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Forget everything you think mehendi has to look like. It’s not just bridal palms covered corner to corner in paisleys anymore. A whole new crop of artists has been borrowing straight from tattoo culture – fine lines, bold blackwork, mandalas that look carved rather than drawn, and the results are wild. Squint at some of these designs and you would swear someone spent an afternoon in a tattoo chair, not twenty minutes with a henna cone. If you are after something that looks edgy but washes off in two weeks, here are eight styles worth screenshotting.