Onyx Salon & Beautique

Welcome October! 🍂🍁✨
It’s hard to believe that this is already week five at the new location. I want to take a moment to thank each of you for your support throughout this process of moving. Your patience and love are what got me through it all. 🥹💕I truly appreciate each and everyone of you! Also, thank you for all of the sweet gifts and cards. 🫶🏼(stay tuned for a grand opening date soon so we can enjoy a glass of Prosecco 🍾🥂🎉 together to celebrate!) For those of you who haven’t been in yet, I am looking forward to seeing you soon! Be sure to book your fall and holiday appointments today, days/times are filling up quickly!
As always, please feel free to message me directly for appointments also!
Happy Fall 💜 xoxo Ida

It was a great first day in the new Onyx Salon space! 🙌
Thank you to my wonderful client friends for all of your love and support 💜 Candy Caligiuri-Levy Courtney Ann dannimagan Roger Ver (One Account Only!)
SPECIAL THANK YOU to my incredible husband dbake for all of your hard work to help me get this up and running…love you and appreciate you so much! 😘😘😘

I am so excited to announce that Onyx Salon is moving to new digs! I’ll be moving into a beautiful, cozy salon studio at Image Studios at The Piazza in South Fayette, just a short mile from my current location!
I can’t wait to welcome and pamper you the first week of September 💜 Please DM me to make your appointment if you are a new or returning client! Image Studios - South Fayette
xo Ida

It’s so hard to believe that 22 years ago I opened Onyx Salon for Nails, Body & Soul. Today, Onyx Salon & Beautique, LLC is still a thriving little salon all because of the loyal, amazing clients that have been with me throughout all of these wonderful years. You all are the heartbeat of my sweet little salon. It’s so much more than just nails or beauty services. If these walls could talk. So many important milestones have been celebrated inside these four walls. Tears have flowed because of shared grief, or heartbreak, but also healing has taken place because of the safe space we have created to share things here that wouldn’t be shared otherwise. Prayers have been exchanged, because even when we can’t, we know God can. My heart overflows today with gratitude, for all of the special people, both past and present, that God has sent through the doors over these past 22 years. To my clients, my family and my friends…Thank you all for your support and your love and your friendship, it means everything.
💜 Ida (Bella)

Wishing all of my client friends a beautiful Christmas and New Year in 2026! 🎄✨❤️
Thank you ALL for your love and support throughout this year! Each of you are what makes Onyx Salon the success that it is. 🤍🤍🤍
Thank you for all of kind messages and generous gifts…it is so appreciated!! 🎁💕

I love you all so much and I pray that 2026 brings abundant blessings, love, joy and good health to you and your families. 🎉✨💜

Here’s to year 22 at The Purple Palace!! 🙏🏼💜🥳✨🎉

Happy Hanukkah to all of our Jewish friends and their families 💜 🕎 May God’s light always shine upon you.

Small Business Saturday!
Swipe left to see some of the beautiful gift items now available at Onyx Salon & Beautique. And they are handcrafted in the USA! 🇺🇸
Please shop small this holiday season 💜✨

My next “Favorite” is a person. My wonderful friend and client for 30 years passed away in September. Marjie was a high school teacher who was also the homeroom teacher to both of my kids. All the kids loved her! She was Marjie and they loved that she let them call her by her first name. Plus, she always kept a stash of candy for them in her classroom! She had a love and respect for the kids she taught and they knew how much she loved them and rooted for them in all their endeavors. She hosted Young Life Club at her home many times and made it such a blast for the kids and adults alike! She hosted such fun dinners for friends and family alike, everyone was always welcome. She made it all look so easy even though it was so much work. Teaching and Young Life were her life’s passions and she was born for both!
She was married to the love of her life, Roger and they had three children and five grandchildren. Roger would bring Marjie to Onyx every two weeks for her appointments and he was a tireless caregiver to her. My heart breaks for him as he lost his love and best friend although he knows he will be with her in Heaven again, one day.
I loved my friend and I miss her deeply. I was remembering how hard she would laugh when I was giving her a pedicure and her laughter was so contagious, I would crack up laughing myself! This makes me smile as I type this. Marjie and Roger were guests at my wedding, and before that, they were amazing, generous friends to me while I was raising two kids as a single mom. I will never, ever forget that and I am eternally grateful for the times I could call her to talk about the challenges of raising a teenaged son and daughter. She was always so supportive with the best advice.
I love this picture of Marjie & Roger which I took of them at their daughter’s wedding. And so, I made this ornament to give Roger so when he looks at it, he will see his beautiful Marjie and remember that Heaven is not that far away. I love you my dear friend and I look forward to the day when I see you again, Marjie. 💜 The wonderful memories I have of you, are with me now and always.

Every year for my Christmas Shopping Party I always give away a few of my favorite things. I have customers put their name in for a random drawing but this year I decided to do it a bit differently! I am choosing a few clients to receive a favorite item of mine. This year, my first client is Kara 💜

Kara has been a tried and true client and friend for 18 plus years. She has always been a faithful promoter and supporter of Onyx Salon. She even sent me this picture (swipe left) during the covid shutdown when I had to close my business for three months. While it is a funny meme, I truly believe Kara would have come to my house to get her nails done, even through an opening in my garage! 😂💕 Just one of the many reasons I love this women so much! She and I have been through lots of life’s ups and downs together, we have cried and consoled each other and laughed our full heads off! 🩷

Kara is married to the love of her life, Brian, who has always been such a supportive, hubby when my new items arrive in the salon. Brian gives his lovely wife the credit card and happily says he loves to support my business…You’re AWESOME…Thank You Brian!!
Btw Kara is an amazing wife to Brian❤️

Kara is a camp director for The Rock in Oakdale. She tends to and organizes for hundreds of kids each summer and runs the before and after school program for kids in that district. She has kids from many backgrounds and loves on each and every one. This is all possible because of her church providing the space but it depends on Kara’s total commitment as well as the volunteers she is able to recruit to help her, to keep this program up and running. 🙏🏼🥰

She is also an amazing and favorite aunt to her nieces and nephews and I’ve watched her love each of them as her own 💜
Thank you Kara for being a bright light in my life for all of these years…you are a true blessing and I pray you enjoy one of my most favorite things! Drum Roll!!!!

A 60 minute massage 💆🏻‍♀️ with the BEST massage therapist, Briana 😘💕💕

Merry Christmas 🎁 🎄✨to you and Brian and your whole family!! Love you! God Bless You Always ❤️ Ida