Condom Henna Applicator Fail
April10
by dyp
For the last 5-ish years I have been a frequent poster on the Henapage.com forum. I try to help out as much as I can. Last December a frantic post was left by an artist who lost her beloved applicator bottles. For those new to henna, most professional artists opt for hand rolled plastic or mylar cones…
Some artists swear by Jac bottles…. Jac Bottles are plastic bottles with metal tips.
She could not use a cone to save her life, and needed a replacement for her bottles asap.
In an effort to help, I started to brainstorm. What could she make an applicator out of on the fly? What is something people have on hand, is expendable, would hold henna, could have a metal tip affixed to it and not leak… then it hit me, Condoms.
I pull out a Trojan, wash off the lubey, put a jac bottle tip on it…. fill it with henna….. squeeze… and NOTHING comes out. I open another condom and try again…I try reinforcing it with duct tape… Duct tape fixes everything right? Wrong… still doesn’t work. The sides stretch too much to push out any henna.
In my attempt to “help” I didn’t realize I had used 3 rubbers until they laid discarded on the coffee table as if they had been left there after some spiked-masochistic-dirty-bum-lovin. THEN I thought…. ” oh hell dyp; how am I gonna explain THIS to the boyfriend creature?”
(Luckily; he knows me enough to just laugh and shake his head. )
I never did find a suitable replacement for applicator bottles.
The original forum post can be seen here in it’s full glory…
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Too bad it didn’t work, I could use your condom to color my Easter eggs! lol.
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That’s funny. Way to think outside the box, though!
What about disposable icing bags that cake decorators use?
A simple sandwich bag would have worked fine. I know henna artists who use them all the time.
Try ziplock snack sized bags!
Oh, that picture just takes the cake!
Sooo Funny!
Lucky boyfriend :)
Condoms seem like a logical substitute and stretching wouldn’t have occurred to me either.
What a hilarious mess though!
You have no idea how tempted I am to try dying easter eggs in condoms now. ( So tempted I actually bought eggs tonight! )
Sandwhich bags and Ziplock bags don’t work so great, they rip and leak pretty easily. We do use icing bags to fill our applicators but actually doing henna with cake icing bags makes huge lines. Most of us want small delicate lines, which is why we use cones and jac bottles with metal tips.
I honestly thought the sperm collecting nibbly part of the condom would hold the metal tip perfectly, and it did. That was the ONLY thing in this experiment that worked. LOL
Thnks for the comments guys :)
Oh…my…
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You do realise that condoms dont have holes on the end? you have to make a hole yourself.
LOL!! I’m sure she knows this!!
Hahaha, that picture is worth a thousand words.