Friday, April 13, 2007

More about mendhi

I had an amazing experience with my mendhi experience. I never would have imagined that this would be something I'd do before my wedding, but it was totally cool. We had a gathering of a couple of my friends who arrived early for the wedding as well as R's mom, my mom and my step-mom Evelyn.

Henna is a paste which is laid on your skin. You allow it to dry and the dried stuff falls off your skin (or like me, you scrape it off cause it's driving you crazy and you don't want it in your food!). You are left with the patterns shown in the post below. Here's two pics of the paste stage:









The artist who did the work was Jumana, who hailed from Delaware. I was very lucky to be able to get her to come to our house to do the work.

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