Monday 4 July 2011

bollywood and henna party

Living an expat life, with friends from all corners of the world, has its advantages for sure. A group of talented Indian ladies organised a fabulous ladies only evening on Friday, where 50 of us enjoyed the delicious food from south and north India, Bollywood dancing and atmosphere of an Indian party in our Dutch city.  The professional classical Indian dance teacher was amazing - the hand movements, gestures, and theatre in the dancing was mesmerising.  And even the non-professional Indian ladies were fabulous too - so graceful and beautiful in their jewel coloured saris and tunics.


I've wanted to wear a sari and have my hands henna painted for a long time, and both wishes came true on Friday evening, when a friend shared her beautiful sari collection with 8 of us.  And I had my right hand painted and also the back of my neck.  Below are mine and a few other friends henna painted hands.







Lets hope this wasn't a one off, but at least an annual event.  Thank you so much ladies.

Now all I want to do is watch 'Slumdog Millionaire' and listen to 'Jai Ho'.

9 comments:

  1. Gorgeous henna! We do a lot of henna here in Bahrain. My oldest daughter, Isabelle, has just been taught some henna patterns by her local friend, Sajida, for a charity fun day at school. I had to o to the local henna salon to get the henna cones...mmm, maybe a post in itself!

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  2. Love that. I had a henna painting once on holiday - i think it's a very good alternative to a tattoo :-)

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  3. That looks like so much fun! I've been discovering the Indian restaurants around here recently.

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  4. You looked like you had so much fun. Didn't you have a sari made for one of your big office do's when you were a girl about town in London. Pat x

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  5. that looks like so much fun!!! :)

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  6. what a great idea! would love to be there...

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  7. Looks like an amazing party. All the clothes are so beautiful!

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