Labh Lakshmi

What is a tattoo?

A tattoo is a design on the skin that can be either permanent or non-permanent. Non-permanents are called temporary tattoos. The tattoo piece is pressed on dry skin while a piece of wet cloth is applied to the paper backing to remove it and later, the tattoo can be washed off.

Permanent tattoos on the other hand are made with tattoo needles. These needles are attached to needle bars that can punctures the skin at 50 to 3,000 times a minute. Professionals know how deep to pierce the skin to create a permanent line. Going too deep will cause pain to the person getting the tattoo, and not going deep enough will result in scratchy lines. The length of time it takes for the tattoo to be finished depends on the intricacy and size of the design.

Mix fevicol and the fabric colour of your choice in the ratio 4:1. The fevicol should not be dry, now make a instant black mehandi cone and draw outline of design with this cone and than fill the mixture of fevicol and fabric colour with the help of 0 no. brush. Keep your hands away from water because this mehandi is washable but black outline is remain for 10 days. This type of mehandi can be applied like jewellery also. For best results use metallic fabric colours. You also use silver and golden colour for filling. Colour choice is depend upon the occasion, the dress you wear and even the personality of person.

Mehandi Designs


Make a instant Black Mehandi cone. With black cone to draw the main shape or the outline of the design. Then fill in design with different colour of Zari Powder. To apply Zari powder, first apply fevicol on the area where you want apply Zari powder, then sprinkle the Zari powder over the fevicol. When you want to use different colour of Zari powder in same design then before applying the second colour, confirm that first one is completely dry so that effect of design appear neatly. This mehandi is washable.

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Zardozi Mehandi

Make a cone with fresh fevicol. Fill in the main shape or the outline of the design with the fevicol cone. Leave it for ten to fifteen minutes to complete dry. Cover the same design, exactly in the same shape, with a coating of the traditional mehandi cone. When it dries, apply a mixture of sugar syrup and lemon on it. Remove the mehandi with a butter-knife. The part, which was filled with fevicol, will not be coloured but you will get the reverse design.

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Reverse Mehandi

Cones of the traditional and the Black Mehandi are essential for this. First, use the black cone to draw the main shape or the outline of the design. Then fill in the design with traditional cone.

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Black and Brown Shaded Mehandi

Buy some black mehandi powder from a cosmetic shop and sift it through piece of chiffon cloth. Take black mehandi powder in a plastic cup and add one teaspoonful of wellaxon herbal liquid 6% or clove oil to it. If this liquid is not available than add few drops of clove oil. The paste does not become very soft. Fill this paste in a cone with the help of plastic spoon.

Draw the mehandi design and wash it off as soon as it dries. It is not necessary to keep this mehandi on your hand for a long time because it immediately turns into its best shade and remains on the hand for at least ten days

Take the green powder of a good quality mehandi. Sift it thrice through a piece of chiffon cloth. Take required quantity of water and add tea leaves, coffee powder, sugar and clove powder in it and boil it. Add this water to mehandi. Add few drops of lemon juice in it. Cover this paste and keep it for four to five hours.

Now add a teaspoonful of nilgiri oil or clove oil to the paste and stir it vigorously in the same direction continuously. Fill this paste in a cone. Before applying mehandi on your hand first wash your hand with soap so that your hand become oil free than apply nilgiri oil on hand. Now draw the design on the hand with cone.