Mehndi, an essential element of a bride's wedding look, carries deep cultural significance and is a cherished tradition. From flowy florals to symmetrical mandalas, every bride desires to adorn her hands and feet with beautiful and captivating mehndi designs. Well brides, to cater to this desire, we're here with some gorgeous and latest mehndi designs for your hands!
You could go in for everlasting floral mehndi designs or something abstract and chic. Our favourites are personalised mehndi designs which capture the love story of a couple perfectly. Ultimately, it's thanks to the talented mehndi artists that we're spoilt for choices when it comes to bridal mehndi designs! Each trend is equally remarkable and appealing, making it difficult to choose just one.
To help the selection process easier, we've gathered a collection of trending and unique mehndi designs for hands that you'll love. It showcases the top designs for the front and back of your hands, offering you a plethora of beautiful choices for your mehndi ceremony!
Scroll through and make sure to save your favourites and be inspired by the artistry of these designs!
25 Latest Mehndi Designs For Full Hands
A Mix of Multiple Motifs
We love a mehndi design where the artist mixes various motifs like flowers, lotuses, peacocks, jaali etc into one to create a fantastic design!
Source Amrita Henna
Personalised Bride & Groom Portraits
Personalised mehndi designs are the best! They're a wonderful way to add a unique and meaningful touch to their wedding look. And this one with the bride and groom's portraits is superb!
Source Henna by Divya
Add Little Elephant Motifs
The elephant design is a popular and symbolic element in Mehndi designs. Incorporating an elephant motif in your mehndi design can add a touch of grace, elegance, and cultural significance.
Source Henna by Divya
Add Your Proposal To The Design!
Have a beautifully detailed mehndi design in mind? Well, one way to personalise your mehndi is by adding a silhouette of your proposal and for some extra cuteness, add your pup's portrait to it!
Source Henna by Divya
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Add Your Doggos To Your Mehndi
Like we said before, adding your pet's portraits to your mehndi design for full hands is definitely a cute way to personalise it. Getting pet-themed mehndi designs can be a delightful way to showcase your love for animals, especially your beloved pets!
Source Henna by Divya
Lovin' This Romantic Design
Incorporate the initials of the bride and groom in the mehndi design. This can be done in a decorative way, such as intertwining the initials or creating an intricate monogram.
Source Nashwah Khan
Immortalise Your Jaimala Moment
Your jaimala is a symbolic moment that is very important for your marriage. For a truly personalized touch, consider having a portrait of a jaimala ceremony created along with your mehndi designs.
Source Henna by Afaa
Mandala Designs For Full Hands Are The Best
Mandala mehndi designs are intricate and mesmerizing patterns inspired by the traditional geometric motifs found in mandalas. When placed in the centre and covered with various concentric patterns, the entire design looks breathtaking!
Source Henna by Afaa
Lotus Motif Mehndi That's Gorgeous!
Combine the elegance of lotuses with the symmetry of jaali and peacock designs. Incorporate petals, leaves, and intricate patterns to create stunning lotus motif mehndi designs!
Source Amrita Henna
Uniquely Patterned Design
This bridal mehndi design for hands with different checkered patterns and a cute Mickey face on the wrists is so GORG!
Source Amrita Henna
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Heavenly Bunched Floral Designs
This unique bridal mehndi is undoubtedly one of the best mehndi designs for hands simply for its never-ending floral designs.
Source Mehndi by Hayat
All The Bridal Mehndi Aesthetic Elements In One Design
We love how all the bridal mehndi elements like peacocks, lotuses, flowers and bride and groom portraits entwine so beautifully in this beautiful mehndi design for hands.
Source Darshana Mehndi
Floral Finesse!
The intricacy of this all-floral design with dark and light highlights lending it a definitive edge makes this bridal mehndi one of the trending mehndi designs for full hands.
Source Henna by Mahira Mohsin
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See AllA Perfect Bridal Mehndi Doodle
Replete with personal elements like kids' and gods' portraits, hashtags and dates, this mehndi design is no less than a work of art.
Source Blacktie Project
This Bridal Mehndi Design Is A Treat To The Eyes!
