Do you have a tattoo?
Where I come from, women (or for that matter men also) don’t have tattoos. We (women) do like wearing henna though on our hands and feet on festive occasions and weddings. Henna or mehndi as we call it, dyes the skin a reddish brownish color and lasts for a few weeks. It’s usually put in floral designs without any text.
My mehndi on my wedding
I guess I wouldn’t need to have something written (and that also painfully) on my body. If I need to make a statement I’ll use words whether spoken or written.
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I had wanted to get a tattoo in my twenties but hadn’t found anything that I wanted forever, so I didn’t. Then, in my thirties my little brother was killed in a black ice car accident. A few weeks after that horrible event, a handful of his best friends and I did get a tattoo. They got the beautiful Celtic cross that my brother had on his back, I got the Trinity symbol in the middle of his cross.
I’m so sorry to hear about your brother. Tattoos are not part of my culture, I hope I didn’t hurt any feelings with what I wrote.
Gosh, no! No hurt feelings here. I wasn’t going to put something on my body forever without special meaning. Your picture from your wedding is lovely, how pretty.
Thank you, I’m glad. I was a bit worried.
I know from your posts that you are warm, positive and happy to share a look into a part of the world most if us won’t get to see, I wouldn’t take anything you would write as unkind. 🙂
Thank you, you are very kind! 🙂 Best wishes.
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I love mehndhi! I just love it so much! I think it looks gorgeous, and whenever I go to a wedding, I always like to put it on.
🙂
Great post!
It does look gorgeous, I love it too, but since I’ve come to Dubai I haven’t put it. It’s just not the same here. 😦
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That is a gorgeous photo!
I would have to agree that tattoos are very much a cultural thing. Generally I would also agree that if one needs to “make a statement” that words spoken or written are usually much more appropriate. If there is ever something, though, that makes you feel like a clanging cathedral bell is resonating from deep inside you and flooding your whole sense of being, that that something has become an integral part of your idea of self and how you expression yourself in the world, then I think something of that magnitude might reasonably prompt a person to mark their body in a way that they feel authentically represents that something. Something like the death of a loved one or a radical transformation of faith are often the case.
It’s just that tattoos are not present in my culture.
When my husband was in his early 20s his first cousin who was a year older died in an accident. They were very close. His cousin had made a pledge to donate 1/10th of every earning to charity for the rest of his life. On his death my husband promised to carry on that pledge and to this day 13 years later he donates 1/10th of his income to charity.
That is indeed a very powerful way to commemorate his cousin’s death!
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I’ve always been fascinated by mehndi and yours is the most lovely I’ve seen. Would it be considered disrespectful for someone to have it done who is outside of your culture? I have seen it offered at fairs and carnivals and it somehow seems disrespectful. Maybe you could enlighten me a bit?
BB
Thank you, my sister-in-law put it for me on my hands and feet for my wedding.
I don’t think it would be disrespectful at all if someone else got it. In fact we would feel proud that an outsider was embracing our culture. The same way we feel when someone wears our dress (shalwar kameez). So next time you come across mehndi, go for it! 🙂
I have been wanting to for a long time, I think I will when I get the opportunity. 🙂
You can ask them to copy this design.
Brilliant!
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I’ve always thought the henna designs were quite beautiful.
Yes, I think they look great!
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Really Beautiful!
Thanks!
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my husband died of hepatitis C-liver cancer on the December 3 ,2013. The Hepatitis C is come from his big tattoo……..tattoo is from satan magical practices in the ancient and now it is like a trend, satan’s trap to make people died from it and it is what satan want, make people die as many as possible to be with him when Jehovah God new world comes!!!!!
I’m so sorry for your loss. Tattoos are very uncommon in my culture and religion.