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Best Henna Designs For Hands And Feet

The Best Henna Designs For Hands And Feet were originally forms of body art in South Asia. They were most popular in Pakistan and India and worn to weddings and festivals as a way of getting dressed up specially. It is also worn by the Hindu and Islamic cultures in India, Arab, and Africa

What Are Henna Designs?

Henna design is also known as Mehndi and is a temporary form of skin decoration commonly applied by women during weddings and festivals.

Henna and Mehndi are used as a dye for the skin, hair, and nails. They are worn to create beautiful patterns on the skin. Applying Henna designs and Mehndi designs were seen as ways people express their happiness in Indian cultures.

Mehndi designs are temporary tattoos because the dye used for patterning comes from natural ingredients such as henna leaves, indigo or turmeric flowers, and lemon juice.

The ancient “mehndi” technique involves applying a turmeric paste and mehndi on the bride’s skin by a mehndiwali (a female relative) as part of the preparatory rituals. This bridal service is held a day or two before the actual wedding at the bride’s home

How To Make Henna Designs

The Mehndi paste is prepared with the henna leaves or the leaves of the Lawsonia inermis plant. This plant contains “lawsone” pigment which can be easily absorbed by the skin’s outer layers to create a stain on it.

Most times, Mehndi is applied on lighter skin surfaces, such as the palm or sole, however recent henna trends introduced patterning the designs on the back, legs, and upper arm

The paste dries up after 15 to 20 minutes, then the mehndi is removed, to reveal the design that remains, which is usually in a pale to dark orange color. After some time, a final reddish-brown color appears and can last for 1 to 3 weeks.

To create intricate henna designs, you would need a skilled artist to create various hand-painted motifs on your body using natural ingredients only. The designs can be applied with eucalyptus oil and sugar, lemon, milk, or garlic.

What Henna Designs Should I Make?

There are simple Mehndi designs for beginners and other complex geometric and symmetrical figures, flowers, plants, or animals, that require talented henna artists to make.

Popular henna designs like polka dots, four-leaf clovers, pistachios, or swirls are now becoming part of the fashion practices in western countries.

The beautiful henna tattoo designs that are made majorly on the hands and feet are mandalas, peacock feathers, paisleys, and leaves.