MELA festival, soutuhampton

I reecently visited the Mela festival that was hosted in Hoglands Park in Southampton. I was an Indian festival which hosted a number of stalls that sold indian jewellery clothes and other traditional indian items, as well as serving indian food throughout the day. Whist there we got the chance to try on a Sari. Sari's are tradtional wear for indian women, which includes a small top and a skirt which wraps around the waist and goes up over the shoulder.

after visiting the indian festival, i purchased some of the actual mendhi ink that they traditionally use. I then referenced some mendhi images online and created a few of my own designs using similar shapes and patterns. here's how some of them came out...

the mendhi looks nice, but the process of applying it is long and delicate. to match our mendhi tattoos, we purchased bindi jewelery from the market which were so cheap and so nice to accessorise the face with! Here's a photo of myself wearing my bindi.

I might try and incorporate some of the indian traditional wear, or even just using some of the patterns and lines in my makeup designs.