Awe-inspiring and Exciting Mehndi Design Trends of 2016

Bored browsing through those traditional mehndi designs? These exciting mehndi design trends of 2016 could make your imagination run wild. If you’re the kind of bride who wants to leave a personal mark on everything involved in her wedding, including the mehndi design, then you’ve landed at the right page! Have a look at the list we’ve curated for the bold and beautiful brides-to-be looking for mehndi designs in vogue.

Mehndi Designs Are Replacing Fine Jewellery

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Intense and heavy mehendi designs are not everyone’s ballgame. Some brides-to-be look for something simple yet intricate and stunning. The latest in mehndi design trends is the jewellery mehndi design.

What’s It All About?

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These super cool intricate mehndi designs are an attempt to imitate fine pieces of jewellery that elegantly bring out your chicness. Got old fine jewellery of your mom that doesn’t go too well with your lehenga because it has lost its shine, but you still want it included in your attire? Turn it into a henna design and improvise on its intricacies to make it personal.

Have a word with your bridal mehndi designer on how they can best fit the design onto your hands or legs. You can also request them to explore trendy jewellery designs that can be recreated as voguish mehndi designs.

White Henna Tattoos – A Replacement of Traditional Henna Designs?

Generally used by make-up artists to add attachments to an actor’s look, such as a false nose or elf ears; this white body adhesive is one of the emerging mehndi design trends creating a rage internationally. Not a popular thing in India yet, this white henna can surely enhance your bridal look if you wish to ditch the traditional mehndi and take a bold decision to match this up with trending lehenga colours of mint green, tangerine, aquamarine or strawberry, for instance.

Since this is not a hit in India until now, finding a white henna designer could be difficult. The white henna stays on for a week or so. Thus, you could enquire with your bridal mehndi designer if they have ever used it before and could have a test and trial of how a tiny design looks.

When you finally decide to go ahead with it, ensure you choose elaborate designs that are visible enough to make an impact. 

Mehndi Design That Tells a Story

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Among the contemporary mehndi design trends, this one is sure to catch the eye of brides-to-be who have been in love with the idea of marriage since. These full-length mehndi designs for hand feature the whole wedding ceremony in the neatest and most concise manner possible. If not the wedding ceremony, you can have any of your favourite part of the wedding rituals designed onto your hands or legs. For brides-to-be who want to take a fresh approach can also design the most memorable moment of the couple onto her hands and legs.

Finalise your favourite memory or ritual and discuss with your bridal mehndi designer on how they can blend and narrate the story into the design.

Bead, Stones or Glitter – What Would You Choose To Make It Shine?

Brides looking for extra bling can choose to add beads and gem stones to their mehndi design. Available in different shapes, sizes and an enormous variety of colours, these add-ons make boring mehndi motifs look alive and vibrant! Keep in mind to choose a skin-friendly adhesive that’s long lasting, as you definitely don’t want to be worrying about the beads and stones falling off during your celebration.

Remember, we told you to read on for white henna design variations, well here it goes:

Gilding powders of variant colours when mixed and matched with white henna create sheer magic! After applying the white henna onto your body, all you got to do is slightly brush the gilding powder onto them and let it dry. You’ll be amazed at the outcome.

You could also try adding glitter to your white henna design to enhance the intricacies. (This method could also be tried with the traditional mehndi style).

Side Designs for Sidals

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We just felt it wouldn’t be fair for the guests attending your mehndi ceremony to not have something unique for them. Therefore, the side style henna design trend is something we’d like you suggest your mehndi designers to do for the sidals. Simple and quick, these designs can provide freshness to your guests as well.

Would you try these mehndi design trends? Let us know!

If your hunt for mehndi artists in town is still on, browse our list, you’re sure to find the best in the lot.