Abstract

Henna is a product used to color hair, but also to design labile tattoos on the skin. Black henna is becoming more fashionable and it results from a mixture with paraphenylenediamine (PPD). Contact eczema after applying black henna tattoo can lead to active sensitization to PPD, which can provoke violent allergic reactions [1]. Local cutaneous signs decrease in a few days and after healing of eczema, residual post inflammatory hyperpigmentation may last for few weeks. We report a new case of a black henna contact eczema.