Henna Mehndi Design Ideas

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Mehndi is a technique for drawing on the body or tatto which is the ancient Art of Body. Mehndi is used to create an elaborate ethnic or contemporary design and exotic patterns in different parts of the body.

Often Mehndi is also called Henna, which is the material of Mehndi itself is lawsonia inermis.

Traditionally Mehndi applied to the hands and feet of women to prepare a special ceremony. The material is completely natural, non-permanent and painless. This as a good alternative to replace existing tattoo material and harm the skin. This tattoo can last within one to three weeks, depending on the skin. And the most prominent of this henna is a reddish-brown color and has an attractive design.

Since it is usually used for ceremonials, there are several symbols that have meaning used as a design. But not only for ceremonial, usually mehndi is also used for everyday life, because it is not permanent then the design can be alternated.

Henna leaves have also been used as hair dyes for thousands of years in North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, and South Asia. The red-orange Henna leaf has a coloring molecule, lawsone, which penetrates the skin and hair and bonds to keratin. Henna hair dye blocks UV rays so as not to damage the skin, strengthens the hair so it does not easily fall out to make shiny and shiny, remove dandruff and ringworm, and kill the fleas and eggs.