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Since 1993, Professional Program Insurance Brokerage (PPIB) has been providing proprietary insurance programs available in all states. Whether your clients are looking for traditional services such as facials and body wraps or if they are looking for more cutting edge services like cellulite treatments and plasma fibroblast services, PPIB has you covered. How is PPIB different?
Most importantly, PPIB is innovative, responsive, and flexible so you can provide the outstanding service your customers expect.
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INSURANCE PROGRAMS FOR AESTHETICS
Since 1993, Professional Program Insurance Brokerage (PPIB) has been providing agents, brokers, and wholesale brokers nationwide with unique insurance solutions for challenging risks. From tattoo parlors and medispas to pyrotechnics, PPIB offers proprietary insurance programs available in all states. Whether your clients are looking for traditional services such as facials and body wraps or if they are looking for more cutting edge services like cellulite treatments and plasma fibroblast services, PPIB has you covered. How is PPIB different?
Facials including aesthetic level peels up to 40% Glycolic Acids, Spray Tanning, Electrology, Microdermabrasion, Needling/Collagen Induction Therapy, Dermaplaning, LED Services, Microcurrent Services, Piercing for Earlobe and Outer Rim of Cartilage Only, topical makeup application, eyelash extensions, eyelash tinting, eyebrow threading, waxing, sugaring, hair services and/or nail services.
PPIB is revolutionizing the insurance industry, one program at a time!
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
DERMASCOPE Magazine, founded by AIA, is the curator of all continuing education offered with an AIA membership. Whether it’s in print, online, video, or audio, DERMASCOPE’s mission is to provide to best continuing education to the skin care professional.
AIA members receive both a monthly print magazine, as well as access to DERMASCOPE Digital and its years of archives. Simply log onto dermascope.com to access your account information to ensure monthly delivery through USPS and your email inbox.
In addition to the monthly magazine, DERMASCOPE offers exclusive content on DERMASCOPE.com. Through weekly e-newsletters, AIA members stay up-to-date with monthly columns, videos, and online-exclusive articles.
Simply, The Exam, DERMASCOPE creates a monthly test based off the editorial content found in its monthly issue. Stay sharp an test your knowledge!
While all skin care professionals have access to attend DERMASCOPE’s live webinars, only AIA members have exclusive access to the library of on-demand content. Did you miss a live presentation? Catch the replay on DERMASCOPE.com.
Education isn’t just for print and digital anymore. Stay involved in the industry by listening to The Aesthetic Report, a podcast by DERMASCOPE. Available on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
HUMAN RESOURCES
AIA’s list of human resources seems limitless. We’ve been building relationships with hundreds of educators throughout our 50 years; this allows members the privilege of their expertise. Do you have questions about a client with problematic skin or want more information about a specific facial chair? We can connect you with the right person or company.
The Membership Director is your contact for questions about your benefits or membership details. The membership director is responsible for AIA member services, including updating certificates and subscriber services for DERMASCOPE.
DERMASCOPE Magazine has inducted our grass roots educators as role models. This elite group of people is AIA’s Academy of Legends. The mission of the Academy of Legends is to uphold the leadership of our industry as mentors and role models for educating, empowering, and advancing our profession. Legend status is granted by the contribution and exemplary achievements he or she has made to our industry. Legend inductees are granted lifetime membership into AIA and are asked to continuously share their knowledge and passion with the Board of Directors and be accessible to the AIA membership-at-large.
The Board of Advisors are elected members who represent the skin care industry. The purpose of the Board of Advisors is to consult with the Board of Directors and offer them information from around the country. The Board of Advisors are also asked to serve as role models, mentors, and sources for information to the AIA community-at-large. During their term, they are asked to play an active role on the DERMASCOPE discussion forum and to write articles for DERMASCOPE Magazine.