Leafed jalidaar patterns, spiralling circles and a bridegroom portrait right in the centre of the heart formed by adjoining hearts set apart this enchanting mehndi from the rest.
Source Mehndi by Pav
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Lotuses & Roses Beautify This Bridal Mehndi
The way small and big lotuses and roses amp up this mehndi design along with doodle patterns, we want to get our hands etched with some mehndi RN!
Source Hiral Henna
A Gorgeous Mehndi Design For Hands
Circled designs with a huge scalloped edge defining the other half of the design with flowers and jaali, make this design stand out!
Source Zareen's Henna
A Blend Of Flowers & Lines
This latest mehndi design for hands formed with flowy florals and geometric lines ending in pretty mandalas in perfect synchronicity is one helluva stunner design.
Source Anjali Henna
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Brimming With Mandalas & Criss-Cross Lines
Lines in checkered patterns further defined with mandala designs lend this trending mehndi design for full hands a unique edge.
Source Henna by Jas
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Little Spaces Add A Definitive Edge To Any Mehndi Design
This latest mehndi design for hands with leaves, lotuses and variably shaded areas in dark and light tones is brimming with a life of its own.
Source Minal Beauty
The Symmetry Of This Design Is Divine!
Right from the huge semi-circles and the lined bands to the shaded lotuses, the detailed intricacy of this trending mehndi design for full hands has us bewitched.
Source Jesma Mithun
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Uniquely Designed Roses With A Finely Dotted Jaali
This mehndi design with super finely shaded roses in different ways with an even more finely done jaal at the back is so phenomenal.
Source Darshana Mehndi
The Symmetrical Peacocks Though!
This beautiful mehndi design for hands with geometric & free-flowing lines crowned with full peacocks is so magical.
Source Henna by Devaky S Dharan
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That Break Between The Wrist & The Forearm Is What Makes This One Unique!
Right from the symmetrical pattern, the floral shaded palms and tips and the intricate lines to the spacious gap in between, everything about this design is to die for.
Source Mehndi by Pav
Yet Another Remarkable Mehndi Design For Hands!
The way every aspect of a bridal mehndi design right from flowers, bootis, and jaals to dots and lines entwine with each other in this design, surely makes up for an exquisite one!
Source Henna by Pallavi
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23 Best Mehndi Designs For Back Hand
Adoring This Mandala Back Hand Design
For all the bride-to-be's out there, if you're a fan of mandalas but want something a little extra, then this design should be on your list!
Source Amrita Henna
We Love The Minimal Vines On This Hand
Red mehndi is not that common when it comes to bridal mehndi. However, we love it when bridal mehndi artists play with type and give us beautiful designs like this one full of leafy vines!
Source Henna Artist Meru
Mix The Mandala With Mehndi Bracelets
We love this back-hand mehndi design with a gorgeous mandala in the middle and long circles of mehndi designs styled as bracelets that cover the bride's forearms.
Source Henna by Afaa
An Intricately Designed Back Hand Mehndi Design
Can you believe the detailing of this bride's mehndi? The jharoka style patterns, mixed with leaves, flowers and jaali work make this pattern a stunner!
Source Henna by Divya
A Unique Mehndi Design For Your Fingers & Wrist
Talk about a mehndi design that looks like a piece of ornament! Amidst the gorgeous flowy bells, leaves, blooming florals and roses, certain minimal designs leave you awestruck. This design is an ideal example of that.
Source Amrita Henna
When Roses Look Pretty On Your Hands
Mehndi design enthusiasts are infusing the charm of rose motifs into mehndi designs in too many different & unique ways. If you too want to add a touch of roses to your mehndi, then go for a rose mehndi design.
Source Emma Rose
Dot Your Fingers With Pretty Leaves
These chunky leaves look absolutely stunning as a neat Arabic mehndi design. The added string connected to the middle finger is just an added 'oomph' factor!
Source Nashwah Khan
The Crescent Moon & Lantern Design Is Love!
From fingers covered in mehndi patterns to mini and big crescent moons, this mehndi design is an absolute beaut for all our bridesmaids out there!
