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…

Massage Envy announces the opening of its 800th clinic in Walpole, Mass. This milestone is just the latest achievement for the company currently celebrating its 10th anniversary and an impressive year of growth. To date, Massage Envy has opened 58 new clinics and sold 148 new franchises in 2012.

Perron Rigot Paris will be assuming the commercialization of Cirépil & Escential professional depilatory wax and beauty care. Recently opening their new subsidiary office in the Chicago suburb of Des Plaines, Perron Rigot Inc., will be the exclusive importer for the U.S., committed to serving the beauty industry through its professional distributors.

U.S. board certified dermatologist, author, speaker and physician educator Dr. Tess Mauricio has announced the grand opening of M Beauty by Dr. Tess™ cosmetic dermatology clinic at 1160 North Central Avenue Glendale, California.