The DERMASCOPE Ambassadors are the public relations and recruitment committee on behalf of the magazine and AIA. This extensive group of talented individuals consists of members of the industry’s educators, manufacturers, distributors, consultants, and spa owners. The role, much like the Board of Advisors, is to serve as mentors and resources to the community-at-large and to constantly be representatives and promoters of AIA and the aesthetic industry as a whole.
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MEET THE PRESENTER- Elizabeth Brasher
Elizabeth Brasher has been a licensed aesthetician since 2011 and has been practicing with a strive for advanced skin care education ever since. Brasher is the lead for Facelogic Spa of Murphy, Texas for the last three years. She continues to devote herself to helping her colleagues offering expert training, heading online aesthetics forums, and writing contributions to industry magazines. At the beginning of 2020, Brasher became DERMASCOPE Magazine’s lead in-house aesthetician.
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MEET THE PRESENTER- Savanna Boda
Savanna Boda paves the way for the new generation of aestheticians by utilizing social media for marketing and creating informational Instagram charts. Boda is a medical spa owner in Dallas, Texas who focuses on result-driven skin care and treatments. Boda is currently one of the in-house aestheticians for DERMASCOPE.
Top 10 Dermaplaning Questions
Your top dermaplaning questions answered. Join us as we dive into some of our most asked questions from technique to tools and everything in between.
Steffany Scahlnat has been with DermaplanePro, Inc. for 5 years and loves the skincare industry. She is passionate about making people feel their best. She recently received her aesthetician certificate through Redken and is so excited. With a background in medical she brings versatile knowledge to the company. When she is not working she enjoys being a mother to her daughter.
Creating Flawless Skin – A Guide to Clearing Minor Skin Irregularities™ (MSI)
The pursuit of flawless skin is an ongoing challenge for many of our clients. During this enriching educational session, you will be introduced to the wide variety of Minor Skin Irregularities™ (MSI) that you likely encounter daily on your clients, as a skin care therapist. We will demonstrate how rapidly and easily the LAMPROBE, a revolutionary device in the profession skin care field, treats these MSI – rapidly and non-invasively, in one treatment only.
With these LAMPROBE demonstrations, discover the satisfaction of clearing these Minor Skin Irregularities™ (MSI) which can include: Vascular MSI such as Cherry Angiomas, Spider Naevi, and Dilated Capillaries; Sebaceous MSI such as Cholesterol Deposits, Milia and Acne; as well as Hyperkeratinized MSI including Skin Tags, Fibromas, and Keratoses.
Beloved around the world by skin care therapists, the LAMPROBE can create significant new streams of revenue for your practice by enabling you to offer these highly in-demand MSI treatments, setting you apart in your market. LAMPROBE treatments can be easily incorporated with your existing services to help give your clients the flawless skin they deserve. Join us to learn more and expand your possibilities!
Intended Audience: For licensed skin care practitioners, skin clinic/spa/salon owners, esthetic school owners, teachers and students
Pina Lee is a CIDESCO trained medical aesthetician with a passion for skin and empowering those who share her passion. Over the last two decades, she is involved in many facets of the aesthetics industry including operating her own skin care practice, as well as teaching advanced esthetics courses at both private and public colleges. As the education director of Lamskin, Pina Lee will share with you the amazing capabilities of LAMPROBE and her experiences with this revolutionary device and its creator Hubert Lam.
Glenora Luz- Frayna is a highly experienced LAMPROBE trainer and educator. For the past 6 years, she has been training new LAMPROBERS on MSI techniques and treatments. With over 37 years of experience in the beauty and skin care industry, Glenora thrives on continuing educational studies in the esthetics field and is passionate about teaching others to enable their growth in the profession. Glenora will be conducting many of the LAMPROBE demonstrations exhibited.
MEET THE PRESENTER- Solenne Briand
Solenne Briand has been an accomplished international educator in the skin care industry for over eight years. Licensed in cosmetology in her homeland of France, she started her career with a prestigious Swiss and French skin care brand. Her passion to travel inspired her move to the United States three years ago. Since then, Briand has been traveling the continent offering comprehensive education. She is dedicated to share her knowledge of skin care and contribute to the growth of the spa industry.
