Or you can just add water and lemon juice to the henna. You can also add tea to the water to make the color darker. You can use herbal henna once every 2 weeks as a hair conditioner and hair darkener. It stops falling hairs and itching of scalp. It also helps dandruff problems.
Regular use makes hair longer, thicker and beautiful.
This enables the person to make designs in elaborate patterns. A simpler way to apply Mehndi is to put a stencil that is hand-shaped over your hand and spread the henna paste over the entire stencil. It's easy and any one can do it. But it wastes and uses a lot of henna. Mehndi can also come in tubes or bottles.