hands with henna
Me and my friend got a hand done each by a little girl in Mt Abu, India. This isn't proper henna, it's a chemical substitute that's dark and stamped on with carved wooden stamps. We tried to get proper mehndi done later while we were in Jaiselmer, but not really thinking, we got it applied right before we were having dinner and catching an overnight train. Needless to say, the mehndi didn't stay on our hands long enough to work :(
Comments and faves
Metta_Z, Lola Lyndon: Stone Cold Fox!, Meowlanie, +fatman+, and 83 other people added this photo to their favorites.
foreversouls (89 months ago | reply)
beautiful hands with henna!
pamelaadam (89 months ago | reply)
such lovely art work
Dey (89 months ago | reply)
Nice mehndi work. You might want to add a mehndi tag so your lovely image will show up with the others similarly tagged. See www.flickr.com/photos/tags/mehndi/
magic_eye (87 months ago | reply)
Legitime "handcraft"
Great!
ps - the picture of the boys playng at the beach, was taken close to my place, Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Ken Mitchell [deleted] (85 months ago | reply)
Nice one
ToBNot2B (85 months ago | reply)
wonderful Henna art...:)
Ken Mitchell [deleted] (84 months ago | reply)
Thanks for coming by.They used to do this @ the museum I worked in the Education Dept for children. It is a great shot. Ken
ToBNot2B (84 months ago | reply)
beautiful henna design..
+fatman+ (84 months ago | reply)
fabulous. great design.
I love this.
annavs (84 months ago | reply)
awww i want it too!! i find this work just fantastic.
Ravages (82 months ago | reply)
The problem is that places like jiapur, jaisalmer and Rajasthan in whole is completely geared towards tourism and selling the "Indian" concept that people will stop at nothing, including chemical henna.
Down south, things are a tad better.
Henning through the lens (81 months ago | reply)
Light and contrast is a con
짜디그노스 (Zadignose) (81 months ago | reply)
@62: Haha! Clearly it is a picture of two different people's hands, unless "me and my friend" refers to a person with multiple personality disorder, and two left hands.
Fatma S (81 months ago | reply)
so nice henna
rainbow frog (71 months ago | reply)
love this picture! i love hands.
G.Benard (60 months ago | reply)
i'm admin of the group www.flickr.com/groups/handsart and would love to have ur hand's photos added there. please feel free to join and tag ur photo "handsart" before u post it. tk u :)
♥ LB pics ♥ (49 months ago | reply)
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anthananthan (49 months ago | reply)
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maria2020 (37 months ago | reply)
Hi there
I have seen your add on website, I would like to know if you know wooden block henna ink also which we use to get from Bangle shop on Eid occasions for henna on hands , I would like to know receipes how to make that ink for woodend stamps , please let me know if you have some info about that,.( how to make that ink )( www.woodenprintblocks.com)
Email:discoverusa@hotmail.com
Thanks
mayomajor (35 months ago | reply)
That looks like balck henna I am a henna artist in training and the blck henna can kill you there are PPDs in black henna and may cause death and rashes and stuff like that. I make henna from scratch so don't get balck henna. Alot of times black henna is found in mexico and check this page out, it has real henna on it too.hope I helped
www.hennapage.com/henna/ppd/index.html
This photo was invited and added to the Hands - Escher, Fosse, and You group.
Rida1992 (3 days ago | reply)
I want to know how they make the ink for wood blocks. Any ideas please someone said its sugar and tea....