Category: Bridal Mehandi

New mehndi desings for brides

admin | June 19, 2013 | 0 Comments

Indian marriages are very colourful and filled with traditional activities and happiness. Mehndi is one of the main part in the Indian weddings as it is used to make bride more beautiful and magnificent by making art in her hands and foots. In some part of India people celebrate mehndi function for the bride before the marriage. Here you can see the beautiful collection of bridal mehndi designs that are most attractive and stunning.

This is one of the beautiful mehndi designs for brides that has peacocks in both hands with elegant art.

This bride and bride groom designed mehndi make everyone speechless and it brings the beauty to the bride.

Significance of Mehndi

Mehndi paste is made from the crushed leaves of the henna plant mixed with other natural ingredients like, eucalyptus oil, lemon juice, and black tea, these ingredients added to give dark markings of the art. The mehndi art is drawn by the trained artist to the wearer’s hand in various designs that ranges from large, thick patterns to Moroccan geometric patterns to traditional Indian paisleys and lace-like drawings and when removed after several hours, you can see beautiful markings that last from one to three weeks. Besides, wedding, mehndi art also applied during special Hindu occasions such as weddings, and festivals like Karva Chauth, Vata Poornima, Diwali, Bhaidooj and Teej.Mehndi is one of the best Indian traditional arts of henna painting that is existed for centuries. Most of the women in India apply this mehndi particularly for auspicious occasions especially in wedding where both bride and bridegroom apply mehndi artwork, as well as the family members in the wedding. Applying mehndi came into use because of its cooling therapeutic effect in a hot climate and also for special occasion. Henna symbolizes fertility on any occasion, at the wedding ceremony henna artwork symbolizes the love between husband and wife and the long lasting nature of stains symbolizes the nature of their love.

In recent days mehndi has become one of their extra activities among the college students where the educational institutions conducting the mehndi art competition in order to encourage the student talents. Mehndi has become popularized in the West in the past few years among musicians and Hollywood personalities alike, and is now a quickly rising trend among women and men in world culture. In India you can find henna artists at most outdoor festivals and concert events and you have wide variety of design templates you can choose from.

Mehndi is an Art of Indian culture

In order to make the henna you have to dry the henna leaves and finely ground it like a powder and it must be filtered two or more times through a fine nylon cloth in order to remove the coarse fibers from the powder. Then mix this fine powder with an oil such as eucalyptus, nilgiri or mehndi oil together with lemon, water or tea to make a thick paste. The artist creativity and skill helps more in designing the mehndi that looks fabulous in the hands and after the mehndi drawn, a solution of lemon juice and sugar is then applied to the drying mehndi to allow it to remain stuck to the skin and to enhance the dying process.The art of Mehndi is originated from Asia and Africa and now it is very popular in west also due to its long lasting stain and available in wide variety of beautiful designs as well as it also have health benefits. Applying mehndi is a very prominent part of both Hindu and Muslim wedding in India as it is a custom during any celebration in India. Most of the women are likely to apply mehndi as it beautifies their hands and feet and it gives traditional look to the Indian females. From generation to generation people are used to apply mehndi as a custom and this tradition has not lost its significance.

If the mehndi paste remains on the skin longer then the design will last for longer, at least 4-6 hours it must be in the hands or feet and you have to remove the paste with a layer of oil or scratch it off with your fingers but avoid using water to take it off. Now there are some mehndi maintenance oils also available in the stores that will preserve and protect your design by applying a layer to your design frequently.