Mehndi is a type of shrub and having rich quality of coolness and color. In ancient time people used to apply the paste of fresh Mehndi leaves on palm and lower part of heat to get coolness during summer. The paste Leaves red color on skin after drying and turns darker after hours and remains for few days. Thus women love to apply mehndi on festivals and auspicious day of wedding. Previously they use to spread the paste on palm, but by time passing them started to draw some design of flowers and leaves with the help of thin sticks. Now a day fine mehndi powder is available and there is easy method to draw various kinds of design of own choice.

Mehandi Design Art

	Start with Pencil Sketching
	Different Types of Lines & Flowers Shapes and Peacock Shapes
	Making of Folding Cone
	Making of Mehandi Paste
	Begining with Mehandi Design
	Simple Designs Different other Designs

Start with pencil sketching

Pencil sketching is very good method to start with different types of figures. There is an advantage to start with pencil sketching, is that if drawing is not perfect then it can be erased and redrawn. To get perfection practice with pencil is necessary. There are different type of flowers, shapes and figures in mehndi designing. Pencil should be sharp pointed and try to improve the drawing so that use of eraser becomes lesser by improvement.

Making or folding of cone

Cone or carrot bags are to fill with mehndi paste to draw different designs. Cones or carrot bags are

Pointed and folded on slant position of paper. After folding to a perfect shape it is sticked by transparent tape to avoid opening the fold of cone. Cones are easy to use to draw any designs.

Making of mehndi paste

Mehndi powder should be of good quality and finely filtered by cloth. Mixing of oils in a proper quantity is necessary to get the good color of mehndi. Paste should not be too tight and not too loose to fill in the cone. Fill the ready paste immediately in the cone or in any packet and store in cool and dry place. The paste will be good for one week after that the color will be lighter.