Hindu bride with LOTUS henna Mehndi design.
MEHNDI is the local variant of henna designs in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, and Sri Lanka, women use mehndi for festive occasions, such as weddings, religious events and traditional ceremonies.
The use of mehndi and turmeric is described in the earliest Hindu Vedic ritual books.
Vedic customs, intended to be a symbolic representation of the outer and the inner sun, are centered on the idea of “awakening the inner light”.
Mehndi decorations became fashionable in the West in the late 1990s, where they are called henna tattoos.
Henna was first used by Egyptians’ using mud to create patterns and this is where it originated from.