JORDANIAN HENNA ARTIST, BALQEES AL-ABBADI, SAYING: "To be honest, you cannot imagine how happy I am when I explain to people how much I love this work and my passion can be felt while I explain the ...

Slough's Riffat Bahar has made a career out of henna body painting - called Mehndi. As part of our Divine Art series, Riffat tells us about the spiritual side to an Eastern art that is primarily ...

Unlike art forms that adorn walls, domestic or public spaces henna application is a cosmetic art meant to beautify the body. Exotic or ubiquitous, steeped in tradition or a trendy fashionista ...

The night before their wedding, many Hindu and Muslim brides-to-be spend hours decorating their palms, forearms and ankles with Mehndi, a style of intricate, lavish body painting made with henna. And ...

The art of henna painting has been practised for over 5,000 years, but walking around Mombasa — a city with a high population of Muslims — you rarely see any advertisement directing a person on where ...

Back when pregnant women wore mumus to hide their bumps, a mom-to-be saved her decorating efforts for the nursery. But just as maternity fashion has changed dramatically, some women have taken to ...