Beauty Swellness: Kenzo manicure

April 30, 2015

“I’ve never pulled so many colours for a mani!” said Naomi Misu of Tips Nail Bar as she got ready to start my manicure.

Yes, it’s that time again — I’m running the Goodlife Toronto Marathon (this is the second time I’m running the Toronto Marathon) on Sunday and so I went in to get a “marathon mani” at  Tips Nail Bar. I didn’t have anything in mind last week but I started surfing the internet and thought of my Kenzo sweatshirt with the tiger on it. So I googled Kenzo and come across some nail art, but none featured the tiger. I also came across some fantastic Kenzo pants in a bright leopard print.

So I talked to Leeanne Colley, owner of  Tips Nail Bar, and said I’d like the Kenzo tiger, the eye, and the K (I’d actually almost bought the K sweater winter before last, I liked the K given my name is Karen) and mentioned that I liked the bright leopard print. She told me bluntly that the tiger would be very tough to do…

But then whaddya know…she sets me up with Naomi, who looked at all the elements I said I  liked and then incorporated them all into this killer Kenzo manicure. Took less than 2.5 hours (a big chunk of that time devoted to the tiger).

Love it. And love that she put one K on each hand…”as in KK, your initials!” says Naomi.

Now I’m pretty sure I need to download “Eye of the Tiger” as a power song for my marathon. Anyhow, no matter how the race goes, these nails are a personal best.

 

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Tags: artistic nail gloss, gel polish, Gelish, Leeanne Colley, mani, manimonday, marathon mani, marathon manicure, nail art, nail polish, Naomi Misu, Tips Nail Bar