Take Note September 2011

New Faces and Spaces

DERMASCOPE and Aesthetics Professional are thrilled to welcome our Canadian counterparts to the Professional Network. Natasha Radjabova formerly of Cosmeticportal.ca in Toronto, Canada partnered with Aesthetics Professional earlier this year to bring the network to the Canadian market. The new site launched late August to resounding enthusiasm by aestheticians, spas, and distributors. Take a moment the next time you are on AestheticsProfessional.com to send Radjabova a Colleague request and welcome her to the community.

Bioelements is excited to introduce their new regional sales consultant Loren Kaminski, who will cover the Colo., Texas and Calif. territories for the professional skin care line. Kaminski joins Bioelements with extensive experience in the beauty industry. As a member of the Bioelements regional sales team, Kaminski will build strong relationships with Bioelements spas, distributor partners and aesthetics schools, assisting them in utilizing Bioelements support programs to grow their businesses. Kaminski’s enthusiasm and extensive sales background make her an excellent addition to the Bioelements team.

Dee DeLuca-Mattos, vice president of Cures by Avancé has joined the influential and resourceful network of beauty industry experts at The Beauty Agents. The Beauty Agents is the beauty industry’s leading source for customized talent for booking, producing, managing and designing events and classes.

Ken Simpson, founder Skin 2 Skin Care, is happy to introduce Rhonda Gorham as new national sales director. Gorham comes to Skin 2 Skin Care with an impressive background in the beauty and sales industries. Gorham is also a member of Skin 2 Skin Care’s advisory board.

Awards, Celebrations, and Anniversaries

CBI Laboratories would like to announce that it has received an Independent Cosmetic Innovator of the Year (ICMAD) Cosmetic Innovator of the Year (CITY) Award for Innovation in Advertising and Marketing for the “Think of Us as the Ladder” ad that debuted in the October 2010 of HAPPI magazine. The award was given to CBI at the 8th annual ICMAD CITY Awards dinner, held in New York City.

The Small Business Award honors the entrepreneurship, sustainability, productivity and effort put forth in a small business. The Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce the 2011 Small Business of the Year Award Winners: The Car Park, Episciences, and Ladd Family Pharmacy. All three companies are great examples of the entrepreneurial spirit so vital to the success of small business throughout the Boise metro area. The Chamber of Commerce applauds their hard work, perseverance, and contributions to the community.

Crater Lake Company has been named Westchester Magazine’s “Best Of” skin care collection, as well as highlighting the best of everything in Westchester including restaurants, boutiques, bars, and local health and beauty mavens.

In the News 

This year, as part of their annual corporate retreat, Rhonda Allison Cosmeceuticals took to an extreme challenge to sharpen skills, test strengths and bring lessons learned back to headquarters. The challenge included team and leadership simulations, and “action-learning” experiences, which served as powerful exercises for honing critical skills in team development, multitasking, and on-the-job applications. The two teams – Team RAW vs. Team RA – learned strategies for improving communication, identifying individual and team strengths and weaknesses, managing deadlines and stress, and effectively resolving conflict. The two teams navigated ropes and challenge courses, zip lines, and an Amazing Race-style scavenger hunt in which each team had to maneuver over a one mile course uncovering clues and completing additional challenges along the way. The retreat proved to develop a deeper level of leadership, patience, support, trust and quick-thinking. This year’s retreat also marked 20 years in advanced aesthetics for the company.

Jane Wurwand, founder of dermalogica®, recently spoke before more than 500 Dermalogica stockists, professional skin therapists and members of the media in Johannesburg, South Africa. The “Joburg” Congress took place at the Forum Bryanston, where Wurwand discussed industry trends and product development, as well as Dermalogica’s 25-year history of empowering women, most recently through the launch of the brand’s joinFITE global microlending initiative. Wurwand’s visit to Johannesburg was part of a three city tour in South Africa. The other two cities included in the tour were Durban and Cape Town.

Howard Murad, M.D., FAAD, world renowned dermatologist, associate clinical professor of medicine at UCLA’s Geffen School of Medicine, founder of Murad, Inc, and president of the University for Inclusive Health, took to the stage at HBA Global Expo to share his innovative approach to total body wellness through Inclusive Health at the Javits Center in New York City. With a focus on strategies that improve the health and appearance of skin by protecting and promoting the integrity of cell membranes, Murad dove further into his Inclusive Health approach for the capacity audience, detailing topical care, internal care and emotional self-care treatments.

OPI executive vice president and artistic director Suzi Weiss-Fischmann was one of the 2011 MISS USA® Pageant’s celebrity judges. Other judges included Tyson Chandler of the Dallas Mavericks, Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller, Chef Rocco DiSpirito, actress Mariel Hemingway, rapper Lil Jon, and Caroline Manzo from Bravo’s The Real Housewives of New Jersey. Alyssa Campanella, Miss California, was awarded the crown and will go on to compete in the MISS UNIVERSE® competition on September 12, 2011, in São Paulo, Brazil – for which OPI will release four new lacquer shades this August.