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Mehndi Practice For Beginners:

Dreaming about applying mehndi on your own? or Want to learn mehndi at home? You can wake up to this good news: Applying mehndi designs is easy and you can do it like a professional by mastering some basic mehndi design shapes. The shapes could be from simple dot, swirl, or paisley, which you can build into some complex starburst or round mehndi designs or a grand paisley mehndi designs.

How To Apply Mehndi On Hands Like A Professional

It takes as much time as it requires for you to master these basic shapes. You need to keep practicing the line strokes, petals and leaves strokes like almost it is effortless while keeping up with the shapes.

Let’s look into each of these basic shapes, how and where they are better used to learn mehndi.

1. Dots

Dots are definitely easy. There isn’t nothing much to worry about the learning dots. But, the key point is the size of dots and where you use them.

Check this out, how the dots beautifully enhanced the mehndi design. Look closely, you’ll find these:

1. 2 size dots string on fingers
2. Dots in rhombus shape on little finger and thumb.
3. Peacock feather style dotting
4. In the petals of the main flower and so on

2. Borders

Learn mehndi by mastering borders. Borders usually round off a design and then start a new one to extend the mehndi design as desired. You can always invent a new border design mixing up the basic shapes.

Check this mehndi design with lots of borders not only rounding up the paisley and main flowers but also extending into long leaf border, humps and lines borders.

3. Petals And Leaves

Petals and leaves contribute to most grand designs, again this is based on the way you use the flowers in different sizes and areas.

Here’s is once such mehndi design with flowers such as roses and hump petal. Sometimes not filling the petal areas like the hump petals in this mehndi designs gives an elegant look. And the roses are filled with a spiral.

You can also see different shapes of leaves giving it more of a creeper look and there are dots to filling in the gaps.

4. Fillings For Petals

Coming to the filling part, flowers and leaves are filled in with different types of strokes to give in their respective looks.

In this mehndi design, you can see the filling in flowers is a thick to thin stroke to give the flowers the look of a petal. The paisleys are filled with spirals and the design is completed with different leaves.

5. Fillings For leaves

Filling the leaves is more like recreating the veins the leaves in realty have. You can see in the above image,

6. Outer Adornments

The outer adornments are usually the extensions to the borders. In the borders example image, you can see how the borders are adorned with dots and leaf strokes.

7. Drops And Dangles

Drops and dangles are more feminine. The proof is the trending usage of tassels from cloths to bags to footwear. So why not get more feminine touch with a dangle mehndi also.

This is one simple dangle style mehndi. You can use any of the design from the drops and dangles image above or create a new one and use it for your customized dangle mehndi.

Learn Mehndi Designs Step By Step

When coming to application, you may stumble upon in the beginning to choose the next right shape to add. Feel free to make mistakes and experiment the mixing up different shapes or create a new one and use.

I recommend to start to learn mehndi step by step as shown in the picture above.

Firstly, get your strokes and shapes right by practicing and then start building up gradually understanding what fits in next or what enhances the existing look of the design.

Mehndi Learning Tips

Create row after row of lines, humps, circles, paisleys, triangles, vines, etc. before you even attempt to create simple designs. Shapes and lines are the building blocks of Henna design.

Even professional artists still practice, there is always room for improvement.

1. Use a good quality henna or mehndi paste.
2. Getting a good grip on holding the cone is important. It makes the design come clean. Check, in advance which size and shape cone are suitable for you.
3. Practice the basics shapes to learn mehndi. Try creating lines moving your hand at different speeds, squeezing hard, and then lightly while practicing the above basic shapes. This will help you master the smooth transitioning in drawing without any breakage.
4. While practicing, first try to imitate the design you like then check where exactly there’s any difference.
5. Now your creativity comes in, develop your own style. Once you’ve had some practice under your belt, you’ve gotten some feedback, you’ve learned and are learning from other artists, it’s time to break out and develop your own style.

I hope this will help you making your new creative mehndi design.

One of the most tedious tasks before any festival is deciding on a perfect mehndi design amidst all the beautiful options available. Also, mehndi artists get booked just before, and during festivals, and getting mehndi done in that crowd becomes quite unbearable. Appointing a mehndi artist might seem unnecessary when you can DIY it at home with our help and that too almost free of cost.

