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!

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’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

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.

I always like to get some design request I usually don’t think of myself..

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.