THE SYEDA SISTERS: Areesha

Late night henna sessions!

5/21/2014

Assalamualaikum Sisters!

It's been a while since we blogged a henna related post, so here's a special one!

Some really close family friends returned from Karachi, Pakistan recently and these amazing people got us a henna cone all the way from our homeland! Isn't that the sweetest thing? :)

Now why are we making sucha fuss, well then let me tell you henna from Karachi (not sure about whole Pakistan) are the best ones we've tried. The stain is perfect , not too dark and not too light. Just the perfect maroon color. Beside that, the consistency of the henna is just right. No need to chop of the end to get that right circle for the right amount of henna to flow out (this might sound alien language to you if you're not familiar with using a cone, hehe)

So,for the past few weeks we've been trying out henna designs on our palms and the back of our hands at quite late hours of the night or shall I say early morning? :P We like to put henna in a relaxed atmosphere, after completing all chores and when there is no one a around to interrupt us. Unfortunately that only happens when we're about to go to bed :( and we're such slow pokes since we're not pro's therefore it takes us hours to get done with one hand, yeah you must be thinking "we?, for one hand?" Yes, we share lol. When one of us gets too nervous to apply a particular design we're not used to or the one we mess up usually, the other one volunteers to help out ! ^_^

Here are a few experiments with the That henna cone ... which we applied a night before an Indian wedding we had to attend. A few of them are inspirations from other pro henna designers and few are a result to brain storming.

Henna done by Omaimah on her own hand.

This is how the stain turned out on Omaimah's hand.

Henna stain on Omaimah's hand, designed by both of us.

Stain of henna done by Areesha on her own fingertips.

Henna done by Omaimah on Areesha's hand.

Do let us know how we did in the Comments below!

Stay tuned for another henna blog post since there is another wedding happening very soon and we've got henna left in the henna cone! Yay! Hopefully this time we'll try not to pull an all nighter hehe! ;)

Till the next post,

Keep smiling

Love,

The Syeda Sisters

Areesha

Eid-ul-Adha Henna 2013.

12/13/2013

brain storming at morning of Eid

Asalamualaikum!Yes! Finally got some time to blog about our Fave stuff <3 we're so sorry for keeping you guys waiting!

baked some croissants too!

This Eid we had a lot of fun since we had the Qurbani done here, normally we have it done back in Karachi. & our relatives came over from Dammam for a short visit, so that was just wonderful, oh and the house hopping sessions were the usual, except less tiring^_^ Alhamdoullilah!

Eid without cake?...impossible^_^

And Omaimah got an unexpected cold that resulted in her sounding like a guy the whole 3 days of Eid, LOL! We're really excited to share Henna we did this Eid, since both of us experimented Arabic henna for the first time on our neighbors hands ^_^

Tried out flower knots this time!(http://thesyedasisters.blogspot.com/2013/07/tuesday-tutorial-soft-buns.html)

Its going to be almost a month since Eid-ul-Adha got over, so this blog-post was really pending on our to-do list.
Since we usually skip to the images when we Google henna posts by other, I, (Omaimah) bet everyone else probably does the same, so enough with the chit chat and Enjoy!
If you to get a darker color, faster..here's a tip : http://thesyedasisters.blogspot.com/2013/08/eid-ul-fitr-2013-henna.html

lil Ms.neighbor requested this design to be done on her hand by Omaimah

omaimah trying to brain storm again (-_-) on poor lil Ms.Neighbors hand

are fav design, a.k.a"tippa" done by Areesha

Arabic design experiment by Areesha

and this hand was done by Omaimah

With did the same design on both hands, we had no clue whether or not we could pull it of when she showed this design to us, we were just staring at each other for a few seconds and smiling before we started, so now tell us who did it better?

areesha trying out the butterfly design

Done By Areesha
(Omaimah's not so good editing skills)

So guys, hope you liked our henna designs and we'll keep updating our blog more frequently from now In Sha Allah!
till then, Remember us in your Dua's
Love,
The Syeda Sisters!

Areesha

Eid-ul-Fitr 2013 Henna

8/10/2013

Asalamualaikum

A lil something during a visit at a family friends place for the first time

First of all Eid Mubarak to all our followers!

we pray that Allah accepts all our fasts and make us pious, Ameen!

Done by Areesha on our neighbors hand

Since its Eid and you would have noticed in our previous post about henna, we mentioned how our Eid's incomplete without putting henna!

Today we'll be sharing pictures of our henna which we did this eid and what all we did on that day!
so we start off with putting henna on our wonderful neighbors, 3 sweet sisters, Two of them wanted henna on the back of their hands and one wanted henna on her o_O
Omaimah felt awful with the henna design she did on the youngest sister(see last pic)

they actually came at 2 am in the night or to be honest we invited them at 2 am ,
they didn't mind cuz their like us ..night people... we stay up all night...made it a habit in Ramadan,
anyways so we finish putting henna on their hand at around 4 am or was it 5?

