Henna for Holi

I'm a little late with this post, but wanted to share this henna design I created for Holi (the Hindu festival of colors). By request I put this fun design together. The video was uploaded to youtube prior to the holiday, and I hope viewers who are observing Holi had the opportunity to utilize the design I created. What do you think? Please leave your comments and subscribe to my youtube channel.

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Mehndi Mela eBook

Mehndi Mela is now available! I know it's two weeks late, but I just don't put any old designs in my ebooks. Mehndi Mela is a celebration of body art. The designs start quite simple and grow into elaborate designs for the most special of occasions. I'm so excited to share this labor of love with you. Most of the designs are Indian style, but you'll find fusion pieces from Morocco and Khaleegy inspired pieces as well.

Inside you'll find 20 pages of hand, feet, and motifs for you to place anywhere you'd like. Includes designs for all application levels, but most designs fall in the intermediate range.

Hands 30 patterns

Feet 10 patterns 

Motifs 28 pieces

Click here to purchase your very own copy of Mehndi Mela 

  

Sudanese Henna Pattern Book

One of my local long time customers sent me this awesome henna design book from Sudan. I can't wait to start applying some of these awesome designs, you'll see a video soon. I wanted to share this gift with all of you. I scanned all of the pages including the front and back cover. The pages are tissue paper thin so preserving this little book is a must. Enjoy! 

Thank you Pat, for sharing this wonderful gift with me. 

Feel free to save and print the pages below. All I ask is that you do not reproduce these and sell them or watermark them, and please link back to this blog if you use the designs. 

Fun Henna Motifs in Minutes

You can create a fun and detailed henna motif in just minutes. Quick motifs are great for festivals, henna parties, or henna beginner classes. I really enjoy creating these fun pieces. You can find several Indian style henna motifs in my new ebook Mehndi Mela including the design in the video below. Enjoy!

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Full Length Online Henna Course for Beginners FREE!

I created this video several years ago and until recently it has been on private setting on youtube. Not sure how that happened but it's live and available again. I hope to create several more videos of this style in the near future. I hope you find my teaching method helpful. Enjoy!

Beginners you'll be able to lay out and break down a henna design by the end of this video.

ps. The products offered in this video are no longer available through Free Hand Mehndi, please google the title of the book (Zury by Heena Patel) and purchase from a reliable supplier. If you need help or have questions, please feel free to contact me.

Nisha Davdra Review and Hijabi friendly style ideas

I've loved Indian jewelry since forever. I love the elegance, and the timeless style. Most blingy statement necklaces you find at your local forever 21 and the like, are very similar to traditional style Indian Kundan Sets. I was very excited to get these pieces and happy that I can share them with all of you.

I've been a long time subscriber of Nisha Davdra aka hennafied (youtube). She has some awesome style videos, hair and make up tutorials. She recently started a jewelry line and I was happy to have some of her hand selected pieces become a part of my jewelry collection. I personally love Nisha's style and attention to detail, so I knew these pieces would be perfection. I just wrapped up a review for three pieces from her collection. You can watch my review here...



I'm a hijabi and wear my headscarf in public 100% of the time. I'd also like to be able to wear my beautiful new Indian jewelry too. There are many tutorials online on how to wear a damini aka maang tikka with hijab so I just followed those. You can also wear earrings if you show yours ears (I don't). I used the earring from the kundan set as a fancy dangly hijab pin (make sure the earring back is snug and not loose). The necklace can be work by pulling the knot on the dory all the way to the end, making the necklace as long as possible and then wearing it around your neck. The necklace can also be placed on the head and worn in a similar way that I'm wearing the damani.

I'm super impressed with the Nisha Davdra jewelry collection and look forward to owning more of her pieces. You can shop her website at www.nishadavdra.com, click here to watch and subscribe to her youtube channel.

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Henna Design Placement Moroccan Inspired Henna Design

I get a ton of questions about design placement. Especially for parts of the body where you don't usually have henna applied. I did this Moroccan inspired chest piece back in December and used her cleavage and base of her neck to map the main part of the design. I then based the rest of the design off of the center piece. After finishing one motif I'd stand directly in front of her and map the other to match on the other side. It's more difficult than it looks, as you can see it's a little out of balance, but hey, who's perfect?

 I'll do a more detailed video explaining design mapping in the future, but this video shows a little demo.

Pieces of this video are missing unfortunately, but I hope that you can benefit from it.

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