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Beth Hendrickson is the owner of New World Henna. Beth first became interested in henna when she attended a renaissance fair and got one of these intriguing "temporary henna tattoos".  A few years later she saw an ad for a local Indian beauty shop and was once again entranced by this beautiful artform.  This time she immediately went home and ordered her first henna kit on the internet and hasn't looked back since.  Thus began her love affair with the mehndi. 

Sonya. Sonya is a mystery to us all. She has no last name that we are aware of... and she wears a blue bandana a lot. In fact, she wears it so much that we have pretty much decided she belongs to some sort of gang. She likes Coca-cola and a rare brand of cigarettes sold only in Cuba. While her detached behavior is suspicious, her henna applications are delicious. Don’t look her directly in the eye. It might cause her to turn into a werewolf.

James Bowles. James is a strange being, probably not human. He is New World Henna’s booth tart. He has so much useful information about cameras, you wouldn’t believe the things that come out of his mouth. Its simply magical. He charges the customers for consultations about camera use during their henna application. Unfortunately he doesn’t know anything about henna, but the artists get by. He also has a console gaming collection worth over 10 million dollars.

Meet Jen. Jen likes long walks on the beach, romance novels, and The Karate Kid syndications on AMC. She has a creepy shrine to Ralf Macchio in her home and has to be hospitalized every time she sees him get that black eye. In her spare time, Jen stays at home in her special order velveteen snuggie, editing Wikipedia articles, and drinking excessive amounts of wine.  She can also speak elvish as a second language.  This makes her henna boss, Beth, very happy as she now has a henna minion that she can have private nerd conversations with.

Keith Rash. Stained glass artist and painter by day, henna artist by night, Keith is a true renaissance man. He once applied an exact copy of Leonardo DaVinci’s, “La Jaconde” on the back of a women in under three minutes... from memory alone. New World Henna is proud to have him as a member of the henna team, not only for his mad skillz but for his ability to tell a woman that he could braid her back hair... and then shave it... and not be smacked by her.  You can find his art blog here.

Jim Duong is an artist and photographer by trade and took to henna like a fish takes to water.  He is directly responsible for any mistranslated kanji in our henna design books. I heard once that he was forming a secret Yakuza roller derby team. Oh, and yes ladies, the Duong can be booked for private henna applications.

Jeremy Kitchen. Like his namesake, Jeremy is good at making food appear. He makes nachos, pronto pups, funnel cakes, you name it. He’s nice to have around because he provides drinks and food for the “important people” or “artists”. He is occasionally the back-up booth tart, but Beth allows this only in extreme situations, because his inappropriate comments scare the customers plus he doesn’t even know what henna is.  He also is very good at water puddle removing, even when it is raining. He will do it without question or entitlement. He also managed to seduce Beth... really.

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