Source Nashwah Khan
Oh! The Beauty Shading Adds To This Design
The shading done in this mehndi design has us rooting for this mehndi artist for such skilled work of art.
Source Rose Mehndi
A Full-Blown Mandala Design Worth Bookmarking
Looking for something that would be perfect for your Karvachauth? Well, this mandala Mehndi design is definitely worth bookmarking.
Source Nashwah Khan
This Minimal Mehndi Design Is Perfect For Your Back Hands
While we always help our brides with tons of henna designs, simple and very pretty semi-circle mehndi designs like these are worth pinning down!
Source Henna by Divya
A Charming & Latest Mehndi Design For The Back Of The Hands
With thick little leaves and dots, this mehndi design for back hands is one stunner of a design.
Source Mehndi by Hayat
A Full Backhand Of Intricate Floral Detailing!
This gripping and spellbinding mehndi design for brides with super fine detailing and phenomenal artwork is one of the best Arabic mehndi designs we’ve ever come across.
Source Nurahshenna
A Spectacular Take On Traditional Back Hand Bels
A dark and thick oversized rose bel with perfect shading throughout so elegantly adorns the hands and we can’t take our eyes off it.
Source Henna by Divya
What A Stunning Contemporary Design
This uber-chic mehndi design for hands with geometric lines and adjoining patterns makes up for one of the latest mehndi designs for backhands.
Source Mehndi by Hayat
The Charm If This Side-Swept Mehndi Design Is Unparalleled!
Marked with dotted edges followed by a scintillating floral design, the way the design ends on top with leafy ends, we’re all head over heels for this back-of-the-hand mehndi design.
Source Henna by Mahira Mohsin
Yet Another Modern Pattern
With designs on both sides of the backhand, the distinctive scalloped edges make for space perfectly lending the entire design an eye-pleasing look.
Source Henna Paradise
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See AllA Unique Jalidaar Pattern
This jaali pattern in the form of a bel with outlining floral design is a breath of fresh air!
Source Henna by Divya
Huge Flower Designs Combined With Checks
For an intricate checkered pattern and fine flowers like these, a backhand mehndi design of such detailing is bound to leave everybody in awe.
Source Mehndi by Hayat
Mehndi Design With A Plethora Of Florals
An enchanting floral-themed mehndi with identical patterns on the fingers.
Source Ateeka
Identical Hands In Absolute Sync!
Etched with highly skilled precision, this latest mehndi design for back hands done in designer mandalas and lined designs on the fingers have us majorly crushing over it.
Source Henna by Divya
Encircling The Roses In An Edgy Way!
This backhand mehndi design with mandalas in the centre topped with pretty roses accompanied by a bracelet-style design on the wrists is oh-so mesmerizing.
Source Minal Beauty
The Charm Of Leafy Bels.
We love how the clustered flowers and circular patterns are so splendidly amped up with shaded leafy bells flowing vividly.
Source Henna by Mahira Mohsin
25 Mehndi Designs For Palms Only
Asymmetrical Delicate Patterns
A full coverage mehndi design for your palms done with dainty roses, small and elegant motifs & jaalidaar patterns.
Source Bliss Henna by Zahra
Minimal Lotus Motif Mehndi With Jaali Patterns
A minimal design with lotus on your palms with intricate jaali patterns on your fingers is just the kind of design you need for your bestie's wedding.
Source Amrita Henna
A Unique Play Of Vines
Did someone say vines? Well, there can never be enough of dainty vines. And this design that leaves the lower palm and middle finger untouched, looks absolutely fabulous!
Source Deia’s Gallery
Dainty Semi-Circle Patterns
Ladies, if you're not saving this design, then what are you waiting for? Best known for its free-flowing trails and modern appearance, leaf mehndi design is probably one of the most beautiful and everlasting patterns to exist. Especially when those leaves are drawn as vines that intricately cover your fingertips and a part of the backside of your hand. It's less but so much more.
Source Henna by Shamsa
Khafif Mehndi Designs Are All The Rage
The Arabic word 'Khafif' means intricate, complex and tangled. Due to its unique pattern and style, many women use this style while applying patterned henna designs.