Top Finger Mehndi Designs

Finger Mehndi designs are an effortless option for achieving an elegant look. And finger mehndi designs have been flooding the social media ever since netizens hyped its trend. We have picked some of the topmost finger mehndi designs and discussed them in this article.

Lace Style Finger Mehndi Design

Use intricate and detailed patterns incorporating starburst, swirls, tails, creepers, flowers, petals, etc. for creating lace style finger mehndi. The designed area on the finger often looks like a ring stain. The lace-inspired design for finger mehndi can also include chains formed of curved lines and dots.  

Peacock Finger Mehndi Design

Peacock mehndi designs are grand in any style. The above peacock finger mehndi design is no less. Check out more peacock mehndi designs for your chosen occasion.

To opt for a grand mehndi design yet, that looks minimalistic might be challenging to create. However, the peacock finger mehndi is ideal for those looking for something tattoo like simple yet stylishly grand. Practice drawing a small peacock that can start from your finger and extend a little to your palm.

Rangoli Mehndi Design

Rangoli designs are diverse and have scope for further experimentation and creativity. Take inspiration from your childhood and incorporate common rangoli patterns into your finger mehndi design. Rangoli patterns are easy to make yet can make your mehndi look very elegant.

Finger Mehndi Designs

Create a stencil-like effect on your finger to make the mehndi design look like rings. Decorate the edges with lines and dots. Just like the picture, make the stencil-like pattern on all your fingers at the same distance.

Minimalist Finger Mehndi

Minimalistic art appeases to the taste of many individuals. We have often seen influencers and artists on social media flaunting their minimalist finger mehndi design. A single creeper like pattern extending from the nail of a finger to your wrist is potent to create a gorgeous minimalistic finger mehndi design.

Indian Folk Art Inspiration

If you Google images of Indian folk art, you will see examples of effortless designs made only with dots and lines. This art was used to decorate huts, pitchers and utensils. Now you can use Indian folk art to create elegant and simple finger mehndi designs.

Creeper With Flowers

Use leaves and flower petal patterns to create either minimalistic creeper and flower designs or complex, intricate designs consisting of florets and shaded leaves. This mehndi design looks good in both dark and light stain henna.

Leaf And Floret Finger Mehndi

Leaf and floret finger mehndi design consists of very intricate patterns. Floral and petal patterns along with leaf and tail like patterns dominate the leaf and floret finger mehndi design. The design on the index finger (in the picture) is quite grand, and it extends to the area before thumb. The other fingers are half-covered using similar yet a variety of other patterns.

Simple Finger Mehndi

As the name suggests, simple finger designs include elementary patterns that are relatively easy to create. The design in the image is effortless to make, and beginners can try their hand at this design as well. The basic patterns used in the design of the image are oval, lines, dots, and teardrop patterns.  

Paisley Finger Mehndi

The main pattern in this finger design is the paisley, and it is decorated further using lines, teardrops, swirls, etc. Paisley is a very dominant pattern in mehndi designs. And it is also heavily seen in fabrics and tiles. In the design, as shown in the picture, you can also notice some traditional Indian folk patterns on the finger, accompanying the paisley pattern. The overall look of the design is neat, simple, yet luxurious.  

Tails And Petals Finger Mehndi Design

The design shown in the picture is a standard for tails and petals finger mehndi design where the patterns start from one finger and extending to the wrist. As you can observe in the image, swirls, lines, and dots dominate the design to create a tail like looking pattern with similarity to petal-like patterns. The upside-down triangular pattern with borders and a net-like pattern inside that extenuates the elegant essence of the finger mehndi design.

Chandelier Inspiration

As the name suggests, the design is inspired by the look of a chandelier. Even though converting a 3D structure into 2D drawing requires the simplification of patterns. The shapes of glass are mimicked in the mehndi design using net patterns, swirls and circles. Teardrops of a glass of a chandelier are easy to reciprocate in the mehndi design. The finger mehndi design in the image is effortless to make and very elegant looking.  