New Paradigm Beauty Frequency: Lightforce Skin Savers (Part 3)
The beauty industry's future is without a doubt in frequency, but not in a conventional approach; Science and metaphysical laws meet here in the New Beauty Paradigm! Navigating our return to the treatment room means embodying a new way of living and curating our clients' rituals beyond treatment of the world we've created before. Join us as we explore the New Beauty Paradigm's integrations through energy healing, award-winning frequency-based skincare devices, and intention-focused treatment evolution.
In this three-part series, we will dive into conversations around combining light, crystals, frequency and movement to tune up your energetic connection to the future of the world of esthiology with ZAQ devices.
Emilee Fernandes is a leading educator and innovator in the aesthetics and spa education world. Through Jem, her educational academy, multiple spa locations, cooperate consulting positions, and over 16 years of exposure to spa culture, she has gained the wisdom, expertise and knowledge to lead and direct the future of the beauty industry; The future, she will say, is in frequency! Emilee is passionate about empowering other skin therapists to own their magic while coaching them through the incorporation of adopting a unique, collaborative, whole-body mindset. Her teachings and trainings are said to be inspiring, full of knowledge and refreshing from traditional approaches to post-graduate studies.
New Paradigm Beauty Frequency: Power Cleanse for Radiantly Pure Skin (Part 2)
New Paradigm Beauty Frequency: Crystal Skin Frequency (Part 1)
DMK Virtual Intro to Skin Revision 2020
This video is an introduction into the history of DMK, as well as our scientifically based theory and approach to skin revision.
If you are interested in working with DMK or learning more about our concept and treatments, visit https://www.dannemking.com/education/ . If you'd like to register for training, the Intro webinar is the first step to becoming a certified DMK skin therapist. Use code mentioned at the end of the video for $50 off your course registration.
Drew Coleman is the vice president of education and sales for DMK International. His professional passion is to help business owners maximize their potential by benchmarking and identifying growth opportunities. Coleman’s 17-year career has been dedicated to helping businesses grow. He loves the aesthetics industry because of the passionate business owners he works with every day.
Learn what makes LYCON Wax a market leader in hair removal
This presentation will provide a brief overview on all of LYCON’s products including pre/post, Hot wax and Strip as well as Retail products. Included in the presentation are demonstrations of an underarm wax, an eyebrow wax and an application clip of a leg wax using LYCON’s Lycotec White Strip wax.
Lindsay Miller, President of LYCON Wax USA
Basics of Total Body Waxing Online Course
Ever since Caronlab was founded over 40 years ago, improving the quality of education in the beauty industry has been an incredibly important goal. We want to play a role in training the next generation of beauty therapists in the waxing techniques and products that we have spent decades crafting. This year we launched our first online training course, Basics of Total Body Waxing. In this training, we give you the ultimate show & tell of our exceptional waxing techniques that will transform the way you wax. You will boost your confidence so you never doubt your waxing skills again, while you save money and time with these unique techniques. Enroll here and receive your $20USD discount!
This classroom originally appeared in the 2020 Summit of Aethetics.
Achieving Eyebrow Power
Eyebrow shaping is an important beauty technique that can transform a client’s face. Some prefer brows that are softly angled or have a high arch, while others want a straight brow, a rounded brow, or a curved brow. The choices are endless. The shape of the face is the most important consideration in eyebrow shaping while they can make the eyes appear larger, make the face look thinner, and provide an overall cleaner, more confident look. Get your brow pencils out and take notes.
Jaclyn Peresetsky is not only the owner of Skin Perfect Spas in Ohio and Florida, but she is a noted color expert, makeup artist, master aesthetician, permanent makeup instructor, author, and speaker. Her multiple books, cosmetic and skin care lines, and training courses allow other beauty professionals to learn and add more services combining art and science to become leading beauty experts. Her passion for education lead her to create a school for Advanced Esthetics and Color, opening in January of 2019 in Columbus, Ohio.
