| Stone Type | Meenakari |
| Weight (g) | 0.00 |
| Colour | Multi Color |
| Occasion | Wedding |
A gold face set with kundan and touched with green and red meenakari hangs from a stone-set chain, finished with a row of tiny ghungroo bells along its lower edge. Roughly 4.5 inches overall.
The small round bells are ghungroo — the same bells tied in rows around the ankles of Kathak and Bharatanatyam dancers. On a forehead ornament they are decorative in scale rather than musical, but they keep the association, and unlike a pearl fringe they catch light as bright metal points rather than soft ones. They also move more freely, because a bell hangs from a single link.
The colour here is used sparingly — small areas of green and red enamel worked between the kundan rather than a full painted panel. On a face this size that restraint matters: the piece reads as gold with colour in it, rather than as a coloured object, which keeps it wearable with more outfits than a fully enamelled tikka would be.
At 4.5 inches this sits higher on the forehead than the 5-inch bridal pieces, closer to the hairline. That is the more restrained position and the easier one for a function that is not a wedding.
A centre parting is needed. The hook slides into the hair and the face rests on the forehead with the chain lying flat.
Weddings, festivals, sangeets, daytime functions and traditional dress.
Type: Maang tikka. Metal: Brass base. Finish: Gold-tone plating with meenakari. Work: Kundan-set face with ghungroo bell drops. Size: approximately 4.5 inches.
This is brass with a gold-tone plating rather than solid gold, which keeps the price where it is and the weight low enough to wear comfortably. Plating is a surface rather than a bulk property, so how long it lasts depends almost entirely on what it meets — perfume, hairspray and sweat all shorten it, while a dry cloth after wearing and a closed pouch between wearings extend it considerably.
Put this on after perfume, hairspray and hand cream, and take it off before washing, swimming or sleeping. Wipe with a dry soft cloth and use a dry soft brush around the stone settings and between any pearls, where a cloth cannot reach. Store it in a zip-lock pouch — which is what the supplier themselves advise, and the single most effective thing for a plated piece, because it keeps humid air off the metal. Never use silver polish, dip cleaners or an ultrasonic cleaner.
A tikka is worn with the hair parted centrally in almost every regional tradition, which is worth knowing if you usually wear a side parting — the piece is proportioned for a centre line and looks visibly off-centre otherwise.
A piece at this price is bought to be worn rather than kept. The sensible way to judge it is by how often it will leave the box, not by what it would fetch if it never did.
| Stone Type | Meenakari |
| Weight (grams) | 0.00 |
| Colour/Finish | Multi Color |
| Occasion | Wedding |
| Gender | women |
| SKU/Product Code | KEYU-NAA1516 |
