Do-it-yourself Henna/Mehndi Pattern For Karva Chauth

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Do-it-yourself Henna/Mehndi Pattern For Karva Chauth

Before I begin, I wish to dedicate this post to my mom. This is for you mummy!!!!

Coming Friday, 2nd November is being celebrated as Karva Chauth in many parts of India. This is a festival where the wife keeps a fast the whole day in prayer for a long life of her husband. This day has been celebrated since ages specially in northern India. The fast is the hardest because you are not even allowed to drink water the whole day. Food and water can be had only after praying to the moon, so the wife has to wait until the moon is visible in the sky. She then prays to the moon and drinks water ending her fast.

The good thing about this fast is that ladies get to dress up (almost like brides) and put henna/mehndi on their hands. Since the festival is celebrated with quite aplomb these days getting a mehndi pattern on your hands is not easy. There are long queues that you have to wait in until your turn comes.

So this post is specially for all of you ladies out there, and specially my mom, who are planning to do it yourself this time.

I am going to show you how you can create a simple henna pattern on your hand yourself (or even get your husbands to make it for you if you are one of the few lucky ones!)

So lets first take a look at the finished design.
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do-it-yourself henna pattern
As you can see the design is simple and yet fills the hand in a nice way.


To make this you will need a cone filled with mehndi/henna. Cones are easily available in the market (even outside India you can easily find them at Indian stores). So now lets see how to make this design.

Step 1. Start by drawing 5 co-centric circles with the inner most circle as big as you want – on my hand it is almost the size of a 50 paise coin or a 1 pound coin. This needs to be done on the palm of your hand.

Step 2. Draw a hatch pattern in the center circle – for creating the hatch first draw horizontal lines then vertical lines in the center. This will create a pattern of small square boxes in the circle. You can fill alternate squares with henna if you wish.
Now between the next two concentric circles draw dome like shapes covering the entire circle as shown in the photo below.

Step 3. Between the outermost two circles draw straight lines and fill the entire region. Simple and easy small straight strokes.

Step 4. Now go back to the circle where you drew the domes and cover the space between the domes and its touching circle with small straight lines as shown in the image below.

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Step by step tutorial - do it yourself henna pattern (click on the image to enlarge)
Step 5. Next again draw dome like shapes but this time on the outermost circle. You can keep the dome head to be pointed or round as per your wish.

Step 6. Inside every dome shape that you drew in step 5, add thick round dots using your cone.

At this stage your palm is done. In case you have a bigger hand you can draw more concentric circles so as to cover your entire palm and repeat the patterns described above.

Now we come to the fingers and thumb.

Step 7. Start by drawing a wiggly line from the tip of a finger down to about 2/3rd the length of the finger.

Step 8. Now draw more squiggly lines connected at the tip of the line drawn in step 7. You can draw the lines as shown in the image above or keep them straighter as per your convenience. Draw as many lines as you need to give a fuller look to the finger. 5 lines is usually enough.

Step 9. Now from the end of the wiggly line drawn in step 7, join back to the starting of this line drawing your line a little further away towards the middle so as to create an empty shape that you can fill in with straight lines.

Step 10. Add thick drops of henna/mehndi at the end of the squiggly lines drawn in step 8 to complete your pattern.

Repeat this pattern on all your fingers.

Here is another look at the finished pattern on my hand.

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Do-it-yourself henna pattern
I hope you guys liked the picture tutorial. You can do variations to the basic design as per your wish. I've tried to keep it simple specially for beginners.

If this is going to be your first time using a cone of henna then you can take an orange sketch pen and first draw the pattern on your hand using it. This way you will only have to move the cone on an already drawn pattern.

Do leave your comments about the tutorial and let me know if such picture tutorials are helpful in understanding the process.

Happy Karva Chauth in advance to all the wives out there!

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17 comments:

  1. Very pretty design...thanks for sharing...happy karvachauth...:)

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  2. wow..very pretty design..nice to meet u dear <3

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  3. That's amazing! Definitely pinning for later use.

    xo
    Tiffy
    www.CuteLA.com

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