Strategic Exit Planning for Spa Professionals
During this strategic session, this webinar will discuss the tools and techniques needed to plan for operating a successful spa practice and planning for an exit into retirement.
Richard Merrill is an award-winning beauty industry expert specializing in salon and spa sales and marketing with over 15 year of experience. Licensed aesthetician, makeup artist, educator, and consultant, his experience in the industry is vast, making him a great resource for assisting to build a salon and spa business. For more information, visit richardmerrillconsulting.com
Calculating Fixed & Variable Spa Expenses
Learn about calculating fixed and variable expenses and factoring in big purchases into the equation. When spa owners know what their total expenses are, and the profit they want to pull, setting price levels becomes easy. Since the pandemic has caused the cost of business to change, it is a great time to run numbers and make sure skin care professionals are bringing in enough money. Drill the numbers down to the minute to easily calculate and ensure the business is on track.
René Serbon is an international skin expert. She started her education focusing on business studies (marketing) and then moved to aesthetics. She began studying in New Zealand and completed training in beauty therapy (called aesthetics in Canada and the United States), as well as electrolysis through the New Zealand Institute of Electrolysis and Beauty Therapy. Serbon sat for international exams and is a diplomat of both CIBTAC and CIDESCO. She completed post-graduate training in laser, IPL, and the Pastiche Method of Advanced Skin Analysis, for which Serbon was later an honoree as a Pastiche recognized educator. She also serves on the board of education for the International Association For Applied Corneotherapy. reneserbon.com
Creating Virtual Beauty Clientele
Never get caught without an income or clients ever again. Virtual consultations and clients are not just for the future anymore. In this webinar, learn how to create online clientele and how to keep them forever. If a skin care professional has a phone, they can generate the income and clients needed to reinvent their business.
Lora Condon is an international award-winning aesthetician, guest on Dr. Oz, author of Spa Wars, and a beauty consumer advocate known as “The Beauty Buster.” Condon was named InStyle Magazine’s “Best Eyebrow Shaper in New Jersey” and has worked with Ladies’ Home Journal, The New York Times, Success Magazine, Good Morning America, Cate Blanchet, Toni Colette, and Tea Leoni. Condon was featured in videos by Cosmo, Refinery29, Beauty Insider, and even Entertainment Tonight. Beauty Buster Organic Skin Care was created to target specific skin conditions and even contains luxury lip treatments with olive oil from her great grandfather’s town in Italy.
Cold Rolling 101
Discover the love of using cold rollers in the treatment room and retailing to clients. This webinar is going to break down how to use these versatile tools in the treatment room and how to turn that into a retail sale as well.
Kasey Boone has always had a passion for the beauty industry. After working as an aesthetician in the treatment room for over 14 years, she now has a passion to create fun, versatile tools that can be used in and out of the treatment room. These tools not only enhance client experience, but save aestheticians time, energy, and money. She has not only created these amazingly soft and easy-to-use towels, but also a wildly popular Glow Skincare Cold Roller and Mini Cold Roller. When Boone is not creating skin care tools or treating her clients, she is working with her Beauty Biz BFF, Lorena Ashmore, where they have a fun, unfiltered, and relatable podcast talking all things beauty and business to help uplift the aesthetic community and share their knowledge with beauty professionals all over the world.
An Eve Taylor Introduction
Trish Green, founder of Balnea Spa Products in 1992, has been an advocate and educator within the Esthetics and Spa industry for 28 years. Trish is an International speaker, educating aestheticians across the United States and Canada. As a CIDESCO aesthetician, a Homeopathic Practitioner and Internationally trained Aromatherapist, with a strong science background and training to include mental health, she specializes in a complete wellness approach for all women, with special interest in the wellness approach for managing the many aspects of the aging process.
Brazilian Waxing
Holly has over 12 years of hands on experience as an esthetician and over 7 years experience as a Global Waxing Trainer for Caronlab Australia. She brings with her a wealth of knowledge and vast experience in both male and female waxing and is eager to teach acclaimed techniques whilst bringing expertise and energy back into the waxing room.
