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Ok imma spill the tea behind my fingers👀
The thing I use often is called JAGUA (no you can’t find it in Egypt) anywhere else possibly yes lol - so what is that? A quick educational bit — Jagua is a natural dye made from the Genipa Americana fruit, found in the amazon rainforest. Especially in regions like Colombia, Peru, Brazil, and Ecuador. Indigenous communities have used it for centuries for body art and rituals. It stains the top layer of your skin a deep, deep blue — similar to a fresh tattoo — and fades naturally in 1 to 2 weeks.
Fun fact: the fruit looks like a dark green plum. Inside, it has a juicy pale pulp — not used for eating but for staining. They extract the pulp, dry into a powder, that we make into a thick gel et voilà. Jagua. *Patch test is non-negotiable.*
For me this has become an emotional support type shit lol I’m either not well or super busy if you see me without it🥲 oh also I usually do my fingers and toes together. It’s so fun and feels so right 😮💨 also I don’t like the shine of nail polish or gels, or how neat it looks I don’t know it’s just not my thing. So I prefer jagua or whatever other things I use cause it’s matte black and it lasts and doesn’t damage your skin nor your nails. So it’s a win win🦥
Doing this reel was humbling af, so be nice it’s my first time 🥹 I’m actually such a grandma when it comes to shit like that but we’re trying babes ok! 🙇🏾♀️
Did you hear the part where I said “imma explain what jagua is in a min” and then that min never came 😂 tbh, 2 mins is not enough for me to tell you everything about jagua but whatever, me doing this to begin with is a miracle lol also this empty cone was 360g not 250g my bad 🙇🏾♀️
#jagua #henna #black #jaguatattoo
Transcript
I've been doing this for years. People always ask me why my fingers are black. This is why. It takes hours, but it feels like mine. Here, I'm using Hagua. We'll explain what that is in a minute. I bought this literally a year ago, and that's why it's almost empty. That was a 200 rank 250 gram gigantic cone, by the way. This is a long ass process, but because I don't feel well without it, so I still get it done. It takes me two whole fucking days. So hagua has the slimy thick texture, and you have to wear gloves because whatever hagua will touch will stain. Even if it's for less than a second. Voila. It's magic. I don't plan how I put it. I just go with the flow as long as half of my fingers are covered, then I don't give a fuck. In this video, I felt like doing it as if it's dripping from my fingers, and that's why it looks uneven like that. Then you have to wait for at least six hours before you remove it. Yeah. That's a long best time of not moving. So tier, if you notice, it's 06:43. I was done. Now here, it's 09:50PM. Now it's, like, a bit dry, like, It's still very fragile, but it's dry. And the thing is I wanted to go to bed, and I can't go to bed like bad. So I had to put gloves on. But usually, if I peel it when it gets dry without a glove, you see no color stains. You only see it showing up after some hours or, like, the next day. Magic. Better that won't happen here so much. So you see? It's 1AM. I woke up. I removed it. Like, it's not fully black. It's actually quite dark compared to what I wanted to show you, but it's it's very, like, light stain now. Even my nails, like, they're still white and, like, a whitish, and, it's just blue hints. That's it. So you go to bed and then you wake up. This is 8PM the next day. It's black. As for my nails, it takes, like, forty eight hours until it turns pitch black. It needs that time to develop. So tier, I'm doing my other hand the next day because you can't put both same day by yourself. And even if, you can't possibly not use both your hands for six hours consecutively. I do this for no reason and every reason. I also use other things aside from. Maybe I'll show you in a different reel later if you want. So here, it's done. This side is the old one, and then the right side, this is the fresh one. You can see the difference, but it's done. If my fingers scare you, good.
