Empty Hands

Logo, business card and letterhead for Massage Salon

This is the idea for my logo (attached files). I played with the original picture, penciled the colours in etc.
I will start a massage salon. I offer traditional body massage and the Chinese Tuina massage, which is very energetic, thorough and works on the meridians and acupuncture points. Besides that there is always this ‘extra’ thing that hands can do, which we don’t always understand. This is why I first thought of naming my salon something like ‘magical realism’. I attached a picture of a painting which really appeals to me. In the end I chose for the name ‘Empty Hands’. Empty hands literally translated into Japanese is Karate. Karate resembles the enormous power of hands without weapons or tools. Personally, karate has convinced me of my own power, and great awareness.
The attached pictures are my own hands on my son’s head. The colours are the chakra/energy colours. The colours (from inside to outside) are: gold, violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange and red).
My idea is to create depth in the colours whereby the middle (gold) is on top. The colours could either go ‘in’ or maybe come out.
I would prefer the hands to be my own hands. I would also like to make a ‘window-sticker’ from the logo later on.
My preference would be a stand alone logo.
The following letter type appeals to me: Microsoft Word – Harrington.
With regards to the business card I have no particular idea yet, so please feel free.
Really anxious to see what you can come up with!

Kind regards,
Patricia Heitman