Men’s Grooming: Facial Waxing
Acne; Deep Dive with Dr. Johnson
Ben Johnson, MD is a physician, inventor, and entrepreneur who has spent the last 25 years dedicated to solving some of the world’s most challenging skin and health conditions. He holds multiple patents related to skincare and wellness as a result of his unparalleled research and philosophies pertaining to the skin-body connection.
Dr. Johnson founded Osmosis Beauty with a revolutionary approach that is changing the direction of skin care away from excessive exfoliation and renewing the focus of dermal remodeling, barrier and DNA repair, and detoxification. He has found that the skin and body are capable of healing themselves with the proper tools and the removal of toxic influences.
CBD 101: The Product Knowledge Course from Color Up
Hosted by Emily Davis, LE, the Color Up Product Knowledge Course offers a complete look at the many benefits of incorporating CBD into a skincare practice. Davis is Color Up's President of Education, and she also owns and operates Stratum Aesthetics, both of which are based in Denver. During the course, Davis shares the story of how Color Up began when the three co-founders started using CBD to extend the life of their dog Kali, who had cancer. Davis then describes the award-winning products in Color Up’s Pro Line and how they work to Color Up your life.
Emily Davis, LE, is the President of Education for Color Up. Davis (pictured) joined the Color Up team in November 2018 after using the products in her skin care practice. Color Up is a cruelty-free, organic CBD company based in Denver.
Davis is a Denver native and the owner and operator of Stratum Aesthetics. She has been a practicing Licensed Esthetician in Denver for 14 years. As the resident esthetician at the Color Up Wellness Center, Davis offers a full range of skincare services from CBD Facials to Spray Tanning to Brow Rehab.
Le Mieux Cosmetics
Janel Luu, CEO and Formulator of Le Mieux Cosmetics and PurErb, gives a brief introduction to the philosophy behind the brand and the secret behind her customized formulations.
CEO and Formulator of Le Mieux Cosmetics and PurErb, Janel Luu has over 36 years’ experience in the beauty industry as an educator, researcher, and formulator. She has taught over 38,000 skincare professionals and physicians on topics ranging from the latest anti-aging cellular technology to centuries-old Meridian gua sha techniques.
Why GINAMARIE?
Learn more about GINAMARIE as a company and a brand. Discover what we have to offer you and your clients. This presentation will take you through the options of what a wholesale partnership looks like with GINAMARIE. We offer the full package: holistic skincare, clean cosmetics, advanced education, all with exceptional customer service.
Gina Marie McGuire President, CEO of GINAMARIE Products and Licensed Esthetician Gina Marie has over 30 years of experience in the skincare industry and has been educating professionals and consumers for the majority of her career. She feels strongly that when treating skin from the health standpoint one can achieve remarkable results. Gina Marie brings a wealth of information to the industry as she has extensive experience in retail, manufacturing, wholesaling, public speaking, educating, marketing, and skin therapy treatments. She is considered a leading expert in the skincare field and has a strong desire to share her wealth of knowledge in the advancement of the beauty industry. As a result of her leadership, Gina Marie was nominated for the 2019 Aestheticians’ Choice Award for Brand Educator and has been featured several times in professional skin magazines.
GINAMARIE - A Holistic Skincare Line
Discover how holistic skincare products and advanced skin therapy treatments can improve and heal skin from within. This presentation will cover what a daily skincare routine should entail in order to meet the requirements of skin as an organ. We will also discuss the benefits of antioxidant ingredients.
Kathleen Carney, Founder and Formulator for Skin Blends LLC, a Licensed Esthetician and Esthetic Instructor, has a degree in Education from Wayne State College in Nebraska and attended Graduate school at the University of Arizona. Kathleen’s passion continues to be helping estheticians keep loyal clientele and be profitable doing what they love. Ms. Carney heads the Advanced Skin Care Training Academy (ASCTA) in Nixa MO. Skin Blends also manufactures Agape Beauty Makeup, Lashes LTD, Agape Pure Wax, Men’s Blends, Refectocil, and Tweezerman – making Skin Blends a one stop shop for everything esthetics.
