Mehandi Designs Mehandi Simple Mehndi Designs Arabic Mehndi Mehendi Mehendi Art
Mehandi Designs Mehandi Simple Mehndi Designs Arabic Mehndi Mehendi Mehendi Art
Through the ages, on every auspicious occasion, Mehandi has always been associated with women.
The beauty business of applying henna has never had it better than on ‘Karva Chauth’. As women get ready for ‘Karva Chauth’, a traditional festival when women keep fast for well-being of their husbands, everybody from the small-time Henna artists to upmarket beauty saloons are busy creating beautiful and intricate designs on the palm and feet of married women.
Henna or Mehendi , considered to be auspicious for married women, is a necessary part of the ‘Karva Chauth’ ritual. Women get intricate henna designs applied on their hands before they get down to the actual rituals. Before actually applying the henna, the designers outline the pattern or design in their mind. There are several ways to do this. Most traditional henna patterns are based on very simple shapes - circles, triangles and lines are the most basic. These shapes can be combined to create a very intricate pattern and a very beautiful henna design.
It is believed that married woman who get dark colour from mehendi will get a loads of love and caring from her groom. It also denotes prosperity and good luck. It symbolically says as the henna gives away her colour to beautify someone's hands, the married woman should also be generous and kind to give up certain things to beautify the life ahead of her.
In recent popular culture, mehendi has enjoyed a renewal. Western musicians and Hollywood personalities have adopted and altered the tradition so that mehendi as a temporary, pain-free body ornamentation alternative to tattooing is now the hottest new trend among women and men.
The art of decorating hands and feet with henna has been in vogue for the past 5,000 years and even though the designs fade the art has withstood the impact of change. Now it is not just hands and feet that are adorned, but also arms, neck, back and navel.
Gunjan Sharma, a city-based mehendi artist, who has been in this field for the past 18 years and has seen this traditional art form change into its new-age avatar says, "For the past 2-3 years the number of college -going clients has increased substantially. They prefer glitter and coloured mehendi for festivals like ‘Karva Chauth’ and are willing to experiment with new things. They also do not hesitate to pay for these designs." Rekha says that she used to charge Rs. 80 for bridal mehendi when she started 18 years ago, but now it can cost anywhere between Rs. 2,500 to 4,000 depending on the intricacy of the designs.
The delicate and intricate Rajasthani mehendi designs have been a traditional favourite but it is the bold and thicker strokes of Arabic mehendi designs which are in consonance with the aspirations of the bold Y2K generation. Also in vogue is shaded mehendi which plays with contrasts of black, red and maroon. This has not only caught the fancy of several brides who prefer it for their first ‘Karva Chauth’. The black coloured outlining is done with a chemical dye and later on the design is filled up with regular henna. According to Gunjan, addition of clove oil to the dark shade reduces the chance of allergy to a great extent in this form.
Glitter mehendi is another variation quite popular with the newly wedded these days. In this, the traditional designs are highlighted with the use of gold, silver or copper coloured glitters which give a shimmering effect. This goes very well with formal dresses.
Tiny crystal granules are also used to embellish henna designs giving a rich effect. Mehendi tattoos are infact quite popular this season.
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