Jewelry Style Mehndi

If you search on the internet about jewelry style mehndi design, then you will get various design options from which you can draw inspiration. However, there will be some patterns that will be common in most designs, just like in the design image we have provided. These patterns include chains, embellished net, floral and leaf patterns.

Geometric Finger Mehndi

In this design, too, as its name suggests, geometric designs are used to create traditional-looking patterns. Geometric finger mehndi designs are one of the most effortless henna designs of the lot to make and are very beautiful too. Use squares, triangles, circles, dots, lines, etc. and create minimalistic and elegant designs like the one in the image provided.

Netted Finger Mehndi

The design in the picture is constructed using net patter on all the fingers and decorated using borders at the ends, along with tails and florets to enhance the design further. The netted finger mehndi design is classy and stylish and has plenty of space for experimenting.

Humps And Dot Strings Finger Mehndi

This design is very similar to the paisley finger mehndi design. The patterns began from the index finger and extended almost to the wrist in an almost linear fashion. Artists created the flower patterns using swirls and humps, whereas you can create chains like effect using string and dot patterns. The humps and dot strings finger mehndi design requires a little practise before one can master it.

Starburst Finger Mehndi

Create starburst patterns all over your index finger as shown in the image, using swirls, curved lines and dots. Decorate the lower part of your hand (to your wrist) with netted patterns and simple borders. Incorporate floret or leaf patterns on the borders if you want. On completion, you will have a perfect starburst finger mehndi design stain.

Grand Finger Mehndi Design

If you are someone who prefers traditional extravagant mehndi designs over minimalistic designs, then the grand finger mehndi design is the perfect choice for you. The fingers are entirely covered using various standard patterns like net, starburst, circles, lines, teardrops, etc. Artists made clean borders at the ends of the finger using lines and dots. You can decorate the borders further if you want, as done in the image.

Final Note:

In this article, almost all classy yet trendy finger mehndi designs were covered that readers can try at home. Hope this article helps in bringing your inner mehndi artist out so that you can explore the wonders of creating finger mehndi designs.

Henna mehndi is a temporary body art technique that originated in ancient India, and even after so many years, it is still an integral part of our culture. Mehndi is one of the art forms that never went out of fashion. Instead, mehndi designs evolved and modernized with time. Lace and netted mehndi designs have been in fame for quite some time now, and you can steal the crowd’s attention next time you choose the netted or lace mehndi design. This netted and lace mehndi designs are embellished in a way that appears as a net or lace and gives off an elegant vibe.

Top Netted And Lace Mehndi Designs

Among all types of mehndi designs available, the netted and lace mehndi designs that have been trending over social media are the following:

Lace Mehndi Design

You can create a real-life lace-like effect on your hand using henna. The trending lace-glove illusion mehndi design gives off an exquisite western vibe. Most artists use pieces of real lace as a stencil to create the design. Others take inspiration from lace designs and showcase their skills by creating those intricate and fragile patterns.

Netted Mehndi Design

Crisscrossing line patterns with detailed borders create a lovely netted mehndi design. You can use small dots on the points of intersections to make the design look embellished, and floral patterns on borders are easy to make yet very attractive.

Bridal Intimate Lace Mehndi Design

Traditional Indian patterns like temple silhouettes, paisleys, bumps, etc. when incorporated with lace-like patters creates a stunning and intimate lace mehndi design which is ideal for brides or wedding occasions.

Snow Flake Inspired

Snowflakes are lovely and unique pieces of art in themselves, and that is why we have seen many designs to be inspired by them, be it on fabric, earrings, or mehndi. Use snowflakes to create a netted effect and incorporate broad borders to get a fantastic snowflake-inspired mehndi design.

Leaf Net Mehndi

Crisscrossing twigs or creepers like pattern creates a leaf net mehndi design. You can also modify the design by incorporating mandalas or jewelry like borders. Take ideas from fabric designs or search for leaf net mehndi designs online for inspiration.

Ornament Style Mehndi

The ornament style mehndi design resembles traditional Indian gold jewelry like earrings or bangles. Artists use curved lines and dots to create a chain-like effect, starting from one point and spreading out on the entire area. 

