Hand-painted henna is not limited to weddings. In India, this art has a history of thousands of years. Such a group of craftsmen often appear in the streets of India.
They are called hand-painted artists, and a brush covered with plastic cloth and several conical paint tubes are their creative tools. The hand-painted material is called henna.
People pick the leaves of shrubs and grind them into very fine paste, which has become an important painting material for Indian hand-painted artists. Besides hand painting, henna is also used as hair dye. Many elderly Indians are lucky to have no white hair on their heads. Henna is also known as the raw material of natural plant hair dye.
In India, hand-painted henna is usually called henna tattoo strictly. Henna is different from tattoo because it doesn't sting like the latter. Henna only draws decorative patterns on the skin. It usually lasts for a few days or weeks.
Henna is Sanskrit and Hindi is called "Mehndi", which is just a short-lived figure painting. There is another difference. Although it is body painting, Indian women usually only paint such decorative patterns on their limbs or faces. Unlike tattoos, it can cover any part of the body.