How to make Bindis at home?

Bindi is an important part of  Indian Jewelry. There is no Indian Hindu women who has never worn a bindi - and every Hindu man at least once as well. Once you decide on how to pick a perfect bindi according to your face shape (Perfect Bindi and How to get Bindis) you may try out these easy tips on how to make bindis on your own! You can wear bindis at home, outside, during special occasions or simply anytime you feel like. If there is no shop near your place that sells bindis, you cannot order them online or do not have a friend who could get them for you from India - these tips will help you a lot.

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What you will need are various rhinestones, eyeliner - in different colours, glitter etc. Aluminium foil , glue and eyelash glue!

You can get each product you need for making your own bindis very easily. Most of them can be bought in a local beauty shop. You can look up for rhinestones and glitter at the nail care section.

Instructions:

Cut aluminium foil into a small shape. Pick any shape you like or the shape that matches your face structure. Stick some glitter and/or rhinestones on the foil as you like. Be creative and try your best. For this step use the glue or eyelash glue, both are fine. With eyeliners of different colours you can colour the foil as well. If your rhinestones are transparent, this is how you can make them look colourful. Once you are done with your bindi, stick it between your eyebrows or slightly above by using the eyelash glue! Be careful not to use any other glue which is toxic and can damage your skin.

You can also use your eyeliners to make small dots or some other small shapes around your bindi or above your eyebrows. 

If you are just too lazy to make a whole bindi or you are not as creative, you can use only eyeliner to draw a dot, tear or any other shape you like. Moreover, put the eyelash glue directly on a rhinestone and stick it as a bindi. Traditionally bindis were just a colour between eyebrows anyways and even today people will have bindis of such type on festive occasions.

Check out Aishwarya Rai's very simple beautiful bindi ornaments.

Aishwarya Rai - Bindi

Perfect Bindi and How to Get Bindis

Bindis are nowadays more and more fashionable. A lot of celebrities from Western countries have recently start to wear bindis. There are many various shapes of bindis today. Bindi is believed to enhance the real beauty of a woman and makes her look elegant. bindis were originally painted dots between eyebrows but nowadays one could say it became a jewelry. You can read more about bindis in the following article - Indian Jewelry.

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Here are the rough directions about what kind of bindi would be suitable for you according to your face shape. It does not mean you cannot use any other shape! You can use any bindi you like. These tips are similar to picking a hair style according to your face shape. Of course, if a hair style can change your face shape as well - you might even need another type of bindi. However, do not worry about this at all - if a bindi is well combined with your clothes - you can achieve very fashionable and elegant look without following these instructions.

If your face is oval shaped - Congratulations! Any bindi would suit you.
Heart shaped girls should go for smaller, simple, one-coulour and elegant bindi.
If you have more round face, longer bindis would make your face longer and more in harmony.
Square shaped should definitely avoid long ones, round ones and square ones. Try to find something that would freshen up your face and milden the harsh lines of your face such as - V shape.
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Check what kind of bindis these celebrities picked to wear.

Selena Gomez

Selena Gomez with a Bindi

Katy Perry

Katy Perry with a Bindi

Miley Cyrus

Young Miley Cyrus with a Bindi

Rani Mukherjee

Rani Mukherjee with a Bindi

Priyanka Chopra

Priyanka Chopra with a Bindi

~ How to get bindis? ~

Bindis of same type are usually sold in packets. You can also buy fancy-looking ones one by one, and these could be sometimes more expensive than buying a whole packet, especially if you will buy them in stores. 

If you do not live in India, you can get them in local Indian shops, by buying them from companies on the Internet or ask your friends from India or travelers to India to get them for you.

Normally you could get 3 PACKETS of simple shaped bindis for 1$ - in one coulour or many colours, with or without glitter and gems. Simple round bindis come quite handy as well if you would like to see how you would look like with your nose pierced.

If you cannot get bindis in any of these ways, here you can learn How to make Bindis at Home!

Bindi packets