Netted Mehndi Design

You can create this beautiful design after some practice because it requires a little expertise of grip on the cone to make these patterns. The flower embedded squares with detailed borders make the design very intricate, but the small details are what makes a netted mehndi design like this so elegant.

Roses All Over

Roses are easy to make using swirls, bumps and shading. Create beautiful netted mehndi design using rose patterns situated with a little gap. This mehndi design compliments floral clothing. Brides on social media have flaunted their rose pattern covered hand mehndi design with elegant floral rings as well.

Textured Net Mehndi Design

The dark and light variety of patterns are involved in creating a contrasting yet elegant design that covers the entire palm or arm, and it is called the textured net mehndi design. Use several flowers, dots, lines, curves, swirls, circles, leaves, etc. patterns to form a mesmerizing style. Textured net mehndi design on your palm can diminish the importance of bangles or rings on your hand.

Rose Net Mehndi

The rose net mehndi design implied to the net-like pattern created over the hand and bordered using rose like looking patterns. The mehndi work looks more detailed after adding dots to the intersections of lines, and leaf-like patterns are added near the roses to make it look more elegant.

Starburst Mehndi

A starburst is an excellent option for full hand pattern. Easily create the starburst mehndi design incorporating various patterns. Like in the picture, the artist made the starburst pattern out of swirls, bordered with lines and mini dots. For a complete elegant design, you can also apply patterns to your wrists with mehndi, to create bangles like a stain.

Yet Another Netted Mehndi Design

Achieve this netted mehndi design by using three lines together. Three lines at a time are situated on the palm vertically and horizontally, with a little distance in between. Once you get the plaid like pattern throughout the hand, use dots of mehndi to decorate the intersecting points of the lines to make it look elegant and clean.

Full Hand Net Mehndi

The artist covered the area from wrist to almost the elbow joint with net mehndi pattern, i.e. crisscrossing of lines. Artist then used a dot pattern on every line intersection. The artist then used floret and leafy designs to decorate the borders and the area on the palms and fingers as well. This simple design is potent to create a very beautiful yet a grand look.

Geometric Style Net Mehndi

You can make this style of mehndi design using several geometric patterns like squares, rectangles, triangles, circles, etc. The geometric style of net mehndi is effortless yet attractive. Beginners can try this design for it is not too ambitious. Graph and chessboard like patterns are very common in this style of mehndi design.

Full Hand Different Nets Mehndi

In this image of full hand mehndi design, you can notice several types of grids and net-like patterns. This design can be said to be a little too ambitious for beginners, but if you have some practice and are confident about your grip, then surely you can achieve this luxurious look. Remember to keep the patterns simple even though the design might look complicated. Also, use the henna to fill in some places of the patterns to get a clean and gradient outcome.

White Henna

Despite henna being used in the name, white mehndi is made using an adhesive type of body paint that lasts anywhere between one to four days. White Henna Mehndi Designs have flooded social media, creating a trend that makes many clients demand it. You can use tribal patterns to create this design and also can incorporate the design with flowers, leaves, swirls, chains, teardrops, and other traditional mehndi patterns.

Final Note:

We have included most of the trending netted and lace mehndi designs in this article, so now you can get started on practicing them to master it and flaunt it in your next family gathering. We hope that this article guided you about mehndi designs and inspired you to create your own netted or lace style of mehndi.

Paisley Mehndi Designs (Simple, Easy And Modern)

There is something about the curvy paisley that looks and feels appropriate on every hand and leg. If you’re a bride or for any casual occasions, one can easily get a gorgeous look with these paisley mehndi designs. If anyone is even a little knowledge about Mehndi designs, then it is for sure that they have come across some of the basic patterns like lines, dots, petals, swirls, and of course the good old paisleys.

Top Paisley Mehndi Designs

We have curated some of the best classy and trendy paisley mehndi designs that Henna enthusiasts will enjoy knowing about and recreating, which are as follows:

Beginners Paisley Design

In this first sample picture of a paisley mehndi design, we can see large paisley covering almost the entire palm area in a diagonal fashion. The large paisley pattern with smaller intricate patterns on the inside and borders using a series of teardrop patterns. This design is relatively easy and ideal for beginners to try at home.

