Hope you all are doing fine with fasting and your Ibadah this month :) . Today might be the last day of Ramadan T-T . I bet you all think Ramadan went in a blink of an eye! Reminds me of that Hadith which mentions...

As sad as We are for Ramadan we're a little excited for Eid cuz we get to put henna! *YAY!* . This time our friends decided, since we live so close to each other, we should get together the night before Eid aka Chandraat (Moon night) in Urdu and put the "little we know" designs on each other's hand just to revive the idea of Chandraat ^_^. Living away from our motherland we don't get to enjoy the fun of Chandraat as it's done back home. Even though we're few in numbers when girls meet up it's always fun!

Anyways back to the blog post! Today we're gonna blog a request & we know it's pretty late but I think it's right in time for Eid season. We're pretty sure everyone is done their Eid shopping by now.

A friend and a reader of our requested us to blog about Modest maxi dresses easily available here in Bahrain :) so here we go.

Now, you can find maxi dresses almost everywhere over here, but nobody wants to wear under sleeves or blazers over their sleeveless maxi in this heat! & luckily, *Alhamdulillah* we found a few shops that sell pretty outfits perfect for Eid or even casual wear.

Since it was Ramadan and we couldn't window shop a lot of of outlets we chose a few shops in Bahrain City Centre to give you an idea of what you can find where!

Here's the shops we dropped by-

1-BHS

2- RIVA

3- Choice 

4-Dorothy Perkins 

5-Max 

If you think these prices are a little over your budget then you can always wait for Sales^_^. But try to keep an eye on the last four shops we listed since they frequently update their wardrobe according to seasons and occasions! 

That's it for today. Hope this blog post helps you for your next shopping spree maybe or just window shopping :D

Designed by Omaimah.

Awesome Stains

The Stain.

Designed by Areesha.

These are the auntie's hands which Areesha took ages to decide what to design on, but they both were really patient and they liked it so Alhamdolillah

Recreated by Areesha from Maple Mehndi.

Stain

Everyone was so busy with the wedding , that we got to take pictures of the stains on the last day of the events or the stain was much darker at first.

Recreated by Areesha.

As you can see Omaimah's the more creative one , I push her and ask her on every step what to design , I can make them but just imagining the design is a huge task for me.

Recreated & designed by Omaimah.

This below is such a simple yet chic henna design for any occasion. MashaAllah.

Omaimah's creation last eid.

This below design came out beautifully , I couldn't find many pics of the after pics but these ones I had saved.

Omaimah designed the mandala & Areesha did the fingertips.

We have lots of henna designs still pending to be posted like from last year's Eid, let us know if you liked this and we shall post the next one sooner than later in sha Allah. 

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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.

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!

We're really thrilled about Today's blog post since we'll be watching live all our favorite speakers from around the world.

  After the awesome success of Youth Care Conference 2013, SAY ONE CARE presents Women's Care Conference 2013 with the Aim to spread awareness about Breast Cancer and Colorectal Cancer !

We have been looking forward to it since the end of the Youth Care Conference, So many world renowned orators will be giving talks on various topics relating to women in Islam, In Sha Allah.
 Never did we imagine that Mufti Ismail Musa Menk will be speaking live in Bahrain.

 We can not wait to see how it will turn out as you can see in the below flyers there will be activities for every age group!
Hijama (Cupping therapy) will be one of the main attractions of the event along with Bazaar stalls,kids corner henna and face painting!

Asalamualaikum

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