Back to Luxe Glow,  I had a client who recently had a back surgery and came to me to cover her scar.  We did a henna test to see if henna worked, but it was to light to cover it.  This photo is with henna past on:

So I suggested to do Luxe Glow in black and it covered up really well and looks great!!

By the way, I ordered a henna supply wholesale last week to get ready for the up coming workshop i’m going to be hosting and they started arriving…  I’m so excited!  I already have a guy interested in private session this week.  Hopefully this will help my henna design book sale, but I just like to share the joy of henna with other people.

This is the second henna design book by Akiyo Ogura. “Lavender” contains a collection of simple designs you can use for henna parties and it’s appropriate for someone who is starting to learn how to henna.

Akiyo will be offering to small henna workshops this summer, email for more information. ]]> http://www.akiyohenna.com/archives/601/feed http://www.akiyohenna.com/archives/583 http://www.akiyohenna.com/archives/583#comments Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:53:50 +0000 admin http://www.akiyohenna.com/?p=583 I’ve had some busy days last week and it’s nice to be busy

Last Saturday, I had a Leah whom I did her bridal henna a year and a half ago.  She Loved my work and wanted to celebrate her birthday with henna this year so she came back bringing her friend with her.  I think her friend is “hooked” on my henna :)  Leah is very organized and takes care of henna very well, I wish all my clients are like her.  She came with her friend who got her feet done (so she can still drive back) and she told me she already had chicken marinated and salad ready for lunch since she knew she won’t be able to do anything after henna, very well thought out!

Then, I had a little girls birthday party later in the same afternoon for Isabelle.  This was her 10th birthday and she wanted to have henna artist for her birthday.  I offered henna and Luxe Glow for this party.  Quite a hit and even some boys got copper Luxe Glow

Linda was going to the Gala of her foundation, so she wanted to wear Luxe Glow for this special occasion for her.  I met Linda at an event last year, she saw my work and loved it and remembered me for this year’s event

Then I had Anisha, who was getting married over Memorial Day Weekend in Vermont.  She contacted me couple of month ago and was trying to figure out the whether she wanted to get her mehndi done in Manhattan or in Vermont.  I’m so glad she decided to do in Manhattan, traveling to VT is a long trip and would have costed  a lot more.  Even though it was a last minute the timing worked out perfectly.  Her fiance was German and he had many of his family and friends traveled in from Europe so it was an interesting henna night we had at her apartment.  I finished my job with a great selection of cheese, bread and fruits :).  It was delicious (it was too good I ate a bit too much I had a tummy ache for a bit :O stupid me..). Ok enough about my tummy ache,  here’s her bridal mehndi.

Oh, the last but not the least, I finally tried out copper I got from Wendy :),  I love it! it shows better on my skin.  Thank you Wendy!

Her fiance side of the family hosted their mehndi party on Sat afternoon, this was a larger get together since children weren’t attending the wedding on Sunday.  So I attended the children first.   Little girls are always so cute, they get very excited and if they are old enough they know what to do and very well behaved.  I always get scared with boys what they are going to ask for (since sometimes I get request for something complicated like a tiger or a cartoon characters..) I was able to convince them to do dragons and all I was asked to do was a dinosaur which I was able to make it up.. phew.. and the boys were happy with them.  Evey one was all dressed up and place was beautifully decorated, it was such an honor to be part of their celebration.  They  told me later on that even though they were looking for henna artist separately,  they both loved my work and Allie told her mother in law about my site and turned out they were both looking at the same site!  How flattering is this!!

Allie looked so Beautiful!!  her red hair looked so good with the green!

As a birthday girl She had a bigger design then other girls :)  then, the belly dancer started her performance and all the kids were mesmerized by her dance..  Then she started to dance with everyone.  Many girls were dancing pretty well, they were just a cute bunch :)  I love doing henna for little girls birthdays..  made me smile for rest of the evening.

first request was a geometric design bracelet in Luxe Glow.  I usually don’t do  designs with straight lines nor symmetric  designs since it’s hard to make any correction with Luxe Glow (it also takes longer ) but, I had a very specific request to do a geometric design and I wasn’t quite sure how it would turn out..  here is is.

I actually like it a lot! and she loved it

Another day, I got a call from the Ower of Excy laser again to glitter up her staff at her store,  she likes very girlie designs like hearts, crowns, wings etc..  one of her staff’s request was a “bow and flowers” this is what i came up with..

She was quite excited and went home happy (except the little accident..  she knocked off my rhinestone box which it may not have been placed in the secure area.. we ended up spending about an hour sorting them out to put back in the box in different sizes and colors.. )

Please note, this works great as a scar covering..  she had a small scar around the wrist,  you can’t tell ;)  thank you again for having me.  She takes care of everyone so well and I always leave her place full..  Next time I’ll be bringing some sweets at least.

Here we go, one of my biggest goal this spring is to hit the Prom market with Luxe Glow.  I know it’s too late to advertise any more since it’s already around the corner for some.  I finally worked on the postcards to be printed and I should have them by next week.  I did list up private schools in the city and was able to pull some prom dates from some of the school sites.

The next step…  how and where to distribute them.

Question 1-  where is the best place for the postcards to be distributed?  Hand them out on the street around schools?

Question 2- if I want to do a demo where would be a good place?…

Front looks like this, I wanted to have one side with bridal look (let’s face it I can’t have cards just to proms).

and the back, I made it look more colorful for parties.

for some reason every time I upload graphic files with pink it always come out MUCH bluer pink than what actually is..  so the pink is not the correct col.  Just imagine Fuchsia.

I’m going to hit the street once I get these but if you have better ideas let me know!