13 gorgeous women who totally killed the maang tikka game
Absolutely jeweled fabulousness.
Desi jewelry is expressive and colorful, remaining vital in the expression of fashion and tradition. Weddings, holidays, and celebrations bring beautiful outfits that are not complete without these bejeweled pieces.
We’ve seen the magic brown girls create in their colorful jeweled adornments, but here are Desi women who will make you wish you’d invested in a matha pathi or maang tikka (a tikka style that lays across your forehead, sometimes split in the part).
1. Such beauty.
2. Have you ever seen such perfection?
3. Yes. Yes. Yes.
4. What absolute joy!
5. We’re in heaven.
6. Those details. That updo.
7. She is absolutely stealing the show.
8. Love, love, love.
9. Gorgeous colors.
10. So vivid.
11. Everything is on POINT.
12. No words.
13. Absolutely adore-worthy.
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Khadija Mubarik is a pre-med student at Wayne State University majoring in Women’s Studies and Psychology. She balances her time between school and her passion for photography. She runs her own freelance photography business, and is a photographer for The South End, the university’s student run paper.
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