Two days before her marriage, Anita Judge had a traditional mehendi party at her brother's home in Palo Alto, which was filled with the melody of Indian music and the scent of samosas. Ravie Kattaura ...

Vidhi Heiland fell in love with creating body art using henna while growing up in India. She found she could create a safe place for others during the application. And now her efforts to help cancer ...

The Instagram for Kundan Henna boasts photos and videos of all sorts of intricate henna designs by its self-taught founder from Alberta, Canada. Henna is actually a small flowering shrub used for ...

Henna body art is the latest fashion. And parents can breathe easy, as it is beautiful, artistic — and not permanent. Deepal Vora of Malden described the history and the technique of mehndi, or henna ...

Henna with a Heart is drawing on creativity to practice mehndi. With a childhood passion for henna, first-year computational and systems biology student Anoushka Bhat said she was inspired to found ...

It’s hard to pin down the exact origin of the ancient body art of henna. Some speculate that Cleopatra, perhaps the first name that comes to mind when one thinks of the words “consummate beauty,” used ...

After Bay Area author Alka Joshi moved to the United States from India at age 9, she quickly learned that Americans were mostly exposed to negative narratives about her birth country, often told from ...

The art of beauty! Lupita Nyong’o is using her head as a canvas. The 40-year-old actress covered her shaved crown with henna to attend the opening of Monsoon Wedding Musical, which follows two Indian ...

The aroma of biryani and mango lassi, the shimmer of henna and the sound of Indian music filled the Sikes Lake Center as students gathered to celebrate Diwali, the Festival of Lights, at MSU on Nov. 8 ...