MEET THE PRESENTER - Lydia Sarfati!
Lydia Sarfati is a master aesthetician and the founder and CEO of Repêchage. Sarfati is an international industry leader and the developer of the world-renowned Repêchage Four-Layer Facial. She oversees a 50,000-square-foot, ISO 9001:2015 certified manufacturing, research, development, and training facility in Secaucus, New Jersey. Sarfati appears nationally and internationally at aesthetic tradeshows and attends and conducts overseas conferences in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Central America, and South Africa. She has produced 17 step-by-step instructional videos, as well as published “The Repêchage® Book of Skincare Science & Protocols,” a compendium of skin conditions, skinc are and body treatments, and medical aesthetics, including pre- and post-operative care protocols. She was also a contributing author to the “Milady Standard Esthetics: Fundamentals, Twelfth Edition,” and authored “Success At Your Fingertips: How to Succeed in the Skin Care Business,” a guide to creating a successful skin care business. All Repêchage professional products and treatments are made in the United States from sustainably harvested seaweed from the coast of Maine and are sold in over 45 countries worldwide. repechage.com or pro.repechage.com
MEET THE PRESENTERS- Morrisa Morin
Morrisa Morin is a medical aesthetician and laser technician with a degree in education. She has been in the space for over 10 years working under a surgeon, in cosmetic dentistry, a high-end medical spa, and having her own aesthetic suite. In addition to this, she is a personal trainer and group fitness instructor. She has a passion for educating and helping others in their health and wellness starting from the inside and out.
Austin Podowski
Austin Podowski serves as chairman of AJMP Holdings, a diverse healthcare and entertainment portfolio company with majority stake in several healthcare-based medical technology companies. As CEO of Synergy MedSales, he directs market strategy, distribution, M&A, and funding. After an early exit from digital marketing, retail, and dental supply companies, Podowski has spent the last decade in medical technology acting as a proven zipline of efficacious technology to the medical aesthetic and cosmetic surgery industry.
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MEET THE PRESENTER - Metaxia Dalikas!
Metaxia Dalikas is internationally recognized for her expertise in advanced aesthetic treatments, education, and chemical peel formulation. She has worked side-by-side with world-renowned dermatologists and chemists over many years to assemble her extraordinary wealth of clinical skin care knowledge. Her knowledge of skin care distribution and training, as well as chemical peels, waxing, and product formulation, has made Dalikas an essential component in Lira Clinical’s success. Having over 30 years of experience in the medical and professional aesthetic treatment industry, she opened a successful chain of professional, aesthetics supply houses and advanced training centers more than a decade ago.
Trendy Treatments & Technologies in Aesthetics to Boost Your Business
This webinar will delve into discussing some of the hottest treatments and technologies to maximize efficacy and advance a skin care professional’s client protocol experience. Tune in with LIVE, onsite coverage of the top technologies available in aesthetics. Register now!
MEET THE PRESENTERS - Austin Podowski, Morrisa Morin, and Nick Zmuda!
As President, Nick specializes in business and growth strategy with targeted expertise in technology and industry advancement.
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The 5 Cs to Building and Sustaining a Skin Care Business In An Unprecedented Time
In today’s unprecedented business and life climate everyone is beginning again. It has never been more important to have a plan and to be agile and able to adjust one’s business quickly. Skin care professionals must prepare to evolve.Whether a solo aesthetician or a spa business owner employing a staff, the 5 C’s to building and sustaining a business are most important. Clarity, creativity, courage, confidence, and compassion.
Join Megan Di Martino, a pioneer in the clinical medical spa industry, who has developed two result-oriented skin care product lines and owner of a luxury day and medical spa. Di Martino will delve into what skin care professionals can learn from the 5 C’s of business to build and sustain their business during an economic downturn and personal challenges.
