The hotter your palms are, the darker the mehndi colour comes out on the skin. The old wives tale goes “The darker the colour the more your husband loves you!”
TajweddingServices, specialises in making top quality, fresh, natural mehndi paste to guarantee the rich bridal colour it will give to all brides.
Excessive washing and lotions may affect the colour of the mehndi.
· Once mehndi is applied on the skin, it may be left overnight or left on for at-least 4 hours to enhance the deepness in colour.
· The mehndi can be scraped of with a payment card or an unsharp butter knife.
· The mehndi on the skin should not be covered with a plastic bag or gloves as it will result in condensation from sweating and therefore loose the definition in design.
· Lemon Juice & sugar syrup can be applied with cotton wool on to the mehndi once it is dried. This will secure the mehndi onto the skin more and therefore, result in the darkness of the colour on the skin. Application may be repeated, if mehndi feels dry and hard.
· The colour on the skin will darken on the day after the mehndi has been applied. The darkness in colour will last for a few days and will fade away.
· The mehndi powder can be a khaki, green or dark brown colour depending on where it comes from. It usually develops into a chocolate brown colour when applied as a paste onto the skin. Fresh mehndi powder will produce a strong dark brown colour and will last longer. Stale mehndi will produce a light orange colour, which will not get darker over time.
· The use of black “henna” should be avoided as it contains a dangerous chemical called Para-phenylenediamine (PPD) found in hair dyes which causes skin irritations.
· Brides should have manicures, pedicures & waxing done before mehndi is applied on them as otherwise the mehndi will be waxed off with the hair!
· To beautify your mehndi for mehndi nights, wedding or receptions, body glitter and gems in different colours can be applied on the skin to match the outfits.