Tattoo and Henna

Tattoos are permanent, Mehndis/henna don’t last long. Both are art forms to beautify parts of your body with permanent and temporary dyes. Tattoos are insertions of indelible ink in your skin of various colours to form all sorts of figures and manuscripts either to beautify, identify, show descent or convey messages etc. Mehndi is temporary, a natural green herb, when applied through a nozzle/cone to your palms and fore arms and sometimes feet colours reddish pink on drying and fades in about 10 days as it ages and applied during festivities and weddings especially to brides in the Indian subcontinent and in Arabia.
The fact is that you grow. You grow in height and shrink with age. Your palms may grow and your arms may swell. You sometimes grow obese and may pale after going through a bout of health hazard. You also grow in thought and maturity. What happens to the tattoo of an adolescent as he /she grows up. You may end up thinking yourself stupid. What if the lion you had tattooed grew into a parrot.
Tattoo is of male bastion, Mehndi is of female. Tattoo has its origins in the west. It is more macho but modern women have taken to it. There are studios, parlours and professional experts in tattooing . Modern day there are some professionals in Mehndi but basically it is a bastion of the cultural past. The brides friends talk of the romance on the wedding day and night when applying Mehndi and there is a lot of giggling and camaraderie.