The World Spa and Wellness Awards and the European Spa and Wellness Convention have announced a recent merge to deliver a new coherence to the message of excellence, creating a stronger presence and encouraging success within the spa industry. Both of these events will now work hand in hand to inspire spa professionals to improve their quality and standards. This creates a significant partnership that…

Independent Cosmetic Manufacturers & Distributors will host its annual Technical Regulatory Forum on Thursday, February 14, 2013 at the Balboa Bay Club and Resort in Newport Beach, California. Topics include: ICMAD Legislative Update, California Regulatory Initiatives, CA Green Chemistry Initiative, FDA Import/Export and Other Enforcement Issues, EU Recast Implementation, Sunscreen Rules, and other relevant topics.

Christine Heathman CME, LMT is a licensed Master Aesthetician, aesthetic pioneer and nominated Legend in American Aesthetics who has practiced clinical skin care for over 25 years. Christine is a powerful speaker, world-wide lecturer, educator, author of many skin care manuals, has written hundreds of skin science editorials, innovator in the research and development of unconventional and progressive skin care and protocols used in the…

Marinello Schools of Beauty is proud to announce cosmetology student Cheyanne Birchall of Marinello Schools of Beauty’s Reno, Nev. campus as a winner of the Beauty Changes Lives Enrolled Student Scholarship Competition. Birchall’s video entry was selected to receive a one day mentoring experience with Jan Arnold, co-founder and style director of Creative Nail Design (CND). To view Birchall’s winning entry please visit www.beautychangeslives.org/scholarships/2012/07/09/my-attraction-to-beauty

April Cook has been named the tecniche™ sales representative and product knowledge trainer for Florida. Cook is a licensed aesthetician as well as a certified oncology aesthetician and trainer for COE.

To support its growing base of skin care professionals, Rhonda Allison® Cosmeceuticals has hired Michelle Lintner to serve on the sales team and oversee account recruiting, client support and education. Lintner brings more than 11 years of professional aesthetic experience to the company having worked as a master aesthetician in Utah and Texas.

The Murad Family Foundation announced that they have formed a partnership with the El Segundo Education Foundation to be the founding sponsor of Project Lead the Way: Biomedical Sciences Pathway at El Segundo High School. Throughout the course of the four-year sponsorship, Murad Family Foundation will donate up to $180,000. Students will learn the concepts of human medicine and bioinformatics through hands-on, real-world problem solving…

Shel Pink’s Slow Beauty Blog serves as a digital platform for the Slow Beauty movement, a new way of self-care, a nurturing of the true self and our planet. The blog serves as an information hub relating to the seven outposts of Slow Beauty: Spa Tradition, Mindful Consumption, Rituals, Renewal, Meditation, Self-Expression and Nourished Mind. The realm of ideas is expansive and endless, yet all…