Henna as a ritual.

[1stimestar]

Do any of you find that you have or are developing a ritual to doing henna? Is what I mean is that I find myself doing the same things in preparation for doing my own henna. I take my cone out of the freezer, clean off my desk so I have nice working space, look at any henna pictures I have saved recently to get ideas, wait for the kids to go to sleep or if it is earlier wait for them to be occupied outside, put some nice essential oil in my diffuser, gather my paper towel, q-tip, and toothpick, get myself something to drink, turn on my lamp, and get to work. It seems a nice ritual and I think it helps me get into the proper mind frame. I think it interesting in that laboring women also do better when able to get a rhythm or ritual down.

[ScootchsMom]

I pretty much do the following:

Get my cone out of the freezer
Put DD to sleep for the night
Finish up whatever work I have for DP
Get my drink, my print outs of pics for ideas and get settled in my chair in the living room
Once I'm settled, then I start. Of course, something always interrupts right in the middle lol

But it is relaxing and nice to take the time to do something "pretty" for myself, KWIM?