34then that's enough to be a henna artist.
01:37I just love doing henna.