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Henna/Mehndi: Symbol of Eternal Love and Auspicious activities

Shikha Saxena
4 min readAug 27, 2022

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Temporary tattoo and dyeing of skin, palms, fabrics

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Henna or Mehndi is a temporary tattooing/dyeing technique used to dye skin, fingernails, hair, silk, wool, cotton clothing. This is an ancient art to trace designs and patterns on arms and palm especially. Henna/Mehndi: Symbol of Eternal Love and Auspicious activities has a very auspicious connection with brides and marriages in Indian Weddings.

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In addition to being an important occasion in Hindu Weddings where coloring of handa and palms with henna designs is a day function and famous ritual known as Mehndi, itis also inherent part of other festivities as Diwali, Rakshabandhan and other auspicious fasting and prayers in Norhern part of India.

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Hindu weddings are incomplete without henna/mehndi designs on bride’s palm. It not only decorates the palms and prepares a bride to start a whole new life full of life and responsibilities in her future life! it invites luck and bless the bride for a happy and…

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Shikha Saxena
Shikha Saxena

Written by Shikha Saxena

A Technical Writer, an artist and blogger by choice. Passionate about reading , writing and editing, NY.http://www.shikhasaxena.com and https://www.dnabox.co/

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