15 Beautiful Mehendi Designs To Make Your Hands Look Gorgeous This Wedding Season

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#6. It is a sacred ingredient

Mehendi is a paste made from the leaves of the henna plant. This name has been derived from a Sanskrit word, mendhika. Mehendi and haldi [Read: The Significance Of Most Popular Indian Wedding Tradition 'Haldi Ceremony'] are two most sacred ingredients of Indian ceremonies. Mehendi is seen as the symbolic representations of the inner and outer light of a person.

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