The listing, A beautiful pack of Indian Bindis has ended.
With changing fashion, women
try out many shapes and
designs. It is, at times a straight
vertical line or an oval, a triangle
or miniature artistry ('alpana')
made with a fine-tipped stick, dusted with gold and silver
powder, studded with beads and
crusted with glittering stones.
The advent of the sticker-bindi made of felt with glue on one
side, has not only added colors,
shapes and sizes to the bindi but
is an ingenious easy-to-use
alternative to the powder.
Today, bindi is more of a fashion statement than anything else,
and the number of young
performers sporting bindis is
overwhelming even in the West.