Kenchara Wesak Day Celebration 2012

Oh gosh. Almost 3 quarters of the year's gone and I have not even updated this blog yet! Dozens of pictures lie idle in My Document folder waiting to be uploaded. Anticipating loads of clicking and spring cleaning over the next few weeks. Thanks to everyone who follows the blog and I will start uploading more artwork this weekend. It might take some time to catch up with all the pictures.

Here's another fund raising event I will be participating. My inaugral henna painting event in Malaysia. Never done any event of such here before but I'm looking forward to more to come in the future. All the proceeds from this event will go to the Kenchara Foundation for them to help with their charity work. I can't wait! But it's time to start practising. Wheee.

Kenchara Wesak Day Celebration 2012

Date: Sat 28 April 2012
Time: 4.00pm to 9.00pm
Venue: Sunwaymas Commercial Centre, Playground (opposite Aman Suria, Petaling Jaya), Selangor, Malaysia.

Here's the directions and map.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.kechara.com/kechara-house/events/kechara-wesak-day-celebrations-2012/

Do come and support this fund raising and auspicious event and I hope to see you there!

Spring/Summer 2011 Henna Design Collection (Part 1)

Some of the henna designs that I've drawn the past few weeks - when there are more time at my disposal.

Here are some of the designs I've done - more to come when I'm back from Cardiff.

This season, I seem to get attracted to squarish petals with spiral cores.

Design 1

Design 2

This is a more common and traditional indian pattern with small fillers in the leaves. However, I usually prefer my designs to have a sense of continuous flow. In this case a blob of design would not be ideal for me, so I choose a string like one.

More patterns

Last week I receive a really unique request to do henna freckles for a really lovely Australian girl. Since the henna paste is placed on the face, I had to change the component of my henna paste mixture so that it does not irritate the facial skin.

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I'm quite busy these days juggling a few responsibilities, so hence, there is less participation this summer.

More pattern updates.

I'm very fond of henna tattoos on the legs. Simple patterns (i.e. combination of flowers and leaves) can leave an amazing outcome.

Summer bridal henna promotion starting from £45!

Simple bridal henna for hands from £45!

Applicable for both hands (back and palms) to about 5cm above the wrist. Simple designs - customized to suit. Affordable and economical, now you can spend more on everything else.

This package does not include transportation costs. Feel free to contact me for more information.

I usually charge £50 for a basic bridal henna.

CS & Bjorn's

CS wanted something sentimental. This calls for Georgia Tech's mascot, Stinger. So I tried to recreate the mascot logo into a tattoo for him.

Bjorn wanted a simple and small design. So we've gotten the simple tribal like design on the arm.

a little henna session

Met up with a friend of mine, An, a few weeks ago and it ended up with lots of hennaing for both her and her room mate.

More floral designs

It's been quite a while since my last update, it's been a busy time. Nevertheless, there is always time for henna.

I'm starting to favour checked flowers. I think it would soon be a trademark design. Absolutely love it.

Doodling as usual.

In the following designs, I'm actually working on connecting designs. I find drawing several curvy lines does help in giving a flow - when you are somehow stuck in between two designs.

The following designs were based on the same core design.

More doodling

Can't help myself when I see excess henna paste lying around. Time for some doodling.

I was trying out flowers with rectangular petals. Fell in love with them when I see them on lovely mehndi designs.

Here we go, more doodling.

Photos from the National Wedding Show 2011 in NEC, Birmingham

Had an amazing time at the National Wedding Show 2011 in Birmingham last two weeks. This time I managed to henna more than 150 visitors over the whole event. Its a step forward for me. I'm so grateful for the visitors who allowed me to do so. Lovely people. Love henna.

Here are some of the photos from the show.

For more photos of this event, click here.

Floral garters

I've been meaning to do garters for a long time. I love them without the hassle of removing and putting it on. So I've gotten my own version which will last a bit.

Core design is inspired by 3 sunflowers.