Done by Omaimah with a lil help from areesha on neighbor's hand

The sky was starting to light up and we were freaking out cuz we started to feel sleepy and we still didn't have henna on our hands T_T

Rachna henna cones

so we finally got our henna done at around 11 am in the morning!
we both took shifts on putting henna on each other hands while the latter slept, but Areesha got the least sleep since she likes to take her time to put henna which ended up getting her only 2 hrs of sleep :(

Done by Omaimah on Areesha's Hand at 6 am -_-

so by 11 am we had to start getting ready for our house hoping sessions and so we needed to get our henna color to darken fast, even though the henna cone we used usually gives a very dark maroon color but the problem was the color shows up only a day later and we had a few hours left to leave the house.

Typical Pakistani design done by omaimah on her own hands.

Our mom did a trick that she's been doing since our childhood and we would like to tell you about this secret tip that can help get your henna darker!
What you'll need - A big pan , some cloves and some vicks (the balm that relieves headaches and stuffy nose)

First Apply vicks with a cotton bud on top of your henna( you have to do all this while you have the dried henna paste on your hands and not after your shake of the dried part!)

while you're doing that, heat the pan on your stove earlier and place the cloves on them.
after its heated hover your hands (henna side facing towards the pan,obviously!) on top of the pan!
please don't put your hand directly on the pan unless you want to burn yourselves! jk
It should be 4 to 5 inches or higher above the pan or until you can feel the heat on your palms
and you can remove them whenever your satisfied there's no time limit or perhaps 10 mins or less !

and voila you get a darker henna color in a jiffy!

Done by Areesha on her own hands 9 am in the morning lol.

So now that was done we got ready and surprisingly getting ready took us 2 hrs or shall I say our dad took his time getting ready!
We started our house hopping sessions and since we got late of out of our house we were arriving at our hosts place way out of the timings they invited us in!
pretty embarrassing you may think, But Alhamdoulillah there were guests still arriving after us!
so saved from the embarrassment and the stares we would get when we're the last one to arrive!
Oh and we noticed this Eid many girls mentioned how they grabbed a henna cone and did their henna themselves for the first time cuz no-one had the time or the money to visit the parlor and wait in line!
and to be honest their henna looked Amazing! ^_^ MashaAllah

Done by areesha on a sleeping Omaimah's hand -_-

so that's how our first day of Eid ended ,It sure ended pretty fast ! we came home tired and exhausted around 11 pm and of course the house was messed upside down, does this happen to everyone or is it just us?
Its like when you leave the house in the morning after searching for shoes and matching jewelry and throwing clothes here and there, and then you come back home to sight of the mess you made earlier!
yeah happens to us everyday!

done by omaimah on a 4 year old xD

we just clear up the clothes, didn't want them to get wrinkled and prayed Esha and crashed into our beds! and slept till 2 pm next morning missing our Fajr salah :(The best part of eid was meeting friends you haven't met for ages and also who can forget the food, Alhamdoulillah Eid is truly a blessing it makes you realize the importance of friends and family in your life!

the other hand of the 4 year old done by omaimah.

so guys thats it for today, we hope you liked todays blogpost!
stay tuned cuz we'll be featuring our first OOTD for eid in our next blogpost !
till then take care!

Love,
The Syeda Sisters.

Areesha

Mehndi: How It All Started!

8/07/2013

Assalamualaikum Sisters!

So Eid ul Fitr is just around the corner and The most exciting and time taking part of Eve of Eid for us is putting henna !!

Actually you can hand Areesha a henna cone and tell her any day of the year to apply henna and she would be just as excited as it truly is one of the things She loves doing the most! The difficult part is that it takes Areesha ages to choose or think of the design ! She's a bit of a perfectionist too , when it comes to applying it so She take's her time to apply it till She's satisfied which has once landed Us in getting only two hours of sleep and forcing ourselves to get up and ready for house hoping sessions in Eid.

We remember how excited we used to be since we can remember maybe age six to put mehndi/henna every eve of Eid mum would take us to the parlor to get henna done on our tiny hands and the tips mum used to use to make it come off dark ! there was one year when the parlor had closed and I remember how sad we were so mum had got home made henna and applied it for us ^_^ and our fascination just grew over the years . One day we started sketching henna designs on outlines of our hand on paper and then experimented with brown markers on each others hands.

It's surprising to see how girls nowadays have lost their interest in henna which I used to see in all of our friends when I was younger, now I just hear people saying they didn't have the time to bother.

But for both of us Eid will always be incomplete without putting henna! ^_^

In one of our summer holidays at Karachi my aunt (mum's sister)who knew about how much I loved henna, told me about this young lady giving lessons nearby our house and since I was bored at home I loved the idea!

Due to me scheduled to be coming back to Bahrain just had two weeks to go through the four week course but it was lovely the girl who taught me, Ms. Noreen was extremely helpful and encouraging she said I was a very quick learner (A) and was good Alhumdulillah hehe and she gave us a lot of design books to practice from. I'm now finally confident in putting henna up to family and friends only hehe ! :D

Slowly and with lots of practice we both have now gained the confidence to apply henna pretty well Alhumdulillah. It's really not that difficult you just need to like the idea be excited about it and Tada you are capable of beautiful designs!

Hope you guys liked this post and probably got an idea for this Eid's Henna! we would love to see your henna hands this eid so don't forget to send them to us!Stay tuned to find out what we'll be putting this Eid In Sha Allah! Till then remember us in your Dua!

Love,
The Syeda Sisters.

*All the designs attached to this blog post are done by Me (Areesha) and Omaimah last year at Eid Ul Adha and Eid Ul Fitr.