MEET THE PRESENTER - MEGAN DIMARTINO!
Megan Di Martino is a lifelong creator of beauty, beginning her career in the fashion-beauty industries during the early 70’s in New York City. For over the last 25 years Di Martino has been one of the pioneers in result-oriented medical-grade skin care. She has built two skin care lines, Glycolique and Novita Spa Clinical products. In 2005, she opened her award winning “Hybrid Concept,” the Novita Spa and Medical Rejuvenation Clinic. It combines luxury spa services, clinical medical spa and regenerative stem cell wellness and aesthetic treatments. Recently she published her first book, “Hope and Possibilities Just Over the Horizon. It’s Never Too Early or Too Late to Create the Life of Your Dreams.” Today her passion and purpose is to help others to identify their passion and then actualize their dreams and goals through her consulting, training, and coaching programs.
Kick Starter Marketing: Getting Your Business Out There
Join Jay Shorr and Mara Shorr to discuss how to kickstart marketing in today’s climate. This webinar will discuss how to create content in a way that makes spa practices more efficient, content ideas that make sense in today’s world, major shifts in business strategy, and what is now recognized as taboo in the spa world.
MEET THE PRESENTERS - JAY SHORR AND MARA SHORR!
Jay A. Shorr, BA, MBM-C, CAC I-XIV is the founder and managing partner of Shorr Solutions, a Florida-based medical practice consulting firm assisting practices with their operational, administrative, and financial health. He served as the vice president of operations and practice administrator for a leading board-certified dermatologist and cosmetic surgeon and held partnerships in two leading South Florida plastic surgery centers. Shorr has served as a professional motivational speaker for nearly a dozen industry organizations. He is a certified medical business manager (CMBM) from Florida Atlantic University, a certified aesthetic consultant (Levels I-XIV) at The Aesthetic Show and The Aesthetic Academy, and a member of The Aesthetic Show’s 2019 Scientific Advisory Board.
Mara Shorr, BS, CAC II-XIV, is a partner and vice president of marketing and business development for Shorr Solutions, bringing more than a decade of marketing and communications experience to Shorr Solutions’ clients. She is a Level II through XIV certified aesthetic consultant utilizing knowledge and skills from her previous positions in marketing for two separate leading dermatology, cosmetic, and plastic surgery practices located in South Florida. Focusing on both internal and client strategies in traditional and new media, she is a public speaker and has written for a number of industry publications.
Pigmentation: Disorders, Causes, and Treatments
Hyperpigmentation is a complicated condition faced by many skin care professionals and consumers alike. This presentation will explore the mechanisms of melanin formation and melanocyte function, as well as associated states of hypo and hyperpigmentation. Learn why the enzymes tyrosinase, phenylalanine oxidase, and newly discovered lightening mechanisms such as melanosome transfer (MIT) and melanin stimulating hormones (MSH) inhibitors are key components in melanin formation.
MEET THE PRESENTER - MICHAEL PUGLIESE
Michael Q. Pugliese, BS, LE is an informed educator, writer, and asset to the skin care industry and the third-generation CEO of Circadia by Dr. Pugliese in 2006. His dedication and leadership to the brand has grown to achieve international recognition and distribution worldwide. This global expansion has created a skin care regimen for every skin type in the world. Pugliese’s compelling lectures honors the tenets of modern skin science discovered originally by his grandfather. By following in his grandfather’s footsteps, he has been driven to deliver a clear message on skin care to all his clients and fellow educators in the industry. In addition to the success in the skin care line, Circadia also has the first physician formulated pillowcase. This is formulated to work in harmony with the body’s natural circadian rhythms which protect from environmental damage, while focusing on skin repair during evenings rest.
The Mechanics of Male Intimate Sugaring
Watch the Sugar Queen and global authority on body sugaring hair removal, Lina Kennedy, perform a live demonstration of a male intimate service. Learn how to properly remove hair from male clients in their most sensitive areas. This demonstration will cover intimate sugaring, including the complete male genital area, inner cheeks, and anus.
