What Celebrity Mehendis Tell Us About Next Season's Palettes
Words by Mansi Dhanak · 24 September 2026
Citrus is climbing, rose gold has exited, and florals are going monochrome. Reading next season from the mehendi sketchbook.
Want next season's wedding palette twelve months early? Watch the celebrity mehendis.
The mehendi is where stars experiment, because it is the function with the least protocol and the most daylight. What appears there in December walks the aisles of India by the next wedding season.
What We Are Reading Now
Citrus is climbing. Lime, tangerine and lemongrass green have replaced mint at the fashion forward mehendis, usually against ivory rather than gold.
Rose gold has quietly exited. Warm champagne and antique gold have taken its place, softer and easier on every skin tone.
And florals are going monochrome. One flower, one colour, repeated without mercy. A wall of only marigold. Table runners of only mogra.
The mehendi is the wedding's sketchbook. Whatever the stars sketch, the season draws.
Bookmark this page. Next December, tell us we were right.
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