Inspired by OM

It's a sunny Sunday afternoon, and after walking around on the West side of New York City with a bottle of water in one hand and a new camera in another, I tried to look around me for inspiration of new mehndi designs.  Granted I always use a certain combination of designs as a base, but I wanted something new to add to it.  As I was walking today, I noticed that lots of individuals had OM t-shirts or OM written on their handbags.  As simple as it may be, OM is a great addition to my collection of designs.  

Another design that I remembered was a particular type of flower design that I can draw on paper very easily but with mehndi, it's a challenge for me.  More so when I apply it on my own hand.  So here are some photos of what I came up with...

I tried out the black-and-white effect.  

I got religious on this part of the design:-)

This is an up-close of the main flower design.  It took me a couple of times before I was somewhat satisfied. 

simple yet gorgeous

Although mehndi designs can last for up to two weeks, I decided to try out another design on the opposite side of my hand.  The difference is that I washed it off almost right away so that I don't have to wait for two weeks.  I decided this time to go with a more simple design but a lot of it.  Hope you like it. 

The first of many designs

So I've blogged in the past, and this time, I'm trying something new.  Mehndi has always been a hobby of mine, yet I have had no one to practice on.  Tonight I thought, why not apply it on my own hand?  So I did.  I only applied the mehndi on my left hand but took many pictures of different angles.  I also tried using different photo finishing formats just to see what would look better.  

Once these designs fade, I'll try something out again.