Dots Filled Paisley

This mehndi design is also very similar to the last one where a big paisley pattern covers the entire palm area, but this time it is straight, and a dot and net pattern to fill the inside of the paisley. For the border, the artist used lines and then dots to enhance the design more.

Floret And Leaf Paisley Mehndi Design

The paisley pattern originates from the shape of raw mango and is also to design mehndi as well as fabrics. The paisley pattern is adapts to both traditional and modern ways to decorate. Like this paisley design in the picture enhances further with vines and flowers. DIY a similar paisley mehndi design on your palm and flaunt it with the traditional attire on a formal occasion.

Modern Paisley Mehndi

You can choose one big paisley pattern to cover the area like the previous designs, or you can use a series of paisleys to stain your hand. In this picture, the design also includes other elements than just paisleys like flowers, lines, and leaves.

Bridal Paisley Mehndi Design

The design in this picture is very grand and is perfect for bridal style mehndi as it covers almost the entire area. The design incorporates several patterns that are very neat creating an elegant look. This design is perfect for both the palm and backside of the hand.

Elegant Paisley Mehndi

The paisley series pattern in this mehndi design begins from the top of the index finger and continuous diagonally to the wrist. Other than the index finger, the upper part of all other fingers of the hand has a netted simple, elegant pattern. Traditional patterns like chandelier type circles and half-circle starburst patterns in the design make it more attractive.

Classy Paisley Mehndi Design

Arabic mehndi design style, diagonal series of paisley mehndi design is not a very new concept; instead, it is quite common in traditional mehndi designs. The artist has added netted patterns to surround the paisleys and used Indian folk-art inspired patterns on the fingers using circles, dots, and lines. Ultimately the design is very both classy and trendy. 

Paisley Mehndi  

There are similar elements in the design of this mehndi design to the last one we discussed. The index finger is first covered with swirl patterns, then a series of paisleys extends from there to the end of the palm. Floral patterns are also incorporated in the design to enhance the paisley patterns. The wrist area is then covered with a netted pattern, and the other fingers are decorated using lines, petals, leaves, etc.

Net Style Paisley Mehndi

This design in the picture is very trendy and unique, where half of the palm-side of the hand is covered with a netted pattern; the other half consists of a series of paisley patterns. Heart like shapes is inserted in the empty square spaces between the netted areas. The insides of the paisley patterns are filled with other intricate patterns, and the patterns covering the wrist binds the entire design together, making it look very extravagant.

Full Paisley Mehndi Design

The paisley mehndi design in this picture begins from the index and middle finger and extends to almost half of the lower arm. Even though the series of paisley design is enhanced with the inclusion of other detailed patterns, the entire design remains very sophisticated and beautiful.

Borders And Florets Paisley

This design is also quite similar to the design in the last mehndi design. The small differences are the patterns in between the series of paisleys. Unlike the last picture of mehndi design, this design has a pattern on all five fingers. The starburst patterns in this design make this a perfect festive paisley mehndi design.

Colorful Paisley Mehndi

The full hand paisley mehndi design in this picture is very grand looking and is ideal for brides. The design is very close-nit and covers the entire hand, with a medium-size paisley pattern at the centre of the palm. The artists incorporated various henna colours to enhance the design further. This design is not very easy to create; hence it is suggested to take professional help or practice many times before you apply to your hand.

Grand Net And Borders Paisley

Another full hand paisley mehndi design. This design consists of the perfect light and dark contrasting pattern to bring out the detailing of the design better. Small paisley patterns are present in the upper-centre of the palm as well as in the lower arm area. Several primary and intricate patterns are curated to create this mehndi design. This is a very authentic traditional and classy design that will suit one best on weddings or during festivals.

Bridal Paisley Mehndi Design

The last mehndi design of this list is the grandest paisley mehndi design that we are to discuss yet. This is a full hand extravagant design which can win the heart of soon to be brides. This design fully covers the hands and it should be one of the best designs to hide the name of the groom as per tradition.  

Final Note

We discussed some of the best paisley mehndi design ideas in this article that you can take reference from and try at home or request a professional to create. Turn heads this wedding season with your grand paisley mehndi designs.