Sex, Cheese and French Fries--Women Are Perfect, Men Are from France

Carine Fabius is the author of:

Mehndi-The Art of Henna Body Painting, (Random House,1998)
Ceremonies for Real Life (Council Oak Books, 2003)
Sex, Cheeese and French Fries-Women are Perfect, Men are from France (Kouraj Press, 2006)
Jagua-A Journey into Body Art From the Amazon (Kouraj Press, 2010)

Ms. Fabius has also been published in African Arts magazine, a UCLA/Fowler Museum of Cultural History publication; Calabash: A Journal of Caribbean Arts and Letters (an NYU publication); and Conscious Living magazine, a Sacramento, California-based publication. She is also a regular blogger on Huffington Post since 2007, writing about arts, books, culture and lifestyle issues.

Ms. Fabius was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and moved to the United States with her family at the age of eight. She grew up in New York, moved to Miami at the age of 21 then headed west to Los Angeles, where she lives today. In 1990, Ms. Fabius and her sculptor husband opened Galerie Lakaye, a contemporary ethnic art gallery with a focus on Haitian art. The gallery has been featured in various television shows and prestigious publications, including Vanity Fair, Bon Appetit Magazine, Los Angeles Times, and many others. Ms. Fabius is a body art pioneer, having introduced temporary henna tattoos on the West Coast in 1997. Her company, Lakaye Studio, manufactures a line of temporary tattoo kits. She is also an independent museum curator for venues throughout southern California.