Source Henna by Shamsa
Half-Hand Mehndi Designs Always Look Stunning
This type of design requires extreme focus on the detailing and decoration of each motif. The results appear very dainty and delicate.
Source Henna by Shamsa
A Different Kind Of Arabic Mehndi Design
There's something about a lotus motif mehendi design that just makes the whole thing more appealing and the added tiny swastikas surely make the whole design auspicious.
Source Nashwah Khan
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Floral Patches That Look Adorable
Floral bel designs are always the simplest yet the prettiest way to beautify your hands for the festive season. And if you're someone who wants to keep the henna to a minimum then this bel mehendi design is ideal!
Source Nashwah Khan
An Exceptional Rose-Themed Mehndi Design
An all-decked-up pattern made with full-bloom roses, leaves, thin strokes and swirling patterns.
Source Emma Rose
Mix Curved Grids With Flowers For A Beautiful Mehndi Design
Pretty rose bootis adjoined together with leafy patterns that form a great mehndi design for brides!
Source Nashwah Khan
The Neatness On This One Is Just Impeccable!
A simplistic yet beauteous mehndi design that can add oodles of charm to any bride's look.
Source Nashwah Khan
The Intense Beauty Of This Design Is Beyond Compare
The beauty of Arabic mehendi designs is that they keep evolving as they embrace all the new elements that come with time. The beauty of the bold strokes of this heavy Arabic mehendi design does not match!
Source Nashwah Khan
Let That Peacock Motif Shine!
Peacock motifs are a core part of the latest mehndi design, but this particular design has a full-fledged peacock drawn in the palm's centre. It definitely looks stunning!
Source Emma Rose
Striking Design With A Personal Touch
This stunning mehndi design for hands with a swan pair, the wedding date and the city skyline etched in between a highly uniform design is way too admirable.
Source Henna by Divya
We're In Love With The Bewitching Symmetry Of This Design
Floral design and scallops forming a beauteous heart right in the centre are making this design a top mehndi design for front hands.
Source Mehndi by Pav
What A Skilled Work Of Art!
Amidst all the artistic lines and flowers, the huge shaded rose undoubtedly steals the show.
Source De' Green Henna
Stunning Use Of Dark & Light Highlights
What stunningly brims up this latest mehndi design for hands with life is the vivid use of darker strokes adding a definitive edge to the entire work.
Source Mehndi by Sofia Haque
A Highly Trending Mehndi Design For Full Hands
This mehndi design with the couple’s initials and hashtags along with beautifully drawn locations adds a charming personal touch to the mehndi design.
Source Blacktie Project
Roses, Leaves & Jaals Are A Scintillating Choice
We love how amidst the entire captivating design, the little roses drew throughout stand out clearly.
Source Mehndi by Pav
If You Brides Want To Go The Subtle Way
This minimal mehndi design for brides is just perfect for its simplistic lotus and swan pair motifs in the centre with intricate designs around.
Source Henna by Divya
A Magnetizing Design For The Sister Of The Bride
We simply adore the highlights and contours of this smiting mehndi design for hands.
Source Darshana Mehndi
Heavenly Minimalism
This minimal Mehndi design perfect for BFFs is so worth going crazy over. The subtlety of this mehndi design is so alluring.
Source Henna by Stained
A Charismatic Design For Mommy Darling!
This mehndi design is just perfect for your mommy’s flaunt-worthy hands. With lines, lotuses and circles doodled elegantly on the hands, this mehndi design will surely win some hearts.
Source Amrita Henna
Yet Another Mehndi Design For The Bride's BFFs
This Arabic mehndi bel is a great design for a kiddie’s hands too. Flowers, dotted ends and shaded areas mark this design with grace perfectly.
Source F Sheth Mehndi Design
An Edgy Geometric Design
This eclectic bridal mehndi makes up for one of the top mehndi designs for front hands. With a checkered pattern, alternate lines and dotted lines, and a shaded circle in the corner, the newness of this top mehndi design for front hands is apar.
Source De' Green Henna
19 Unique Mehndi Design To Bookmark Now!
The Stars & Moon Never Looked This Pretty
When it comes to precious and charming mehndi designs, this one hits the ballpark. Dotted with stars on one hand and the phases of the moon on the other, this one's perfect for all the moon children out there!
Source Henna by Shamsa
Talk About Taking Lotus' To The Next Level
Unique doesn't even begin to cover this design. It's so pretty that we just cannot stop swooning over the beautiful lotuses.
Source Henna by Shamsa
Bookmark This Leafy Design With Delicate Petals
Slay that perfect minimal bridal look as you choose such simple yet stunning mehendi designs for your wedding day just like these.
Source Henna Flows
A Standout Minimal Mehndi Design
This simple yet neat lotus motif mehendi design surely caught our attention and we are all eyes for these beauties. Mehendi designs with lotus motifs look breathtaking and here is proof of it.
Source Henna by Shamsa
An Ethereal Pattern Of Swirls & The Moon
When we say fairytale-like, this is the design everyone should be saving for sure. From the cloud-like swirling patterns to the half-moon design, this design is absolutely fabulous!
Source Emma Rose
Enchanting Blooms
Arabic mehndi designs are best known for being spacey! And this design is one such example with a lot of space and beautiful paisley and floral patterns.
Source Henna Flows
This Gorgeous Mehndi Design is Taking Our Hearts Away!
How about mixing the jaali pattern patterns with adorning swirls and leaves on the palms of your beautiful hands? Well, bridesmaids, pin this one for sure!
Source Henna Flows
An Extraordinary Calla Lily Design
Source Emma Rose
An Intricate Half-Hand Jaali Design
We're huge fans of jaali patterns in Mehndi. And when paired with the everlasting beauty of flowers, these half-hand mehndi designs look stunning.
Source f.nhenna
Arabic Floral Mehendi Design
This Arabic mehndi design has an unparalleled eye-pleasing charm. It is unsurprisingly one of the most loved and sought-after kinds of mehndi designs among women of all ages. Whether it is a wedding or some festival, Arabic mehndi designs are apt for all sorts of occasions!
Source nurahshenna
An Amazing Mix Of OTT & Minimalism
For brides who don’t like a full-hand mehndi design, having your design end in a spacious jaal pattern would add just the right amount of subtleness to it.
Source Jesma Mithun
There Ain’t A Better Blend Of Dark & Light Highlights!
We love this latest mehndi design for hands simply for how the darker outlines and designs add an unimaginable depth to the entire design.
Source Henna by Devaky S Dharan
Include The Cutest Panda & Penguin In Your Bridal Mehndi
Is there anything prettier than a bridal mehndi with tiny doodles of a penguin and a panda? Take a look at this one from Amrita’s Henna!
Source Amrita Henna
How About A Love Quote In Your Mehndi?
Write some special for the love of your life in your mehndi on your special day to make it even more special for him.
Shot by Candid Wedding Stories, Mumbai
Favourite Cartoon Caricatures Make Your Special Day Even More Beautiful
Isn't this your favourite character-themed bridal mehndi, complete with the couple's names carved on the arms, absolutely stunning?
Source Divya Patel
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See AllBridal Mehndi Design For The Bollywood Junkie!
If you happen to be as obsessed with the Hindi film industry as we are, you have to include these filmy elements in your mehndi.
Source Henna For All
This Identical Mehndi Design is Just Picture Perfect!
The same intricate design on both hands is not only bliss to the eye of looks amazing in pictures too.
Source Henna by Devaky S Dharan
The Neatness Of This Design Has Us Floored
Making this design one of the best mehndi designs for hands, the finesse, the peacock's tops and the scalloped patterns forming a heart in the middle are so amazing!
Source Henna Paradise
Floral All The Way With Unique Shaped Elements
We love how this beautiful mehndi design for hands stands out because of the diagonally flowing floral bel around the wrist with a space between the rest of the design.
Source Mehndi by Hayat
Final Thoughts
With all the mehndi designs for your hands shown above, we're sure this article left you wanting to try each one for yourself. Considering how every exquisite mehndi pattern for hands made us gasp in wonder, we're sure you're all smitten too. So, make sure you have your favourites saved before the next big wedding in town!
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Top 90+ Mehndi Designs For Hands
Top 90+ Mehndi Designs For Hands