Mehndi Art: The Basics of Indian Henna Designs

Learn about basic Indian henna designs in this video about Mehndi. Expert: Lisa Butterworth

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Learn all about Mehndi -- the ancient Indian art of applying henna dye to hands and feet as a temporary decoration -- in these Howcast videos.

 
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Mehndi Aftercare: How to Protect the Paste and Wrap the Henna Design
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Mehndi Art: How to Draw a Paisley Henna Design
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Mehndi Art: How to Draw Vines, Buds, and Leaves with Henna
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Mehndi Art: How to Draw Vines, Buds, and Leaves with Henna
Mehndi Art: How to Draw a Few Basic Elements of Popular Henna Designs
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Mehndi Art: How to Draw a Few Basic Elements of Popular Henna Designs
Mehndi Art: How to Roll a Henna Cone and Fill a Jacquard Bottle
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Mehndi Art: How to Roll a Henna Cone and Fill a Jacquard Bottle
Mehndi Art: Tools You Need to Apply Henna
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Mehndi Art: Tools You Need to Apply Henna
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Mehndi Art: How to Strain Henna Paste
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I'm Lisa Butterworth sometimes known as Kenzi and I'm a henna artist and the owner of a henna supply business, kenzi.com. Today I'll unleash your inner henna artist and have you drawing henna designs all over your friends and anyone else who will sit still. The two most common designs for henna body art are Indian and Moroccan. Indian designs tend to be more organic and flowy, curvy. There are a lot of paisleys and flowers and peacocks. There's a subset of Indian henna designs called the Arabic and these usually tend to be asymmetrical with a lot of open space and a mixture of thick and thin lines.

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    Kenzi (aka Lisa Butterworth) traces her passion for henna to the time she spent living and working in Morocco. A self-taught professional henna artist, Kenzi also offers private consultations and teaches the art of henna in workshops throughout New York City. Kenzi is the author, along with Nic Tharpa Cartier, of the first ever book on Moroccan henna, "Moor: A Henna Atlas of Morocco" and is currently lecturing across the country and around the world on the subject of Moroccan henna.