Akiyo Henna

testimonial – Prisca

admin — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:45:38 +0000

“When I was 32 week pregnant I decided that I wanted to do a photo shoot of my pregnancy and include henna in some way. I found Akiyo by simply surfing the web. On the day of our appointment I felt a natural connection and once she was finished designing my belly I was extremely happy with the results. She was clean and professional and definitely a master of her trade. A wonderful artist. She was polite and easy to talk to – the hour went by so fast, I was having so much fun I didn’t want her to leave. The pictures of my belly were on display at my baby shower and everyone was just amazed at the work and how beautiful it was. I recommend Akiyo to the world.” Prisca Salazar-Rodriguez

September, 2010

admin — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 03:37:54 +0000

Akiyo Henna Inc will be offering henna and Luxe Glow service at the Spa at Trump Soho. “The Spa at Trump® SoHo offers an enticing selection of classic treatments inspired by wellness rituals from around the world.” and henna being one of the non classic treatment.

Some people have it all and I’ve seen it this weekend… part 1

admin — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:14:36 +0000

I worked for this wedding this past weekend, It was quite a wedding I have to say… Usually when work for a wedding, my part is usually just bridal mehndi on one evening and the mehndi party the next evening at the most( for a Indian wedding). But Carrie and Ajay’s wedding was a lot more than that, they are a gorgeous looking couple with style for sure and quite successful! they do have it all! Carrie found me online in the beginning of the year to do henna for her wedding and she also expressed her immediate needs, help with her wedding invitation(which was mentioned in this blog in Jan). So I was able to supply the henna design portion of the invitation and she loved it .

So, this past weekend was the wedding. Friday morning they had a photo shoot in the photographer’s studio in both white gown(Oscar De La Renta) and Indian outfit(Choli and lengha). I was there to apply Luxe Glow to go with her Indian outfit(aqua/silver) after she is done with the white gown shoot. Then the plan was to go to her Luncheon and change the color to go with her maroon sari that she was wearing for the evening henna party. but, we were running so behind we they needed to go straight to the rehearsal after the shoot.

This is what she looked like for the shoot!! so gorgeous!!

her lengha was so amazing too, I loved it. but It’s quite heavy, it felt like about 25lb.. I helped them pack and I lift this up :O

I applied Luxe Glow on both arms in silver with crystals and teal glitter gel.

She looked like she just walked out of a magazine!

since I didn’t have time to fix the color during lunch for the evening, I arrived early for the party and waited… However, the UN convention traffic held up everyone and most people were late including the bride who was supposed to arrive early ( so it was a many waiting moments on Friday. But the party was a lot of fun, many people were excited about Luxe Glow and really beautiful saris and dresses I saw there!

Had a couple drinks, after work and went home with a good buzz

Thanks Lisa!

admin — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:00:15 +0000

Lisa is a friend of mine who proof read my Newsletter every month without her help my newsletter would not be the same.. but since she is moving back to Florida, she came to see me before she leaves. We caught up a bit and hennaed her arm as we talked.

Tree of life- welcoming the baby

admin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:48:37 +0000

mother blessing. Mary has a site called treelifecoaching where she offers customized spiritual ceremonies, she does many wedding ceremonies and mother blessings as well as other ceremonies, so I was quite thrilled when I spoke to her on the phone since I felt that I was such an honor to be a part of her own mother blessing! She really like the tree designs I had done earlier this year ( which happens to be her friend she got my info from! ), and this is what I came up with. She had a beautiful music playing and close family around to help her to other preparation, she was so relaxed and baby was quite excited about this experience ( the Baby was kicking strong!) She fell alseep a bit I felt quite blessed to be around such beautiful energy and performing am important role for her blessing ( kinda… i’m sure there was a lot more going on, haha..). Thank you for letting me part of this!

3 brides in one weekend!

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:50:39 +0000

Is it just me or I feel like there are more weddings in the first weekends and the last weekends of the month… this past weekend I had 3 brides starting on Thursday night- Jessica’s henna party:

Jessica who wanted something rather simple on both hands and feet and she wanted her guests to have something as well.

for her bridesmaids.

thank you so much Jessica for sending me home in a car service!! got home very quickly .

Friday morning at 8am (one of the rare occasion I needed to get up early..). and maybe because of it, I was on the other side of town looking for her building, lol.. it was 355W 85th st, NOT east side stupid! (me).

Nidhi was just hands and feet smaller bridal.

since it was such a beautiful day, I enjoy the little walk through central park on the way home

then the last bride started at 9pm.. only henna artists get these odd hours ..

Rachel was simpler bridal.

then my 3 brides are done went off to forro dancing after. hey, it’s was Friday night!

My first Japanese Luxe Glow bridal!

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:05:33 +0000

It’s always a surprise when I get a Japanese client since I rarely advertise in Japanese community never mind someone who wants to get Luxe Glow for her wedding! It was a great surprise for sure . We met up to discuss designs 2 month ago and decided to get something starting from top of her shoulder going down towards the elbow and design stretching towards her collar bone.

here is the bride.

and her friends who came from Japan for her wedding .

You can view a brief photos on one of her friend’s blog site here, once i get photos from the photographer i’ll upload more!

Many last minute gigs last week! :)

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:19:56 +0000

Lately, I have been getting many last min parties. Last week I didn’t have much on Monday and by Tues day it already filled up the rest of the week thank god! I always love to see the girls smiles and sparkle in their eyes when they see Luxe Glow.

Thursday I had Susan’s mehndi party, she was an American bride who is getting married to an Indian groom. she had few of her family member and her groom side of the family at a hotel suite in downtown w/ a beautiful view of Hudson. It was a very lovely event.

Friday was a sweet 16 for Makara, she was having a sleep over party at her house w few of her friends and I was offering both Luxe Glow and henna.

I had enough time to get to all the girls plus the moms, some got both henna and Luxe Glow and they were so excited! hope they had lots of fun in Cony Island (they were planning on going ) despite the rain

Saturday, I had April and Lin. April lives close to me and since she had Lin over She came to me to get henna together (she thought) but changed her mind to get Luxe Glow w/ Lin and they were just so excited!! and they way they sent me photos on FB I think they had a great time out. And April may be officially addicted to Luxe Glow!

Luxe Glow keeps evolving!! Tri color Luxe Glow!

admin — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:48:13 +0000

Mahima saw Luxe Glow on my arm last summer when I was doing an event at a boat party. She emailed me to set up an appointment to have it done for her cousin’s wedding to attend in India. She wasn’t sure which colors to do so I said if you have a dark skin any cols would look great and she took as 3 colors combined. After we agree on the price we made an appointment and I just went all out! Copper and gold combo looked so fabulous so last layer of silver was just a touch. We both had a great time and finished the night quite happily

No update posts meaning I’ve been busy ;)

admin — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:08:29 +0000

So the first 2 weeks in July I was really busy with henna gigs and getting ready for my trip to Brazil. Yes, my trip to Brazil I’ve been waiting for 2 years!! Spending 2 weeks there was just amazing, fortunately I have many friends from there and I was able to travel with one of my friend to Itaunas where the forro festival was. ( I dance forro in NYC and few of us met up there to enjoy the festival to dance there!) It’s a small village where Brazilians go to for beach and forro vacation.

I met some girls who went crazy over Luxe Glow

girls getting Luxe Glow on the beach! ah… the fun time i miss…:)))