This past week I had few Clients for different occasions.  I’ll tell you about the one’s I have photos of.

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!

I just had a bridal shower and a mehndi party for Allie and Vilas this week.  Friday was a Allie’s bridal shower hosted by her sisters Fiona and Joanna at Allie’s apartment.  She was really looking forward to her mehndi and was looking for henna artist with her sisters and they came across my site and fell in love with my work.  It’s always flattering when I hear something like this.  Allie was only getting her palms done since she was wearing a white gown but both of her sisters and her friend was able to enjoy henna and I had lovely time meeting them.

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!

Yesterday was such a beautiful day out and there was a one lucky girl who had her 11th birthday party outside in the beautiful home in Chatham, NJ.  I had a really pretty train ride from Pen Station to Chatham.  She had a Arabian theme party and everyone was dressed up in the costumes with some sparkles.  I had the honer to be at this party  to henna all the girls and some adults there.  As always, some of them went nuts over Luxe Glow but this was for a Henna service I didn’t have Luxe Glow with me but they were happy with the henna designs they got.

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.

It’s been at least 3 weeks since the last entry.  My henna work was been a bit slow this month until last weekend plus I started working in my old industry- Fashion textile design (full time freelance) so my week goes really fast..

Anyways, I have a friend who does Calgel nail so i figured if I have Luxe Glow on her maybe her client would be interested in getting it done.  Sure enough (or maybe she pushed it for me.. not sure) I had a chance to meet the owner of Excy Laser who is totally in love with Luxe Glow ( along with my angle heart with wings + crown design which I used to draw at lot when i was working in textile design), even though this was for her daughter’s birthday i think us adults were more into this than kids.  Unfortunately, I didn’t  have my camera but you can see them on her blog (sorry it’s in Japanese but you can see the photos).

And another Maternity henna for Amber who somehow heard about me and Timothi (awesome photographer).  I went to her Upper East Side apartment on Sat, she had a friend over to take some photos with paste on then they are having another shoot this week in Central park!  I can’t wait to see the photos.

so far this is what I have..

I really wish I had more talent was a photographer….

on the way home I was walking on Lexington Ave. I found these.. :)  so pretty.. ah, spring is here (well, they are candles but they bring the spring feel) .

Well, I don’t have any photos yet to show you but, this is what I did for her.  Naomi is half Guyanese and always wanted to get henna for her wedding but she came across Luxe Glow and thought this was for her.  She had two gowns so we discussed the designs to accommodate both gowns.  I can’t wait to see the photos of her in dresses!  I’ll post them when i get them.

Akiyo is an artist extrordinaire. After pointing out which of her designs I was most drawn to, I had the pleasure of sitting back and watching her create. And for me, the experience continues as the pigment changes over time.
This was the perfect way to celebrate and acknowledge the the birth (and sale) of my first novel– which among other things involves a woman’s quest for her artist self.

Rebecca Land Soodak

I got a call from a client the other day while I was on the phone talking to a real person after holding for about 10-15 minutes.  so she left a message and I called her right back when I was done.  She was really excited to hear from me and told me that I was the first henna artist to call her back after she called a few people in the past few days. Since it was for her birthday outing I suggested to Luxe Glow and she was even more excited and made an appointment to come by later that day.  When she came by, she told me that as soon as she hung up the phone everyone else started to calling her back..  well people, don’t wait too long…  it’s too late now.  After we talked about her outfit and her inspiration ( which was Alicia Key’s Video “try sleeping with a broken heart” ) I did a butterfly with other motifs to compliment around it.  She also asked me if I could do it both with gold and silver, I’ve never really mixed colors before and I always feel like it could get messy but, if I draw designs separately it comes out fine (it takes a bit longer since I had to let the gold part dry first then do the silver.)  but the result is this.. Ta Da!!

I met Goussy at a pool party “Agua” I often go to since I know the organizer.  I have offered Luxe Glow at the party couple of times but it didn’t have a consistent business for me and also I wanted enjoy the party so I stopped offering and just enjoyed the party for the pat few month.  Months later, I got a call from Goussy who held on to my card for her maternity shoot and she wanted to get her belly henna :)  I met her at a beautiful space Metropolitan Building in LIC for her shoot last Sat.  It’s an old building with antiques.. such a wonderful space to do a shoot.   I don’t have any photos from the shoot but I’ll share my henna work..

and the space looks like this, it has different  sections and also have smaller intimate rooms.

Don’t mind my henna mess on the table.. stay turned for her photographer’s real work

Coming away with a beautiful golden design on my chest was not what I expected from a Christmas party.  Akiyo’s beautiful hand painted Luxe Glow lasted throughout the holiday season with everyone believing that I was wearing the most delicate of gold necklaces.  I loved it!  Thank you, Akiyo.

Rose Anne Thom