Snapperoon: Eid-ul-Fitr Mehndi 2015

Capturing my life in snaps.

So today marks the end of Ramadhan for this year.

To celebrate, we design our hands with mehndi/henna patterns.

From being fed up of having no one to do my mehndi growing up, I taught myself how to.

I'm not exactly mehndi artist of the century, but I can do the odd flower and paisley.

My sister's right hand accompanied with her blue and orange nail polish to match her Eid clothes.
(Apologies for the lighting - I'm clearly not photographer of the century either!)

 My sister's left hand - I like the design of the index finger here so will be making a mental note of that for future mehndi sessions!

This one is cute. Again, still my sister's hand. I like the simplicity of this one and I think the heart looks bolder with it being left empty and designs all around it. My sister's favourite and mine too I think!

And finally, my own hands. I've said this previously, but I really like the way simple designs look as opposed to a full hand of mehndi. I especially like the finger toppers on this one.

Honestly, I'm not too fond of this one. I'm kind of glad this one is in the palm of my hand rather on the outer. I do like it but the surrounding of the outer circle is messy and not a fan.

Despite all the time and effort it took to squeeze all these mehndi patterns out of the tube, what I failed to realise was that the mehndi tube I was using was an old one. And as a general rule of thumb, the older the mehndi, the lighter the stain it leaves. And to no one's surprise, the stain left if practically non-existent! Rookie mistake - I know! But ah well, it's all in good practice!

If you'd like to see my mehndi designs from last year's Eid-ul-Fitr, you can do by clicking this.

Cool. Right. Well, I'm off to enjoy the festivities.

Good day and keep smiling xxx