Word: henna
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...Coloring hair has been intermittently fashionable for centuries, from Egyptian henna to the white-powdered wigs and hair of the 18th century. But it wasn't until the 1950s - when the baby boomers were being born and big cosmetics marketers introduced easy dyes for home use, advertising them on the new mass medium of television - that American women began to dye their hair en masse. Until then, women who colored their hair risked being considered trampy adventurers. Clairol's 1956 advertising - campaign slogan "Does she or doesn't she?" was specifically designed to remove the stigma attached to Mae West...
...cultures through crafts,” Portalewska said. “They see something tangible, and they are more eager to value it.” Subhash Sehgal of Framingham is a proud supporter of the event and has participated as a vendor since 1993. Every year he displays henna blocks, saris, and Hindu figurines from his childhood home in India. “One design isn’t always used in one piece or one form of art. Cultural Survival allows us to express this diversity to the rest of the world,” Sehgal said. Timothy...
Harvard students who just spent their summers in locales near and far bumped into each other—literally—for the first time this fall at a Friday evening carnival in Tercentenary Theatre. While families and a Ferris Wheel were nowhere to be found, revelers donning henna tattoos and balloon hats filled the Yard, as the three-hour event attracted 7,000 people, according to organizers’ estimates. “I’m so happy we’re all normal,” said Tiffany M. Bradshaw ’10. Students, faculty...
...Backstage at the "Road to Paradise" gala, the models really are naked, or nearly. Sabila Ahmed, 24, has spent the evening getting zipped in and out of costumes that are not really her thing. Like the other models, whose diamond belly button studs and henna tattoos are exposed between outfit changes, she shows no interest in donning the hijab herself - except when professional duty calls, of course. "I love revealing clothes," she explains, before squeezing back into her own tight jeans, skimpy top and 2-inch heels. As she struts outside to hail a taxi, her short brown hair blows...
...that Hamas, as a party, remains committed to Israel's destruction. But in localities like al-Bireh, Hamas officials are focusing on winning hearts and minds by doing the small stuff. "One hand is resisting, the other is building," says Abu Tir, whose full beard is stained orange with henna in the style thought to be favored by the Prophet Muhammad. "This is what the Koran tells us, and this is the principle we will adhere...