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Thursday, 21 November 2013


Among all of the societal customs, mehndi is one of the popular norms. Mehndi designs are applied on hand and foot from very old times but despite of their ancient history, mehndi designs seems very newer. Mehndi designs are very famous among woman of all age.
Mehndi designs are available in so many forms but the most common mehndi designs which are very much liked by females include the following:

Arabic mehndi designs 2013 – these are very simple in their designing pattern and most of the time, they are consist of leaves, flowers, veins etc. hands and foot get partially filled with Arabic mehndi designs.

Indian mehndi designs 2013 –    they are considered to be the most famous mehndi designs for hands and foot. This is the reason why Indian mehndi designs are available in a long range. Pakistani mehndi designs – they are actually a merger form. Pakistani mehndi designs are formed when both of the Indian mehndi designs as well as the Arabic mehndi designs are combined together.

African Mehndi Designs- these designs also partially fill hands and foot as that of the Arabic mehndi design for foot and hands and most of the time, they consist of line, square and dot.

Mehndi designs are mostly used in case of traditional festivals as a beautiful art work on hands and foot. Mehndi design actually took birth in South Africa. At that time, mehndi designs were employed on the hands and foot of the bride before the happiest occasion of her life i.e. her wedding. After that, the history also tells that the bridegroom also used to have mehndi designs on his hand in some of the regions of India. For e.g. in Rajhistan which is region in India, the grooms used to have specific mehndi designs that were reserved for the bride grooms only. Assam is another region of India where mehndi designs were applied not only by brides but also by the unmarried girls during an event which is named as rongali bihu. It shows that mehndi designs for hands and foot can be applied not only by married women but also by the unmarried women.

Among Muslims, mehndi designs for hands and foot also bear a great importance. The Muslim women use to flourish their foot and hands on the most happiest and lively events of their life like eid ul fitr, eid ul azha, wedding ceremonies etc. some of the Muslim women also used to dye their hair and nail with mehndi.

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