Essays Tagged: "Mehndi"

Tradition

ed, girl's parents haveto do everything. Guys go to the girl's house for marriage. One day, we have mehndi(henna) night. One day is music night. One day we do our religious stuff called vidhi.One day ... ied you have to send somespecific items in food to the guy's house. The girl's parents have arrange mehndiDesai 3function, music function, religion thing and marriage. In mehndi function, they put hen ...

(4 pages) 37 0 0.0 Jun/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

My sister's wedding

a mile away.In my culture, wedding ceremony consists of two days function. The first day called "mehndi" is the day for youngsters to celebrate. I can still remember the girls and boys singing song ... and the groom. Girls were painting beautiful designs on the bride's hands and their own hands with mehndi (a paste of leaves, which makes temporarily tattoos). The second day was the actual wedding d ...

(1 pages) 15 1 0.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Tattoo or not to tattoo... the

Recently another method of skin art has made its way the Atlantic and is becoming popular. It is Mehndi:, the ancient art of henna tattooing. In her article "Body of Art" Maya Brown reports that ac ... t" Maya Brown reports that according to Rabi R. Dabit, founder of the first henna salon in the US." Mehndi is believed to have originated in Egypt more than 7,000 years ago". In fact in a recent artic ...

(10 pages) 38 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity