I like the points which are shown in your blog. Holi is a colorful festival and I like it. You way you wrote the information is awesome. Great Blog! Thanks for sharing with me. I really liked your article on a color festival of India which brings Happiness. I have also written an Article on Colors. Firstly, can I just say… Ohhhh!! How you make me wish for the ability to travel so I can attend such a festival! I can imagine so clearly the feeling of happiness, of the sheer joy, one must experience during Holi!
Secondly, I am starting my own cosmetics business, and I am looking all over for materials and ideas to my business that little bit extraordinary, so I was wondering can these coloured powders be used as eyeshadows, blushers, lipsticks, and the like? You see, I am catering to a rather specific market, and one that adores colours and shades of all, most particularly those of vibrant and vivid hue.
Ohhh, Judy, I hope you get to visit India one day and experience the joy and happiness for yourself. Let me know if you decide to incorporate the colors of Holi into your line. Best, Kate.
I just returned from India and participated in the festival. It was all as you described and more! I had often heard people say negative things about the ugliness of India and its lifestyle. I say, with what eyes did they look?
With my eyes , all I saw was color! The women in their sarees,even in the smallest village were beautifully colorful! That sounds incredible, Kathy. One day I hope to be able to be there during the Holi Festival. I have traveled to India many times and I always enjoy my time there. It is a feast for the eyes of any color lover. There are sources of safe powders and colored water but check carefully. How to make Natural colours? Make use only pure mehendi and not the one mixed with amla meant to be applied to our hair as this would be brown in colour.
Dry mehendi will not leave colour on your face as it can be easily brushed off. Only when it is a paste i. How about doing it with mehendi powder and saving a trip to the parlour? Other methods Dry and finely powder the leaves of Gulmohur Delonix regia tree for a green colour. Crush the tender leaves of the Wheat plant to obtain a natural safe green Holi colour. Wet colour: Mix two teaspoons of mehendi in one litre of water. Stir well. Haldi and besan are extremely healthy for our skin, and are also used widely as a ubtan while taking bath.
Dry the petals of these flowers in shade and crush them to obtain a fine powder. Mix appropriate quantity of the powder with besan, etc. Wet Colour: Add one teaspoon of haldi to two litres of water and stir well. This can be boiled to increase the concentration of colour and further diluted. Boil and leave overnight.
This can be used instead of Red Gulal. Dry red hibiscus flowers in shade and powder to make a lovely red colour.
This year, Holi falls on March 2. While the celebration itself is based on a Hindu legend, the throwing of colored powder originates from a separate story. Krishna, who has blue skin, is in love with Radha. In some areas the celebrations last longer than a day.
In the Braj region of India, Holi is observed for up to 16 days, according to the Independent. Nowadays there are so many different colours available which we can play with and enjoy, but earlier people used to make natural colours at home using flowers and other natural substances. This was the reason why there were lesser colours at that time but each colour used to symbolise a proper meaning.
And playing with these colours still holds a lot of significance. Let us understand what each colour stands for and understand its significance. The red colour is one of the most popularly used colours. This colour has a great and happy meaning and is very significant it is not only used in holi but also used in various other things too.
The colour symbolizes love, weddings, and fertility. That is why Hindus put a red tiki, married women apply red kumkum and wear red coloured clothes for the same reason. Yellow is a very bright and happiness-inducing colour.
It is therefore very widely used during Holi. In ancient times, this colour was made with turmeric powder. To be inside the tinted mist was to enter a delightful, unpredictable world, filled with contagious laughter. At first people politely avoided the foreigner. But then a girl in a blue-splattered sari ran up giggling and smeared paint on my face.
I returned the favor with a handful of pink. After that, nothing was off-limits—legs, arms, hair, clothes—everything was a potential canvas. With its gorgeous textiles, exotic flowers, exuberant advertising billboards, hand-painted rickshaws and trucks covered with lights, patterns and brightly painted pictures of gods, India is one of the most colorful places on the planet.
They are not just pretty: In India they have meaning. In Hinduism there are three main deities: Brahma the creator, Shiva the destroyer and Vishnu the preserver. Vishnu spends eternity sleeping, until when called upon in a crisis, he wakes and like the most powerful of superheroes saves the world. One name for him is Nilakantha, the blue-necked one, because of a story that he drank a pot of poison to save creation.
So blue is a reminder that evil exists but can be contained, through courage and right actions. Krishna is a manifestation of Vishnu. In addition to being associated with the gods, blue—through the indigo dye—is also historically linked with India. In the first century a. He suggested that the dye was a kind of slime sticking to the scum on river reeds. It actually comes from a bush with small green leaves that when dried and fermented in a dye vat look pretty scummy, which explains the misunderstanding.
Indigo is intensive to process, and has historically been cultivated where labor is cheap. It had a brief heyday on slave plantations in the Caribbean and South Carolina in the 18th century, pricing the Indian plantations out of the market.
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