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!

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!

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

Between my friend is in town and with henna gigs and having to start my new venture, I feel like my week went so quickly last week…  Oh, I should tell you what my new venture is.  I just became an independent consultant for Arbonne.  They offer skin care/personal care products free from animal testing/animal bi-products, parabens, mineral oils, artificial fragrance, dyes and all botanical base   I started using this anti aging line- RE9 and it’s great!!  even with my lack of sleep no dark circle under my eyes!  if you are interested in sampling please let me know i have some samples

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!!

I always have a great ideas (at least I think so ), my problems are not knowing the best ways to execute the great ideas..  so any time I throw you with ideas and if you can think of a good ways to execute, PLEASE DO share with me.  I am open to any ideas and it’s always fun to hear other ideas I never think of.

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!

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) .

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!!

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

Since i’m in NYC and it does get cold here, winter time is definitely a slower season here.  I still want to be positive and saying that at least it’s better than last year and people and companies are having holiday parties – more work for me! )  specially with my new service Luxe Glow, it’s a perfect party entertainment and a beautiful body embellishment would compliments the holiday glittery glow many women are going to be wearing!  I am keeping my fingers crossed and doing my best to spread the word of this fabulous service you can’t find else where