This tattoo is stupid.

Henna being applied in Morocco

Henna, several hours after application

I think the oil is supposed to help the henna set, but it also just feels nice on the skin because the dried henna doesn't feel that great. when the henna first comes off it's bright yellow, then darkens up over the next several hours.

Recently, a new book documenting the ancient art of henna was released.

Tattoo artists, they don't want it it's not cool.

The risk also appears to be greater for larger tattoos.

Peace Corps volunteer Emily (Emily and Jon in Morocco) recently experienced henna firsthand. On the blog, she posts photographs of henna being applied at the artisana where she works

Cosmeticians, skin care specialists, and tattoo artists shape our appearance.

In Morocco, henna is used to decorate the hands and feet with intricate patterns, and to tint the hair at the hammam.

When I got home I dabbed the dried henna with some olive oil before peeling it off.

I got this tattoo because I spent most of my 20s living outside the country and traveling.

A common example of these include ink from tattoos and freckles (melanin) in skin samples.

Samuel O'Reilly was a successful New York tattoo artist and the inventor of the modern rotary tattoo machine, which he patented in 1891.

Henna as an art form has existed for thousands of years. Found from Morocco to Bangladesh, henna is used to dye the hair and decorate the body.

Jack was a tattoo artist, and gave her the first of a series of tattoos, one of which would become her trademark tattoo, two hearts on her right buttock.

The book, entitled Moor A Henna Atlas of Morocco, contains illustrations and photographs of the beautiful Moroccan version of the art form. A sneak peek

The tattoo art was a sacred marker of identity among the Maori and also referred to as a vehicle for storing one's tapu, or spiritual being, in the afterlife.

The most common method of tattooing in modern times is the electric tattoo machine, which inserts ink into the skin via a single needle or a group of needles that are soldered onto a bar, which is attached to an oscillating unit.

Now, luckily, this Thrinaxodon, the size of a robin egg here this is a skull I've discovered just before taking this picture there's a pen for scale it's really tiny this is in the Lower Triassic, after the mass extinction has finished.