A few days ago
Honey Magazine hosted a small party to celebrate their magazine -- after years of being published in print, it's now completely online. The invite said that
Minx was going to be on hand to give manicures so I excitedly headed over. I've been to a few parties recently where Minx manis/pedis have been offered, but I've never actually had the time to wait for my turn to do it -- finally I was going to be able to have fun metallic nails like the ones
Lady Gaga has been sporting! Unfortunately things didn't turn out as great as I hoped. Minx is nail art. You can have pretty much any design imaginable put on your nails. Among the stars who have done this are
Victoria Beckham, Leighton Meester, Heidi Klum, Beyonce, Megan Fox, Liv Tyler, and so many more. They take what basically looks like a sticker, heat it under a heat lamp for a second, and then put it on your nail. The sticker melts a little under the heat lamp and adheres well to the nail. Then using a nail file and scissors they get off the excess sticker (this takes awhile too and files down your nails in the process which bothered me!). You can only get Minx nails done at salons (
Bliss offers this. Manicures are $55 and pedicures are $85). I'm not sure if my Minx manicurists was a newbie to the process but
it took FOREVER! I almost fell asleep during the 45 min process as she tried on different stickers unable to find out which would fit my nails.
More after the jump!