In this webinar, you will learn how to provide your male clients with the most comfortable service possible, including learning how to properly hold the skin, professionally asking a client to stretch for hair removal accuracy, and comfortability. This webinar will also examine how to prevent unnecessary discomfort and bruising, as well as how to avoid hair breakage that leads to ingrown hairs.
MEET THE PRESENTER - LINA KENNEDY!
As the founder and president of Alexandria Professional, the global authority in body sugaring hair removal, Lina Kennedy has spent the last three decades immersed in the beauty business. She is an entrepreneur, inventor, teacher, and recognized beauty industry innovator, having developed and pioneered a proprietary sugaring process for the removal of unwanted hair. Alexandria Professional is taught in beauty schools worldwide and has distributions in over 30 countries. Lina Kennedy’s critically acclaimed autobiography, “The Sugar Queen”, is described as “a must-read story of courage and determination” that chronicles her life from small town upbringing to multi-million-dollar empire.
Ayurveda for AestheticiansAyurveda is well established as one of the top spa trends and its principles continue to inspire innovative, holistic approaches to beauty and the spa world. This webinar will breakdown Ayurveda starting at its roots all the way to its five main principles that apply to skin care and spa modalities. Discover why this ancient science is more relevant now more than ever. Learn how Ayurveda can influence and help bring balance to a spa practice.
Melanie and Robert Sachs pioneered the introduction of Ayurveda to the spa and beauty industry. They are authors of “Ayurvedic Beauty Care” and “Ayurvedic Spa,” both texts considered standard for the spa industry worldwide. For the last 25 years they have been co-owners of Diamond Way Ayurveda, international spa trainers, product and equipment designers, professional magazine contributors, and DVD makers. The Sachs are both massage professionals with years of experience in teaching many forms of ancient Ayurvedic spa therapies for the modern world.
MEET THE PRESENTER - Danné Montague-King!
Danné Montague-King is the founder of DMK and a pioneer in the skin care industry. Montague-King has seen the depths of depression associated with poorly functioning skin. In fact, his everlasting passion was born from his dissatisfaction with his own acne as a teenager. Not understanding the condition completely, and after failed attempts from top United States dermatologists to cure his acne, Montague-King took things into his own hands and became his own guinea pig. A string of breakthroughs, trials, tribulations, and many travels would follow, until he found his first true breakthrough in the 1960s involving vitamin C therapy. That is all it took to spark what would be decades of developing successful treatments and products that would combine to form the iconic brand that is DMK – sold in 30 countries worldwide.
We’re halfway done with 2020, but it’s not too late to get back on track and crush those goals.Learn how to set goals and crush them! This is an interactive webinar, so bring your pen and paper and together we’ll create a clear, measurable goal. Learn to chart how to crush that goal and repeat the process for creating a better business. Get get past just writing a goal and move towards accomplishing it. Clarity, habits, and beliefs are the three keys to crushing goals.
Presented by Lora Condon, Licensed Aesthetician
Lora Condon, L.E. is an international award-winning aesthetician, guest on Dr. Oz, author of Spa Wars, and a beauty consumer advocate known as “The Beauty Buster.” InStyle Magazine’s “Best Eyebrow Shaper in New Jersey,” she has worked with Ladies’ Home Journal, The New York Times, Success Magazine, Good Morning America, Cate Blanchet, Toni Colette, and Tea Leoni. Condon was featured in videos by Cosmo, Refinery29, Beauty Insider, and even Entertainment Tonight. Beauty Buster Organic Skin Care was created to target specific skin conditions and even contains luxury lip treatments with olive oil from Condon’s great-grandfather’s town in Italy.
This webinar will help skin care professionals understand the causes and solutions for different types of hyperpigmentation and how to correct and prevent damaged, discolored skin cells in all skin types.
Presented by Lyn Ross, L.M.E., founder of Institut’ DERMed Clinical Skincare