Arabic Mehndi Designs in recent times have found greater acceptability beyond the Middle East. According to a global survey on mehndi designs and styling, latest Arabic mehndi designs are far more popular than other styles in the West. Even in India, there has been a surge in the number of brides looking for Arabic mehndi themes for their bridal mehndi, thanks to the intricate style, elaborate templates and a far more exquisite impression that Arabic mehndi designs provide.

It’s a fact that Indian bridal mehndi artists often fuse traditional local and Arabic mehndi designs to create visually stunning motifs. These mehndi designs are a great mix of the best of both worlds – with elaborate templates and exquisite Arabic design elements that create a dark and beautiful mehndi design once it dries out completely. Artistic elements like shading, adding hues and outlines gives these bridal mehndi designs unique Arabic flavour.

Here are 52 of the most amazing Arabic mehndi designs for you along with DIY videos and FAQs (at the end) to make things real easy for the pretty bride-to-be, you!

Gorgeous Arabic Mehndi Designs

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Mehndi designs today have evolved so much that they can literally be inspired by anything – be it leaves or known fabric embroidery or other works – anything. We can see various kinds of influences in mehndi designs, one of the most prominent, popular and picturesque of them being the Arabic influence.

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Arabic mehndi designs can be seen exhibiting a variety of subtle and bold variations from common mehndi designs, these show that Arabic influence with such grace that you are left with nothing but awe for the work.

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3.You Can Try This “ARABIC MEHANDI DESIGN TUTORIAL”

This tutorial is basically a DIY video and you could try it out for starters. However, if there is a big function or your wedding in the near future, we suggest you go to a mehendi artist while you try this out on your baby cousin or her friends.

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Arabic mehndi designs can be seen exhibiting a variety of subtle and bold variations from common mehndi designs. These show that Arabic influence with such grace that you are left with nothing but awe for the work. Here are some excellent Arabic mehndi designs that you can sport for a fashionably traditional look for any occasion to look glam!

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Some of the Arabic mehandi designs showcase the remnants of Mughal architectural magnificence. Be it the curvaceous damasks that adorned many a minaret in the olden days, or the use of patterns that seem to depict something like the muqarnas, these designs show an extensive and careful understanding of different strokes in the design and how they permute to form different combinations and new layouts altogether.

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These are often exceedingly used in bridal mehndi designs for all kinds of weddings and related rituals. But if such a design is chosen to just be drawn on the palms, then it can be sported by any one for a cool and elegant look.

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In Arabic bridal mehndi designs, or any artfully done mehndi design for that matter, the palm becomes the canvas onto which the layout is projected. You can choose for the traditional spheres and dots that have existed since time immemorial, you can opt for a single central design like a floral or peacock motif.

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The range of choices is unreal! The fact that the body is a canvas leaves a great deal of room for good imagination in the execution of designs. For example, in Arabic mehndi designs there can be an entire flower motif design that is drawn in segments on each fingers, that come together to complete a jigsaw like puzzle.

Minimalistic Arabic Mehndi Designs

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The rest of the region can use simpler designs or just blank space to enhance the motif being drawn. This gives the overall sketch a much more creative dimension to it.

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One of the most immediate references that come to mind when we think of netted patterns in mehndi designs is the Arabic mehndi design. Arabic mehndi designs commonly make use of the netted pattern in their drawing.

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The netted patterns are drawn with such precision using a thin hole for the mehndi cone, with curvaceous and floral frills or other decorative patterns following the netted pattern – looking like an extended traditional veil covering the hands. The netted pattern can be drawn horizontally or vertically, and be used to cover the inside and the back of the hand, or even be incorporated in a full-sleeve mehndi design.

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In case you were wondering what a full-sleeve Arabic mehndi design would look like, let me tell you that it can look like a lot of things! This is simply because of the range of patterns that go into the making of Arabic mehndi designs.

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These are some full-sleeve ideas for an Arabic mehndi design where the predominantly used strokes are either curves or lines. It is unbelievable how it is done using two major pattern types.

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If you remember from before, you would remember some of the major challenges of a full-sleeve mehndi drawing of any inspiration. While drawing a full-sleeve mehndi design, one must make sure that the basic elements of the overall pattern have space of their own to breathe, that they are not too crowded and are discernible.

Elegantly Detailed Arabic Mehndi Designs

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Another important factor is to make sure that the patterns being used don’t become too redundant. These two tasks would make a full-sleeve Arabic mehndi design, using just curves and lines, look like one of the most amazing creations of God!

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It is believed that mehandi as an art came about when it was used as inexpensive jewellery for weddings, instead of making use of expensive diamonds or gold or platinum.

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Mehandi art becomes the ultimate organic accessory in this context. The idea that it may have originated as alternatives to material jewellery, can be seen adapted in the conception of the hand-chain mehndi design.

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Although the name itself gives away too much, it is an Arabic mehandi design drawn on the hand to represent an intricate hand-chain. This Arabic mehandi design is usually done on the back of the hand, but can also be used to decorate the inside of the hand as well like a hand-chain in reverse.

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It can either be drawn in detail to extend up to all the fingers or can be used elegantly with just one finger attended for detail, depending on nail art, jewellery and so on.

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With bold curvaceous damasks with curving petals adorning the central design, this design uses a fill that is either precise with thin lines or with intricate additional elements to form a corsage-like design which is very popular these days in all cultures that wear mehndi.

