7 Ways To Rock Your Sindoor Look
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India is a land of vivid cultures and traditions galore. And marriages are considered as nothing less than a festival. It’s carried off with a lot of grandeur and pomp. Now, if we talk about married women, there is more than just one way of recognizing if an Indian woman is married or not, out of which two are considered to be regarded as the purest signs — the sindoor and the Mangalsutra. While the Mangalsutra is a black and gold beaded ornament that is worn, the sindoor is a traditional powder in the color of vermillion red or orange-red which is worn by the married women along the center part of their hair.
If you’re a Bollywood buff, you must be familiar with these lines —“suhaagan ke sar ka taj hota hai, ek chutki sindoor!” We’ve even seen the newly-wed Bollywood brides Deepika Padukone, Priyanka Chopra, Sonam Kapoor don the sindoor like a diva. Wearing it is considered nothing less than a privilege by the Indian women. But bride-to-be women these days often get confused as to how to wear it the right way considering how they have grown out of the orthodox-cultural reigns and live a much modern and independent life now. Here’s a quick guide that will help you rock your sindoor look like a queen.
#1 Apply It The Right Way
Firstly, you need to have steady hands to apply sindoor. You don’t want to tremble and spill the strong red sindoor powder all over your outfit and ruin your look, would you? If you don’t trust your hands, use a sindoor stick to apply.
You can either part your hair at the center and apply a long line of sindoor. Or you can just add a touch of the vermillion with a dot on your hairline. Wear a neat colored lipstick that goes well with your outfit and you’re good to go.
#2 Glam Up The Sindoor
If you think just plain sindoor powder is too boring for your taste, then give it your glam touch. You can add in some stone bindis at the tip of the sindoor or at the center. You also use those glittering eyeliners lying in your makeup pouch and add designs to your sindoor. These simple additions will turn your boring sindoor into something eye catchy.
#3 Pair It With The Right Bindi
If there is anything that can take the place of a loyal companion to sindoor, it has to be a bindi. A bindi is a sticker that Indian women usually wear in the temple area between their brows. We suggest that you opt for a simple round shaped bindi and preferably in red color. However, you can always opt for other colors and shapes depending on the color and nature of the outfit you’re wearing. A bindi sure does make the sindoor happy (haha).
#4 You Can Wear It With Western Outfits
You know you are the modern Indian woman, right? So, why think twice if a sindoor can be worn with a jumpsuit or any western outfit? As long as you are comfortable wearing it, you don’t have to think twice about it. But we’d suggest you go with just a dot of sindoor if you’re wearing it with your western clothes.
#5 Play With The Textures, Use Alternatives
Well, yes, the traditional sindoor is that of a powder consistency. But you can always find a substitute or try a different way of wearing it. A red nail paint or a lipstick can also be used instead of the traditional sindoor powder. Also, you have different textures sindoors available in the market these days — liquid sindoor, matter sindoor, and the usual one, the powder sindoor.
#6 Wear Different Colors
Who said that sindoor is red colored only? Sindoor comes in three different colors: blood red, maroon, and orange. Different cultures use different colors. So, ladies, as you know now, you have three options now. We would suggest you pick the sindoor color that suits your skin tone best; for example, the maroon looks best on women with a dusky complexion whereas blood red sindoor will compliment women with a fairer skin tone.
#7 Consider Your Hairstyle
Don’t we plan our hairstyles according to the outfits that we choose to wear? Similarly, we need to consider our hairstyles when it comes to wearing a sindoor. You need to wear sindoor in the form of a long line if your hair is parted at the center. And single dot is considered more suitable if you’ve parted your hair sideways.
Lastly, we’d like to say that wear a sindoor only if you believe in it. Don’t just apply it for the sake of it. And if you love makeup you can create smokey eyes with deep colored sindoor. You can experiment with your looks even while wearing your sindoor. So all the bride-to-be ladies out there, we hope we fixed your woes! If you know of any other ways of rocking the sindoor look, let us know in the comments section below.
