Sue Riley - The Gift of Giving This legendary beauty and skin are expert shares her success with the industry and community. Sue Riley’s beauty career began when she was a small girl visiting her aunt’s beauty salon in Durant, Okla. She took every opportunity to visit this exciting place, watching her aunt deal with a variety of customers and witnessing innovative facial techniques. As…

Mila Bravi- A Legend in the Windy City and Around the World Some call Oak Street a street of dreams, Chicago’s low-rise, high-fashion block of elegant boutiques at the northern tip of Michigan Avenue. The place to find Armani, Hermes, Versace, Rykiel and Pratesi among other shops and spas, it is home to the skin care star in Oaks’s fashion square, Mila Bravi. Always the…

Miki Giunta- A Legend in Aesthetics One Woman’s Vision -This Legendary innovator uses her insight to improve the aesthetics field. Growing up in New Jersey, Miki Giunta spent countless hours with her Irish grandmother, listening to stories of the old county and watching as she planted and puttered in the family garden. “My grandmother taught me a great deal about the natural world,” recalls Miki,…

Mary Ann Graffeo- A Legend in Aesthetics Making Her Dreams Come True Mary Ann Graffeo, a renaissance woman of sort, with an insatiable desire to learn, teach, and progress, is a cosmetologist, aesthetician, makeup artist, businesswoman, paramedical clinical cosmetologist, and lecturer. She has been a veteran in the beauty industry and a pillar in the field of aesthetics for more than 43 years. Her makeup…

Marvin Westmore--- A Legend in Aesthetics The name Westmore is to makeup what the name Ford is to cars. They founded the arena of makeup for the Hollywood Motion Picture Studios going back to the days of silent films. They developed the methods that made starts look old, young, beautiful, ugly, big, small, etc. at one time or another, a Westmore headed up the makeup…

Mark Traynor- A Legend Through Time Antoine, the very famous French hairstylist, made a dramatic appearance in the archway of his luscious Parisian salon. He was indeed singularly elegant in his beautifully tailored suit, a soft dove grey with a hint of blue. He tinted his unique coiffure the exact color of his suit. His outstanding appearance was not lost on his devoted and adoring…

AIA Legend: Margaret Ancira Changing the Face of Skin Care and Aesthetic Medicine Margaret Ancira is the epitome of the entrepreneurial spirit, even if her path to prosperity didn’t begin until age 40. She grew up in a military family of eight siblings that ultimately settled in Texas. She married young, had a daughter, and became a single mother by the time she was 22.…

Lydia Safarti- A Legend in Aesthetics “I’ve never believed in taking no for an answer, “Sarfati says, with a smile. “If people say no, I don’t get mad. I just think, “Well, they don’t understand, and it is my job to educate them.” Ask people who know her to describe Lydia Sarfati physically, and one image almost always comes to mind. Oh, they might mention…

Luella Bailey- A Legend in Aesthetics Luella Bailey has been an active cosmetologist since 1973. She became a member of the National Hairdressers and Cosmetologists Association in 1948, and since that time has served in many capacities. She served as an affiliate officer in her home town of Duluth, Minnesota, also on the state level she served as State Styles Director. In Florida she also…

Linda Seidel- A Legend in Aesthetics Healing through Concealing Linda Seidel brings new hope to those with special challenges. Linda Seidel scooped small amounts of corrective makeup onto the back of her band and blended it. “Watch exactly what I am doing because you are going to learn to do this yourself,” she told the tiny children seated in her chair at her Owings Mills…

Linda Palumbo- Passion Play Linda Palumbo’s life-long love affair with the aesthetics field makes her one of the industry’s most respected educators. Linda Palumbo refers to her career in aesthetics as an extraordinary journey. It is a journey that began 20 years ago in Bologna, Italy. As a student at the University of Bologna, Lina majored in pre-med and developed a keen interest in botany,…