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Mehndi was first used in Africa between 8000 and 4000 BCE Since the Sahara desert was greener more than today. It is believed that humans herded cattle through the pasteurised savannahs and some of their animals chewed mehendi plants growing there.
Then animals’ mouths might have turned stained maroon red by chewing the mehndi leaves. Watching this caused herdsmen nervous as they believed that an animal was bleeding, so they helped the animal by pulling out chewed leaves; from the mouth of the cattle, in turn, the herds
man’s hands got red.
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