The dyeing of the nails with henna is a very ancient custom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

The hair on his head was a thick mop of henna-colored curls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blood Test]

"Ssh," he whispered as he brushed the henna into familiar lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tutoring Lady Jane]

Dyed with almond kohl her eyelids, and her nails with henna tinged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories in Verse] Reference

Another option: a henna tattoo painted on the outer layer of the skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Painful Places to Get a Tattoo] Reference

Well, you can put a little red henna in it, OK, too, just to keep me happy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Sarah Ferguson Interviews Tiger Woods - February 23, 2001] Reference

Raoul -- our brother -- when he was in Africa saw Arab women who used henna.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

They did not like the heavy perfume with which she doused her henna-dyed hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shield of Thunder]

Antonia, a round-faced woman, hair dyed red with henna, pulled her robe around her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference

In Pakistan, girls show their hands painted with henna to celebrate the end of Ramadan.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 12, 2007] Reference

Unlike natural henna, which rarely triggers an allergic reaction, black henna contains PPD.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Real Head Scratcher] Reference

Her eyes were lozenges of antimony; her hands, dipped in henna, seemed clad in pale kid gloves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blind Man's Lantern] Reference

"Obama," he said with a smile that elongated his henna-dyed beard substantially, is a bhai, brother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parvez Sharma: America's Imam and His Problematic Mosque: A Muslim Viewpoint] Reference

The governor was a very thin old man very like Don Quixote, his scanty hair and beard dyed red with henna.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Arabia] Reference

Dermatologists are also concerned about the growing popularity of temporary tattoos, sometimes called black henna tattoos.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Real Head Scratcher] Reference

She learned about henna artists who once painted love poems up a bride's thighs, to be read by the groom on the wedding night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Immigrant Journey] Reference

The bride, Preeti Gurnani, who got the traditional henna tattoos for the wedding, said that even distant relatives were invited.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Hotels, Resorts Catering to Hindu Couples] Reference

DiLeo suggests trying natural henna or Elumen (manufactured by Goldwell), the only permanent hair dye he knows of that contains no PPD.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Real Head Scratcher] Reference

Her feet were in slippers, and two or three ugly rings deformed her white and slender fingers, the nails of which were dyed with henna.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference

A woman, her henna-dyed hair gleaming red-gold in the candlelight, rushed to the young Armenian and held his arm, talking soothingly in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference

Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images A woman showed her hands decorated with henna during Eid-ul-Fitr prayers in Hyderabad, India, Sept. 11, 2010.    From Wordnik.com.  [India in Pictures] Reference

Asian chic is nothing new: the Beatles went to India three decades before Madonna started wearing bindis and staining her hands with henna.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Queen Is Indian?] Reference

At the Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort and Spa in San Antonio, Texas, preteens get manicures, pedicures, hair braiding and henna tattoos.    From Wordnik.com.  [PERISCOPE] Reference