Mehndi, facepaint style
Posted on Apr 20, 2010 01:42:00 PM
I love learning new skills, so I was pretty excited when I got an email from a lovely lady organising a Bollywood party for her daughter. She wanted temporary Mehndi designs for the young guests.
I have seen mehndi before and been fascinated by the intricacy of the designs, but I never thought to try it in paint. It turns out that it takes quite a while to produce those whole hands / arms /feet that they do for brides. However, we came up with a few simplified ideas that we could apply to the party guests in the standard five minutes. It was a hit! I think I may add “Pretendi Mehndi” to my repetoire!