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This design when addressed on the inside of the hand, resting diagonally, makes for a cute and confident Arabic mehandi design, that can be worn for a friend’s engagement, or a cousin’s wedding, or just to keep brushing up your mehndi art with practice!

These Are Some More Of The Best Arabic Mehndi Designs

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This corsage design can be used at the back of the hand as well and when drawn as if the corsage if resting on the curvature of the wrist, every movement of the wrist brings the design to life, by making it move in accordance to the motion of the part where it’s drawn.

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The corsage design drawn on the back can be stretched out with additional elements to make it a hand-chain corsage design. You can play with your imagination and add colours, glitter and Swarovski embellishments for mehndi, as you please!

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One of the most interesting features of Arabic mehndi designs is the use of dots. The dots added to give a sparkle of the pixie dust, or the shiny glamour of an additional twinkle, form an integral part of certain conceptions of Arabic mehndi designs.

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They may be added at the edges of a floral pattern, or to fill out spaces in a central design in the palm; they may be used as simple dots or drops or little spheres, all arranged in an ascending sequence, giving a bubbling effect in the mehndi drawing.

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This again is a display of the knowledge of geometrical shapes and how they can be realized through various media. And the Arabic mehndi designs do a hell of a good job with them!

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27. An Easy Arabic Mehndi Design DIY Tutorial

Arabic mehndi designs are sometimes inspired by the heavy zari of bridal sarees or traditional sarees with extensively patterned borders. They form block patterns, separated by bold lines sandwiching a ring of a space, giving the design the right divisions that will integrate each element into a singularly conceived spectrum, which is the entire design.

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The key factors that are to be kept in mind for such designs is one, the precision of the mehndi being drawn – like the brush sizes that can be chosen for different kinds of paint strokes, you must choose a zero size brush in parts of the design that really need them. The other important factor is to make sure the gaps in the segmentation of the design are evenly distributed, and not smudged over by any other added adornments.

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Another type of Arabic mehndi design, and one of the ways to draw a simple corsage design, is when one draws it using bold lines with the running leaf patterns to complete the flower motif in the corsage.

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The posy being drawn as a part of a flower motif corsage design, can be drawn not just for the inside and back-side of the hand but can also simply be drawn on the wrist, where the corsage should really be! Especially if you’re sporting modern attire without many accessories, and aren’t planning to wear bangles or bracelets, then you can use your Arabic mehndi design of a corsage that will give a traditional accent to an otherwise contemporary look.

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The flower motif, whether drawn as a corsage or a central design, can be drawn for the feet in an Arabic mehndi design.

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Bold and crisp strokes of mehndi are used to paint the floral brackets that are then accentuated by minimal enhancements that encase the toe-nails, drawn as curly clouds, or intricate paisleys, or the thousands of other little structural elements that are used in Arabic mehndi designs.

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The finishing elements of such a design can be chosen according to what will be considered appropriate for the occasion.

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You can also use other bling-giving embellishments if you think they will go with your overall attire and other jewellery.

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Here are a few more Arabic mehandi designs for hands before we move to legs where there are a host of options and a DIY tutorial too.

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This is a very popular and unique checked pattern that looks interesting and will surely make you stand out.

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Another simple and understated design that is subtle yet gorgeous.

Bonus Ideas To Inspire – Arabic Mehndi Designs Gallery

A Collage of some Arabic mehandi designs for hand that are worth mentioning:

Arabic mehndi designs for the feet and legs are as carefully thought out and strenuously visualised as the mehndi designs conceived for other parts.

46. Here is a TUTORIAL OF ARABIC MEHANDI FOR LEGS

A full-stocking Arabic mehndi design can be drawn like the full-sleeve mehndi drawing we have seen before. The block or netted decorative pattern we have seen before as well is a convenient yet artistic fill that can be used in such designs, giving the platform for the Arabic traits to be highlighted.

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Other zig-zag patterns and loop-like adornments are used to enhance the overall design, sometimes even dividing the design, as discussed before, using spaces sandwiched by bold markings. This is usually done for bridal mehndi and is a popular hit among the Indian brides!

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The mehndi designs for the feet need not necessarily cover just the feet, as we have seen. It could be feet, ankles, or even the whole leg if one wishes for that. But an interesting kind of Arabic mehndi design drawn on the legs is the vertical design drawn on the outer side of the legs, without any designs drawn on the feet or ankles.

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This type of mehndi drawing, which looks much like a tattoo on the leg, is very bold and contemporary. It uses both the bold mehndi lines, and can creatively make use of the running leaves, drops and droplets, with the creeper-corsage flower motif – a package of inventive combinations of the various patterns known and used in mehndi designing. This Arabic mehndi design steps away from regular mehendi drawings in its genre in terms of both taste and totality, and makes more for a statement than a mere design!

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Frequently Asked Questions

1. Hello. I am planning to get an Arabic mehendi design done for my cousin’s wedding. I want to know if the design will fade away in a week’s time?

Ans: Every person has about 7 to 10 layers of dead skin cells and henna works by staining these cells. Typically, henna lasts for 1 or 4 weeks. It looks fresh in the first week and gradually starts to fade out. This depends on how fast your skin renews itself. Be it an Arabic mehndi design or any other design, you have to wait for henna to fade. There’s no short-cut for it. Daily household chores like washing dishes or clothes can accelerate the process.

2. I’m getting an Arabic mehndi design with netted pattern done. What can I do to get a darker shade?